Product Catalog

History A-L

Series:

• Brief History - Explore the fascinating and diverse stories of nations and peoples around the world.
• Concise History
• Discoveries
• The Latin America Readers - History, Culture and Society
  
  

  Individual titles:

• 1066: The Hidden History in the Bayeux Tapestry - A fascinating piece of medieval detective work.
• 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy - by Gavin Menzies
• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus - How a new generation of anthropologists and archaeologists have come to the persuasive conclusion that more people lived in the Americas in 1491 than in Europe.
• 1967: Israel, the War, & the Year That Transformed the Middle East - A sweeping history of 1967-- the war, what led up to it, what came after, and how it changed everything
• A-Z of Bahamas Heritage - by Michale Craton
• A-Z of Grenada Heritage - by John Angus Martin
• Acadia's Carriage Roads: A Passage into the Heart of the National Park - text and photographs by Robert Thayer
• The Adirondacks: A History of America's First Wilderness - by Paul Schneider
• The Africans - by David Lamb
• After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World - Blends military, political, social, and cultural history of the most dramatic kind,
• Alaska a Novel - A journey through the history of Alaska
• American Jennie: The Remarkable Life of Lady Randolph Churchill - A frank account of the tempestuous life of the American mother of Britain's most important 20th-century politician.
• The Americas: A Hemispheric History - A groundbreaking history of the entire Western Hemisphere, from prehistory to the present
• Americas: The Changing Face of Latin American America - An authoritative history available of contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Amsterdam - by Geert Mak
• The Ancient Maya: New Perspectives - Brings the general reader up to date with the latest archaeological evidence
• Ancient Sichuan - An unprecedented opportunity to explore the art, material culture, and spiritual life of ancient China.
• Angkor and the Khmer Civilization - by Michael D. Coe
• Answering Only to God: Faith and Freedom in 21st Century Iran - Takes the reader inside Iran's key institutions
• Argentina: A Short History - by Colin Lewis
• The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? - The story of the murder of Bishop Juan Gerardi, Guatemalas leading human rights activist
• The Art of War: condensed paperback edition - Imparts the knowledge and skills to overcome every adversary
• Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History - by Robert Kaplan
• The Balkans: A Short History - This book sheds light on what has been called the tinderbox of Europe, whose troubles have ignited wider wars for hundreds of years.
• The Baltic: A New History of the Region and its People - A detailed history of the nations and peoples that are now poised to emerge as some of Europe's most vital democracies
• Barcelona - by Robert Hughes
• The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation - This fascinating book blends human stories with economic, literary, and culinary history into a rich and heroic tale.
• Beijing: From Imperial Capital to Olympic City - The 600-year evolution of this unique and vibrant city
• Bess of Hardwick: Empire Builder - A chronicle of the most brutal, turbulent, and exuberant period of England's history, and of Bess of Hardwick, who died one of the wealthiest women of her era.
• Bhutan: Land of the Thunder Dragon - by John Berthold
• The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell - by Mark Kurlansky
• Black Sea - by Neal Ascherson
• Blenheim and the Churchills: A Personal Portrait - Explores the relationship between one of history's most important families and its ancestral home.
• Blessings of Bhutan - by Russ & Blyth Carpenter
• Bloody Falls of the Coppermine: Madness and Murder in the Arctic Barren Lands - The story of two missionaries killed and cannibalized by Inuit hunters in 1913, & the fallout when the hunters were brought to trial.
• Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine - by Anna Reid
• The Boston Irish: A Political History - by Thomas H. O'Connor
• The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny On Bounty - The bestselling author of The Endurance reveals the startling truth behind the legend of the HMS Bounty.
• The Boxer Rebellion - Preston places readers squarely in the middle of events as they unfold during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900.
• A Brief History of Stonehenge - Every aspect of Stonehenge's changing cults and evolving architecture is reconsidered in Aubrey Burl's new analysis.
• Brooklyn: People and Places, Past and Present - Filled with engravings and black and white photographs, and colored with humorous, anecdotal sidebars
• Brooklyn: An Illustrated History - Highlights the people, events and places that have made Brooklyn Brooklyn.
