NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A magisterial world history unlike any other that tells the story of humanity through the one thing we all have in common: families • From the author of The RomanovsA Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker,...

The thrilling story of the nineteenth century's Apollo moonshot: an Atlantic-spanning telegraph cable that created the global village and changed the world.

Winner of the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award in Geography & Earth Sciences"Earthbound humans are unable to embrace more than a tiny part of the planetary surface. But in their imagination they can grasp the...

Yuval Noah Harari, the author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future, and our quest to...

New York Times - "The Nonfiction Everyone Will Be Talking About in 2026" An astonishing true story--one of the most gripping maritime sagas of the nineteenth century--told by our era's "expert literary steersman" (Washington Post).

In a groundbreaking global exploration of the ideas that drove the American Revolution, a prize-winning historian shines a light on the defiance of marginalized peoples all over the world. In her powerful new history of the American Revolution, Sarah M...

The fundamental thesis of this book [is] that the belief in historical destiny is sheer superstition, and that there can be no prediction of the course of human history by scientific or any other rational methods... excerpt from book's Historical Note

From an acclaimed historian, a sweeping study of the past, present, and future of the Great Powers, revealing the new rules of global leadership. From the dawn of the modern era to the end of the Cold War, global history was defined by rivalries...

Days of Dissent brims with defiance in recounting the rebellious history that has reshaped the United States and the world. With poetic fervor, journalist Gabriel San Román delves into the strikes and forgotten martyrs of the labor movement to expose the...

A Catalogue of Sorcery, Wichcraft, and the Occult. This is a reprint of the Pantheon Books 1948 original. This reprint (1997) is by the Book-of-the-Month Club. 0-965-084631 (Amazon's system will not accept this number but it's correct, from the book...

"Hope, courage, and insurrection have crossed bodies, territories, and all borders."--from Revolutions of Our Times This urgent declaration advances an internationalism from below, focused on people and movements rather than states, as agents of our...

Why does the Western world look to migrant laborers to perform the most menial tasks? What compels people to leave their homes and accept this humiliating situation? In A Seventh Man, John Berger and Jean Mohr come to grips with what it is to be a...

What caused the world’s great republics to fall—and what their fate reveals about the dangers facing modern democracies today In this timely book, distinguished historian Thomas Madden explores the people, events, and factors that led to the collapse of...

The creator of the hit podcast Tides of History offers a new look at humanity's deep past, showing us how our world was built not by inevitability, but by trial and error on a global scale. There's a familiar story about us humans: we went from hunting...

An introduction to a new way of looking at history, from a perspective that stretches from the beginning of time to the present day, Maps of Time is world history on an unprecedented scale. Beginning with the Big Bang, David Christian views the...

"Vividly reconstructs how Maximilian's power was forged and maintained by the sharp end of a French bayonet." --New York Times Book Review The story of how nineteenth-century European rulers conspired with Mexican conservatives in an outlandish plan to...

With the development of the B-29 "Superfortress" in summer 1944, strategic bombing, a central component of the Allied war effort against Germany, arrived in the Pacific theater. In 1945 Japan experienced the three most deadly bombing attacks of the war...

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