HISTORY

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Hardcover Publisher:  Oxford University Press; First Edition edition (2003)
 

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Action color photography of the U.S. Army's Bradley Company in training and on maneuvers provides an intimate picture of the life, training, uniforms,...
 

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190 page softcover book. Published as a guide book to project the country better and serve foreign visitors. This one is in English. There are several...
 

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The Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act of 1920 would transform American life, giving birth to the Roaring 20s with its bathtub gin, speakeasies, and...
 

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Hardcover Publisher:  Univ Museum Pubns (October 1997) Language:  English ISBN-10:  5770745304 ISBN-13:...
 

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Although Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House in April, 1865, some Confederates refused to abandon their cause. Fallen  Guidon , originally...
 

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Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.E.), who reigned as king of Macedonia for only thirteen years, set a flame of conquest that introduced the dynamism of...
 

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While this booklet is illustrated solely with materials from the Athenian Agora, it also provides a concise introduction to building styles and techniques...
 


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Paperback:  176 pages Publisher:  Oxford University School of Archaeology (December 31, 1987) Language:  English ISBN-10:...
 

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Series:  Phaidon Cultural Guide Hardcover:  259 pages Publisher:  Seven Hills Books (June 1986) Language:  English...
 

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This important volume describes the extraordinary art created in the second millennium B.C. for royal palaces, temples, and tombs from Mesopotamia, Syria,...
 

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As well as the Little Owl or glaux, so often seen accompanying the goddess Athena, many other birds played an important role in Greek art and symbolism....
 

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Landmark research underrepresented in the study of Maya civilization.   This volume, which includes an indexed bibliography of the first 150...
 

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A collection of moving conversations with Guatemalan guerrillas, their powerful testimonies graphically depicting their daily life and struggle against US...
 

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A study of how a small state reacts to sanctions and the difficulties it encounters in applying them. The interplay of external and internal forces in...
 

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This comprehensive encyclopedia provides an illustrated and highly detailed account of the guns used by the Allied armies of the West in all theaters in...
 

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A visual pleasure and a unique insight into American history For the first time ever, here is renowned photographer Gertrude Käsebier's haunting...
 


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This book is the doctoral dissertation of Khalil Totah, one of the most reliable authorities on scientific education in Palestine during the mid twentieth...
 

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Hundreds of life-size human limbs made from terracotta, including the remains of at least 125 human hands, testify to the efficacy of the medicine...
 

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The #1 internationally bestselling history of  D-Day  is now enhanced with rare video footage from the NBC News Archives for the ultimate...
 

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When the Roman tourist Pausanias visited Corinth around A.D. 160, he saw many shrines and buildings high up to the south of the city, on the slopes of...
 

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Differences Preserved presents works excavated from two sets of tombs in northern China. Tomb objects from the ninth to twelfth centuries, along with...
 

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Before the creation of the Agora as a civic center in the 7th century B.C., the region northwest of the Acropolis was a vast cemetery. Over 150 ancient...
 

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This title shows the reader how to find out if they are really related to someone famous or infamous, or if they descend from royalty, and how to separate...
 

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The award-winning Footprint Handbooks series has been capturing worldwide attention and admiration for 75 years! Now this excellent series has been...
 

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Hardcover:  171 pages Publisher:  Univ of Hawaii Pr (June 1994) Language:  English ISBN-10:  0824815335
 

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Paperback:  48 pages Publisher:  Airlife Publishing Ltd. (October 2000) Language:  English ISBN-10:  1840372184...
 



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Series:  East European Monographs Hardcover:  296 pages Publisher:  East European Monographs (May 15, 1993) Language:...
 


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Series:  East European Monographs Hardcover:  453 pages Publisher:  East European Monographs (May 15, 1985) Language:...
 


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C. P. Srivastava , formerly of the Indian Administrative Service, served as Shastri's private secretary when the latter was in the central cabinet as...
 

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Part of the "Look Inside Cross-Sections" series, this title looks at tanks. The artworks cut across, up, down and through the objects, allowing every...
 

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Hardcover:  480 pages Publisher:  Texas A&M University Press; 1st Edition. edition (February 1, 1988) Language:  English...
 

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Conceived as a replacement for the AD-1 Skyraider, Ed Heinemann's Skyhawk was capable of proving itself in the skies above Vietnam, Israel, Kuwait and the...
 

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This catalog contains detailed descriptions of ninety-one items in the Armenian Manuscript Collection in the Department of Special Collections at the...
 

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Hardcover:  195 pages Publisher:  Oregon Historical Society Press; 1st edition (May 1987) Language:  English ISBN-10:...
 


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One in a series of works inspired by the collections of the British Museum, this pocket treasury presents a visual introduction to the chosen theme. A...
 

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Publisher:  East European MonographsDistributed by Columbia University Press (1998)
 

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One in a series of works inspired by the collections of the British Museum, this pocket treasury presents a visual introduction to the chosen theme of the...
 

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In a convenient, concise format, "Serbia's Historical Heritage "explodes general perceptions of Serbia (the Balkans) as developmentally backwards. This...
 

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This volume contains a selection of papers on the mutual perceptions of Western and Slavic cultures, which were presented at an international symposium...
 

