History books

An accessible and entertaining biography of our nation’s greatest public servant and original political maverick...  Read More >>

An engaging history covering a century of conflict on the Korean Peninsula Korea at War recounts how two separate...  Read More >>

This book argues that police reform efforts around the world should be extirpated and replaced with locally developed...  Read More >>

""A Short History of San Francisco moves from the first Ohlone settlements to the Spanish missions and Gold Rush...  Read More >>

An overview of what destroyers were and how their capacity for heroic deeds captured the popular imagination.  Read More >>

Texas history is often recounted through tales of revolution, oil booms, and cattle drives. But what if we considered...  Read More >>

Handbook of Soviet Space-Science Research (1968) provides a comprehensive and authoritative English language summary...  Read More >>

First published in 1988, this book provides a remarkably clear and comprehensive picture of early Tudor society....  Read More >>

First published in 1986, The Bulgarian Economy (now with a new preface by the author) traces rapid growth of the...  Read More >>

Athens or Jerusalem? (first published in 1965), based on the Minns Lectures of 1963, is unique as it gives a comprehensive...  Read More >>

Ancient Greek Religion (1948) looks at the religious beliefs and practices of classical Greece. The religion of...  Read More >>

Crime, Justice and Society in Colonial Sri Lanka (1987) examines Sri Lanka’s justice system under British rule,...  Read More >>

First published in 1929, The Dethronement of the Khedive provides an accurate account of the circumstances attending...  Read More >>

First published in 2017, Rome: The Shaping of Three Capitals explores the impact of political history on the built...  Read More >>

A new history of Brazil told through the lens of the often-overlooked interior regions.  Read More >>

How new forms of energy transformed every aspect of American life in a span of 50 years, from 1876 to 1929-and how...  Read More >>

Offshore Oildom tells the riveting story of the United States' quest to secure the oil riches of the sea. Drawing...  Read More >>

Austrian policemen in the Third Reich  Read More >>

Incredible true stories reveal strange new magic in American history in this wondrous first book from the creator...  Read More >>

An untold story of idealism, betrayal, and behind-the-scenes American-Japanese contacts in World War II. In the...  Read More >>

A spellbinding tale about an ambitious young woman who must thwart an occult plot by time-traveling fascists during...  Read More >>

A reporter and abortion access correspondent investigates the secret killers and hidden motives behind the death...  Read More >>

More than twenty years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the disappearance of Marxism as a (supposed) state...  Read More >>

""Forging a Mexican People shows how illustrated print culture helped to construct and deconstruct versions of ""a...  Read More >>

Original source material from Ottoman archives and their English translations are made available to a wider public...  Read More >>