History:

We Two
Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals
Written by Gillian Gill

Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: December 8, 2009
Price: $18.00

It was the most influential marriage of the nineteenth century–and one of history’s most enduring love stories. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited the throne as a naïve teenager, when the British Empire was at the height of its power, and seemed doomed to find failure as a monarch... Read more >

Freedom's Battle
The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention
Written by Gary J. Bass

Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $17.95

This gripping and important book brings alive over two hundred years of humanitarian interventions. Freedom’s Battle illuminates the passionate debates between conscience and imperialism ignited by the first human rights activists in the 19th century, and shows how a newly emergent free press galvanized British, American, and French citizens to action... Read more >

The Sisters of Sinai
How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels
Written by Janet Soskice

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: August 18, 2009
Price: $27.95

In 1892, two sisters, identical twins from Scotland, made one of one of most important scriptural discoveries of modern times. Combing the library of St. Catherine’s Monastery at Mount Sinai, they found a neglected palimpsest: beneath an unpreposessing life of female saints, they detected what remains to this day among the... Read more >

The State of Jones

Written by Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer

Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $27.50

New York Times bestselling author Sally Jenkins and distinguished Harvard professor John Stauffer mine a nearly forgotten piece of Civil War history and strike gold in this surprising account of the only Southern county to secede from the Confederacy.

The State of Jones is a true story about the South during the...

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The State of Jones

Written by Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $27.50

New York Times bestselling author Sally Jenkins and distinguished Harvard professor John Stauffer mine a nearly forgotten piece of Civil War history and strike gold in this surprising account of the only Southern county to secede from the Confederacy.

The State of Jones is a true story about the South during the... Read more >

We Two
Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals
Written by Gillian Gill

Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Price: $35.00

It was the most influential marriage of the nineteenth century–and one of history’s most enduring love stories. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited the throne as a naïve teenager, when the British Empire was at the height of its power, and seemed doomed to find failure as a monarch... Read more >

We Two
Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals
Written by Gillian Gill

Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Price: $35.00

It was the most influential marriage of the nineteenth century–and one of history’s most enduring love stories. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited the throne as a naïve teenager, when the British Empire was at the height of its power, and seemed doomed to find failure as a monarch... Read more >

Napoleon's Invasion of Russia

Written by George Nafziger

Format: eBook, 704 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2009
Price: $29.00

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Lucia
A Venetian Life in the Age of Napleon
Written by Andrea Di Robilant

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $15.95

In 1787, the beautiful Lucia is married off to Alvise Mocenigo, scion of one of the most powerful Venetian families. But their life as a golden couple will be suddenly transformed when Venice falls to Bonaparte. We witness Lucia's painful series of miscarriages and the pressure on her to produce an... Read more >

Freedom's Battle
The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention
Written by Gary J. Bass

Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: August 19, 2008
Price: $35.00

Why do we sometimes let evil happen to others and sometimes rally to stop it? Whose lives matter to us? These are the key questions posed in this important and perceptive study of the largely forgotten nineteenth-century “atrocitarians”—some of the world’s first human rights activists. Wildly romantic, eccentrically educated, and full... Read more >

Freedom's Battle
The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention
Written by Gary J. Bass

Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: August 19, 2008
Price: $17.95

This gripping and important book brings alive over two hundred years of humanitarian interventions. Freedom’s Battle illuminates the passionate debates between conscience and imperialism ignited by the first human rights activists in the 19th century, and shows how a newly emergent free press galvanized British, American, and French citizens to action... Read more >

The Victorian Undertaker

Written by Trevor May

Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $11.95

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Lucia
A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon
Written by Andrea Di Robilant

Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2008
Price: $24.95

From the acclaimed author of A Venetian Affair comes the vivid and dramatic story of the fall of Venice and the rise of a new age during the tumultuous Napoleonic period, as seen through the eyes of his great-great-great-great-grandmother.

In 1787, Lucia, the beautiful sixteen-year-old daughter of a prominent Venetian statesman, is... Read more >

Lucia

Written by Andrea Di Robilant

Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2008
Price: $15.95

From the acclaimed author of A Venetian Affair comes the vivid and dramatic story of the fall of Venice and the rise of a new age during the tumultuous Napoleonic period, as seen through the eyes of his great-great-great-great-grandmother.

In 1787, Lucia, the beautiful sixteen-year-old daughter of a prominent Venetian statesman, is... Read more >

The Balkans
A Short History
Written by Mark Mazower

Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.95

Throughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodoxy. Subject to violent shifts of borders, rulers and belief systems at the hands of the world's great empires--from the Byzantine to the... Read more >

The Victorian Policeman

Written by Simon Patrick Dell

Format: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2004
Price: $11.95

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Parting the Desert
The Creation of the Suez Canal
Written by Zachary Karabell

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2003
Price: $27.50

The building of the Suez Canal was considered the greatest engineering feat of the nineteenth century, but, as Zachary Karabell shows, it was much more than a marvel of construction. It was a moment when the dreams and hopes of two cultures, several states, and thousands of ordinary people converged to... Read more >

The Victorian Ironmonger

Written by Cecil A. Meadows

Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2003
Price: $11.95

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The Balkans
A Short History
Written by Mark Mazower

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: August 6, 2002
Price: $13.95

Throughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural, and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodoxy. In this highly acclaimed short history, Mark Mazower sheds light on what has been called the tinderbox of Europe, whose troubles have... Read more >