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.
• 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created - by Charles Mann
• 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
• 44 Days: Iran and the Remaking of the World - by David Burnett
• A-Z of Bahamas Heritage - by Michale Craton
• A-Z of Grenada Heritage - by John Angus Martin
• After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World - Blends military, political, social, and cultural history of the most dramatic kind,
• All Things Must Fight to Live Congo: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo Stories of War and D - by Bryan Mealer
• 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.
• Americans in Paris - by Charles Glass
• The Americas: A Hemispheric History - A groundbreaking history of the entire Western Hemisphere, from prehistory to the present
• Amsterdam - by Geert Mak
• The Ancient Maya: New Perspectives - Brings the general reader up to date with the latest archaeological evidence
• Eyewitness Experts Ancient Rome Set with CDRom
• Angel of Grozny - by Asne Seierstad
• Angkor and the Khmer Civilization - by Michael D. Coe
• Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British - Dispatches from the new Britain: a slyly funny and compulsively readable portrait of a nation finally refurbished for the twenty-first century.
• Answering Only to God: Faith and Freedom in 21st Century Iran - Takes the reader inside Iran's key institutions
• The Antelope's Strategy: Living in Rwanda After the Genocide - by Jean Hatzfeld
• Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World - by Doug Saunders
• The Art of War: condensed paperback edition - Imparts the knowledge and skills to overcome every adversary
• Atlantic Ocean: An Illustrated History - by Martin Sandler
• Away Off Shore Nantucket - by Nathaniel Philbrick
• Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba:: The Biography of a Cause - A New York Times Notable Book - 2008
• 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
• 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.
• 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 One : An Island, an Obsession, and the Furious Pursuit of a Great - by David Kinney
• 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
• Blood, Iron and Gold: How the Railroads Transformed the World - by Christian Wolmar
• 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.
• Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World - by Michael Lewis
• Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine - by Anna Reid
• Boston Beheld: Antique Town and Country Views - by D. Brenton Simons
• 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.
• Boys from Dolores:: Fidel Castro's Schoolmates from Revolution to Exile - by Patrick Symmes
• A Brief History of Stonehenge - Every aspect of Stonehenge's changing cults and evolving architecture is reconsidered in Aubrey Burl's new analysis.
• British Museum Concise Introduction to: Ancient Greece - by Jenifer Neils
• California: A History - A single, comprehensive book that tells the epic story of America's most complex, dynamic, ever-changing state.
• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman - by Robert Massie
• Champlain's Dream - A New York Times Notable Book - 2008
• Chasing the Flame:: One Man's Fight to Save the World - A New York Times Notable Book - 2008
• Chavez
• 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: People, Place, Culture, History - A detailed exploration of China's long, rich history paired with information on its complex present
• 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.
• Churchill's Empire - by Richard Toye
• 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 of Oranges: An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa - This profoundly human take on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is seen through the eyes of six families, three Arab and three Jewish.
• A City So Grand: The Rise of American Metropolis: Boston 1850 - 1900 - by Stephen Puleo
• Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin - by Gabriel García Márquez
• 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.
• Columbus: The Four Voyages - by Laurence Bergreen
• Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story - by Christina Thompson
• Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet - by Jeffrey D. Sachs
• 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 the Sahara - by Douglas Porch
• The Corpse Walker : Real Life Stories: 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
• Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa - by Jason Stearns
• Dawn of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemen - by Mary McAuliffe
• The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 - Tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy.
• Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working And How There Is A Better Way for Africa - by Dambisa Moyo
• The Dead Yard: A Story of Modern Jamaica - by Ian Thomson
• Defining a Nation: Our America and the Sources of Its Strength - Essays by historians, commentators, and writers in a celebration of America
• Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters - A New York Times Notable Book - 2008
• Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes - Illuminates how Muslims have seen the history of the world--and what western world history leaves out.
• 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: Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World - 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: The Future of the Middle East - A New York Times Notable Book - 2008
• The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars - by Andrew X. Pham
• Eden On the Charles: The Making of Boston - In Boston's history, we find the seeds of the environmental relationships tha have defined urban America to this day.
