Format: Hardcover, 352 pages Publisher: Crown On Sale: September 15, 2009 Price: $26.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-40795-5 (0-307-40795-0)
In AD 476 the Roman Empire fell–or rather, its western half did. Its eastern half, which would come to be known as the Byzantine Empire, would endure and often flourish for another eleven centuries. Though its capital would move to Constantinople, its citizens referred to themselves as Roman for the entire...
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Format: Hardcover, 720 pages Publisher: Knopf On Sale: November 3, 2009 Price: $35.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-26541-8 (0-307-26541-2)
The first major biography of America’s twenty-eighth president in nearly two decades, from one of America’s foremost Woodrow Wilson scholars.
A Democrat who reclaimed the White House after sixteen years of Republican administrations, Wilson was a transformative president—he helped create the regulatory bodies and legislation that prefigured FDR’s New Deal and would...
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Format: Hardcover, 224 pages Publisher: Random House On Sale: November 10, 2009 Price: $35.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-6848-7 (1-4000-6848-7)
Seventeenth-century sketches of Africa as it appeared to marauding European traders. Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs of war heroes, regal in uniform. Antebellum reward posters for capturing runaway slaves. An 1856 article titled “A Visit to the Slave Mother Who Killed Her...Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages Publisher: Vintage On Sale: November 3, 2009 Price: $17.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-7816-5 (1-4000-7816-4)
In this masterful portrait of life in Savannah before, during, and after the Civil War, prizewinning historian Jacqueline Jones transports readers to the balmy, raucous streets of that fabled Southern port city. This is a subtle and rich social history that weaves together stories of the everyday lives of blacks and...
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Format: Hardcover, 240 pages Publisher: Modern Library On Sale: October 6, 2009 Price: $24.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-64276-3 (0-679-64276-5)
Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection, revisit this...
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Format: Hardcover, 336 pages Publisher: Nan A. Talese On Sale: October 20, 2009 Price: $29.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-52379-0 (0-385-52379-3)
“In elegant brushstrokes, and using as his subject the painter/diplomat Rubens, Mark Lamster gives us here a vivid portrait of 17th century Europe and the political intrigue that led to the modern world.” —Russell Shorto, author of The Island at the Center of the World
“Art, war, diplomatic intrigue, secret spy...
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Format: Hardcover, 896 pages Publisher: Modern Library On Sale: September 22, 2009 Price: $35.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-64361-6 (0-679-64361-3)
In this magisterial book, a monument of history and biography that was awarded the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, renowned journalist Neil Sheehan tells the story of Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann–“the one irreplaceable American in Vietnam”–and of the tragedy that destroyed that country and the lives...
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Format: Hardcover, 672 pages Publisher: Pantheon On Sale: November 3, 2009 Price: $40.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-42255-3 (0-375-42255-2)
From the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides and The Landmark Herodotus, here is a new edition of Xenophon’s Hellenika, the primary source for the events of the final seven years and aftermath of the Peloponnesian War.
Hellenika covers the years between 411 and 362 B.C.E., a particularly dramatic...
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