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Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
Gregg Mitman - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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An ambitious and shocking exposé of America's hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadowIn the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of the world's automobiles and consumed 75 percent of the world's rubber. But only one percent... |
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Art Unpacked: 50 Works of Art: Uncovered, Explored, Explained
Matthew Wilson - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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A down-to-earth, visual guidebook that shows how to "read," understand, and get the most out of art.For beginners, art history might seem a daunting subject with complex rules and impenetrable technical language. Even for more seasoned art lovers the question of how to think about... |
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Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration
Harold Holzer - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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From acclaimed Abraham Lincoln historian Harold Holzer, a groundbreaking account of Lincoln's grappling with the politics of immigration against the backdrop of the Civil War.. In the three decades before the Civil War, some ten million foreign-born people settled in the United States,... |
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Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories
Amitav Ghosh - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Ghosh unravels the impact of the opium trade on global history and in his own family -- the climax of a yearslong project.When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis trilogy ten years ago, he was startled to learn how the lives of the nineteenth-century... |
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Sins of the Shovel: Looting, Murder, and the Evolution of American Archaeology
Rachel Morgan - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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An incisive history of early American archaeology - from reckless looting to professional science - and the field's unfinished efforts to make amends today.. American archaeology was forever scarred by an 1893 business proposition between cowboy-turned-excavator Richard Wetherill and socialites-turned-antiquarians... |
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A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime
Casey Sherman - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover
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The dark story behind the bright lights of TinseltownFrom the outside, Hollywood starlet Lana Turner seemed to have it all -- a thriving film career, a beautiful daughter, and the kind of fame and fortune that most people could only dream of. But when the famous femme fatale began dating... |
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Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor
Ronald Drabkin - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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"A beguiling tale of espionage and double-dealing in the years leading up to World War II. ... Strap in for a narrative that demands a suspension of disbelief - and richly rewards it." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) ; Best Books of February SelectionThe untold story of the World... |
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The New Suburbia: How Diversity Remade Suburban Life in Los Angeles after 1945
Becky M. Nicolaides - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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America's suburbs have been transforming. The conventional story of suburbs as bastions of white, middle-class homeowners no longer describes the suburbs of America's cities. Today they house a more typical cross-section of the nation--rich, poor, Black American, Latino, Asian,... |
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