• Edo, the City That Became Tokyo - by Akira Naito
• Eiffel's Tower - by Jill Jonnes
• El Narco: Inside Mexico'S Criminal Insurgency
• The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us
• Empire City: New York Through the Centuries - This major anthology brings together the best literary writing about New York
• Encyclopedia of New England - An essential work, the first to celebrate, document, and interpret New England's unique regional history and culture
• Encyclopedia of New York City - edited by Kenneth Jackson
• Every Man Dies Alone
• Explorers House: National Geographic and the World It Made - A vibrant, behind-the-scenes look at National Geographic, from its start in 1888
• 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.
• Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe - by Peter Godwin
• Fin De Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture - by Carl Schorske
• Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found - by Mary Beard
• 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.
• Footnotes in Gaza - by Joe Sacco
• Forbidden City - by Geremie Barme
• Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City - by Greg Grandin
• The Forever War - A New York Times Notable Book - 2008
• 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.
• Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia - by Max Egremont
• Founding Mothers - Reveals the often surprising stories of the fascinating women who fought the Revolution as valiantly as the men.
• Four Fish: The Future of Last Wild Food - by Paul Greenberg
• The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans - by Simon Winchester
• France and the French: A Modern History - La Vie En Bleu Since 1900
• The Friar of Carcassonne: Revolt Against the Inquisition in Last Days of the Cathars - by Stephen O'Shea
• From the Holy Mountain - A Journey among the Christians of the Middle East
• Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston - Historian Seasholes presents the first complete account of when, why, and how this land was created.
• Gallipoli - by Peter Hart
• 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
• 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 Explorers - Penetrating biographies written by a group of distinguished travel writers, broadcasters, and historians reveal the lives, motives, and passions of forty major explorers in history.
• 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 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.
• Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism: Fables from a Mouse, a Parrot, a Bear, a Cat, a Mole, a Pig, - by Slavenka Drakulic
• 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
• Historic Concord and the Lexington: A brief History with an all-new guide
• Historical Atlas of Islam - The historical development of Islamic societies is explained through short essays, illustrations, and full-color maps
• Historical Atlas of the Civil War - by John MacDonald
• A History of China - A concise history of China now updated to incorporate the latest research
• 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.
• History of the Turks and Caicos Islands - by Carlton Mills
• Holy War: Vasco Da Gama's Epic Voyages: Turned the Tide in a Centuries-Old Clash of Civilizations - by Nigel Cliff
• How the Irish Saved Civilization - The untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe
• 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 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 Shadow of Vesuvius: A Cultural History of Naples - by Jordan Lancaster
• Inbound 4: A Comic Book History of Boston
• 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.
• Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi - by Steve Inskeep
• Interstate 69 - by Matt Dellinger
• Inventing Japan 1853 to1964 - A period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known.
• The Invention of Paris: A History in Footsteps - A radical guide to Paris through art, literature and revolution.
• Ionian Islands - by John Freely
• Iran: A People Interrupted - by Hamid Dabashi
• Irrestible North: From Venice to Greenland on the Trail of the Zen Brothers - by Andrea di Robilant
• Is Journalism Worth Dying for: Final Dispatches - by Anna Politkovskaya
• 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 Bali - by Miguel Covarrubias
• 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
• Israel, Palestine and Peace: Essays - A collection of provocative essays and speeches on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
• Israel: A History - by Martin Gilbert
• 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.
• 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.
• Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World - by James Carroll
• Jerusalem: The Biography - by Simon Sebaq Montefiore
• 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
• Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander: Anabasis Alexandrou
• Landmark Herodotus: The Histories - A readable and comprehensively useful edition to the classical work
• Last Days of Old Beijing - by Michael Meyer
• Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the Birth of Modern China - by Hannah Pakula
• The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 - Dalrymple is the first to present an Indian perspective on the fall of Delhi
• Last Train from Hiroshima - by Charles R. Pellegrino
• 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.
• Life Along the Silk Road - by Susan Whitfield
• Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-1945 - by Neill Lochery
• London: A Biography - by Peter Ackroyd
• 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.
• 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.
• The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War - by Nicholas Thompson
• 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.
• Traditional Jewelry of India - by Oppi Untracht
• World of the Ancient Greeks - by John Camp