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Scandinavians: In Search of the Soul of the North
Robert Ferguson · The Overlook Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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A journey of discovery though two millennia of Scandinavia's history, culture and society, "told with deep knowledge and an intoxicating passion" (BBC) .Scandinavia is the epitome of cool: we fill our homes with Nordic furniture; we envy their humane social welfare system... |
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Southern Reconstruction
Philip Leigh · Westholme Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The Reconstruction Era the years immediately following the Civil War when Congress directed the reintegration of the former Confederate states into the Union remains, as Eric Foner suggested, America s unfinished revolution. But Reconstruction is more than a story of racial injustice;... |
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All the Agents and Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands
Stephanie Elizondo Griest · The University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
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After a decade of chasing stories around the globe, intrepid travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest followed the magnetic pull home--only to discover that her native South Texas had been radically transformed in her absence. Ravaged by drug wars and barricaded by an eighteen-foot steel... |
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The Great Rescue: American Heroes, an Iconic Ship, and Saving Europe During WWI
PETER HERNON · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Published in commemoration of the centennial of America's entry into World War I, the story of the USS Leviathan, the legendary liner turned warship that ferried U.S. soldiers to Europe - a unique war history that offers a fresh, compelling look at this epic time.When war broke out in Europe... |
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Our Sister Republics: The United States in an Age of American Revolutions
CAITLIN FITZ · Liveright
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
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A major new interpretation recasts U.S. history between revolution and civil war, exposing a dramatic reversal in sympathy toward Latin American revolutions. In the early nineteenth century, the United States turned its idealistic gaze southward, imagining a legacy of revolution and republicanism... |
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Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
Nancy MacLean · Viking
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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An explosive exposé of the man and the ideas behind the well-heeled right's relentless campaign to eliminate unions, suppress voting, privatize public education, change the Constitution, and curb democratic majority ruleBehind today's headlines of billionaires taking over our government... |
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Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
Manal Sharif · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of a courageous movement to support women's right to drive.Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter of a taxi driver, born the year fundamentalism took hold.... |
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The Myth of Equality: Uncovering the Roots of Injustice and Privilege
KEN WYTSMA · INTERVARSITY Press
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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Is privilege real or imagined? It's clear that issues of race and equality have come to the forefront in our nation's consciousness. Every week yet another incident involving racial tension splashes across headlines and dominates our news feeds. But it's not easy to unpack... |
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