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Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
Stephen R Platt - Knopf
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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Money: The Unauthorized Biography
Felix Martin - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From ancient currency to Adam Smith, from the gold standard to shadow banking and the Great Recession: a sweeping historical epic that traces the development and evolution of one of humankind's greatest inventions.What is money, and how does it work? In this tour de force of political,... |
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A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945–1955
Ronald H Spector - ?W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A harrowing history of the conflicts that swept Asia during the decade following World War II -- and determined the fate of the continent.The end of World War II led to the United States' emergence as a global superpower. For war-ravaged Western Europe it marked the beginning of decades... |
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Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas
Stephen Harrigan - University of Texas Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Harrigan, surveying thousands of years of history that lead to the banh mi restaurants of Houston and the juke joints of Austin, remembering the forgotten as well as the famous, delivers an exhilarating blend of the base and the ignoble, a very human story indeed. [ Big Wonderful... |
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The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj
Anne de Courcy - Harper; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the critically acclaimed biographies Diana Mosley and The Viceroy's Daughters comes a fascinating, hugely entertaining account of the Victorian women who traveled halfway around the world on the hunt for a husband.By the late nineteenth century, Britain's colonial... |
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The Uranium Club: Unearthing the Lost Relics of the Nazi Nuclear Program
Miriam E Hiebert - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Much as Marcel Proust spun out a lifetime of memories from the taste of a madeleine, The Uranium Club spins out the history of Nazi Germany's failed World War II atomic-bomb project by tracing the whereabouts of a small, blackened cube of Nazi uranium. It's a riveting tale... |
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They Called Us "Lucky": The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War's Hardest Hit Unit
Ruben Gallego - Custom House
Format: Hardcover
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Opening up for the first time about his combat experience, Congressman Ruben Gallego (D, AZ) delivers a moving and unforgettable memoir of the eternal bonds forged between the Marines of Lima Company, the hardest-hit unit of the Iraq War.At first, they were "Lucky Lima." Infantryman... |
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The Darkest Year: The American Home Front 1941-1942
William K. Klingaman - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Darkest Year is acclaimed author William K. Klingaman's narrative history of the American home front from December 7, 1941 through the end of 1942, a psychological study of the nation under the pressure of total war.For Americans on the home front, the twelve months following... |
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