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America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
Erika Lee · Basic Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning historian reframes our continuing debate over immigration with a compelling history of xenophobia in the United States and its devastating impactThe United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of xenophobia. In America for Americans, Erika... |
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The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground: A Memoir
Justus Rosenberg · William Morrow
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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An unforgettable World War II memoir set in Nazi-occupied France and filled with romance and adventure: a former Eastern European Jew remembers his flight from the Holocaust and his extraordinary four years in the French underground. Justus Rosenberg, now 98, has taught literature at Bard... |
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Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America
Craig Childs · Vintage
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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The first people in the New World were few, their encampments fleeting. On a side of the planet no human had ever seen, different groups arrived from different directions, and not all at the same time. The land they reached was fully inhabited by megafauna - mastodons, giant bears, mammoths,... |
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The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
Brian Fagan · Basic Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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The groundbreaking history of how climate change transformed Europe and the world, from a renowned archaeologist -- updated with a new preface on the latest climate researchThe Little Ice Age tells the fascinating story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern... |
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Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages
Jack Hartnell · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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With wit, wisdom, and a sharp scalpel, Jack Hartnell dissects the medieval body and offers a remedy to our preconceptions. Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love, and had children. And yet their lives were full... |
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A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution
Jeremy Popkin · Basic Books
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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From an award-winning historian, a magisterial account of the revolution that created the modern world
The principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society -- even if, after more than two hundred years, they are more contested than ever before.... |
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The Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era
Gareth Russell · Atria Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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In this original and meticulously researched narrative history, the author of the "stunning" (The Sunday Times) Young and Damned and Fair uses the sinking of the Titanic as a prism through which to examine the end of the Edwardian era and the seismic shift... |
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