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When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History
MATTHEW RESTALL · Ecco
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
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A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortés that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the AmericasOn November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital... |
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The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
Niall Ferguson · Penguin Press
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networksMost history is hierarchical: it's about emperors, presidents, prime ministers and field marshals. It's about states,... |
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Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
STEVEN STOLL · Hill and Wang
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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How the United States underdeveloped AppalachiaAppalachia -- among the most storied and yet least understood regions in America -- has long been associated with poverty and backwardness. But how did this image arise and what exactly does it mean? In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll launches an original... |
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Justice for All: Selected Writings of Lloyd A. Barbee
Lloyd A Barbee · Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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Civil rights leader and legislator Lloyd A. Barbee frequently signed his correspondence with "Justice for All," a phrase that embodied his life's work of fighting for equality and fairness. An attorney most remembered for the landmark case that desegregated Milwaukee Public... |
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Alice in France: The World War I Letters of Alice M. O'Brien
Alice M O'Brien · Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
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July 19, 1918: The wounded were pouring into the four Hospitals of the town. . . . We have decided to double up for a few days - half of us work at the Canteen and half at the Hospitals, taking turns. It will be hard work for awhile but everyone feels that you can't work hard enough... |
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London's Triumph: Merchants, Adventurers, and Money in Shakespeare's City
Stephen Alford · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic story of the dazzling growth of London in the sixteenth century.For most, England in the sixteenth century was the era of the Tudors, from Henry VII and VIII to Elizabeth I. But as their dramas played out at court, England was being transformed economically by the astonishing... |
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N?rth: How to Live Scandinavian
AURELL BRONT · Aurum Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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'Why are Scandinavians constantly topping the happiness table?' 'How do you get more Scandi-style in your life?' 'Just how do you use lagom?'Like her viking ancestors before her, Bronte Aurell left Denmark to explore the world beyond home shores and in her travels has come to understand... |
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The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America
Rebecca Fraser · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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From acclaimed historian and biographer Rebecca Fraser comes a vivid narrative history of the Mayflower and of the Winslow family, who traveled to America in search of a new world.The voyage of the Mayflower and the founding of Plymouth Colony is one of the seminal events in world history.... |
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Commander in Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943
Nigel Hamilton · Mariner Books
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback
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"Superb . . . Hamilton brilliantly sets out Roosevelt's foresight, determination and skill in establishing a new world order." - Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post "Provocative . . . stimulating to follow." - Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times Book Review 1943 was the year... |
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Obama: An Intimate Portrait
Pete Souza · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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This is the definitive visual biography of Barack Obama's historic presidency, captured in unprecedented detail by his White House photographer--and presented in an oversize, 12"x10" exquisitely produced format, and featuring a foreword from the President himself. |
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