History
A sweeping history of how Union victory in the American Civil War inspired democratic reforms, revolutions, and emancipation movements in Europe and the Americas
A panoramic history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today
A sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empires
A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muḥammad to the birth of the modern era
In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed—why some civilizations endured, why some gave way to new ones, and why some disappeared forever
“A landmark book: lucid, deep, and insightful. ....
A beautiful, full-color graphic version of Eric Cline’s bestselling 1177 B.C., adapted by award-winning author-illustrator Glynnis Fawkes
The first biography of Henry VIII’s court fool William Somer, a legendary entertainer and one of the most intriguing figures of the Tudor age
How the Clinton administration betrayed its progressive principles and capitulated to the right
How cable television upended American political life in the pursuit of profits and influence
The largely untold story of the great migration of white southerners to the industrial Midwest and its profound and enduring political and social consequences
How the drug war transformed American political culture
A powerful case for democracy and how it can adapt and survive—if we want it to
A neighborhood-by-neighborhood guide to New York City’s northern borough, from the award-winning author of The New York Nobody Knows
How the “recycling” of the Ottoman Empire’s uses of genealogy and religion created new political orders in the Middle East
Collected writings by one of the most influential Black Brazilian intellectuals of the twentieth century
A capacious history of decolonization, from the decline of empires to the era of globalization
How the rich and the super-rich throughout Western history accumulated their wealth, behaved (or misbehaved) and helped (or didn’t help) their communities in times of crisis
An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times
A richly detailed history of the Bacris and the Busnachs, two renowned Jewish families whose influence and reputation shook the capitals of Europe and America
How climate change ushered in the collapse of one of history’s mighty empires
A wide-ranging and dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the Roman Empire at its pinnacle
A definitive scholarly edition of the correspondence and papers of Thomas Jefferson
A groundbreaking history of the ethics of war in the ancient Near East
A provocative new history of liberalism that also provides a road map for today’s liberals
A new account of the relevance of Hegel’s ideas for today’s world, countering the postwar anti-Hegel "insurgency"
An incisive critique that examines the origins of contemporary American ideas about surveillance, terrorism, and white supremacy
A history of three transnational political projects designed to overcome the inequities of imperialism
A groundbreaking history of fengshui’s roles in public life and law during China’s last imperial dynasty
A monumental intellectual history of the pivotal figure of Hindu nationalism
A history that reframes the Bolsheviks’ unprecedented attempts to abolish private property after the revolutions of 1917
New perspectives from leading scholars on a defining age in American Jewish history
A definitive biography of the French aristocrat who became one of democracy’s greatest champions
The most comprehensive and up-to-date exploration of one of the most important religious orders in the modern world
A panoramic history of rules in the Western world
A humanist manifesto for the age of AI
A necessary reckoning with America’s troubled history of injustice to Indigenous people
From the Nobel Prize–winning economist and former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, a landmark book that provides vital lessons for understanding financial crises and their sometimes-catastrophic economic effects
From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 years
A multifaceted history of Ho Chi Minh’s climactic victory over French colonial might that foreshadowed America’s experience in Vietnam
A fascinating history of China’s relations with the West—told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translators
An award-winning history of the Enlightenment quest to devise a mathematical model of rationality
A wide-ranging anthology of primary texts in American foreign relations—now expanded to include documents from the Trump years to today
A monumental work of history that reveals the Ottoman dynasty's important role in the emergence of early modern Europe
Money in the history of political thought, from ancient Greece to the Great Inflation of the 1970s
A comprehensive history of censorship in modern Britain
How France's elites used soft power to pursue their imperial ambitions in the nineteenth century
A pioneering history that transforms our understanding of the colonial era and China's place in it
A new global history of Fordism from the Great Depression to the postwar era
A new history of Christian-Muslim relations in the Carolingian period that provides a fresh account of events by drawing on Arabic as well as western sources
An examination of coined money and its significance to rulers, aristocrats and peasants in early medieval Europe
Muslim intellectuals who sought to establish the boundaries of modern Muslim identity
A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial era
A new history of French social thought that connects postwar sociology to colonialism and empire
A definitive new volume of the retirement papers of Thomas Jefferson
Why we should take Bernard Mandeville seriously as a philosopher
