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The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation
David Brion Davis · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 422
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction Shortlisted for the 2014 Cundill Prize in Historical LiteratureFrom the revered historian, the long-awaited conclusion of the magisterial history of slavery and emancipation in Western culture that has been nearly... |
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A life beyond the boundaries
Benedict R O'G Anderson · Verso
Pages: 205
Format: Print book
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An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed "Imagined Communities" Born in China, Benedict Anderson spent his childhood in California and Ireland, was educated in England and finally found a home at Cornell University, where he immersed himself in the growing field of Southeast... |
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The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
Dana Goldstein · Doubleday
Pages: 349
Format: Print book
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In her groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education, Dana Goldstein finds answers in the past to the controversies that plague our public schools today.Teaching is a wildly contentious profession in America, one attacked and admired in equal measure. In The Teacher Wars, a rich,... |
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The Bill of Rights: The Fight to Secure America's Liberties
Carol Berkin · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The real story of how the Bill of Rights came to be: a concise, vivid history of political strategy, big egos, and partisan interest that set the terms of the ongoing contest between the federal government and the states.Revered today for articulating America's founding principles,... |
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Troubled refuge : struggling for freedom in the Civil War
Chandra Manning · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army's escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States. Even before shots were fired at Fort Sumter, slaves recognized that their bondage was at the root... |
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The Polish Way
Adam Zamoyski · F. Watts
Pages: 422
Format: Book
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This title is now out of print. Please see Adam Zamoyski's new book POLAND: A HISTORY, available September 1, 2012. |
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The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery
Bill James · Scribner
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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Using unprecedented, dramatically compelling sleuthing techniques, legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applies his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old mystery surrounding one of the deadliest serial killers in American history.Between 1898 and 1912, families... |
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KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
Nikolaus Wachsmann · Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pages: 880
Format: Hardcover
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In March of 1933, a disused factory surrounded by barbed wire held 223 prisoners in the town of Dachau. By the end of 1945, the SS concentration camp system had become an overwhelming landscape of terror. Twenty-two large camps and over one thousand satellite camps throughout Germany and Europe... |
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Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe
Simon Winder · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 551
Format: Hardcover
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A charmingly personal history of Hapsburg Europe, as lively as it is informative, by the author of Germania For centuries much of Europe and the Holy Roman Empire was in the royal hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores,... |
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The Frozen Chosen: The 1st Marine Division and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir
Thomas McKelvey Cleaver · Osprey Publishing
Pages: 296
Format: Print book
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The Frozen Chosen is an account of the breakout from the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea by the First Marine Division from November to December 1950, following the intervention of Red China in the Korean War. Fought during the worst blizzard in a century, it is considered by the United... |
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You Hide That You Hate Me and I Hide That I Know: Living with It in Rwanda
Philip Gourevitch · Penguin Press HC, The
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1594204241
ISBN-13: 978-1594204241
Product Dimensions:
5.5 x 1 x 8.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
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In this book the author explores a society in which killers and survivors live again as neighbors; it introducers readers to a post-genocide Rwanda. The book plunges into the lives of a vast cast of characters: from perpetrators and victims in tiny peasant communities to street kids, businessmen,... |
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And the Spirit Moved Them: The Lost Radical History of America's First Feminists
Helen Hunt · The Feminist Press at CUNY
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
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"Let me suggest, then, that the opening Chapter go farther back than 1848. . . . From the time of the first Convention on Women - in New York 1837 - the battle began." - Lucretia Mott, to Elizabeth Cady StantonA decade prior to the Seneca Falls Convention, black and white women... |
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