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This is an examination of the Romanian-speaking people of Moldova who have been subject to multiple cultural and political influences through the centuries...
 

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"No summary of Fleming's masterful account of the different American background and its effect on the substantive rules of modern tort law can do justice...
 

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This text focuses on the controversial trial of Apis (Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijevic) and members of the Black Hand held in Salonika in 1917. It studies the...
 

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Series:  East European Monographs Hardcover:  172 pages Publisher:  East European Monographs (May 15, 1990) Language:...
 

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In the middle of WWII, John Temple Graves, a syndicated columnist for the Birmingham  Age-Herald , analyzed the South's eager support for England...
 


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Series:  Monographs on archaeology and the fine arts ; 36 Hardcover:  162 pages Publisher:  Published by New York University...
 

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Series:  East European Monographs Hardcover:  185 pages Publisher:  East European Monographs (May 15, 1986) Language:...
 

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In the spring, the ground of the Agora archaeological park is covered in poppies and daisies while poplars and oaks shade many of the pathways. Some of...
 

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This new series of fabulously illustrated four-color natural history travel guides finally offers a practical and fun way to enjoy the wildlife and natural...
 

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Over 75,000 coins have been found during excavations at the Agora, many minted in the city but others brought from Athens's far-flung commercial contacts....
 

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Hardcover:  1067 pages Publisher:  ABC-Clio (July 1, 2002) Language:  English ISBN-10:  1576073440 ISBN-13:...
 


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Hardcover Publisher:  STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS (1981)
 

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This concise and beautifully illustrated book demonstrates the many roles played by the horse in the lives of the Greeks, from its place in myth and early...
 

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Series:  Editions Du Beffroi Hardcover:  128 pages Publisher:  Johns Hopkins Univ Pr; First Edition edition (October 1987)...
 

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At night, the darkness of the ancient Agora would have been pierced by the lights of oil lamps, and thousands of fragments of these distinctive objects...
 

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Situated on the shores of the Argolic Gulf, only a few miles away from the much later prehistoric sites of Mycenae, Tiryns, and Midea, Lerna is one of the...
 

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Athens was a famously litigious city in antiquity, as the sheer quantity of evidence for legal activity found in the Agora makes clear. Every kind of case,...
 

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From the thousands of pieces of Late Roman small change discovered trodden into beaten earth floors and dropped into wells to the hoards of 19th-century...
 

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A grand tour of over fifty of the major precolumbian ruins of Central America. With more than 250 color photos, this volume is a superb reference for...
 

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Hardcover:  320 pages Publisher:  Quiller Pr; 2nd edition (March 1992) Language:  English ISBN-10:  1870948440...
 

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Napoleon is a torrent which as yet we are unable to stem, said Field-Marshal Prince Mikhail Kutuzov in September 1812, and then he predicted, "Moscow will...
 


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Nearly 25 years before Francis Drake began his famous voyage around the world a much less well-known sailor led the first great Tudor exploration. The...
 

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One of the most outstanding inventions of ancient Egypt was the making of "paper" from the papyrus plant. As early as 3000 B.C., sheets and rolls of...
 

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Hardcover:  662 pages Publisher:  Oregon Historical Society; First Edition edition (1975) Language:  English ISBN-10:...
 

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The wonderful and positive images captured by Robin Laurance on his photographic journey through the heart of Islam - from the desolate open spaces of the...
 

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By mingling images on well-preserved Greek vases with the more fragmentary ceramics recovered during excavations at the Agora, the authors show how...
 

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Hardcover:  590 pages Publisher:  Smithsonian; First Edition edition (June 17, 1988) Language:  English ISBN-10:...
 

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Series:  Reference Guide to United States Military History Hardcover:  320 pages Publisher:  Facts on File; First Edition edition...
 

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Historians of late colonial Spanish America have tended to encounter difficulties in determining how to interpret political, social, commercial, and...
 

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Paperback:  288 pages Publisher:  University of Oklahoma Press (September 1997) Language:  English ISBN-10:  0806129018
 

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Eastern and Western Europe continue to change in their relationship to one another and in their ongoing dynamic with the post-Soviet states. Economic...
 

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For readers tired of everything postmodern, this collection of folk tales reminds us of the primal power fables and oral tradition hold over the...
 

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Hardcover:  430 pages Publisher:  Caxton Editions; New ed edition (2002) Language:  English ISBN-10:  1840671645...
 

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This book describes the legal situation which arises during occupation when private property is temporarily used, annexed, or destroyed by the occupying...
 


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"Why do I fight here in this land so foreign to my own? Why did I come here far from my home and family?…Is it because I seek adventure?...
 


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The thriving Byzantine Empire produced a particularly fine standard of art and architecture between the 4th and 7th centuries. Many well-preserved examples...
 

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Meticulously documented, lavishly detailed, exhaustively researched, and written with an eye for the truths that have remained largely hidden, The Complete...
 

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The definitive one-volume reference to the armies, arms, and actions of the century that defined modern warfare. The Napoleonic Wars opened the...
 





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This book is based on an archaeological research project completed in Bahrain aimed at investigating the period between the sixth and thirteenth centuries...
 

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The 'Northern Crusades', inspired by the Pope's call for a Holy War, are less celebrated than those in the Middle East, but they were also more successful:...