A sweeping germ’s-eye view of history from human origins to global pandemics
A history of US involvement in late twentieth-century campaigns against global poverty and how they came to focus on women
An examination of revolutions in the Iberian and Italian peninsulas, Sicily and Greece in the 1820s that reveals a popular constitutional culture in the South
The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Christian nation
An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union
A panoramic narrative that places ancient Africa on the stage of world history
A major new history of the genocide of Roma and Jews during World War II and their entangled quest for historical justice
The unknown history of economic conservatism in India after independence
An intellectual history of sovereignty that reveals how the Habsburg Empire became a crucible for our contemporary world order
An original account, drawing on both history and social science, of the causes and consequences of the American Revolution
A beautifully written personal account of the discovery of late antiquity by one of the world’s most influential and distinguished historians
The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern world
A history of the battles over US immigrants’ rights since 1965—and how these conflicts reshaped access to education, employment, civil liberties, and more
A timely defense of liberalism that draws vital lessons from its greatest midcentury proponents
How religious ritual united a growing and diversifying Roman Republic
How the misuses of Martin Luther King’s legacy divide us and undermine democracy
An exploration of the ways that shifting relations between materiality and language bring about different forms of politics in Tehran
How the medieval church drove state formation in Europe
An essential history of Wahhābism from its founding to the Islamic State
A vivid historical imagining of life in the early United States
“One of the richest books ever to come my way.”—Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Shipping News
A revealing look at U.S. imperialism through the lens of visual culture and portraiture
A provocative account of Jewish encounters with the public baths of ancient Rome
A literary and cultural history of coral—as an essential element of the marine ecosystem, a personal ornament, a global commodity, and a powerful political metaphor
The fascinating story of how the fossils of dinosaurs, mammoths, and other extinct animals influenced some of the most spectacular creatures of classical mythology
A rare, behind-the-scenes look at Russian military politics
How Chile became home to the world’s most radical free-market experiment—and what its downfall suggests about the fate of neoliberalism around the globe
A history of the extraordinary society that has touched all aspects of British life
An acclaimed history of Harlem’s journey from urban crisis to urban renaissance
An examination of how the Jews—real and imagined—so challenged the Christian majority in medieval Europe that it became a society that was religiously and culturally antisemitic in new ways
How Brazil and Portugal experimented with corporatism as a “third path” between laissez-faire capitalism and communism
The untold story of the role of humanitarian NGOs in building the neoliberal order after empire
A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to Renaissance Italy
A bold new account of European imperialism told through the history of water
An account that challenges the conventional views of African merchants under colonialism, examining the emergence and changing fortunes of indigenous entrepreneurs in Lagos, Nigeria
A comprehensive study of the New Christian elite of Jewish origin—prominent traders, merchants, bankers and men of letters—between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries
One of the most important works of the Enlightenment—in the first new, unabridged English translation in more than two centuries
How the specter of climate has been used to explain history since antiquity
A definitive new volume of the retirement papers of Thomas Jefferson
How Romans coped with the anxieties and risks of childbirth
The story of the Roman Empire’s enormous wine industry told through the remarkable ceramic storage and shipping containers that made it possible
How the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center informed the PLO’s relationship to Zionism and Israel
A new investigation that shows how conversionary preaching to Jews was essential to the early modern Catholic Church and the Roman religious landscape
An innovative analysis that traces the continuity of the state’s custodianship of Islam as the preferred religion in the Middle East and North Africa
A kaleidoscopic history of how the 1960s and 1970s changed London forever
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography
A double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them—and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisis
Tracing the rise of evangelicalism and the decline of mainline Protestantism in American religious and cultural life
A rich, discovery-filled history that tells how a forgotten empire transformed the ancient world
The unlikely story of how Americans canonized Adam Smith as the patron saint of free markets
A definitive new history of the origins, evolution, and scope of the ancient Greek city-state
The forgotten history of the liberal radicals, socialist internationalists, feminists, and Christians who envisioned free trade as the necessary prerequisite for anti-imperialism and peace
An intimate account of the eighteenth-century Bank of England that shows how a private institution became “a great engine of state”
A searing historical account of a tragic episode of the Stalinist terror
