An American Tragedy"'We were eight years in power' was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democracy ended with the return of white supremacis...9999903143918Ta-Nehisi Coates
Penguin
miércoles, 12 de junio de 2024
Studies in an Age of TransitionThe Paston letters have long exercised a tremendous fascination for their capacity to recreate in vivid detail the lives of an ordinary well-to-do fifteenth-century family. H. S. B...9999903141037H. S. Bennett
Cambridge University Press
viernes, 7 de junio de 2024
This work covers the sad story of thousands of British children sent overseas unaccompanied by parents or friends in the name of God and the Empire.9999903140924Gillian Wagner
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
viernes, 7 de junio de 2024
The Story of the Gauchos of PatagoniaGaucho conjures up an image as iconic as the word cowboy. But according to historians and anthropologists, their semi-nomadic culture disappeared at the end of the nineteenth centu...9999903139812Nick Reding
Three Rivers Press
miércoles, 5 de junio de 2024
Michael Moore is on a mission in his new book: Regime Change. the man who slithered into the White House on tracks greased by his daddy ´s oil buddies in one of many targets in Mik...9999903138341Moore, Michael
Time Warner Book Group
martes, 4 de junio de 2024
The Sarmatians - one of the many nomadic groups to emerge from the great Eurasian Steppe - crossed the Don in about the 3rd century BC to displace their western neighbours, the Scy...9999903137030R. Brzezinski, M. Mielcza...
Osprey Publishing (UK)
sábado, 1 de junio de 2024
Of all the conquerors who swept out of Central Asia, two names stand out in European memory ?? Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan the Mongol. Both are remembered for massacres and de...9999903137023David Nicolle
Osprey Publishing (UK)
sábado, 1 de junio de 2024
For more than 2,000 years hordes of mounted nomadic archers from the vastness of the steppe and from Central Asia spewed out into China, the Middle East, and Europe. Feared and rev...9999903137009Antony Karasulas
Osprey Publishing (UK)
sábado, 1 de junio de 2024
Osprey's study of the Normans during the Middle Ages. Despite the small geographic extent of Normandy its people played a crucial role in the history of the medieval world. Ferocit...9999903136989David Nicolle
Osprey Publishing (UK)
sábado, 1 de junio de 2024
The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the TudorsPeter Ackroyd, whose work has always been underpinned by a profound interest in and understanding of England's history, now tells the epic story of England itself.In Foundation, th...9999903135777Peter Ackroyd
Picador
jueves, 30 de mayo de 2024
A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth IIn a Europe aflame with wars of religion and dynastic conflicts, Elizabeth I came to the throne of a realm encircled by menace. To the great Catholic powers of France and Spain, En...9999903135555Stephen Alford
Bloomsbury USA
jueves, 30 de mayo de 2024
The story of the famous battle - from the acclaimed expert on Scottish history. The book begins in the rain at five o???clock on the morning of Wednesday, 16 April 1746, when the R...9999903134299Prebble, John.
Penguin
miércoles, 29 de mayo de 2024
A History ??A California classic . . . California, it should be remembered, was very much the wild west, having to wait until 1850 before it could force its way into statehood. so what tame...9999903126515Kevin Starr
Random House Trade Paperbacks
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
A white, working-class revolutionary, Sam Melville ??s guerrilla bombings set in motion a flood of armed radical actions across the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s....9999903112624Leslie James Pickering
Editors Varis
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
Confessions of an American DissidentIn this sequel to Fugitive Days, Ayers charts his life after the Weather Underground, when he becomes the GOP ??s flaunted ??domestic terrorist, ? a ??public enemy. ? Labeled...9999903112570Bill Ayers
Beacon Press
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
And Other Tales from the American UndergroundFrom the author of Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser's Reefer Madness: and Other Tales from the American Underground follows the money to uncover made the country rich: porn, pot an...9999903112501Schlosser, Eric
Editors Varis
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
An AnatomyJeremy Paxman knows every maneouvre a politician will make to avoid answering a difficult question, but in The Political Animal he seeks an answer to just one: What makes politicia...9999903111016Paxman, Jeremy
Penguin Books Ltd
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
From the dawn of history to the decline of the Celtic Tiger - how Ireland has been shaped over the centuries. Ireland has been shaped by many things over the centuries: geography, ...9999903108115Killeen, Richard Killeen,
Robinson Publishing
domingo, 14 de abril de 2024
Hobsbawm on Latin AmericaEric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) wrote that Latin America was the only region of the world outside Europe which he felt he knew well and where he felt entirely at home. He claimed this wa...9999903107927Eric Hobsbawm
Abacus
domingo, 14 de abril de 2024
The Demerara Uprising and Britain's Legacy of SlaveryWhen Thomas Harding discovered that his mother's family had made money from plantations worked by enslaved people, what began as an interrogation into the choices of his ancestors ...9999903107859Thomas Harding
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
domingo, 14 de abril de 2024
Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World PowerA man who had won the Nobel Peace Prize, who was widely counted one of the greatest UN Secretary Generals, was nearly hounded from office by scandal. Indeed, both Annan and the ins...9999903102892James Traub
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
"For eight months in 1975 and 1976, Danial Patrick Moynihan served the Unites States as its Ambassador to the United Nations. During a term of almost unprecedented controversy, edi...9999903102823Daniel Patrick Moynihan S...
Little, Brown and Company
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
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