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Here Lies Hugh Glass
A Mountain Man, a Bear, and the Rise of the American Nation

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In the summer of 1823, a grizzly bear mauled Hugh Glass. The animal ripped the trapper up, carving huge hunks from his body. Glass’s fellows rushed to his aid...
  
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The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China

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The year is 1900, and Western empires—both old and new—are locked in regional entanglements across the globe. The British are losing a bitter war against the...
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Freedom's Cap
The United States Capitol and the Coming of the Civil War

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The modern United States Capitol is a triumph of both engineering and design. From its 9-million-pound cast-iron dome to the dazzling opulence of the...
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The Boy
A Holocaust Story

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A cobblestone road. A sunny day. A soldier. A gun. A child, arms high in the air. A moment captured on film. But what is the history behind arguably the most...
  
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As China Goes, So Goes the World
How Chinese Consumers Are Transforming Everything

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In this revelatory examination of the most overlooked force that is changing the face of China, the Oxford historian and scholar of modern Asia Karl Gerth...
  
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Children of Fire
A History of African Americans

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Ordinary people don’t experience history as it is taught by historians. They live across the convenient chronological divides we impose on the past. The same...
  
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Writing World War II
A Student's Guide

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An indispensable tool for high-schoolers, undergraduates, or even amateur enthusiasts, Writing World War II teaches the craft of history writing—by example. In...
  
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Hoboes
Bindlestiffs, Fruit Tramps, and the Harvesting of the West

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When the railroad stretched its steel rails across the American West in the 1870s, it opened up a vast expanse of territory. Agriculture quickly followed the...
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Understanding China [3rd Edition]
A Guide to China's Economy, History, and Political Culture

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After ten years, John Bryan Starr has thoroughly revised and updated his classic introduction to the background of, the data about, and the issues at stake in...
  
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Slavery's Constitution
From Revolution to Ratification

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Taking on decades of received wisdom, David Waldstreicher has written the first book to recognize slavery’s place at the heart of the U.S. Constitution....

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The book that launched environmental history now updated. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize In this landmark work of environmental history, William...
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The sleek, 222-foot, black auxiliary steamer Sea King left London on October 8, 1864, ostensibly bound for Bombay. The subterfuge was ended off the shores of...
  
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Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution

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Average Americans Were the True Framers of the Constitution Woody Holton upends what we think we know of the Constitution’s origins by telling the history...
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A Nation Among Nations
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Understanding the Great War

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With this brilliantly innovative book, Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau and Annette Becker have shown that the Great War was the matrix on which all subsequent...
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The Age of Great Dreams
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In this book, David Farber grounds our understanding of the extraordinary history of the 1960s by linking the events of that era to our country's grand...
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Prisoners Without Trial
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Part of Hill and Wang's Critical Issues Series and well established on college reading lists, PRISONERS WITHOUT TRIAL presents a concise introduction to a...
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A Major Study of One of the Twentieth Century's Darkest Periods Until now there has been no up-to-date, one-volume, international history of Nazi Germany,...
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Thomas Paine and the Promise of America

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Thomas Paine was one of the most remarkable political writers of the modern world and the greatest radical of a radical age. Through writings like Common...
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Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amusing the...
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They forever changed America: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Willard, Alice Paul. At their revolution’s start in the 1840s, a...
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A horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across North America when the War of Independence began, and until now we have known almost nothing about it....