History
In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in America
Hardback
A sweeping, 400-year history of American slavery and American capitalism told through the emergence, evolution and persistence of the plantation
How to Be Avant-Garde: Modern Artists and the Quest to End Art
Paperback
The strange story of the twentieth-century artists who sought to destroy art by transforming it into the substance of everyday life
The Driving Machine: A Design History of the Car
Paperback
The renowned design writer on the extraordinary history of car design
Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present, and Future of the Self-Provisioning City
Hardback
From the eighteenth century to the twenty–first, the surprising history and inspiring contemporary panorama of urban gardening: nurturing health, hope, and community.
Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age
Paperback
In imagining a Viking, a certain image springs to mind: a barbaric warrior, leaping ashore from a longboat, and ready to terrorize the hapless...