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American History

Taken by Storm, 1938

Avilés, Lourdes
A Social and Meteorological History of the Great New England Hurricane
June 2013 New Book

In the Watches of the Night

Baldwin, Peter C.
Life in the Nocturnal City, 1820-1930
February 2012 E-book

Sacred Relics

Barnett, Teresa
Pieces of the Past in Nineteenth-Century America
September 2013 New Book

Meet Joe Copper

Basso, Matthew L.
Masculinity and Race on Montana's World War II Home Front
July 2013 New Book E-book

American Tourism

Bloom, Nicholas Dagen
Constructing a National Tradition
June 2012 New Book

Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends

Brooks, Charlotte
Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California
May 2009 E-book

Home Front

Brownlee, Peter John
Daily Life in the Civil War North
September 2013 New Book

Fidel Castro

Caistor, Nick
March 2013 New Book

Alaska at War, 1941-1945

Chandonnet, Fern
The Forgotten War Remembered
September 2007

War Stories

Clarke, Frances M.
Suffering and Sacrifice in the Civil War North
September 2011 E-book

Tramp in America

Cresswell, Tim
June 2004 E-book

Intimate Matters

D'Emilio, John
A History of Sexuality in America, Third Edition
December 2012 New Book E-book

Sympathetic State

Dauber, Michele Landis
Disaster Relief and the Origins of the American Welfare State
November 2012 New Book E-book

Building the Devil's Empire

Dawdy, Shannon Lee
French Colonial New Orleans
September 2008 E-book

Why Niebuhr Now?

Diggins, John Patrick
June 2011 E-book

Until Choice Do Us Part

Eby, Clare Virginia
Marriage Reform in the Progressive Era
December 2013 New Book

Custerology

Elliott, Michael A.
The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer
October 2007 E-book

Beyond Redemption

Emberton, Carole
Race, Violence, and the American South after the Civil War
June 2013 New Book E-book

Made in America

Fischer, Claude S.
A Social History of American Culture and Character
May 2010 E-book

Documenting Intimate Matters

Foster, Thomas A.
Primary Sources for a History of Sexuality in America
December 2012 New Book E-book

Reconstruction after the Civil War, Third Edition

Franklin, John Hope
December 2012 New Book E-book

American Sunshine

Freund, Daniel
Diseases of Darkness and the Quest for Natural Light
May 2012 New Book E-book

Body of Faith

Fuller, Robert C.
A Biological History of Religion in America
June 2013 New Book E-book

Boll Weevil Blues

Giesen, James C.
Cotton, Myth, and Power in the American South
July 2011 E-book

Black Patriots and Loyalists

Gilbert, Alan
Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence
April 2012 E-book

Natural History of the New World

Graham, Alan
The Ecology and Evolution of Plants in the Americas
December 2010 E-book

American Indians

Hagan, William T.
Fourth Edition
November 2012 New Book E-book

Capital Culture

Harris, Neil
J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the Reinvention of the Museum Experience
October 2013 New Book

Building a Market

Harris, Richard
The Rise of the Home Improvement Industry, 1914-1960
August 2012 New Book E-book

Gentlemen's Disagreement

Hegarty, Peter
Alfred Kinsey, Lewis Terman, and the Sexual Politics of Smart Men
July 2013 New Book E-book

State and the Stork

Hoff, Derek S.
The Population Debate and Policy Making in US History
September 2012 New Book E-book

Health Care for Some

Hoffman, Beatrix
Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930
September 2012 New Book E-book

Wartime President

Howell, William G.
Executive Influence and the Nationalizing Politics of Threat
September 2013 New Book

My Father's Name

Jackson, Lawrence P.
A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War
May 2012 New Book E-book

Dreaming in French

Kaplan, Alice
The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis
April 2012 E-book

Power to the People

Kaplan, Geoff
The Graphic Design of the Radical Press and the Rise of the Counter-Culture, 1964-1974
May 2013 New Book E-book

Rising Up from Indian Country

Keating, Ann Durkin
The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago
August 2012 New Book E-book

American Diplomacy

Kennan, George F.
Sixtieth-Anniversary Expanded Edition
June 2012 New Book E-book

Mastering Iron

Knowles, Anne Kelly
The Struggle to Modernize an American Industry, 1800-1868
January 2013 New Book E-book

