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Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor · University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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Americans have long regarded the freedom of travel a central tenet of citizenship. Yet, in the United States, freedom of movement has historically been a right reserved for whites. In this book, Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor shows that African Americans fought obstructions to their mobility... |
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Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives
Laura Murphy · Columbia University Press
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback
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Slavery is not a crime confined to the far reaches of history. It is an injustice that continues to entrap twenty-seven million people across the globe. Laura Murphy offers close to forty survivor narratives from Cambodia, Ghana, Lebanon, Macedonia, Mexico, Russia, Thailand, Ukraine, and the United... |
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Following Fish: One Man's Journey into the Food and Culture of the Indian Coast
Samanth Subramanian · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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In India's long and diverse coastline, fish inhabit the heart of many aspects of life: food of course, and also culture, commerce, sports, history, and society. Journeying along the edges of the peninsula, Samanth Subramanian delivers a kaleidoscope of extraordinary stories. Following Fish... |
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The Bettencourt Affair: The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris
Thomas Sancton · Dutton
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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Was the world's wealthiest woman - Liliane Bettencourt - heir to an estimated thirty-six-billion-dollar L'Oréal fortune, the victim of a con man? Or were her own family the real villains? This riveting narrative tells the real-life, shocking story behind the cause célèbre that... |
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Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country
Andrew Bacevich · Metropolitan Books; F First Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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A blistering critique of the gulf between America’s soldiers and the society that sends them off to war, from the bestselling author of The Limits of Power and Washington RulesThe United States has been “at war” in Iraq and Afghanistan for more than a decade. Yet as war has become... |
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Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman
Greg Grandin · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A new account of America's most controversial diplomat that moves beyond praise or condemnation to reveal Kissinger as the architect of America's current imperial stanceIn his fascinating new book, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin argues that to understand the crisis of contemporary... |
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The Burning Shore: How Hitler's U-Boats Brought World War II to America
Edward Offley · Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group,
Pages: 312
Format: Print book
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On June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun at Virginia Beach, two massive fireballs erupted just offshore from a convoy of oil tankers steaming into Chesapeake Bay. While men, women, and children gaped from the shore, two damaged oil tankers fell out of line and began... |
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The gene : an intimate history
Siddhartha Mukherjee · Scribner
Pages: 592
Format: Print book
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THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post and Seattle Times Best Book of the Year From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies - a magnificent history of the gene and a response to the defining question of the future:... |
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The Age of Daredevils
Michael Clarkson · Little a
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At the dawn of the twentieth century, a small but determined band of barrel jumpers risked their lives in one of the world's most wondrous waterfalls. Only a few survived.By turns a family drama and an action-adventure story, The Age of Daredevils chronicles the lives of the men and women... |
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Napalm: An American Biography
Robert M. Neer · Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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Napalm incendiary gel that sticks to skin and burns to the bone came into the world on Valentinexs Day at a secret Harvard war research laboratory On March it created an inferno that killed over people in Tokyoxmore than died in the atomic explosions at Hiroshima or Nagasaki It went... |
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American Boys: The True Story of the Lost 74 of the Vietnam War
Louise Esola · Pennway Books
Format: Print book
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It was 1969. War and protest rattled the nation while the troops marched on. The warships set sail. For coming-of-age American boys, death seemed one hill away. By then, nearly 300 of them were coming home in boxes each week. They were young men caught in a war machine, one of chance, circumstance,... |
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The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
Arkady Ostrovsky · Viking
Pages: 374
Format: Print book
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WINNER OF THE 2016 ORWELL PRIZE FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR "Fast-paced and excellently written ... much needed, dispassionate and eminently readable." - New York Times "Filled with sparkling prose and deep analysis." -The Wall Street Journal How did a country... |
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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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