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The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Ages of Columbus, by David Abulafia Book Cover
The Old World Meets the Neolithic Age
An image showing slaves working on a plantation on the island of Antigua in the early 1800s.
After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807
The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World, by Lorenz M Luthi Book Cover
Clashing Shades of Red
Cover of 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War by Benny Morris.
The Battle For 1948
Cover of Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend by Richard Stoneman.
Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend
Cover of Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North by Thomas J. Sugrue.
Movement North
Cover A Revolution in Taste The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650–1800 by Susan Pinkard.
Bon Appetit, Historically Speaking
Cover of Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer by Wendell E. Pritchett.
Invisible Man
Cover of The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York’s Destruction by Max Page.
The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction
Cover of The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany by Susannah Heschel.
God for Nazis
Cover of Caesar A Life in Western Culture by Maria Wyke.
A Man for All Seasons
Cover of The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman by Margot Mifflin.
Taking it on the Chin
Cover of A Cruel Wind: Pandemic Flu in America, 1918-1920 by Dorothy Ann Pettit and Janice Bailie.
Before There Was Swine Flu
Cover of Krupp: A History of the Legendary German Firm by Harold James.
Blood and Steel
Cover of Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present by Christopher I. Beckwith.
Between the East and the West
Cover of A Tale of Two Monasteries: Westminster and Saint-Denis in the Thirteenth Century by William Chester Jordan.
To Serve God and the King?
Cover of Famine: A Short History by Cormac Ó Gráda.
Famine: A Short History
Cover of 428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire by Giusto Traina.
The End of the World as They Knew It
Cover of Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750 by Odd Arne Westad.
Putting the Middle Kingdom in the Middle
Cover of Where Have All the Soldiers Gone: The Transformation of Modern Europe by Jeff Sheehan.
How the Mighty European Military State has Fallen
Cover of Civilizations of Ancient Iraq, by Benjamin R. Foster and Karen Polinger Foster.
Babylon Revisited
Cover of Trotsky A Biography by Robert Service.
Trotsky: A Biography
Cover of The Anatomy Murders by Lisa Rosner
The Anatomy Murders
Cover of A Swindler's Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty by Kirsten McKenzie.
What's in a Name?