First Son

Koeneman, Keith
The Biography of Richard M. Daley
March 2013 New Book E-book

Kennedy in Berlin

Koetzle, Hans-Michael
Photographs by Ulrich Mack
June 2013 New Book

Science on American Television

LaFollette, Marcel Chotkowski
A History
December 2012 New Book E-book

Image of God

Leon, Sharon M.
The Catholic Struggle with Eugenics
June 2013 New Book E-book

Fear of Food

Levenstein, Harvey
A History of Why We Worry about What We Eat
April 2012 E-book

This Is Not Civil Rights

Lovell, George I.
Discovering Rights Talk in 1939 America
October 2012 New Book E-book

Accidental Diarist

McCarthy, Molly A.
A History of the Daily Planner in America
June 2013 New Book E-book

Marking Modern Times

McCrossen, Alexis
A History of Clocks, Watches, and Other Timekeepers in American Life
May 2013 New Book E-book

Slaves Waiting for Sale

McInnis, Maurie D.
Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade
December 2011 E-book

Think Tanks in America

Medvetz, Thomas
September 2012 New Book E-book

West of Sex

Mitchell, Pablo
Making Mexican America, 1900-1930
April 2012 E-book

And Bid Him Sing

Molesworth, Charles
A Biography of Countée Cullen
October 2012 New Book E-book

American Capitals

Montès, Christian
A Historical Geography
December 2013 New Book

Birth of the Republic, 1763-89, Fourth Edition

Morgan, Edmund S.
November 2012 New Book E-book

Charleston Orphan House

Murray, John E.
Children's Lives in the First Public Orphanage in America
January 2013 New Book E-book

Children of Light and the Children of Darkness

Niebuhr, Reinhold
A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defense
September 2011 E-book

Irony of American History

Niebuhr, Reinhold
May 2008 E-book

Tolerant Populists, Second Edition

Nugent, Walter
Kansas Populism and Nativism
October 2013 New Book

Face Value

O'Malley, Michael
The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America
June 2012 New Book E-book

Caribbean

Palmié, Stephan
A History of the Region and Its Peoples
September 2011 E-book

Smart Casual

Pearlman, Alison
The Transformation of Gourmet Restaurant Style in America
April 2013 New Book E-book

Uncivil Rights

Perrillo, Jonna
Teachers, Unions, and Race in the Battle for School Equity
June 2012 New Book E-book

Planning the Home Front

Peterson, Sarah Jo
Building Bombers and Communities at Willow Run
May 2013 New Book E-book

Science of Deception

Pettit, Michael
Psychology and Commerce in America
January 2013 New Book E-book

Bachelors and Bunnies

Pitzulo, Carrie
The Sexual Politics of Playboy
May 2011

Mom

Plant, Rebecca Jo
The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America
March 2010 E-book

Not Just Roommates

Pleck, Elizabeth H.
Cohabitation after the Sexual Revolution
June 2012 New Book E-book

Conceived in Doubt

Porterfield, Amanda
Religion and Politics in the New American Nation
April 2012 E-book

Rise of the Public Authority

Radford, Gail
Statebuilding and Economic Development in Twentieth-Century America
June 2013 New Book E-book

Republic Afloat

Raffety, Matthew Taylor
Law, Honor, and Citizenship in Maritime America
March 2013 New Book E-book

American Nietzsche

Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer
A History of an Icon and His Ideas
November 2011 E-book

What Soldiers Do

Roberts, Mary Louise
Sex and the American GI in World War II France
May 2013 New Book E-book

Buffalo Bill in Bologna

Rydell, Robert W.
The Americanization of the World, 1869-1922
August 2005 E-book

Measuring the New World

Safier, Neil
Enlightenment Science and South America
September 2008 E-book

Riches, Rivals and Radicals

Schwarzer, Marjorie
100 Years of Museums in America
March 2006

State as a Work of Art

Slauter, Eric
The Cultural Origins of the Constitution
May 2009

City Water, City Life

Smith, Carl
Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago
April 2013 New Book E-book

School, Society, and State

Steffes, Tracy L.
A New Education to Govern Modern America, 1890-1940
May 2012 New Book E-book

Sounds of Capitalism

Taylor, Timothy D.
Advertising, Music, and the Conquest of Culture
July 2012 New Book E-book

I Speak of the City

Tenorio-Trillo, Mauricio
Mexico City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
February 2013 New Book

Democratic Surround

Turner, Fred
Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties
November 2013 New Book

Purging the Poorest

Vale, Lawrence J.
Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities
April 2013 New Book E-book

Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes

Valencius, Conevery Bolton
October 2013 New Book

Slaveholders' Union

Van Cleve, George William
Slavery, Politics, and the Constitution in the Early American Republic
October 2010 E-book

