Provides a comprehensive narrative account of Alabama from its earliest days to the present. This edition, updated to celebrate the state's bicentennial year, offers a detailed survey of the colourful, dramatic, and often controversial turns in Alabama's evolution.

The haunting cry of "Bring out your dead!" by a bell-ringing collector of 17th-century plague victims has filled readers across the centuries with cold terror. The chilling cry survives in historical consciousness largely as a result of this classic 1722 account of the epidemic of bubonic plague -- known as the Black Death -- that ravaged England in 1664-1665.--Publisher's description.

Information about Hawaii and it's history, from ancient times through the present day.

"Beginning with the original inhabitants of North America and continuing through the exploration of the northern frontier and the rise and fall of the French and British empires to the development of a dynamic industrial nation at the beginning of the third millennium, "A brief history of Canada", second edition, provides a solid introduction to this unique land and people. Canada has thrived economically and socially since the turn of the 21st century,...

"Eminent historian Paul Strathern opens the story of Empire with the Akkadian civilization, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman Empire, where we trace back our Western and Eastern roots. Next the narrative describes how a great deal of Western Classical culture was developed in the Abbasid and Umayyad Caliphates. Then, while Europe was beginning to emerge from a period of cultural...

From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the story of the Middle East has been the story of the rise and fall of universal empires and, no less important, of imperialist dreams. So argues Efraim Karsh in this provocative book. Rejecting the conventional Western interpretation of Middle Eastern history as an offshoot of global power politics, Karsh contends that the region's experience is the culmination of long-existing...

"A prize of 100,000 florins awaits the gardener who can produce a black tulip, a rich reward that incites a deadly competition. Set in 17th-century Holland, this historical novel by the author of The Three Musketeers forms a timeless political allegory in which the rare flower represents the triumph of justice, tolerance, and true love over greed, jealousy, and obsession"--