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Foreign Bodies - Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations

A vibrant cultural history investigating the tangled and complex history of pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian S...

Impossible Takes Longer - 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders' Dreams?

Published on the country's seventy-fifth anniversary comes a nuanced and thoughtful examination of Israel's past, present, and future, fr...

Last of the Lions - An African American Journey in Memoir

"Last of the Lions is two histories woven into one remarkable story personal history--the evocative life of Clarence B. Jones, from his d...

River of the Gods - Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

"For millennia the location of the Nile River's headwaters was shrouded in mystery. In the 19th century, ... European powers sent off wav...

Territorial Shock - The Moral Impact of Boundary Change in Two Millennia

We are in the embrace of territorial shock today. Globalization with its migrants, foot-loose firms, cyber-war and surging income inequal...

The Mother, the Politician, and the Guerrilla - Women's Political Imagination in the Kurdish Movement

"This is a brilliantly original reading of the nature of the resistance to the Turkish state's Kurdish policies by the Kurdish Women's Fr...

Black AF History - The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

From beloved columnist Michael Harriot comes a comprehensive and bitingly hilarious appraisal of American history, confronting and correc...

Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler

The little-known true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the woman who headed the largest spy network in occupied France during World War...

Deutsche Filmgeschichten - Historische Portraits

Historische Porträts ergründen die deutsche Filmgeschichte von Metropolis (1927) bis Goodbye Lenin (2003). Als historische Quellen weisen...

The Belt and Road City - Geopolitics, Urbanization, and China's Search for a New International Order

An exploration of how China’s Belt and Road Initiative seeks to reshape international order and how it has catalyzed a new era of infrast...

Well Beings - How the Seventies Lost its Mind and Taught Us to Find Ourselves

James Riley, author of the cult hit The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties, returns with another incisive and th...

Crimes of the Centuries - The Cases That Changed Us

When asked why true crime is so in vogue, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Amber Hunt always has t...

After the Nazis - The Story of Culture in West Germany

Michael H. Kater explores the complex manifestations of the West German cultural scene and its attempts to grapple with the vestiges of N...

The Library - A Fragile History

LONGLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION CROWN A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A sweeping, absorbing history, deep...

Coming of the Railway - A New Global History, 1750-1850

David Gwyn traces the radical evolution of the early iron railway and the profound impact it had on human society. As railways began to w...

Treasures of Ukraine - A Nation's Cultural Heritage

A celebration of Ukraine's rich cultural heritage bringing to light the country's most important works of art and architectural monuments...

The Decline and Rise of Democracy - A Global History from Antiquity to Today

"One of the most important books on political regimes written in a generation."—Steven Levitsky, New York Times–bestselling author of How...

The Wolof of Senegambia

Great Kingdoms of Africa

An essential overview of great kingdoms in African history and their legacies, written by world-leading experts. From the ancient Nile Va...

The Republic of China - 1912 to 1949

The declaration of the Republic of China in 1912 signalled an entirely new era. Not only did the revolution of 1911-1912 bring about the ...

All That She Carried - The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ~ NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ~ WINNER OF THE CUNDILL H...

Nuclear Bodies - The Global Hibakusha

Jacobs' comprehensive account of the history and consequences of radiation exposures from nuclear testing, production and accidents?early...

Micrographia; Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon

Micrographia; Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon, has ...

The Pirate Menace - Uncovering the Golden Age of Piracy

This new account explores the most notorious pirates in history and how their rise and fall can be traced back to a single pirate haven, ...

Emperor's New Road - China and the Project of the Century

A prominent authority on China's Belt and Road Initiative reveals the global risks lurking within Beijing's project of the century

Circle of Stars - A History of the EU and the People Who Made It

A compelling new history of the EU and the people who sought to shape and challenge it—from Maastricht to today

Indiennes - Material for a Thousand Stories

Indiennes are printed or painted cotton fabrics that made their way from India to Europe in the 16th century. Soon French and Swiss compa...

China's Good War - How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism

Chinese leaders once tried to suppress memories of their nation's brutal experience during World War II. Now they celebrate the "victory"...

