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Gone to Texasby Randolph B. Campbell
Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 29.95Tells the story of the Lone Star State from the arrival of humans in the Panhandle more than 10,000 years ago to the opening of the 21st Century. Focusing on the state's successive waves of immigrants, it offers an inclusive view of the array of Texans who, often in conflict with each other and the land, created a history and an idea of Texas. more...
Brazil since 1980by Francisco Vidal Luna; Herbert S. Klein
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 22.00This book is designed as a basic introduction to contemporary Brazil from a recent historical perspective and is one of the first such comprehensive surveys of recent Brazilian history and development - the shift, in effect, from a pre-modern to a modern economy and society - in any language. more...
1776by David McCullough
Simon & Schuster 2005; US$ 13.99In this stirring book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence -- when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper. Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is a powerful drama written with extraordinary narrative vitality. It is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the King's men, the British commander,... more...
Countervailing Forces in African-American Civic Activism, 1973-1994by Fredrick C. Harris; Valeria Sinclair-Chapman; Brian D. McKenzie
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 18.00This first-ever study assessing black civic participation after the civil rights movement demonstrates that the changes in black activism since the civil rights movement are characterized by a tug-of-war between black political power on one side and economic conditions in black communities on the other, which creates countervailing forces. more...
Church and State in Americaby James H. Hutson
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 20.00Hutson examines ideas and public policies relating to the relationship between government and religion from 1607 to 1837. more...
The Depths of Courageby Flint Whitlock; Ron Smith
Penguin Group Inc. 2008; US$ 13.99Chosen by WWII History magazine as one of the Best Books of the Year. In the dark days after Pearl Harbor, the small, illequipped arm of the Navy known as Submarine Force would stand between the shattered U.S. Pacific Fleet and the might of the Japanese Navy. Unfortunately, the spirit and courage of the Submarine Force is being forgotten as the veterans of that force pass into history. To preserve their heroic tales of war beneath the sea, critically acclaimed author and military historian Flint Whitlock, in collaboration with decorated World War II submarine veteran Ron Smith, set out on a journey of more than two years to interview submariners and to record their accounts before the memories of their endeavors are lost forever. These... more...
Decision-Making in Medieval Agricultureby David Stone
Oxford University Press, UK 2005; US$ 140.00David Stone reconstructs the mental world of medieval farmers and reveals that agricultural decision-making was as rational in 1300 as in modern times. Arguing that man's impact on agriculture has been significantly underestimated, he challenges the view that the medieval period was devastated by ecological and economic crises. - ;This fascinating and important book uses a wealth of contemporary sources to reconstruct the mental world of medieval farmers and, by doing so, argues that these key figures in the Middle Ages have been unfairly stereotyped. David Stone overturns the traditional view of medieval countrymen as economically backward and instead reveals that agricultural decision-making was as rational in the fouteenth century as... more...
A Government Out of Sightby Brian Balogh
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 21.00A Government Out of Sight revises our understanding of the ways in which Americans turned to the national government throughout the nineteenth century. more...
A Brave Vesselby Hobson Woodward
Penguin Group Inc. 2009; US$ 12.99"At once a penetrating work of literary analysis and a riveting historical narrative." -Nathaniel Philbrick Merging maritime adventure and early colonial history, A Brave Vessel charts a little-known chapter of the past that offers a window on the inspiration for one of Shakespeare's greatest works. In 1609, aspiring writer William Strachey set sail for the New World aboard the Sea Venture , only to wreck on the shores of Bermuda. Strachey's meticulous account of the tragedy, the castaways' time in Bermuda, and their arrival in a devastated Jamestown, remains among the most vivid writings of the early colonial period. Though Strachey had literary aspirations, only in the hands of another William would his tale make history as The... more...
Brazilby Ignacy Sachs; Jorge Wilheim; Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro
The University of North Carolina Press 2009; US$ 65.00Brazil, the largest of the Latin American nations, is fast becoming a potent international economic player as well as a regional power. This English translation of an acclaimed Brazilian anthology provides critical overviews of Brazilian life, history, and culture and insight into Brazil's development over the past century. The distinguished essayists, most of whom are Brazilian, provide expert perspectives on the social, economic, and cultural challenges that face Brazil as it seeks future directions in the age of globalization.All of the contributors connect past, present, and future Brazil. Their analyses converge on the observation that although Brazil has undergone radical changes during the past one hundred years, trenchant legacies... more...









