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In 1994, the Rwanda government began killing its Tutsi minority people and 800,000 were murdered. Gourevitch details the genocide's background and aftermath.

The Spartans of ancient Greece were a powerful and unique people, radically different from any civilization before or since.

It was the first war we could not win.

This historical magnum opus covers 4,000 years of the history of the Jews as a people, a culture, and a nation, showing the impact of Jewish character and imagination upon the world.

In this timely offering, Amir Taheri dissects the regime that has hijacked a nation for global "holy war" against the United States, revealing Iran's terror links, its nuclear capabilities, and how

Much of Africa's past has now been excavated from ignorance and error, revealing a rich and previously little-known human heritage.

In this portrait of eighteenth-century England, Roy Porter defines a nation from its princes to its paupers, covering diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work

Matthiessen reveals a complex historical struggle between American Indians and the United States government and how it influenced the events that lead to the imprisonment of Leonard Peltier.

Hecht claims doubt and questioning are one of the great and noble, if unheralded, intellectual traditions.

Dee Brown's meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century.

When the first Dutch Calvinist settlers arrived in South Africa, they believed that they had been chosen by God to rule over the world.

The authors devoted five decades to the study of world history and philosophy, culminating in the masterful eleven-volume Story of Civilization.

The assassination of Julius Caesar is one of the most notorious murders in history and one shrouded in mystery.

The ninth edition of this widely acclaimed text has been revised to reflect the latest scholarship and the most recent events in the Middle East.

The pirates of legend sailed the seven seas, exercised a salty vocabulary, and pursued lives full of swordplay and adventure. But what was life like for the real pirates of history?