History

Newcomers: The Story of Anthony and Grietje and the Founding of New York
Hardback
The exceptional tale of an unorthodox, seventeenth-century married couple whose rags-to-riches story fundamentally rewrites our knowledge of American history at its very beginnings

Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment
Hardback
A ground-breaking history that chronicles how blackface dominated American society culturally, financially and racially for nearly two centuries

The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World
Hardback
A concise, colourful and convincing account of capitalism’s rise to global dominance

Indigenous Citizens: Native Americans' Fight for Sovereignty, 1776-2025
Hardback
A sweeping history of Native Americans’ fraught relationship with US citizenship and their efforts to protect tribal sovereignty

Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About Women
Hardback
A bracing feminist chronicle of the history of the West told through seven texts, exposing where our most virulent ideas about women came from


