World History/WWII

Political Awakenings

Conversations with History

Harry Kreisler

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL: Stories of insight and inspiration from twenty leaders and thinkers who have changed the world—including Howard Zinn, Amira Hass, and
Ron Dellums

Three Kings

The Rise of an American Empire in the Middle East After World War II

Lloyd C. Gardner

A magisterial history of America’s ascent in the Middle East during and after World War II—the essential, untold backstory to America’s current predicament in the Middle East and in the world—by the eminent historian

Dr. Seuss & Co. Go to War

The World War II Editorial Cartoons of America’s Leading Comic Artists

André Schiffrin

Now in paperback: The captivating World War II–era political cartoons of Dr. Seuss alongside the work of legendary cartoonists Saul Steinberg, Al Hirschfeld, and others

Blood and Faith

The Purging of Muslim Spain

Matthew Carr

In the tradition of Adam Hochschild’s King Leopold’s Ghost, a major new historical exposé with haunting resonance for the present, by a journalist whose previous book was called “a book for the ages” by the Boston Globe

Bombing Civilians

A Twentieth-Century History

Edited by Yuki Tanaka and Marilyn B. Young

Now in paperback: the first comprehensive historical analysis of one of the great horrors of modern times, hailed by Frida Berrigan as "a vividly detailed and profoundly troubling history of war fought from the air"

War Is Beautiful

An American Ambulance Driver in the Spanish Civil War

James Neugass

The newly discovered journal of an award-winning poet's experience on the front lines as a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade—All Quiet on the Western Front for the Spanish Civil War

Bitter Chocolate

The Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet

Carol Off

A shocking exposé of the little-known corruption and exploitation found at the heart of the multibillion-dollar cocoa industry – “Blood Diamonds” for chocolate

Big History

From the Big Bang to the Present

Cynthia Stokes Brown

Jared Diamond meets Stephen Hawking in a book that fits human history into the history of the universe, by an American Book Award winner

Challenging China

Struggle and Hope in an Era of Change

Edited by Sharon Hom and Stacy Mosher

NOW IN PAPERBACK — A fascinating and complex insiders' portrait of contemporary life inside China, written by dissidents, activists, and journalists—in time for the historic 2008 Olympics, when the world's eyes will be on China

The Infernal Machine

A History of Terrorism

Matthew Carr

NOW IN PAPERBACK — A highly accessible account of the history of terrorism that places 9/11 and Al Qaeda in historical context

Terra Nullius

A Journey Through No One's Land

Sven Lindqvist

A provocative journey through the dark history of the creation of white Australia, exposing the hidden genocide of the Aboriginal people

Iran

A People Interrupted

Hamid Dabashi

NOW IN PAPERBACK a deeply informed political and cultural narrative of a country thrust into the international spotlight

The Darker Nations

A People's History of the Third World

Vijay Prashad

A landmark study that offers an alternative history of the Cold War from the point of view of the world's poor

Lessons of Empire

Imperial Histories and American Power

Edited by Craig Calhoun, Frederick Cooper, and Kevin W. Moore

A timely exploration of one of the big geopolitical questions of our time

Nazi Anti-Semitism

From Prejudice to the Holocaust

Philippe Burrin

From a leading historian of Nazi Germany, a new exploration of the evolution of policies that led to the horror of the Holocaust

The Mexican Revolution

Adolfo Gilly

NOW IN PAPERBACK The classic account of the Mexican Revolution from the acclaimed author

The Condor Years

How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents

John Dinges

The headline-grabbing story of the covert, international “anti-terrorist” network responsible for South America’s worst human rights abuses

Historians in Trouble

Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Tower

Jon Wiener

NOW IN PAPERBACK The revealing and much-discussed look behind the scenes of recent headline-grabbing controversies in the history profession

The New American Empire

A 21st Century Teach-In on U.S. Foreign Policy

Edited by Lloyd C. Gardner and Marilyn B. Young

The historical roots of contemporary America’s foreign policy, by today’s leading scholars

History Lessons

How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History

Dana Lindaman, Kyle Ward

NOW IN PAPERBACK The widely contrasting approaches to U.S. history that can be found in the textbooks of other nations

Cold War Triumphalism

The Misuse of History After the Fall of Communism

Edited by Ellen Schrecker

NOW IN PAPERBACK The book that is provoking a major reexamination of the legacy of the cold war

The Vatican to Vegas

A History of Special Effects

Norman M. Klein

A Race Against Death

Peter Bergson, America, and the Holocaust

David S. Wyman, Rafael Medoff

The unknown story of the man who led America’s most effective campaign to rescue victims of the Holocaust, from the bestselling historian

The Pinochet File

A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability

Peter Kornbluh

NOW IN PAPERBACK Updated with newly declassified documents, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2003

The Assassination of Julius Caesar

A People’s History of Ancient Rome

Michael Parenti

Intrigue, murder, and class struggle at the heart of the Roman Empire

The Origins of Nazi Violence

Enzo Traverso

A leading social scientist’s depiction of the Holocaust as the culmination of liberal, European modernization

Problems of Knowledge and Freedom

Noam Chomsky

From interpreting the world to changing it, a synthesis of Chomsky’s early work on philosophy, linguistics, and politics

Crimes of War

Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century

Edited by Mary Nolan

A controversial look at wartime atrocities, by a group of distinguished historians

A History of Bombing

Sven Lindqvist

A daring literary and historical look at the ideologies of war and violence, by the author of “Exterminate All the Brutes”

American Power and the New Mandarins

Historical and Political Essays

Noam Chomsky

Back in print, the seminal work by “arguably the most important intellectual alive” (The New York Times)

Another Century of War?

