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Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine
Sophie Pinkham · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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A distinctive writer's fascinating journey into the heart of a troubled region.Ukraine has rebuilt itself over and over again in the last century, plagued by the same conflicts: corruption, poverty, substance abuse, ethnic clashes, and Russian aggression. Sophie Pinkham saw all this... |
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After Yorktown: The Final Struggle for American Independence
Don Glickstein · Westholme Publishing
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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After the Humiliating Defeat at Yorktown in 1781, George III Vowed to Keep Fighting the Rebels and Their Allies Around the World, Holding a New Nation in the Balance Although most people think the American Revolution ended with the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, on October 19, 1781,... |
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The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy
Anne De Courcy · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A deliciously told group biography of the young, rich, American heiresses who married into the impoverished British aristocracy at the turn of the twentieth century - The real women who inspired Downton Abbey
Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first... |
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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Peter Frankopan · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 672
Format: Print book
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The epic history of the crossroads of the world - the meeting place of East and West and the birthplace of civilization
It was on the Silk Roads that East and West first encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas, cultures and religions. From... |
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Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till
Elliott J. Gorn · Oxford University Press
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover
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The world knows the story of young Emmett Till. In August 1955, the fourteen-year-old Chicago boy supposedly flirted with a white woman named Carolyn Bryant, who worked behind the counter of a country store, while visiting family in Mississippi. Three days later, his mangled body was recovered... |
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America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
Graham Hancock · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover
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Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author, has made it his life's work to find out--and in America Before, he draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest... |
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1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder
ARTHUR PH D HERMAN · Harper
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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In 1917, Arthur Herman examines one crucial year and the two figures at its center who would set the course of modern world history: Woodrow Wilson and Vladimir Lenin. Though they were men of very different backgrounds and experiences, Herman reveals how Wilson and Lenin were very much... |
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Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
Stephen R Platt · Knopf
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive history of the Opium War--a vivid narrative of the earliest Western efforts to open China to trade and the resulting war that ensured the decline of imperial China.When Britain declared war on China in 1839, it sealed the fate of what had been, for centuries, the wealthiest... |
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Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment
Linda Hirshman · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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The first history - incisive, witty, fascinating - of the fight against sexual harassment, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Sisters in Law
In Reckoning, Linda Hirshman, acclaimed historian of social change movements, delivers the sweeping story... |
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How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts
Ruth Goodman · Liveright
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Offensive language, insolent behavior, slights, brawls, and scandals come alive in Ruth Goodman's uproarious history. Every age and social strata has its bad eggs, rule-breakers, and nose-thumbers. As acclaimed popular historian and author of How to Be a Victorian Ruth Goodman shows... |
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Lives Reclaimed: A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany
Mark Roseman · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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From the celebrated historian of Nazi Germany, the story of a remarkable but completely unsung group that risked everything to help the most vulnerable
In the early 1920s amidst the upheaval of Weimar Germany, a small group of peaceable idealists began to meet, practicing a quiet,... |
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Science and Political Controversy: A Reference Handbook
David E. Newton Ph.D. · ABC-CLIO; annotated edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The U.S. government has historically been the engine of American scientific achievement, from the birth of nuclear technology to the "space race." However, at times, our government has also misrepresented scientific evidence to advance a political agenda. Science and Political... |
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Francis I: The Maker of Modern France
LEONIE FRIEDA · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Catherine de Medici returns to sixteenth-century Europe in this evocative and entertaining biography that recreates a remarkable era of French history and brings to life a great monarch - Francis I - who turned France into a great nation. Catherine de Medici's... |
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