• The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response - A landmark history of the Armenian massacres of the 1890s and the genocide of 1915--and America's extraordinary response.
• Cairo - by Andre Raymond
• California: A History - A single, comprehensive book that tells the epic story of America's most complex, dynamic, ever-changing state.
• Che's Chevrolet, Fidel's Oldsmobile: On the Road in Cuba - Schweid blends the history of cars, trucks, and buses in Cuba with stories from his own experience.
• China: A New History - A masterwork without parallel, updated by Merle Goldman
• China: People, Place, Culture, History - A detailed exploration of China's long, rich history paired with information on its complex present
• The China Reader: The Reform Era - A timely guide to understanding a nation in the throes of change.
• Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China - The remarkable transformation of China over the past forty years as seen through the life of an award-winning journalist
• Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens: Deciphering the Dynasties of the Ancient Maya - The first book to bring together and examine the greatest Maya dynasties in a single volume.
• Cities: A Magisterial Exploration - Charting the emergence of cities from the world's first cities in Mesopotamia to the megapolises of today
• The City: A Global History - Examines the evolution of urban life over the millennia
• City Between Worlds: My Hong Kong - by Leo Ou-Fan Lee
• Clans and Tartans
• Classic New Hampshire: Preserving the Granite State in Changing Times - A behind-the-scenes look into the institutions and people that have made New Hampshire great.
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - Seeks to understand the fates of past societies that collapsed for ecological reasons, combining the most important policy debate of our generation with the romance and mystery of lost worlds.
• A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia - Offers an insider's perspective into the dramatic saga of the birth of a vibrant society in an unfamiliar land.
• Compass: A Story of Exploration and Innovation - by Alan Gurney
• National Geographic Concise History of the World: An Illustrated Timeline - From the dawn of humankind to today's global complexities
• Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City - An interdisciplinary account of the environmental history and changing landscape of New York City.
• Conquest: Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico - Captures in extraordinary detail the Mexican and Spanish civilizations, and portraits of legendary opponents Montezuma and Cortes.
• The Conquest of Morocco - by Douglas Porch
• The Conquest of the Sahara - by Douglas Porch
• Corpse Walker China from the Bottom Up
• A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 - A fascinating exploration of a legendary event that changed the way we look at the planet on which we live.
• Cracow: An Illustrated History - by Zdzislaw Zygulski
• Crete - Documents one of the most glittering and sophisticated cultures the world has ever seen
• Cruelest Miles: Dogs & Men in a Race Against an Epidemic - by Gay Salisbury
• Cuba : A New History - A fresh eye on the history of the Caribbean island from its pre-Columbian origins to the present day.
• Curse of the Narrows - by Laura MacDonald
• Dangerous Nation - A major reevaluation of Americas foreign policy from the colonial era to the turn of the 20th century
• The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 - Tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy.
• Defining a Nation: Our America and the Sources of Its Strength - Essays by historians, commentators, and writers in a celebration of America
• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America - The story of two men's obsessions with the Chicago World's Fair, one its architect, the other a murderer.
• The Discovery of France - Explains how the modern nation of France came to be and how poorly understood that nation still is today.
• The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947 - A definitive history of modern Tibet.
• Dreams and Shadows - by Robin Wright
• Eaves of Heaven Life in Three Wars - by Andrew X. Pham
• Edo, the City That Became Tokyo - by Akira Naito
• Egypt's Belle Epoque: Cairo and the Age of the Hedonists - A riveting account of an extraordinary moment in the history of both France and Egypt.
• Elephant and the Dragon: Rise of India and China
• The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age - by Simon Schama
• Empire City: New York Through the Centuries - This major anthology brings together the best literary writing about New York
• The Empire of the Great Mughals: History, Art and Culture - Describes the political, military, and economic rise of the Mughals, the unfolding of their power and splendor, and their gradual collapse
• Encyclopedia of New England - An essential work, the first to celebrate, document, and interpret New England's unique regional history and culture
• Explorers House: National Geographic and the World It Made - A vibrant, behind-the-scenes look at National Geographic, from its start in 1888
• Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States
• The Fabric of America - How the borders and boundaries that formed states and a nation inspired an American sense of identity
• The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding - The history of the birth of Australia which came out of the suffereing and brutality of England's infamous convict transportation system.
