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France: A Modern History from the Revolution to the War with Terror
Jonathan Fenby · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 576
Format: Print book
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With the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815, the next two centuries for France would be tumultuous. Critically acclaimed historian and political commentator Jonathan Fenby provides an expert and riveting journey through this period as he recounts and analyzes... |
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Sometimes an Art: Nine Essays on History
Bernard Bailyn · Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the most respected historians in America, twice the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a new collection of essays that reflects a lifetime of erudition and accomplishments in history.The past has always been elusive: How can we understand people whose worlds were utterly different... |
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The Italian Americans: A History
Maria Laurino · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover
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This gorgeous companion book to the PBS series illuminates an important, overlooked part of American history. In this richly researched, beautifully designed and illustrated volume, Maria Laurino strips away stereotypes and nostalgia to tell the complicated, centuries-long story of the true... |
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Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance
Mark Whitaker · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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The other great Renaissance of black culture, influence, and glamour burst forth joyfully in what may seem an unlikely place - Pittsburgh, PA - from the 1920s through the 1950s.Today black Pittsburgh is known as the setting for August Wilson's famed plays about noble but doomed working-class... |
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Children of Nazis: The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others? Living with a Father's Monstrous Legacy
Tania Crasnianski · Arcade Publishing
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
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The Fascinating Story of Eight Children of Third Reich Leaders and their Journey from Descendants of Heroes to Descendants of Criminals In 1940, the German sons and daughters of great Nazi dignitaries Himmler, Goring, Hess, Frank, Bormann, Speer, and Mengele were children of privilege at four,... |
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Jihadi John: The Making of a Terrorist
Robert Verkaik · ONEWorld Publications
Pages: 302
Format: Print book
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"This book is more than just the story of Mohammed Emwazi. Verkaik delves into the broader issues of marginality and the fluid identity of young people such as Emwazi to provide an enthralling account of the rootlessness of many second-generation European immigrants." - Library... |
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Ties That Bound: Founding First Ladies and Slaves
Marie Jenkins Schwartz · University Of Chicago Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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Behind every great man stands a great woman. And behind that great woman stands a slave. Or so it was in the households of the Founding Fathers from Virginia, where slaves worked and suffered throughout the domestic environments of the era, from Mount Vernon, Monticello, and Montpelier... |
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A Reader's Guide to George Orwell
Jeffrey Meyers · Littlefield Adams
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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Analyses of Orwell's writings, from his early essays to 1984, provide insight into his treatment of politics and poverty and his imagery of oppression |
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Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites who Fought for Women's Right to Vote
Johanna Neuman · NYU Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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New York City's elite women who turned a feminist cause into a fashionable revolution In the early twentieth century over two hundred of New York's most glamorous socialites joined the suffrage movement. Their names - Astor, Belmont, Rockefeller, Tiffany, Vanderbilt, Whitney and the like... |
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The American Plate: A Culinary History in 100 Bites
Libby O'Connell · Sourcebooks; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Like many miniencyclopedias, this one is studded with often intriguing facts." -- KirkusFrom the chief historian at HISTORY® comes a rich chronicle of the evolution of American cuisine and culture, from before Columbus's arrival to today.Did you know that the first graham... |
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Seven Days of Infamy: Pearl Harbor Across the World
Nicholas Best · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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December 7, 1941: One of those rare days in world history that people remember exactly where they were, what they were doing, and how they felt when they heard the news.Marlene Dietrich, Clark Gable, and James Cagney were in Hollywood. Kurt Vonnegut was in the bath, and Dwight D. Eisenhower... |
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The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran
MASIH ALINEJAD · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary memoir from an Iranian journalist in exile about leaving her country, challenging tradition and sparking an online movement against compulsory hijab. A photo on Masih's Facebook page: a woman standing proudly, face bare, hair blowing in the wind. Her crime: removing her veil,... |
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