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What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories
Laura Shapiro · Viking
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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A beloved culinary historian's short takes on six famous women through the lens of food and cooking - what they ate and how their attitudes toward food offer surprising new insights into their lives.Everyone eats, and food touches on every aspect of our lives - social and cultural, personal... |
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Ellen Browning Scripps: New Money and American Philanthropy
Molly McClain · University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 303
Format: Hardcover
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Molly McClain tells the remarkable story of Ellen Browning Scripps (1836-1932) , an American newspaperwoman, feminist, suffragist, abolitionist, and social reformer who used her fortune to support women's education, the labor movement, and public access to science, the arts, and education.... |
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The Flood Year 1927: A Cultural History
Susan Scott Parrish · Princeton University Press
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, which covered nearly thirty thousand square miles across seven states, was the most destructive river flood in U.S. history. Due to the speed of new media and the slow progress of the flood, this was the first environmental disaster to be experienced... |
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Once upon a Time It Was Now: The Art & Craft of Writing Historical Fiction
James Alexander Thom · Blue River Press
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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While a historian stands firmly planted in the present and looks back into the past, a historical novelist has a more immediate task: to set readers in the midst of bygone events and lead them forward, allowing them to live and feel the wonderment, fear, hope, triumph, and pain as if they... |
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The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification
Paul Roberts · Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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It's something most of us have sensed for years--the rise of a world defined only by "mine" and "now." A world where business shamelessly seeks the fastest reward, regardless of the long-term social consequences; where political leaders reflexively choose short-term... |
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The American Deep State: Wall Street, Big Oil, and the Attack on U.S. Democracy
Peter Dale Scott · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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This provocative book makes a compelling case for a hidden deep state that influences and often opposes official U.S. policies. Prominent political analyst Peter Dale Scott begins by tracing Americas increasing militarization, restrictions on constitional rights, and income disparity since... |
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Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare
Gareth Porter · Just World Books
Pages: 310
Format: Paperback
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Manufactured Crisis provides unique and timely background to the ongoing diplomacy around Iran's nuclear technology program. In it, award-winning investigative journalist Gareth Porter offers a well documented critique of the official 'western' account of what the Iranian... |
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The World on a Plate: 40 Cuisines, 100 Recipes, and the Stories Behind Them
Mina Holland · Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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Eat your way around the world without leaving your home in this mouthwatering cultural history of 100 classic dishes.Best Culinary Travel Book (U.K.) , Gourmand World Cookbook AwardsFinalist for the Fortnum & Mason Food Book Award"When we eat, we travel." So begins this irresistible... |
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Contraband: Smuggling and the Birth of the American Century
Andrew Wender Cohen · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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How skirting the law once defined America's relation to the world.In the frigid winter of 1875, Charles L. Lawrence made international headlines when he was arrested for smuggling silk worth $60 million into the United States. An intimate of Boss Tweed, gloriously dubbed "The Prince... |
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A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education
David F Labaree · University Of Chicago Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Read the news about America's colleges and universities - rising student debt, affirmative action debates, and conflicts between faculty and administrators - and it's clear that higher education in this country is a total mess. But as David F. Labaree reminds us in this book, it's... |
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After Lincoln: How the North Won the Civil War and Lost the Peace
A. J. Langguth · Simon & Schuster; First Edition / First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant evocation of the post-Civil War era by the acclaimed author of Patriots and Union 1812. After Lincoln tells the story of the Reconstruction, which set back black Americans and isolated the South for a century.With Lincoln's assassination, his "team of rivals,"... |
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Leningrad 1941 - 42: Morality in a City under Siege
Sergey Yarov · Polity
Pages: 442
Format: Hardcover
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This book recounts one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century: the siege of Leningrad. It is based on the searing testimony of eyewitnesses, some of whom managed to survive, while others were to die in streets devastated by bombing, in icy houses, or the endless bread queues.... |
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