Product Catalog

History M-Z

Series:

• Traveller's Companions
• Traveller's History - Comprehensive and readable history complete with maps and sketches.
  
  

  Individual titles:

• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda - An anatomy of the war in Rwanda, a vivid history of the tragedy's background, and an unforgettable account of its aftermath.
• 28 Stories of Aids in Africa - by Stephanie Nolen
• National Geographic Almanac of American History - Historic facts, stunning images, revealing maps, and concise analysis for deeper understanding of U.S. history.
• Malay Archipelago - by Alfred Russell Wallace
• Mao's Great Famine - by Frank Dikotter
• Mao's Last Revolution - Why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and his Machiavellian role in masterminding it.
• Mapping the West: America's Westward Movement 1524-1890 - by Paul E. Cohen
• Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found - A portrait of Bombay and its people
• The Maya - A readable introduction to one of the New World's greatest ancient civilizations.
• Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War - The startling story of the Plymouth Colony--from the flight to religious freedom to the war that ravaged New England.
• Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States - by Andro Linklater
• Memories of Silk and Straw - by Junichi Saga
• Memory and the Mediterranean Paper Ed - by Fernand Braudel
• The Mexican Revolution: A People's History - A classic account of the first revolution of the twentieth century, which set the stage for a century of socialist revolt
• The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean - A brilliant portrait of the intermingling of ancient conflicts and modern sensibilities
• Mississippi: On the Road Histories - Beginning with the states earliest settlers, Wynne explores Mississippi's history.
• Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and Future of American Power - by Robert Kaplan
• A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich - by Christopher B. Krebs
• My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile - Allende evokes the magnificent landscapes of her country; a charming, idiosyncratic Chilean people with a violent history and indomitable spirit, and the politics, religion, myth, and magic of her homeland that she carries with her even today.
• Names On the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States - by George R Stewart
• Natasha's Dance : A Cultural History of Russia - Figes examines how writers, artists, and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself--its character, spiritual essence, and destiny.
• National Parks the American Experience - by Alfred Runte
• The National Parks: America's Best Idea
• Native Universe: Voices of Indian America - A sumptuously illustrated cultural history developed in conjunction with the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian to mark its opening.
• The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn - This generously illustrated book takes us on a tour of the ninety neighborhoods of Brooklyn.
• Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans - by Dan Baum
• One Palestine Complete: Jews & Arabs Under the British Mandate - Tale of Britain's rule of the Holy Land (1917 -1948).
• Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney - The only medieval chronicle to have Orkney as the central place of action
• Ornament of the World - by Maria Rosa Menocal
• Other - The master of literary reportage reflects on the West's encounters with the non-European throughout the ages
• Panama Fever - Charts the challenges that marked the road to the building of one of the greatest engineering feats in human history
• Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster - by Rebecca Solnit
• Paris from the Ground Up - by James McGregor
• Paris to the Past: Traveling Through French History by Train - by Ina Caro
• Paris: The Secret History - by Andrew Hussey
• Parisians: an Adventure History of Paris - by Graham Robb
• The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 - The national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal.
• Paul Revere's Ride - Fischer sheds light on pre-revolutionary Boston and Paul Revere's historic ride.
• The Polish Way: A Thousand-Year History of the Poles and Their Culture - by Adam Zamoyski
• Post-American World - A New York Times Notable Book - 2008
• Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 - In this magnificent, unprecedented history of postwar Europe, esteemed historian Tony Judt covers 34 countries across 60 years in a single integrated narrative
• Presenting New Zealand - How the country has developed in relative isolation into the independent nation that the rest of the world recognizes today.
• The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples - by David Gilmour
• Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America - by Richard White
• Rebel Land: Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town - by Christopher de Bellaigue