On Decoloniality - Concepts, Analytics, Praxis

In On Decoloniality Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh explore the hidden forces of the colonial matrix of power, its origination, ...

Brazilian Authoritarianism - Past and Present

"First published in Brazil by Campanhia das Letras, Sao Paulo"--title page verso.

Coatesville and the Lynching of Zachariah Walker: Death in a Pennsylvania Steel Town

"The present work is a substantial revision of our earlier work entitled No Crooked Death, published by the University of Illinois Press ...

The Book-Makers - A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives

A celebration of the printed book, told through the lives of 18 people who took it in radical new directions. 'This really is the lovelie...

A Guide to Military Art Bands, Bandsmen and Sheet Music Covers

Following the success of his volumes featuring the works of Thomas Rowlandson and Charles Hamilton Smith (both in his 'Guide to Military ...

Spain's 1939 Exiles in the Americas and Maryland: Eighty Years, Alive in Our Hearts

The history of emotions - Second edition

Fully revised and updated, The history of emotions is the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the theories, methods and problems i...

The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order - America and the World in the Free Market Era

In The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, Gary Gerstle provides a sweeping re-interpretation of the entire era-from the revival of ma...

The Greely Arctic Expedition As Fully Narrated By Lieut. Greely And Other Survivors - Commander Schley's Report. Wonderful Discoveries By Lieut. Greeley And His Little Band Of Heroes

Citizen Newt - The Making of a Reagan Conservative

The definitive, authorized biography of one of the most important, provocative, and visionary political figures of our time.

Talon; 1, 1963

Sweet Taste of Liberty - A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America

The author focuses on the experience of Henrietta Wood, a freed slave who was sold back into slavery, eventually freed again, and who the...

A Stranger in Your Own City - Travels in the Middle East's Long War

SELECTED BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAUNTS BOOKS AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ONE OF PROSPECT'S POLITICS & REPORTAGE BOOKS OF THE YEAR...

The Gunning of America - Business and the Making of American Gun Culture

Looks at the history of the Winchester rifle, and the Winchester family who created it in 1866. Reveals that America has not always been ...

Atoms and Ashes - From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY SUNDAY TIMES AND HISTORY TODAY ' Absolutely stunning. . . a formidable achievement. A six-part historical...

Nothing Ever Just Disappears - Seven Hidden Histories

'With originality and subtlety, Diarmuid Hester examines how the gay imagination deals with place and with displacement, allowing for mys...

Adriatic - A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age

"In this [book, the author] turns his perceptive eye to the Adriatic Sea, a region that has always been a crossroads in trade, culture, a...

America's Great Game - The Cia's Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East

From the 9/11 attacks to waterboarding to drone strikes, relations between the United States and the Middle East seem caught in a downwar...

China After Mao - The Rise of a Superpower

"A blow-by-blow account ... An important corrective to the conventional view of China's rise."--Financial Times From internationally reno...

The Code - Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America

The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America Long before Margaret O'Mara bec...

Personality and Power - Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe

One of New York Magazine's Most Anticipated Books of the Fall How far can a single leader alter the course of history? From one of the le...

Rwanda - From Genocide to Precarious Peace

A sobering study of the troubled African nation, both pre- and post-genocide, and its uncertain future The brutal civil war between Hutu ...

When Crack Was King - A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

"The crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s is arguably the least examined crisis in American history. Beginning with the myths inspired b...

Waging a Good War - A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968

#1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas E. Ricks offers a new take on the Civil Rights Movement, stressing ...

Steinstuecken: A Little Pocket of Freedom

The Peking Express - The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China

"In 1923 Shanghai, native and foreign travelers alike are enthralled by the establishment of a new railway line to distant Peking. With t...

Madame Restell - The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York’s Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist

"Madame Restell is a sharp, witty Gilded Age medical history which introduces us to an iconic, yet tragically overlooked, feminist heroin...

Peril

The transition from President Donald J. Trump to President Joseph R. Biden Jr. stands as one of the most dangerous periods in American hi...

Materials Toward a History of Witchcraft Part 1

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notation...

The Color of Law - A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the ...

Vanderbilt - The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine H...

The Survivors of the Clotilda - The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade

"Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston's rediscovered classic Barracoon, an i...