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Dirty Old London
The Victorian Fight Against Filth
In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked...
One Hot Summer
Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858
A unique, colorful view of Victorian London when residents both famous and now-forgotten endured “the Great Stink” across one hot summer? While 1858 in London may have been noteworthy for its broiling...
Palaces of Pleasure
From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment
An energetic and exhilarating account of the Victorian entertainment industry, its extraordinary success and enduring impact The Victorians invented mass entertainment. As the nineteenth century’s growing...
Richard Wagner
The Last of the Titans
In this new biography of Richard Wagner, Joachim Köhler draws on social and political analysis, documentary interpretation, and psychological insights to paint a rounded picture of Wagner as both a controversial historical...
Remembering War
The Great War between Memory and History in the 20th Century
This is a masterful volume on remembrance and war in the twentieth century. Jay Winter locates the fascination with the subject of memory within a long-term trajectory that focuses on the Great War. Images, languages, and...
Miracles at the Jesus Oak
Histories of the Supernatural in Reformation Europe
In the tradition of The Return of Martin Guerre and The Great Cat Massacre, Miracles at the Jesus Oak is a rich, evocative journey into the past and the extraordinary events that transformed the lives of...
Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World
With a New Preface
This groundbreaking history connects Nazi Germany’s Arabic-language propaganda during World War II to anti-Semitism in the Middle East in the decades since. Jeffrey Herf, a leading scholar in the field,...
The Deadly Dinner Party
and Other Medical Detective Stories
ER and House meet Sherlock Holmes in these riveting and true stories of medical detective work. Picking up where Berton Roueché’s The Medical Detectives left off, The Deadly...
In Ishmael's House
A History of Jews in Muslim Lands
A powerful account of Jews living in Muslim lands and the surprising truths about their shared history The relationship between Jews and Muslims has been a flashpoint that affects stability in the Middle...
Fragile Empire
How Russia Fell In and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin
A lively, inside account of Putin’s years of rule and the impending crisis that threatens his tsar-like regime “A beautifully written and very lively study of Russia that argues that the political order...