On the heels of his historic election to the United States Senate, Raphael G. Warnock shares his remarkable spiritual and personal journey.“Sparkling… a narrative of an extraordinary life, from impoverished beginnings in Savannah to his arrival on...

"Step aside Tom Friedman, Sam Huntington, and Amy Chua. Franklin Foer's dark and witty tale of the soccer world reveals the meaning of globalization in all its joys and horrors."--Robert Kagan Just in time for the 2026 World Cup in North America--a new...

A chilling global history of the human shield phenomenon--now with urgent new reflections on the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. From Syrian civilians locked in iron cages to veterans joining peaceful indigenous water protectors at the Standing Rock Sioux...

A fascinating biography of the philanthropist Albert Barnes, whose pioneering collection of modern art was meant to transform America's soul From prominent critic and biographer Blake Gopnik comes a compelling new portrait of America's first great...

Iran's prison system is a foundational institution of Iranian political modernity. The Incarcerated Modern traces the transformation of Iran from a decentralized empire with few imprisoned persons at the turn of the twentieth century into a modern...

The Lowest Freedom is an intellectual history of how economic dispossession shaped the meaning of freedom in Black thought from antebellum abolitionism to the rise of Jim Crow.

Randolph Lewis scours the soul of the country during the first Trump administration and pandemic era with a sharp eye and keen wit, looking for glimmers of democratic hope and redemption in America.

How the ruthless contest among Julius Caesar’s heirs ignited a global war that raged far beyond the borders of RomeThe succession of civil wars that plagued the last years of the Roman Republic has often been portrayed as a settling of scores between...

From award-winning historian Megan Kate Nelson, an epic account of the creation of the American West in the 19th century, shattering the traditional frontier myth that has dominated popular American culture.The Westerners tells two richly detailed and...

A kaleidoscopic journey through the secret history of hues—and the story of the obsessive genius behind the definitions of colors we use today, from the beloved author of Word by Wordbegonia (n.): 3 -s : a deep pink that is bluer, lighter, and stronger...

A spirited, poignant history of the seven daughters of the great Empress Maria Theresia—including Queen Marie Antoinette of France—bringing their stories to life as they balanced dynastic duty and personal defiance in a time of revolutionary...

Alexis Madrigal reveals how understanding Oakland explains the modern world. In The Pacific Circuit, the award-winning journalist Alexis Madrigal sculpts an intricate tableau of the city of Oakland that is at once a groundbreaking big-idea book, a deeply...

An acclaimed historian’s bold response to two simple, yet vexed, questions: What counts as China, and who counts as Chinese?China became a capitalist superpower by investing in globalization. Now that it has established its credentials—and emerged as a...

We imagine the plantation--the big house, the porticos, the slave quarters, the vast cotton fields--as situated firmly in the dismal American past. Yet as historian Daniel Rood shows in In the Shadow the Great House, the plantation is still very much...

Today, virtually the entire world lives under the economic system called capitalism, and most people alive have never known another. But as the economic historian Trevor Jackson argues in this powerful book, It wasn't always capitalism, it didn't have to...

Winner of the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History. A dramatic new telling of the dawn of modern East Asia, placing Korea at the center of a transformed world order wrought by imperial greed and devastating wars. In the nineteenth century,...

A groundbreaking history of political struggle in the Spanish New World, where commoners and elites alike challenged the social order through the remarkable power of paperwork.As Spanish conquistadors swept through the New World, the Crown envisioned...

Bridging her passion for illustration with her vocation as a doctor, Grace Farris has built a devoted audience for her comics storytelling. In the tradition of physician-memoirs by Suzanne Koven, Sandeep Jauhar, and Henry Marsh, See One, Do One, Teach...