• FDNY - The evolution of city firefighting from the earliest bucket brigades through the arrival of the Superpumper fire trucks.
• Fin De Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture - by Carl Schorske
• First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, the Capital of the 21st Century - A panoramic literary portrait of Mexico Citya a vibrant, seductive, paradoxical city now commanding the world's attention and showing us the way to the future of urban life.
• Five Germanys I Have Known - Brings to life the five Germanys Stern has experienced: Weimar, the Third Reich, postwar West and East Germanys, and the unified country after 1990.
• Forbidden City - by Geremie Barme
• Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia - A richly-illustrated and important book that traces the rise and fall of one of the ancient world's largest and richest empires.
• Founding Mothers - Reveals the often surprising stories of the fascinating women who fought the Revolution as valiantly as the men.
• The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans - by Simon Winchester
• France and the French: A Modern History - La Vie En Bleu Since 1900
• From the Holy Mountain - A Journey among the Christians of the Middle East
• Full Duty: Vermonters in the Civil War
• Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston - Historian Seasholes presents the first complete account of when, why, and how this land was created.
• The Gate - One man's astonishing experience in a land of pristine beauty on the eve of one of the 20th century's most barbaric spectacles.
• Geography of Religion: Where God Lives, Where Pilgrims Walk - A gorgeously illustrated book is an authoritative text that portrays the great religions of humankind
• George III: A Life in Caricature - by Kenneth Baker
• Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past - Tremlett unveils the tinderbox of disagreements that mark the country today
• Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century - The author's insightful history explores the golden age of globalization in the 20th century
• God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 - A history of Islamic culture in early Europe
• God's War: A New History of the Crusades - A fascinating and horrifying story that continues to haunt our contemporary world.
• Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 - In this epic, Pulitzer Prize-winning work, Burrows and Wallace have produced a monumental history of New York City.
• The Great Deluge - Offering a unique, piercing analysis of the ongoing crisis and its repercussions for America.
• The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia - A history of the cold war between great Britain and Russia.
• A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America - A revealing view of Benjamin Franklin during an unforgettable chapter of the Revolution.
• The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History - A major synthesis of the history of the region, one still plagued by extremely violent wars.
• The Greenlanders - The story of a Scandinavian settlement in 10th century Greenland.
• Guerrillas: Journeys in the Insurgent World - Based on a decade of interviews, Guerrillas takes readers into the human culture of insurgency.
• Hands On the Land: A History of the Vermont Landscape Hardcover - by Jan Albers
• Hands On the Land: A History of the Vermont Landscape Paperback - by Jan Albers
• Hard Road West: History & Geology Along the Gold Rush Trail - Reveals how geology and topography directly affected our nations westward expansion.
• Havana: Autobiography of a City - An accessible and complete story of the city for the history buff and armchair traveler alike.
• Havana Dreams: A Story of Cuba - by Wendy Gimbel
• Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present - A key to understanding the modern Polish crisis
• Historical Atlas of Islam - The historical development of Islamic societies is explained through short essays, illustrations, and full-color maps
• A History of China - A concise history of China now updated to incorporate the latest research
• A History of Denmark - A thorough and accessible introduction to the development of modern Denmark
• The History of Havana - Explores the making of the city and its people through revolutions, art, economic development and the interplay of diverse societies
• A History of Hungary - The most up-to-date and wide-ranging survey of Hungarian history, from pre-historic times to the present day.
• The History of Latin America: Collision of Cultures - The collision of peoples and cultures that defines Latin America provides the central theme of this history
• A History of Modern Russia:: From Nicholas II to Putin - A fresh and lively survey of the Soviet experience, from the rise of communism in 1917 to the aftermath of its collapse in 1991
• A History of Slovakia: The Struggle for Survival - A new edition of the standard work on Slovakia's fascinating history
• History of the Conquest of Mexico - A compelling view of the clash of civilizations that reverberates in Latin America to this day.
• How the Irish Saved Civilization - The untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe
• How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed - by Slavenka Drakulic
• The Hudson: A History - Lewis traces the history of the Hudson River over four centuries
• Imperium - A work that translates history into the hopes and sufferings of the human beings condemned to live it.