Hoodlums

Van Deburg, William L.
Black Villains and Social Bandits in American Life
November 2004

Harlem

Vergara, Camilo José
The Unmaking of a Ghetto
October 2013 New Book

Theater of the Mind

Verma, Neil
Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama
July 2012 New Book E-book

Black Child-Savers

Ward, Geoff K.
Racial Democracy and Juvenile Justice
June 2012 New Book E-book

Protocols of Liberty

Warner, William B.
Communication Innovation and the American Revolution
September 2013 New Book

Thousand-Year Flood

Welky, David
The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937
September 2011 E-book

Banquet at Delmonico's

Werth, Barry
The Gilded Age and the Triumph of Evolution in America
April 2011

Knowledge in the Time of Cholera

Whooley, Owen
The Struggle over American Medicine in the Nineteenth Century
April 2013 New Book E-book

In Hock

Woloson, Wendy A.
Pawning in America from Independence through the Great Depression
April 2010 E-book

Capitalism Takes Command

Zakim, Michael
The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America
February 2012 E-book

Chicago History

Sundays at Sinai

Brinkmann, Tobias
A Jewish Congregation in Chicago
June 2012 New Book E-book

Chicago's Historic Hyde Park

Davis, Susan O'Connor
July 2013 New Book E-book

Brown in the Windy City

Fernandez, Lilia
Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago
December 2012 New Book E-book

Bigger, Brighter, Louder

Jones, Chris
150 Years of Chicago Theater as Seen by "Chicago Tribune" Critics
October 2013 New Book

Lost Chicago

Lowe, David Garrard
October 2010

Chicago Business and Industry

Reiff, Janice L.
From Fur Trade to E-Commerce
May 2013 New Book

European History

Gusto for Things

Ago, Renata
A History of Objects in Seventeenth-Century Rome
April 2013 New Book E-book

Authoring the Past

Aurell, Jaume
History, Autobiography, and Politics in Medieval Catalonia
April 2012 E-book

German Invasion Plans for the British Isles, 1940

Bodleian Library, The,
June 2008

Postcards from the Russian Revolution

Bodleian Library, The,
June 2008

Postcards from the Trenches

Bodleian Library, The,
Images from the First World War
June 2008

Watching Vesuvius

Cocco, Sean
A History of Science and Culture in Early Modern Italy
November 2012 New Book E-book

Florence in the Forgotten Centuries, 1527-1800

Cochrane, Eric
A History of Florence and the Florentines in the Age of the Grand Dukes
November 2013 New Book

Earthquake Observers

Coen, Deborah R.
Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter
December 2012 New Book E-book

Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty

Coen, Deborah R.
Science, Liberalism, and Private Life
August 2007 E-book

Dangerous Work

Conan Doyle, Arthur
Diary of an Arctic Adventure
October 2012 New Book E-book

Belfast 400

Connolly, S. J.
People, Place and History
March 2013 New Book

Harkis

Crapanzano, Vincent
The Wound That Never Heals
July 2011 E-book

Fleeing Franco

Davies, Hywel
How Wales Gave Shelter to Refugee Children from the Basque Country during the Spanish Civil War
September 2011

Galateo

Della Casa, Giovanni
Or, The Rules of Polite Behavior
June 2013 New Book E-book

In the Shadow of Freedom

Dhaul, Laxmi Tendulkar
Three Lives in Hitler’s Germany and Gandhi’s India
June 2013 New Book

Images in Spite of All

Didi-Huberman, Georges
Four Photographs from Auschwitz
October 2008

Enlightenment

Edelstein, Dan
A Genealogy
December 2010 E-book

Socialist People's Car

Fava, Valentina
Automobiles, Shortages and Consent in the Czechoslovak Road to Mass Production
June 2013 New Book

Three Germanies

Gehler, Michael
West Germany, East Germany and the Berlin Republic
October 2011

Modern Balkans

Hall, Richard C.
A History
March 2011

Before Porn Was Legal

Heineman, Elizabeth
The Erotica Empire of Beate Uhse
August 2011 E-book

Czechs and Germans 1848-2004

Houzvicka, Václav
The Sudeten Question and the Transformation of Central Europe
August 2013 New Book

Looking for Strangers

Katz, Dori
The True Story of My Hidden Wartime Childhood
September 2013 New Book

Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal

Klemek, Christopher
Postwar Urbanism from New York to Berlin
July 2011

Dialogue with Death

Koestler, Arthur
The Journal of a Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War
April 2011

