The Folklore of the Freeway – Race and Revolt in the Modernist City
When the interstate highway program connected America’s cities,…
Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700-1950
This ground-breaking documentary history contains over 150 primary…
Writing History in the Global Era
FLeading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters in…
The American West: A Very Short Introduction
Part geographical location, part time period, and part state…
Leçons Indiennes: Itinéraires d’un historien, Delhi, Lisbonne, Paris, Los Angeles
Born in New Delhi in 1961 in a family of civil servants and intellectuals…
The Other Special Relationship: Race, Rights and Riots in Britain and the United States
The close diplomatic, economic, and military ties that comprising…
What is Slavery?
Brenda Stevenson has just published What is Slavery (New York:…
Inglorious Revolution: Political Institutions, Sovereign Debt, and Financial Underdevelopment in Imperial Brazil
Government debt crises are a fact of political and economic life.…
Shameful Victory: The Los Angeles Dodgers, the Red Scare, and the Hidden History of Chavez Ravine
This, the first full-length history of the major scandal caused…
The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen’s London
In July 1815, six Iranian students arrived in London under the…