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THE NEW FOURTH REVISED EDITIONA vast and absorbing resource, the fourth edition of The Timetables of ™History spans millennia of human history.Unlike any other reference volume, this book gives a sweeping overview of the making of the contemporary world by mapping out at a glance what was happening simultaneously, from the dawn of history to the present day.With nearly 100 pages of new material, including:Recent breakthroughs in science and technologyNew achieveme… More >>
The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events
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Written in AD 731, Bede’s work opens with a background sketch of Roman Britain’s geography and history. It goes on to tell of the kings and bishops, monks and nuns who helped to develop Anglo-Saxon government and religion during the crucial formative years of the English people. Leo Sherley-Price’s translation brings us an accurate and readable version, in modern English, of a unique historical document. This edition now includes Bede’s Letter to Egbert concerning p… More >>
Ecclesiastical History of the English People
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Known for its clear narrative voice and impeccable scholarship, Alan Brinkley’s best-selling survey text invites students to think critically about the many forces that continually create the Unfinished Nation that is the United States. In a concise but wide-ranging narrative, Brinkley shows the diversity and complexity of the nation and our understanding of its history–one that continues to evolve both in the events of the present and in our reexamination of new e… More >>
The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People, Volume 1
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“The creation of the United States of America is the greatest of all human adventures,” begins Paul Johnson’s remarkable new American history. “No other national story holds such tremendous lessons, for the American people themselves and for the rest of mankind.” Johnson’s history is a reinterpretation of American history from the first settlements to the Clinton administration. It covers every aspect of U.S. history–politics; business and economics; art, literatur… More >>
A History of the American People
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A mind-expanding and myth-destroying exploration of “whiteness”—an illuminating work on the history of race and power. Eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter tells perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history. Beginning at the roots of Western civilization, she traces the invention of the idea of a white race—often for economic, scientific, and political ends. She shows how the origins of American identity in the eighteenth … More >>
The History of White People