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Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in Nonfiction As culture wars pit us against each other, A Great Disorder looks to the myths that have shaped American identity and reveals how they have brought us to the brink of an existential crisis. Red...

The story of how nineteenth-century European rulers conspired with Mexican conservatives in an outlandish plan to contain the rising US colossus by establishing Old World empire on its doorstep. The outbreak of the US Civil War provided an unexpected opportunity for political...

Why did England's one experiment in republican rule fail?

The gripping account of the U.S. Navy's fast carrier force--and how its Central Pacific campaign in 1944 marked the achievement of American naval supremacy   Task Force 58 was World War II's most powerful battle fleet. Made up in mid-1944 of sixteen aircraft...

A vivid account of the political triumphs and domestic tragedies of the Jewish king Herod the Great during the turmoil of the Roman revolution   "Herod the Great is typical of Yale's Jewish Lives series: short, clear, deeply knowledgeable, deeply illuminating...

From celebrated historian and writer Peter Ackroyd, a magisterial portrayal of English Christianity over the centuries.   This book portrays the spirit and nature of English Christianity, as it has developed over the last fourteen hundred years. During this time...

In 1918 a famed general of the Russian White Army battled through the Red Army to save Emperor Nicholas II--but he arrived too late. The Romanovs had already been murdered. In this thrilling true-life detective story, we follow Anna, the general's courageous young...

With implications for the war in Ukraine, a surprising history of the Crimean Tatars from the fifteenth century to the present day.   The Crimean Tatars were the Turkic-speaking native peoples of Crimea who established a powerful khanate in the 1440s, which...

The definitive biography of Zhou Enlai, the first premier and preeminent diplomat of the People's Republic of China, who protected his country against the excesses of his boss--Chairman Mao. Zhou Enlai spent twenty-seven years as premier of the People's Republic of China and ten...

An insightful new biography of the central figure in the Dreyfus Affair, focused on the man himself and based on newly accessible documents "An admirable introduction not only to its nominal subject but to . . . great historical events."--Geoffrey Wheatcroft, New...

In this sequel to his landmark study, historian Peter Kolchin compares the transition to freedom after American emancipation with the Russian Great Reforms   "An enlightening comparative history. . . . Often revelatory for those who may think of the...

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In Word Across the Water, Tom Smith brings the histories of Hawai'i and the Philippines together to argue that US imperial ambitions towards these Pacific archipelagos were deeply intertwined with the work of American Protestant missionaries. As self-styled...