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Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past

Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past

A "supremely entertaining" (The New Yorker) exploration of who gets to record the world’s history--from Julius Caesar to......more

Woodward and Bernstein: The People’s Right to Know

Woodward and Bernstein: The People’s Right to Know

It is not often that journalism makes it into the grand narrative of American history. Woodward and Bernstein, through t......more

Toni Morrison: Life, Liberty, and Literature

Toni Morrison: Life, Liberty, and Literature

Toni Morrison is one of the most celebrated living authors. Her work, for which she received the Nobel Prize in Literatu......more

Harvey Milk: The Public Face of Gay Rights Politics

Harvey Milk: The Public Face of Gay Rights Politics

In this concise biography, Eric H. Walther introduces students to the life of San Francisco City Supervisor Harvey Milk,......more

Harvey Milk: The Public Face of Gay Rights Politics

Harvey Milk: The Public Face of Gay Rights Politics

In this concise biography, Eric H. Walther introduces students to the life of San Francisco City Supervisor Harvey Milk,......more

Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell is one of the most significant figures in British history - and one of the most misinterpreted. In this ......more

The Hitler Myths: Exposing the Truth Behind the Stories about the Führer

The Hitler Myths: Exposing the Truth Behind the Stories about the Führer

Adolf Hitler remains one of the most discussed figures in world history. Every year, an untold number of articles and bo......more

The Invisible Spy: America’s First Spy in World War Two

The Invisible Spy: America’s First Spy in World War Two

Coming soon! The Invisible Spy by Thomas Maier will be available Mar 25, 2025....more

Henrietta Maria: The Warrior Queen Who Divided a Nation

Henrietta Maria: The Warrior Queen Who Divided a Nation

Dispelling the myths around this legendary queen, this biography of Henrietta Maria, queen consort of King Charles I, re......more

The Boyhood of Jesus: What Does History Tell Us?

The Boyhood of Jesus: What Does History Tell Us?

As a boy, Jesus was a refugee, an outsider, an immigrant in the Galilee in which he grew up, and a witness to horrific a......more

Thutmose III and Hatshepsut, Pharaohs of Egypt: Their Lives and Afterlives

Thutmose III and Hatshepsut, Pharaohs of Egypt: Their Lives and Afterlives

An innovative account of the lives and times of the ’warrior king’ Thutmose III, and the female pharaoh Hatshepsut, by r......more

Unburied: The True Story of Hannah Beswick, the Manchester Mummy

Unburied: The True Story of Hannah Beswick, the Manchester Mummy

The macabre tale of an eighteenth-century woman immortalised in folklore as the ’Manchester Mummy’. In 1835, the Manches......more

Cromwell’s Spy: From the American Colonies to the English Civil War: The Life of George Downing

Cromwell’s Spy: From the American Colonies to the English Civil War: The Life of George Downing

A vivid biography of the elusive George Downing, a Puritan from colonial Massachusetts who became Oliver Cromwell’s chie......more

Baltic Souls: Fate in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania

Baltic Souls: Fate in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania

During a boat trip on the Baltic, Jan Brokken chanced upon Pärnu harbor, on the Estonian coast of the Gulf of Riga. It w......more

A Man on Fire: The Worlds of Thomas Wentworth Higginson

A Man on Fire: The Worlds of Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Few Americans covered as much ground as Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Born in 1823 to a family descended from Boston’s Pur......more

Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess

Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess

A brilliant excavation of the life of bestselling historian Adam Zamoyski’s great-great-great-great grandmother, a princ......more

Archer M. Huntington: Founder of the Hispanic Society of America

Archer M. Huntington: Founder of the Hispanic Society of America

At the turn of the twentieth century, New York City philanthropist, arts patron, and scholar Archer M. Huntington became......more

Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient World

Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient World

In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome, from its slightly shabby ......more

A Madman’s Will: John Randolph, Four Hundred Slaves, and the Mirage of Freedom

A Madman’s Will: John Randolph, Four Hundred Slaves, and the Mirage of Freedom

Few legal cases in American history are as riveting as the controversy surrounding the will of Virginia Senator John Ran......more

The Scapegoat: The Brilliant, Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham

The Scapegoat: The Brilliant, Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham

From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, an extraordinary story of the meteoric rise and fall of King James I’s fav......more