Liberation of Painting

Leighten, Patricia
Modernism and Anarchism in Avant-Guerre Paris
September 2013 New Book E-book

Dreamland of Humanists

Levine, Emily J.
Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School
November 2013 New Book

Europe - On Air

Lommers, Suzanne
Interwar Projects for Radio Broadcasting
February 2013 New Book

Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945

Lubrich, Oliver
Foreign Authors Report from Germany
May 2010

Wasteland with Words

Magnússon, Sigurður Gylfi
A Social History of Iceland
June 2010

They Thought They Were Free

Mayer, Milton
The Germans, 1933-45
May 1966

Europe's Steppe Frontier, 1500-1800

McNeill, William H.
November 2011 E-book

Venice

McNeill, William H.
The Hinge of Europe, 1081-1797
November 2009 E-book

Atheist's Bible

Minois, Georges
The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed
October 2012 New Book E-book

Power in Concert

Mitzen, Jennifer
The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Global Governance
September 2013 New Book

Bernini

Mormando, Franco
His Life and His Rome
November 2011 E-book

Economy of Glory

Morrissey, Robert
From Ancien Régime France to the Fall of Napoleon
December 2013 New Book

Sea Monsters

Nigg, Joseph
A Voyage around the World's Most Beguiling Map
October 2013 New Book

Reading Huizinga

Otterspeer, Willem
July 2011

Baltic Facades

Purs, Aldis
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania since 1945
September 2012 New Book

History of the Czech Lands

Pánek, Jaroslav
September 2009

Influences

Quinlan-McGrath, Mary
Art, Optics, and Astrology in the Italian Renaissance
February 2013 New Book E-book

Eating the Enlightenment

Spary, E. C.
Food and the Sciences in Paris, 1670-1760
November 2012 New Book E-book

Habsburg Monarchy, 1809-1918

Taylor, A. J. P.
A History of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary
May 1976

Prague Palimpsest

Thomas, Alfred
Writing, Memory, and the City
October 2010 E-book

Pontecorvo Affair

Turchetti, Simone
A Cold War Defection and Nuclear Physics
February 2012 E-book

Androids in the Enlightenment

Voskuhl, Adelheid
Mechanics, Artisans, and Cultures of the Self
May 2013 New Book E-book

Athene Palace

Waldeck, R. G.
Hitler's "New Order" Comes to Rumania
August 2013 New Book

Nazi Symbiosis

Weiss, Sheila Faith
Human Genetics and Politics in the Third Reich
December 2010 E-book

Holocaust and Other Genocides

van Haperen, Maria
An Introduction
March 2013 New Book

British History

London

Batchelor, Robert K.
The Selden Map and the Making of a Global City, 1549-1689
December 2013 New Book

Cruelty and Laughter

Dickie, Simon
Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century
December 2011 E-book

Disturbing Practices

Doan, Laura
History, Sexuality, and Women's Experience of Modern War
May 2013 New Book E-book

Fire under the Ashes

Donoghue, John
An Atlantic History of the English Revolution
November 2013 New Book

History of Wales

Evans, D. Gareth
1815-1906
April 2011

Titanic Calling

Hughes, Michael
Wireless Communications during the Great Disaster
July 2012 New Book

Illustrating Empire

Jackson, Ashley
A Visual History of British Imperialism
May 2011

From Ship's Cook to Baronet

Jenkins, David
Sir William Reardon Smith's Life in Shipping, 1856 - 1935
December 2011

W. T. Stead

Luckhurst, Roger
Newspaper Revolutionary
March 2013 New Book

Making England Western

Makdisi, Saree
Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial Culture
November 2013 New Book

Manifold Greatness

Moore, Helen
The Making of the King James Bible
May 2011

Most Powerful Idea in the World

Rosen, William
A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
March 2012

Smashing H Block

Ross, F. Stuart
The Popular Campaign against Criminalization and the Irish Hunger Strikes 1976-1982
March 2012

Epicure's Almanack

Rylance, Ralph
Eating and Drinking in Regency London (The Original 1815 Guidebook)
August 2012 New Book

Ancient History

Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization

Algaze, Guillermo
The Evolution of an Urban Landscape
November 2008 E-book

Oldest Cuisine in the World

Bottéro, Jean
Cooking in Mesopotamia
April 2004

Courtesans and Fishcakes

Davidson, James N.
The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens
June 2011

Artifact and Artifice

Hall, Jonathan M.
Classical Archaeology and the Ancient Historian
December 2013 New Book

