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Talking Back
Native Women and the Making of the Early South
A pathbreaking look at Native women of the early South who defined power and defied authority “An artful, powerful book. . . . [A] substantial contribution to our knowledge of women in the so-called ‘forgotten...
The Coming of the Railway
A New Global History, 1750-1850
The first global history of the epic early days of the iron railway Railways, in simple wooden or stone form, have existed since prehistory. But from the 1750s onward the introduction of iron rails led to a...
Military Strategy
A Global History
A global account of military strategy, which examines the practices, rather than the theories, of the most significant military figures of the past 400 years Strategy has existed as long as there has been...
A Blue New Deal
Why We Need a New Politics for the Ocean
An urgent account of the state of our oceans today—and what we must do to protect them The ocean sustains life on our planet, from absorbing carbon to regulating temperatures, and, as we exhaust the resources to...
We Need to Talk About Inflation
14 Urgent Lessons from the Last 2,000 Years
A myth-busting explanation of inflation, the desperate gullibility of central bankers and finance ministers—and our abject failure to learn from history From investors and monetary authorities to governments and...
Barnave
The Revolutionary who Lost his Head for Marie Antoinette
A major new biography of Antoine Barnave—the politician and writer who advocated for a constitutional monarchy in revolutionary France Antoine Barnave was one of the most influential statesmen in the early French...
Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde
Along the Seine
An examination of the innovative portrayals of industry and leisure created by five avant-garde artists working at Asnières in the late nineteenth century From 1881 to 1890, Vincent van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Paul...
The Lost Peace
How We Failed to Prevent a Second Cold War
The first account of the new Cold War—revealing how today’s renewed era of global great power competition could threaten us all The end of the Cold War in 1989 heralded a unique prospect for an enduring global...
The Private Is Political
Networked Privacy and Social Media
A compelling firsthand investigation of how social media and big data have amplified the close relationship between privacy and inequality Online privacy is under constant attack by social media and big data...
American Slavers
Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865
The first telling of the unknown story of America’s two-hundred-year history as a slave-trading nation A total of 305,000 enslaved Africans arrived in the New World aboard American vessels over a span of two...