R.M.S. Titanic Lifeboat No 6: The Story of Julia Cavendish Who Survived

R.M.S. Titanic Lifeboat No 6: The Story of Julia Cavendish Who Survived

  • Ingram,出版日期:2024-11-28

Tyrell and Julia booked to travel on the Titanic with their two sons to introduce them to their American grandfather, bu......more

Iconoclast: A Reflective Biography of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar

Iconoclast: A Reflective Biography of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar

In Iconoclast, Dr Anand Teltumbde, a distinguished public intellectual and leading authority on the Dalit movement, pres......more

Agent André: The German Jew at the Heart of the Sis and French Resistance

Agent André: The German Jew at the Heart of the Sis and French Resistance

As intriguing and compelling as a work of fiction, the memoirs of ’André’ Joseph Scheinmann, mesmerize and enthrall the ......more

The Folly of Revolution: Thomas Bradbury Chandler and the Loyalist Mind in a Democratic Age

The Folly of Revolution: Thomas Bradbury Chandler and the Loyalist Mind in a Democratic Age

In this penetrating biography of Thomas Bradbury Chandler, S. Scott Rohrer takes readers deep into the intellectual worl......more

Malaparte: A Biography

Malaparte: A Biography

A sweeping, definitive biography of the polarizing Italian writer whose infamous politics, relationship with Mussolini, ......more

Fyodor Dostoevsky-Darkness and Dawn (1848-1849): A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and Criticism

Fyodor Dostoevsky-Darkness and Dawn (1848-1849): A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and Criticism

Fyodor Dostoevsky--Darkness and Dawn (1848-1849), the third and final volume on the writer’s childhood, adolescence, and......more

Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist

Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist

Benjamin Franklin was one of the preeminent scientists of his time. Driven by curiosity, he conducted cutting-edge resea......more

Landbridge: Life in Fragments

Landbridge: Life in Fragments

In 1980, Y-Dang Troeung and her family were among the last of the 60,000 refugees from Cambodia that Canada agreed to ad......more

Landbridge: Life in Fragments

Landbridge: Life in Fragments

In 1980, Y-Dang Troeung and her family were among the last of the 60,000 refugees from Cambodia that Canada agreed to ad......more

El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary

El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary

Exploring the creation of the El Cid legend over the centuries, this masterful and evocative biography peels away the la......more

The Triumvirate: Captain Edward J. Smith, Bruce Ismay, Thomas Andrews and the Sinking of Titanic

The Triumvirate: Captain Edward J. Smith, Bruce Ismay, Thomas Andrews and the Sinking of Titanic

Presenting the true stories of three core individuals in Titanic’s history - Captain Edward J. Smith, shipbuilder Thomas......more

Hemingway’s Passions: His Women, His Wars, and His Writing

Hemingway’s Passions: His Women, His Wars, and His Writing

Ernest Hemingway’s passion was writing, and he was inspired by a lifetime of daring adventures and encouraged by the man......more

Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties

Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties

In this new edition of his memoirs, Tariq Ali revisits his formative years as a young radical. It is a story that takes ......more

Tiberius and His Age: Myth, Sex, Luxury, and Power

Tiberius and His Age: Myth, Sex, Luxury, and Power

A radical new portrait of the infamous Roman emperor Rome’s second emperor, Tiberius (42 BCE-CE 37), has traditionally b......more

Peggy & Balmer

Peggy & Balmer

"Alberta is a puzzle, born in hope and anger," William Thorsell writes in the introduction to this stunning new book by ......more

Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah

Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah

From New York Times bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Charles King, the moving untol......more

Menachem Mendel Schneerson: Becoming the Messiah

Menachem Mendel Schneerson: Becoming the Messiah

The life and thought of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, one of the most influential--and controversial--rabbis in modern Jud......more

Beyond Jefferson: The Hemingses, the Randolphs, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America

Beyond Jefferson: The Hemingses, the Randolphs, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America

A global history of how Thomas Jefferson’s descendants navigated the legacy of the Declaration of Independence on both s......more

Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief

Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief

The second volume in an acclaimed biography of Oliver Cromwell, from the capture of Charles I to the expulsion of the Lo......more