History of Trust in Ancient Greece

Johnstone, Steven
October 2011 E-book

Appian Way

Kaster, Robert A.
Ghost Road, Queen of Roads
April 2012 E-book

Essays in Ancient and Modern Historiography

Momigliano, Arnaldo
July 2012 New Book E-book

End of Sacrifice

Stroumsa, Guy G.
Religious Transformations in Late Antiquity
April 2009

Medieval and Renaissance

Making of the Humanities

Bod, Rens
Volume I: Early Modern Europe
February 2011

Legend of the Middle Ages

Brague, Rémi
Philosophical Explorations of Medieval Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
April 2009

Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe

Grafton, Anthony
February 2012

Medieval Kitchen

Klemettilä, Hannele
A Social History with Recipes
September 2012 New Book

Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam

Lassner, Jacob
Modern Scholarship, Medieval Realities
March 2012 E-book

Battle of Brunanburh

Livingston, Michael
A Casebook
June 2011

Royal Manuscripts

McKendrick, Scot
The Genius of Illumination
February 2012

Pilgrimage and Pogrom

Merback, Mitchell B.
Violence, Memory, and Visual Culture at the Host-Miracle Shrines of Germany and Austria
March 2013 New Book

Why Europe?

Mitterauer, Michael
The Medieval Origins of Its Special Path
July 2010 E-book

Divas in the Convent

Monson, Craig A.
Nuns, Music, and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century Italy
June 2012 New Book E-book

Nuns Behaving Badly

Monson, Craig A.
Tales of Music, Magic, Art, and Arson in the Convents of Italy
November 2010 E-book

Magic and Religion in Medieval England

Rider, Catherine
December 2012 New Book

Sex and Drugs before Rock 'n' Roll

Roberts, Benjamin
Youth Culture and Masculinity during Holland's Golden Age
December 2012 New Book

Giordano Bruno

Rowland, Ingrid D.
Philosopher / Heretic
September 2009

Inner Lives of Medieval Inquisitors

Sullivan, Karen
April 2011 E-book

History of Wales 1485-1660

Thomas, Hugh
November 2012 New Book

Odyssey of Ibn Battuta

Waines, David
Uncommon Tales of a Medieval Adventurer
July 2010

World History

Everyday Technology

Arnold, David
Machines and the Making of India's Modernity
June 2013 New Book E-book

History of Myanmar since Ancient Times

Aung-Thwin, Michael
Traditions and Transformations
April 2012

Coolie Woman

Bahadur, Gaiutra
The Odyssey of Indenture
September 2013 New Book

Grains of Gold

Chopel, Gendun
Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveler
January 2014 New Book

Story of Six Rivers

Coates, Peter
History, Culture and Ecology
April 2013 New Book

Breakfast Book

Dalby, Andrew
May 2013 New Book

Islands

Fischer, Steven Roger
From Atlantis to Zanzibar
December 2012 New Book

Human Shore

Gillis, John R.
Seacoasts in History
October 2012 New Book E-book

Pocket Guide to Vietnam, 1962

Grayson, Bruns
March 2012

River Jordan

Havrelock, Rachel
The Mythology of a Dividing Line
December 2011 E-book

Politics of Dialogic Imagination

Hirano, Katsuya
Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan
November 2013 New Book

Lords of the Sea

Jamieson, Alan
A History of the Barbary Corsairs
July 2012 New Book

Finding Forgotten Cities

Lahiri, Nayanjot
How the Indus Civilization was Discovered
June 2006

Dune's Twisted Edge

Levin, Gabriel
Journeys in the Levant
November 2012 New Book E-book

From Stone to Flesh

Lopez Jr., Donald
A Short History of the Buddha
April 2013 New Book E-book

Mughal India

Losty, J. P.
Art, Culture and Empire
March 2013 New Book

Cruel Way

Maillart, Ella K.
Switzerland to Afghanistan in a Ford, 1939
June 2013 New Book

History of the Arctic

McCannon, John
Nature, Exploration and Exploitation
December 2012 New Book

Segregation

Nightingale, Carl H.
A Global History of Divided Cities
May 2012 New Book E-book

Bitter Roots

Osseo-Asare, Abena Dove
The Search for Healing Plants in Africa
December 2013 New Book

Document Raj

Raman, Bhavani
Writing and Scribes in Early Colonial South India
November 2012 New Book E-book

Madagascar

Randrianja, Solofo
A Short History
July 2009

Edge of Empires

Rayfield, Donald
A History of Georgia
December 2012 New Book

Making of Romantic Love

Reddy, William M.
Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE
August 2012 New Book E-book