A timely and provocative account of the Bible’s role in one of the most consequential episodes in the history of slavery
The controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual life
A feminist biography of the only woman to become prime minister of Israel
A definitive biography of the U.S. diplomat and prize-winning historian George F. Kennan
A definitive scholarly edition of the correspondence and papers of Thomas Jefferson
An in-depth look at why non-Jewish Poles are trying to bring Jewish culture back to life in Poland today
Why countries colonize the lands of indigenous people
A masterful history of the LGBT workforce in America
An iconoclastic history of the first two decades after independence in India
From the bestselling author of What the Best College Teachers Do, the story of a new breed of amazingly innovative courses that inspire students and improve learning
How you can enrich your life by becoming a more skillful and engaged reader of literature
The surprising story of how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson came to despair for the future of the nation they had created
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Bancroft Prize, and the Parkman Prize
From acclaimed diplomat and historian George Kennan, a landmark history of the crucial months in 1917–1918 that forged the pattern of Soviet-American relations
A major history of Central Asia and how it has been shaped by modern world events
A global history of environmental warfare and the case for why it should be a crime
In the Cold War, "development" was a catchphrase that came to signify progress, modernity, and economic growth. Development aid was closely aligned with the security concerns of the great powers, for whom infrastructure and development...
From the author of the acclaimed biography Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet, new perspectives on how Luther and others crafted his larger-than-life image
A history of how Norway and Sweden became the envy of the modern world
From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeToo
How a nineteenth-century lawsuit over the estate of a wealthy Tunisian Jew shines new light on the history of belonging
How the rabbis of late antiquity used time to define the boundaries of Jewish identity
How the philosophers and polemicists of eighteenth-century Britain used ridicule in the service of religious toleration, abolition, and political justice
A wondrous story of scientific endeavor—probing the great ice sheets of Antarctica
Looking beyond Putin to understand how today's Russia actually works
One of the nation’s foremost urban historians traces the history of cooperative housing in New York City from the 1920s through the 1970s
An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generations
The racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedom
An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraper
A bold new history showing that the fear of Communism was a major factor in the outbreak of World War II
An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nation’s politics
An in-depth exploration of documentary forgery at the turn of the first millennium
A groundbreaking new history of the shared legacy of expulsion among Jews and Christian moneylenders in late medieval Europe
How women preserved the power of the Catholic Church in Mexican political life
A sweeping history of a twentieth-century Prague torn between fascism, communism, and democracy—with lessons for a world again threatened by dictatorship
An exciting and richly detailed new history of the Silk Road that tells how it became more important as a route for diplomacy than for trade
The classic book that exposed the scandal of the dispossession of native land by American settlers
A landmark book that changed the story of Poland’s role in the Holocaust
From acclaimed historian Michael Brenner, a mesmerizing portrait of Munich in the early years of Hitler's quest for power
Leading historians provide perspective on Trump’s four turbulent years in the White House
An innovative framework for advancing human rights
A spellbinding new biography of Stalin in his formative years
A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powers
The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model “Aryan” society in Norway during World War II
A history of the twentieth-century feminists who fought for the rights of women, workers, and the poor, both in the United States and abroad
A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age
The little-known history of public school teachers across the Arab world—and how they wielded an unlikely influence over the modern Middle East
An exploration of early modern accounts of sickness and disability—and what they tell us about our own approach to bodily difference
A sweeping account of how the sea routes of Asia have transformed a vast expanse of the globe over the past five hundred years, powerfully shaping the modern world
How Robespierre’s career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracy
An important examination of how artists have grappled with anti-Black violence and its representations from the late nineteenth century to the present
A history of the Ottoman incorporation of Arab lands that shows how gentlemanly salons shaped culture, society, and governance
A major history of the British Empire’s early involvement in the Middle East
How slave emancipation transformed capitalism in the United States and Brazil
A groundbreaking new history of how the Vietnam War thwarted U.S. liberal ambitions in the developing world and at home in the 1960s
A historical look at the American fascination with Italian fascism during the interwar period