Historia

Revolution

de Bulent Diken

In contemporary society the idea of 'revolution' seems to have become obsolete. What is more untimely than the idea of revolution today? At the same time, however, the idea of radical change no longer refers...

Washington on Foot, Fifth Edition: 24 Walking Tours and Maps of Washington, DC, Old Town Alexandria, and Takoma Park

de John J. Protopappas & Alvin R. Mcneal

The best way to see—really see—any city is on foot. The perennial favorite Washington on Foot has been compeltely revised and updated to offer 24 walking tours of Washington's neighborhoods. Familiar monuments...

That's What They Want You to Think

de Paul Simpson

You don’t need to be wearing a tinfoil hat to accept that Lincoln was assassinated by a conspiracy - it’s a historical fact. But these days the phrase “conspiracy theory” has become synonymous with labyrinthine...

A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, 1854-1967

de Rachel Cohen

“They met in ordinary ways,” writes Rachel Cohen in her introduction, “a careful arrangement after long admiration, a friend’s casual introduction, or because they both just happened to be standing near...

Prussian Light Infantry 1792-1815

de Peter Hofschröer & Bryan Fosten

The Prussian light infantry branch was founded in the reign of Frederick the Great (1740-1786) and continued to develop from then onwards. It was the light troops of the Austrian army, the Croatian border soldiers,...

Prussian Cavalry of the Napoleonic Wars (1): 1792-1807

de Peter Hofschröer & Bryan Fosten

When Frederick II (later known as Frederick the Great) came to the throne in 1740, he had three advantages for which he owed thanks to his father: a modern, well-organised state; full coffers; and a properly...

Prussian Cavalry of the Napoleonic Wars (2): 180715

de Peter Hofschröer & Bryan Fosten

After Prussia's dismemberment a drastic re-organisation of the entire army was necessary, and the cavalry underwent this process with the rest. At the time of the mobilisation in 1813, the somewhat reduced mounted...

The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation

Pulitzer Prize for History 2007

de Gene Roberts & Hank Klibanoff

An unprecedented examination of how news stories, editorials and photographs in the American press—and the journalists responsible for them—profoundly changed the nation’s thinking about civil rights in...

Shiloh, 1862

de Winston Groom

A main selection in History Book-of-the-Month Club and alternate selection in Military Book-of-the-Month Club.

In the spring of 1862, many Americans still believed that the Civil War, "would be over by Christmas."...

The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power

de Partha Chatterjee

When Siraj, the ruler of Bengal, overran the British settlement of Calcutta in 1756, he allegedly jailed 146 European prisoners overnight in a cramped prison. Of the group, 123 died of suffocation. While this...

The Politics of Precaution

de David Vogel

The Politics of Precaution examines the politics of consumer and environmental risk regulation in the United States and Europe over the last five decades, explaining why America and Europe have often regulated...

Rousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies

de Robert Wokler, Bryan Garsten & Christopher Brooke

Robert Wokler was one of the world's leading experts on Rousseau and the Enlightenment, but some of his best work was published in the form of widely scattered and difficult-to-find essays. This book collects...

A Written Republic: Cicero's Philosophical Politics

de Yelena Baraz

In the 40s BCE, during his forced retirement from politics under Caesar's dictatorship, Cicero turned to philosophy, producing a massive and important body of work. As he was acutely aware, this was an unusual...

Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement

de Jon Meacham

Voices in Our Blood is a literary anthology of the most important and artful interpretations of the civil rights movement, past and present. It showcases what forty of the nation's best writers — including...

Legionnaire: Five Years in the French Foreign Legion

de Simon Murray

“A pleasure to read and nearly impossible to put down.”

–Army Times

“Embodies an experience that many have enjoyed in fantasy–few in reality.”

–The Washington Post

The French Foreign Legion–mysterious,...

John Woolman's Path to the Peaceable Kingdom: A Quaker in the British Empire

de Geoffrey Plank

Drawing on the diaries of contemporaries, personal correspondence, the minutes of Quaker meetings, business and probate records, pamphlets, and other sources, this book shows that Woolman and his neighbors were...

Consuming Pleasures: Intellectuals and Popular Culture in the Postwar World

de Daniel Horowitz

Between 1950 and 1972, American and European writers came to envision consumer culture in fresh, provocative ways. Across national boundaries, they shifted attention from condemnation to critical appreciation,...

Unmarriages: Women, Men, and Sexual Unions in the Middle Ages

de Ruth Karras

Traditional marriage was not the only option for couples in medieval Europe. Alternative forms of union could make lives precarious but also provided a degree of flexibility. The study draws on a wide geographical...

Living Islam Out Loud

de Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur

Living Islam Out Loud presents the first generation of American Muslim women who have always identified as both American and Muslim. These pioneers have forged new identities for themselves and for future generations,...

War without Mercy: PACIFIC WAR

de John Dower

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD

AN AMERICAN BOOK AWARD FINALIST

Now in paperback, War Without Mercy has been hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most original and important books...