• In and Around Old Goa - by Heta Pandit
• In Search of Genghis Khan - An Exhilarating Journey on Horseback Across the Steppes of Mongolia
• In Tasmania - A fascinating history of two turbulent centuries in an apparently idyllic place
• In the Land of the Wild Onion: Travels Along Vermont's Winooski River - A lyrical and insightful journey of discovery down Vermont's Winooski River
• In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Cultural History of Naples - by Jordan Lancaster
• India: A Concise History - by Francis Watson
• India: From Midnight to the Millennium - by Shashi Tharoor
• India - A concise overview of Indian history and culture
• India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy - Tells the full story: the pain and the struggle, the humiliations and the glories, of the world's largest and least likely democracy.
• India Unbound: Social & Economic Revolution - A fascinating history of India's economic past and a vision of its future.
• Inventing Japan 1853 to1964 - A period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known.
• Ionian Islands - by John Freely
• The IRA - A compelling account of modern Irish history.
• Iran: A People Interrupted - by Hamid Dabashi
• Islam: A Short History - by Karen Armstrong
• The Island at the Center of the World - Reveals in riveting detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making America what it is today.
• Island of Seven Cities: Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered America - Unveils the first tangible proof that the Chinese were in the New World before Columbus
• Islands of Boston Harbor - by Edward R. Snow
• Islands of the Mid Maine Coast: Volume IV: Pemaquid Point to the Kennebec River - by Charles B. McLane
• Islands of the Mid Maine Coast: Volume I: Penobscot Bay
• Islands of the Mid Maine Coast: Volume II: Mount Desert to Machias Bay - by Charles B. McLane
• Israel, Palestine and Peace: Essays - A collection of provocative essays and speeches on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
• The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall - A successful international business expert turns conventional wisdom on its head and shows how the U.S. can start acting in its own interests.
• Jane Austen's History of England - by Jane Austen
• Japan Encyclopedia - Full range of Japanese history and civilization
• Japan History - by W. Scott Morton
• Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths - Shows how three radically different concepts of holiness have shaped and scarred Jerusalem over the years.
• Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 - An examination of the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption of the world's most dangerous volcano
• La Belle France: A Short History - A captivating, beautifully illustrated and comprehensive yet concise history of France.
• The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings - by Octavio Paz
• A Land of Discord Always - by Charles D. Mahaffie
• Landmark Herodotus: The Histories - A readable and comprehensively useful edition to the classical work
• Last Days of Old Beijing - by Michael Meyer
• The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo - The greatest African expedition of the 19th century
• The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 - Dalrymple is the first to present an Indian perspective on the fall of Delhi
• Laxdaela Saga - A dynastic chronicle that sweeps from generation to generation across 150 years of Iceland's early history.
• Lebanon: A House Divided - A seminal study of Lebanon's past, present, and future
• The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East - Suggests that even amid the bleakest political realities there exist stories of hope and reconciliation
• Lenin's Tomb - A bestselling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union
• Letters of Pauline Palmer 1908-1926: A Great Lady of Chicago's First Family - Tells of family life, European travel, art collecting and Chicago history in the first decades of the 20th century.
• Lewis and Clark: Across the Divide - Gilman expands and transforms the explorers' familiar story by fully exploring the cultural landscapes the expedition traversed.
• London: A Biography - by Peter Ackroyd
• London: The Novel - by Edward Rutherfurd
• The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic - In 1953, the Canadian government forcibly relocated three dozen Inuit to the high arctic. McGrath brings this extraordinary tale of mistreatment and deprivation to life.
• Lost Bar Harbor
• The Lost Heart of Asia - A chronicle of Central Asia's search for identity after independence.
• Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution - Brings the story of modern Iran to the present day, exploring the political, cultural, and social changes of the past quarter century.
• Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution - Tens of thousands of blacks in America at the start of the Revolutionary War escaped to reach the British who offered the promise of emancipation in return for military service.
• A Thousand Sighs, a Thousand Revolts: Journeys in Kurdistan - Celebrated journalist Bird offers a fascinating, illuminating and very personal glimpse into an exotic land and people of increasing global significance: Kurdistan.