The Inquisition’s Inquisitor: Henry Charles Lea of Philadelphia

The Inquisition’s Inquisitor: Henry Charles Lea of Philadelphia

Writing in 1868, the Philadelphia publisher-cum-historian Henry Charles Lea informed a friend, "I am trying to collect t......more

The Conscience of the Party: Hu Yaobang, China’s Communist Reformer

The Conscience of the Party: Hu Yaobang, China’s Communist Reformer

The definitive story of a top Chinese politician’s ill-fated quest to reform the Communist Party. When Hu Yaobang died i......more

Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe

Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe

A lively and provocative account of Bernard Mandeville and the work that scandalised and appalled his contemporaries--an......more

Benjamin Franklin in American Thought and Culture, 1790-1990: Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 211)

Benjamin Franklin in American Thought and Culture, 1790-1990: Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 211)

A teenage runaway whose face later appeared on the one-hundred-dollar bill, as well as the man who penned Poor Richard’s......more

Amir Sjarifoeddin: Politics and Truth in Indonesia, 1907-1948

Amir Sjarifoeddin: Politics and Truth in Indonesia, 1907-1948

"A biography of the Indonesian leftist politician that argues that the anticolonial and anticapitalist political future ......more

Amir Sjarifoeddin: Politics and Truth in Indonesia, 1907-1948

Amir Sjarifoeddin: Politics and Truth in Indonesia, 1907-1948

"A biography of the Indonesian leftist politician that argues that the anticolonial and anticapitalist political future ......more

Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe

Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe

"A fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . . Hunting the Falcon brilliantly shows how time, circumstance and politics combi......more

The Forgotten Iron King of the Great Lakes: Eber Brock Ward, 1811-1875

The Forgotten Iron King of the Great Lakes: Eber Brock Ward, 1811-1875

A Gilded Age industrialist becomes Michigan’s wealthiest resident and helps shape the nation. Eber Brock Ward (1811-1875......more

The Last Women of the Durham Coalfield: Hannah’s Granddaughter Volume 3

The Last Women of the Durham Coalfield: Hannah’s Granddaughter Volume 3

’As this book shows, the women of the Durham coalfield played an equal role in shaping daily life and trajectories of hi......more

Archimedes: Fulcrum of Science

Archimedes: Fulcrum of Science

A bold reimagining of the Greek mathematician’s singular life as a truly modern scientist. Galileo, Leonardo, Newton, an......more

Race, Religion, and the Pulpit: Rev. Robert L. Bradby and the Making of Urban Detroit

Race, Religion, and the Pulpit: Rev. Robert L. Bradby and the Making of Urban Detroit

Details Reverend Bradby’s work during the Great Migration and the interwar period, when his Second Baptist Church became......more

Tappan Adney: From Birchbark Canoes to Indigenous Rights

Tappan Adney: From Birchbark Canoes to Indigenous Rights

The remarkable life and legacy of an extraordinary man whose influence echoes through time. Tappan Adney travelled from ......more

Hiding Mengele: How a Nazi Network Harbored the Angel of Death

Hiding Mengele: How a Nazi Network Harbored the Angel of Death

A Brazilian journalist’s investigation unearths the story of a network of people responsible for hiding "The Angel of De......more

The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV

The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV

From an acclaimed historian and author comes an epic history: the dual biography of Richard II and Henry IV, two cousins......more

Henry V: The Astonishing Rise of England’s Greatest Warrior King

Henry V: The Astonishing Rise of England’s Greatest Warrior King

The New York Times bestselling author returns with a biography examining the dramatic life and unparalleled leadership o......more

Q: A Voyage Around the Queen

Q: A Voyage Around the Queen

With equal measures of wit and wisdom, the author of 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret draws a deeply original, hilarious......more

Tippu Tip: Ivory, Slavery and Discovery in the Scramble for Africa

Tippu Tip: Ivory, Slavery and Discovery in the Scramble for Africa

Embark on a gripping journey through the life of Tippu Tip, a pioneering 19th-century ivory trader whose exploits left a......more

A Rough Ride to Redemption: The Ben Daniels Story

A Rough Ride to Redemption: The Ben Daniels Story

He may be little known today, but Ben Daniels was a feared gunman who typified the journeyman gunfighter every bit as mu......more

