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Augustus
First Emperor of Rome
The dramatic story of Augustus, Rome’s first emperor, who plunged into Rome’s violent power struggles at the age of nineteen, proceeded to destroy all rivals, and more than anyone else created the Roman Empire...
The Narrow Edge
A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey
In a volume as urgent and eloquent as Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, this book—winner of the Southern Environmental Law Center's 2016 Reed Environmental Writing Award in the book category—reveals how the health and...
A Little History of the United States
"This is a little history with a big heart, meant to be savored more than studied, read out loud like poetry, or perhaps sung like a hymn."—Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers...
Forgotten Continent
A History of the New Latin America
New Edition
A newly updated edition of the best-selling primer on the social, political, and economic challenges facing Central and South America Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid’s best-selling...
The Saltwater Frontier
Indians and the Contest for the American Coast
A fascinating new perspective on Native seafaring and colonial violence in the seventeenth-century American Northeast"Gripping. . . . Lipman innovatively uses the sea to unite the histories of New York,...
The Long, Long Life of Trees
A lyrical tribute to the diversity of trees, their physical beauty, their special characteristics and uses, and their ever-evolving meanings Since the beginnings of history trees have served humankind in...
Hitler's Soldiers
The German Army in the Third Reich
A penetrating study of the German army’s military campaigns, relations with the Nazi regime, and complicity in Nazi crimes across occupied Europe For decades after 1945, it was generally believed that the...
Medieval Europe
A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the...
Bread Winner
An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy
The forgotten story of how ordinary families managed financially in the Victorian era—and struggled to survive despite increasing national prosperity“A powerful story of social realities, pressures, and...
The Great Partition
The Making of India and Pakistan
New Edition
A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan"Eloquently discusses the making of India and Pakistan after British rule on the...