Unearthing the Nation

Shen, Grace Yen
Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China
December 2013 New Book

Islanded

Sivasundaram, Sujit
Britain, Sri Lanka, and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony
August 2013 New Book E-book

Written on Bamboo and Silk

Tsien, Tsuen-Hsuin
The Beginnings of Chinese Books and Inscriptions, Second Edition
September 2004

Libertine's Friend

Vitiello, Giovanni
Homosexuality and Masculinity in Late Imperial China
August 2011 E-book

Culinary Herbs and Spices of the World

van Wyk, Ben-Erik
October 2013 New Book

Cartography

World at Their Fingertips

Armitage, Geoff
Eighteenth-Century British Two-Sheet Double-Hemisphere World Maps
August 2012 New Book

London: A History in Maps

Barber, Peter
September 2012 New Book

Mapping Latin America

Dym, Jordana
A Cartographic Reader
September 2011 E-book

Birth of Territory

Elden, Stuart
August 2013 New Book

Magnificent Maps

Harper, Tom
Power, Propaganda and Art
September 2010

Medieval Maps of the Holy Land

Harvey, P. D. A.
December 2012 New Book

Disease Maps

Koch, Tom
Epidemics on the Ground
June 2011 E-book

Mastering the Niger

Lambert, David
James MacQueen's African Geography and the Struggle over Atlantic Slavery
November 2013 New Book

Mapping the Nation

Schulten, Susan
History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America
July 2012 New Book E-book

Mapping Europe's Borderlands

Seegel, Steven
Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire
May 2012 New Book E-book

Korea

Short, John Rennie
A Cartographic History
May 2012 New Book E-book

Ancient Perspectives

Talbert, Richard J. A.
Maps and Their Place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome
November 2012 New Book

History of Science

Curiosity

Ball, Philip
How Science Became Interested in Everything
April 2013 New Book E-book

Visible Empire

Bleichmar, Daniela
Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment
October 2012 New Book E-book

Making of Modern Medicine

Bliss, Michael
Turning Points in the Treatment of Disease
February 2011 E-book

Life Atomic

Creager, Angela N. H.
A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine
October 2013 New Book

Baroque Science

Gal, Ofer
March 2013 New Book E-book

Pseudoscience Wars

Gordin, Michael D.
Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe
September 2012 New Book E-book

Genentech

Hughes, Sally Smith
The Beginnings of Biotech
October 2011 E-book

Cancer on Trial

Keating, Peter
Oncology as a New Style of Practice
February 2012 E-book

Science and the American Century

Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory
Readings from "Isis"
March 2013 New Book E-book

Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Kuhn, Thomas S.
50th Anniversary Edition
April 2012 E-book

Picturing the Book of Nature

Kusukawa, Sachiko
Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany
May 2012 New Book E-book

Sites of the Unconscious

Mayer, Andreas
Hypnosis and the Emergence of the Psychoanalytic Setting
September 2013 New Book

Cultural History of Heredity

Müller-Wille, Staffan
June 2012 New Book E-book

Acolytes of Nature

Phillips, Denise
Defining Natural Science in Germany, 1770-1850
June 2012 New Book E-book

Inventing Chemistry

Powers, John C.
Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts
April 2012 E-book

Was Hitler a Darwinian?

Richards, Robert J.
Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory
October 2013 New Book

Romantic Machine

Tresch, John
Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon
June 2012 New Book E-book

Memory

Winter, Alison
Fragments of a Modern History
January 2012 E-book

History and Knowledge

American Egyptologist

Abt, Jeffrey
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Critical Explorations in the History of Religions
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The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools
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A History of Psychology
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The Early Modern Origins of Psychology
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Botanical Illustration in the Age of Discovery 1600-1800
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A Cultural History of Masturbation
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A Global History
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October 2011

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A Global History
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A Global History
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A Global History
April 2011

Gin

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A Global History
May 2012 New Book

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A Global History
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History and Music

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An Illustrated History of Continental Opera Production and Staging
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A History of Jazz Discography
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The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy
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Measurement and the Economic Emergence of the Modern World
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The Errors of Socialism
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Public and Private Prosperity in Postwar West Germany and the United States
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Bourgeois Dignity

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Ethics for an Age of Commerce
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Institutional Incentives and Imperial Expansion
April 2012 E-book

Arc of War

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Origins, Escalation, and Transformation
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Making a Difference in the Developing World
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