Gabriel Kolko

The definitive condemnation of America’s reckless foreign policies, by “the foremost modern historian of war” (Guardian)

Barbed Wire

A Political History

Olivier Razac

From the devil’s rope to no man’s land, “A vital work of cultural criticism” (Publishers Weekly)

Muhammad

M. Maxine Rodinson

Back in print, a definitive and fascinating introduction to the life, ideas, and impact of the founder of Islam

Revolutionaries

Eric Hobsbawm

Back in print, groundbreaking essays from “the best known living historian in the world” (The Times, London)

Dr. Seuss Goes to War

The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel

Richard H. Minear

NOW IN PAPERBACK The bestselling treasure trove of World War II political cartoons by Dr. Seuss

Fear in Chile

Lives Under Pinochet

Patricia Politzer

NOW IN PAPERBACK first-person accounts of life in Pinochet’s Chile—“the perfect epitaph to a violent dictatorship” (Library Journal).

Antiquities

Postwar French Thought, Volume III

Edited by Nicole Loraux, Gregory Nagy, and Laura Slatkin

The third volume in the “timely and ambitious” (Boston Book Review) New Press Postwar French Thought Series

The Voice of Memory

Interviews, 1961–1987

Primo Levi

The Essential E.P.Thompson

E.P. Thompson

Edited by Dorothy Thompson

Bandits

Eric Hobsbawm

Hitler’s Exiles

Personal Stories of the Flight from Nazi Germany to America

Edited by Mark M. Anderson

War of the Century

When Hitler Fought Stalin

Laurence Rees

The German Army and Genocide

Crimes Against War Prisoners, Jews, and Other Civilians, 1939–1944

Hamburg Institute for Social Research

The Social History of the Third Reich, 1933-1945

Pierre Ayçoberry

Industry and Empire

The Birth of the Industrial Revolution

Eric Hobsbawm

Uncommon People

Resistance, Rebellion, and Jazz

Eric Hobsbawm

Shadows of a Childhood

A Novel

Elisabeth Gille

PAPERBACK For everyone who read Suite Française and wants to know more, a beautiful reissue of Irène Némirovsky’s daughter’s searing story of her parents’ disappearance

The French and Their Revolution

Selected Writings

Richard Cobb

Edited by David Gilmour

The Nazis

A Warning from History

Laurence Rees

PAPERBACK A new edition of the lavishly illustrated companion to the BBC documentary, with rare archival material and photographs documenting the reality of daily life in Nazi Germany

Universities and Empire

Money and Politics in the Social Sciences During the Cold War

Edited by Christopher Simpson

The Romantics

England in a Revolutionary Age

E.P. Thompson

Rebellion in Chiapas

An Historical Reader

John Womack Jr.

Bay of Pigs Declassified

The Secret CIA Report on the Invasion of Cuba

Edited by Peter Kornbluh

Embracing Defeat

Japan in the Wake of World War II

John W. Dower

On History

Eric Hobsbawm

One Hundred Years of Socialism

The West European Left in the Twentieth Century

Donald Sassoon

France Under the Germans

Collaboration and Compromise

Philippe Burrin

Histories

French Constructions of the Past, Postwar French Thought, Volume 1

Edited by Jacques Revel and Lynn Hunt

Looking Left

Socialism in Europe After the Cold War

Edited by Donald Sassoon

The Abandonment of the Jews

America and the Holocaust, 1941–1945

David S. Wyman

A handsome new paperback edition of the bestselling classic on America’s response to the Nazi assault on European Jews

The Cold War and the University

Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years

Noam Chomsky, Ira Katznelson, R.C. Lewontin, David Montgomery, Laura Nader, Richard Ohmann, Ray Siever, Immanuel Wallerstein, Howard Zinn

Intimacy and Terror

Soviet Diaries of the 1930s

Edited by Véronique Garros, Natalia Korenevskaya, and Thomas Lahusen

The Skull Measurer's Mistake

And Other Portraits of Men and Women Who Spoke Out Against Racism

Sven Lindqvist

“The Good War"

An Oral History of World War II

Studs Terkel

  

Exterminate All the Brutes"

One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide

Sven Lindqvist

PAPERBACK A new edition of the brilliant and unsettling intellectual history of Europe’s genocidal colonization of Africa

Intimacy and Terror

Soviet Diaries of the 1930s

Edited by Véronique Garros, Natalia Korenevskaya, and Thomas Lahusen

Civil Wars

From L.A. to Bosnia

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Century of War

Politics, Conflict, and Society Since 1914

Gabriel Kolko

The True Cost of Conflict

Seven Recent Wars and Their Effects on Society

Edited by Michael Cranna

Mexican Lives

Judith Adler Hellman

Subversion as Foreign Policy

The Secret Eisenhower and Dulles Debacle in Indonesia

Audrey R. Kahin, George McT. Kahin

Russia/USSR/Russia

The Drive and Drift of a Superstate

Moshe Lewin

Making History

Writings on History and Culture

E.P. Thompson

The War

A Memoir

Marguerite Duras

An elegant new paperback edition of one of Marguerite Duras’s most important books

South Africa and the United States

The Declassified History

Edited by Kenneth Mokoena

Japan at War

An Oral History

Haruko Taya Cook, Theodore F. Cook

PAPERBACK A timely fifteenth anniversary reissue of a “deeply moving book” (Studs Terkel) that portrays the Japanese experience during World War II in all its complexity

Caribbean Slave Society and the Economy

A Student Reader

Edited by Hilary Beckles

Customs in Common

Studies in Traditional Popular Culture

E.P. Thompson

A Moment of War

A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War

Laurie Lee

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