• Reclaiming the American West - by Alan Berger
• Red Poppies : A Novel of Tibet - Red Poppies is at once a political parable and a moving elegy to the lost kingdom of Tibet in all its cruelty, beauty, and romance.
• A Ride to Khiva - Details of Burnaby's 1875 crossing of Central Asia to investigate Russian moves in the Great Game.
• Roman Britain: A New History - A definitive and completely up-to-date account of the Roman conquest and occupation of Britain
• Romania: An Illustrated History - The fascinating story of the evolution of the Romanian people
• Rome: A Cultural History - Uncovers Rome's multifaceted experience, where each layer of development rests upon a tradition.
• Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History - by Robert Hughes
• Rome from the Ground Up - Conducts the reader through time and space to the complex and shifting realities that constitute Rome.
• A Sacred Landscape: The Search for Ancient Peru - Thomson takes readers from the great Moche pyramids to ancient Incan sites of the Andes that remain cloaked in mystery.
• Safe Area Gorazde : The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992 - 1995 - by Joe Sacco
• The Sagas of Icelanders - The lives and deeds of the Norse men and women who first settled Iceland and of their descendants
• Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 - A richly textured social history of the Aegean seaport that has been a crossroads of civilization since the dawn of Byzantium.
• Scotland: The Autobiography - A vivid, wide-ranging, and engrossing account of Scotland's history, composed of timeless stories by those who experienced it first-hand.
• The Scramble for Africa - by Thomas Pakenham
• Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier - An engrossing and haunting look at war, Africa, and the lines of sanity.
• The Search for Modern China - by Jonathan Spence
• Second Sex: Unabridged edition
• The Secret History of the Mongol Queens - by Jack Weatherford
• Seeking Sicily: A Cultural Journey Through Myth & Reality - by John Keahey
• Seven Ages of Paris - A landmark history of the city, and a delight for anyone who has fallen under its indelible spell.
• The Shadow of the Sun - Kapuscinski's unorthodox approach and his profound respect for the people he meets challenge conventional understandings of modern Africa.
• Shah of Shahs - In this book, the author brings a mythographer's perspective and novelist's virtuosity to bear on the overthrow of the last Shah of Iran
• A Shameful Act - A landmark assessment of Turkish culpability in the Armenian genocide, the first history of its kind by a Turkish historian
• Siberian Education: Growing Up in a Criminal Underworld - by Nicolai Lilin
• Sicily 3000 Years of Human History - A book as essential as it is enjoyable
• The Silent Steppe: The Memoir of a Kazakh Nomad Under Stalin - by Mukhamet Shayakhmetov
• Silk Road: Monks, Warriors & Merchants on the Silk Road
• So Close to Heaven : The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas - by Barbara Crossette
• The Soccer War - Between 1958 and 1980, Kapuscinski covered 27 revolutions and coups in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East.
• State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America
• The Stone Virgins - Examines the dissident movement in Zimbabwe from the perspective of two sisters living in a small township.
• Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland - The rediscovery of Scotland's past and a wake-up call about its future, from a leading scholar-journalist
• Survivors in Mexico - by Rebecca West
• Taj Mahal: Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire - Brings alive both the grand sweep of Moghul history and the memorable details in this story of the Taj Mahal.
• The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan - by Kim Barker
• Terra Nullius: A Journey Through No One's Land - An illuminating and disturbing history of how Australia's "no man's land" became the province of the white man
• The Thames - England's great river through the ages
• Thames a Biography - by Peter Ackroyd
• The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life - by Tom Reiss
• The Paradise of All These Parts: A Natural History of Boston - by John Mitchell
• Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World - How the confrontation between an army and a small group of defenders changed the way that generations would come to think about courage, combat, and death.
• They Made Their Mark - by Jane Eppinga
• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War - A New York Times "10 Best Books - 2008"
• Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico - by E Kolb
• To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan - by Nicholas Schmidle
• Travels of Ibn Battutah - by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
• Travels with a Tangerine - Traces the footsteps and spiritual journey of the 14th century's Ibn Battutah, one of the greatest travelers in history.
