History
Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
Hardback
Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history.
The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783
Hardback
A culminating work on the American Founding by one of its leading historians, The Cause rethinks the American Revolution as we have known it.
If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
Paperback
From the best-selling author of These Truths, an “exhilarating” (New York Times Book Review) account of the Cold War origins of our data-mad era.
Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome
Paperback
The first biography of Alaric to appear in English tells the history of the fourth-and fifth-century Roman Empire through the life of the Goth who attacked it.
Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich
Hardback
In a bunker deep below Berlin’s Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his new bride, Eva Braun, took their own lives just after 3:00 p.m. on...