’The Angel of Kings Cross’: The Life and Times of Dr Fanny Reading

’The Angel of Kings Cross’: The Life and Times of Dr Fanny Reading

Dr. Fanny Reading arrived in Australia in 1889 as a migrant child and felt the loneliness of the newcomer. A brilliant m......more

Book and Dagger

Book and Dagger

The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the war At......more

Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II

Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II

An incredible true story of murder in a utopian community established on a remote Galápagos island by European refugees,......more

Woody Guthrie’s Modern World Blues: Volume 3

Woody Guthrie’s Modern World Blues: Volume 3

Mention Woody Guthrie, and people who know the name are likely to think of the "Okie Bard," dust storms behind him, ridi......more

Beyond the Devil’s Road: Francisco Garcés and the Spanish Encounter with the American Southwest Volume 8

Beyond the Devil’s Road: Francisco Garcés and the Spanish Encounter with the American Southwest Volume 8

The explorations of Francisco Garcés, an intrepid Franciscan friar of the eighteenth century, led to the opening of the......more

A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War (T)

A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War (T)

From popular historian and author of the "marvelous" (The New York Times Book Review) The Last American Aristocrat comes......more

The Scientist Turned Spy: André Michaux, Thomas Jefferson, and the Conspiracy of 1793

The Scientist Turned Spy: André Michaux, Thomas Jefferson, and the Conspiracy of 1793

The incredible story of an explorer caught up in international intrigue at the dawn of US history André Michaux was the ......more

A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War

A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War

From popular historian and author of the "marvelous" (The New York Times Book Review) The Last American Aristocrat comes......more

The Abiy Project: God, Power and War in the New Ethiopia

The Abiy Project: God, Power and War in the New Ethiopia

In 2018, Ethiopia and the world were in the throes of "Abiymania", a fervor of popular support for the divided country’s......more

The Soap Man: Lewis, Harris and Lord Leverhulme

The Soap Man: Lewis, Harris and Lord Leverhulme

In 1918, as the First World War was drawing to a close, the eminent liberal industrial Lord Leverhulme bought - lock, st......more

Richard III and the Princes in the Tower

Richard III and the Princes in the Tower

A look at the original sources and depictions that have informed our view of Richard III through history Richard III has......more

The Dervish Bowl: The Many Lives of Arminius Vámbéry

The Dervish Bowl: The Many Lives of Arminius Vámbéry

A narrative of the life of Arminius Vámbéry. Who was Arminius Vámbéry? A poverty-stricken, Jewish autodidact; a linguist......more

The Silenced Muse: Emily Hale, T. S. Eliot, and the Role of a Lifetime

The Silenced Muse: Emily Hale, T. S. Eliot, and the Role of a Lifetime

The first full-length biography of Emily Hale, the longtime secret love of the celebrated poet T. S. Eliot. In January 2......more

Chasing Chance: An Ancestral Journey Through America’s Past

Chasing Chance: An Ancestral Journey Through America’s Past

  • Ingram,出版日期:2024-09-03

An enthralling study of a founding American dynasty -the Peirces and the Princes--in an interwoven story of family herit......more

My Dear Boy: A World War II Story of Escape, Exile, and Revelation

My Dear Boy: A World War II Story of Escape, Exile, and Revelation

After the death of Joanie Holzer Schirm’s parents in 2000, she found hundreds of letters, held together by rusted paperc......more

Richard Hooker and the Christian Virtues

Richard Hooker and the Christian Virtues

  • Ingram,出版日期:2024-08-29

The contributors to the volume explore the relationship of the virtues to Richard Hooker’s ontology, to questions of jus......more

The Strategists: Churchill, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and Roosevelt--How War Made Them and They Made War

The Strategists: Churchill, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and Roosevelt--How War Made Them and They Made War

Churchill. Hitler. Stalin. Mussolini. Roosevelt. Five of the most impactful leaders of WW2, each with their own individu......more

The Traitor’s Daughter: Captured by Nazis, Pursued by the Kgb, My Mother’s Odyssey to Freedom from Her Secret Past

The Traitor’s Daughter: Captured by Nazis, Pursued by the Kgb, My Mother’s Odyssey to Freedom from Her Secret Past

The masterful narration of a daughter’s decades-long quest to understand her extraordinary mother, who was born in Lenin......more

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