• Travels with Herodotus - An intimate account of his first youthful forays beyond the Iron Curtain
• Treasures of the Thunder Dragon: A Portrait of Bhutan - by Ashi Dori Wangmo Wangchuck
• Triumph of the City - by Edward Glaeser
• The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal and the Search for Peace - Going beyond the slogans and headlines, Coogan provides a hard look at the deadly drama of a divided Ireland.
• True History of Tea
• Turkey Unveiled: A History of Modern Turkey
• Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution - Incorporates previously unreleased Hungiarian and Soviet documents, the author's family's diaries, and eyewitness testimony.
• Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa - by R.A. Scotti
• A Vanished World: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Spain - Chronicles an astonishing age of culture, commerce, and scientific innovation in multicultural Spain
• A Venetian Affair: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in the 18th Century - A discovery of a box of 18th-century love letters leads to this true story of Andrea Memmo, a great Venetian statesman, and a beautiful half-English girl named Giustiniana Wynne.
• Venice from the Ground Up - Readers can trace the city's evolution chapter by chapter and visitors can explore it district by district on foot and by boat.
• Venice: Pure City - by Peter Ackroyd
• The Verneys - Original letters and documents paint an accurate picture of life in England, Europe, and even the American colonies in the 17th cent.
• The Victorians - Wilson singles out those writers, statesmen, scientists, philosophers, and soldiers whose lives illuminated an age on the cusp of modernity.
• Viking Age Iceland - A work with broad social and historical implications, Byock's history will alter long-held perceptions of the Viking Age.
• Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga - Celebrates and explores the Viking saga
• The Vikings - Wide-ranging research on Viking art, burial customs, class divisions, jewelry, kingship, poetry, and family life
• The Vikings: A History - by Robert Ferguson
• The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America - The story of the discovery of America by Norsemen five centuries before Christopher Columbus.
• Visual History of the World - An outstanding illustrated historical reference of social, cultural, and military history
• The Wall in Palestine - by Rene Backman
• Waltz with Bashir: A Lebanon War Story
• War - by Sebastian Junger
• The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War - From the author of the bestselling work "The Bounty" comes a groundbreaking reading of "The Iliad" that restores Homer's vision of the tragedy of war.
• Warmth of Other Suns - by Isabel Wilkerson
• What They Never Told You About Boston: Or What They Did That Were Lies - by Walt Kelley
• When Asia Was the World - A look at Asia from 700 to 1500 C.E., describing the journeys of Asia's many travelers--merchants, apothecaries, and philosophers.
• When in Rome: A Journal of Life in Vatican City - by Robert J. Hutchinson
• Where the Mountains Stand Alone: Stories of Place in the Monadnock Region - The mountain-haunted dreams and lives of small-town New England
• The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia - A landmark account of what private life was like for Russians in the worst years of Soviet repression.
• The White Man's Burden - An on the tragic waste, futility, and hubris of the West's efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world
• White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth Century India - A compelling and largely unwritten story of Britain's rule over India and the Indian conquest of the British imagination
• The Wind Doesn't Need a Passport: Stories from the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands - by Tyche Hendricks
• Wisconsin: On the Road Histories - A full-color tribute to the cultural, geographic, and historical riches of the United States
• With Wildness at Heart: A Short History of the Adirondack Mountain Club
• Women with Wings: Female Flyers in Fact and Fiction - by Mary Cadogan
• The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century - With his inimitable ability to translate complex foreign policy and economic issues, Friedman explains how the flattening of the world happened at the dawn of the 21st century.
• World On Fire - by Amanda Foreman
• Yemen Chronicle: An Anthropology of War and Mediation - by Steven C. Caton
• The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East - A comprehensive account of one of the pivotal conflicts of the twentieth century.
• Yugoslavia: A Concise History - The whole turbulent course of the country's history, in the context of the struggles between great powers for control of the Balkans.
• Zapata and the Mexican Revolution - by John Womack
• The Zapatista Reader - A wide sampling of the best writing to emerge as a result of the Zapatista peasant rebellion.