History
The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds
Paperback
"Like everything else written by Jonathan Spence, The Chan's Great Continent is an absolute must-read for anyone interested in China. Spence is one of the greatest Sinologists of our time, and his work is both authoritative and highly readable." —Los Angeles Times Book Review
The Story of American Freedom
Paperback
A stirring history of America focused on its animating impulse: freedom.
Strange Defeat
Paperback
A renowned historian and Resistance fighter—later executed by the Nazis—gives his firsthand perspective on why France fell in 1940.
Titanica: The Disaster of the Century in Poetry, Song, and Prose
Paperback
In the ninety years since the Titanic sank, countless sermons and editorials, poems, songs and ads, socialists and chauvinists, Christians, reformers, anarchists, and pitchmen have drawn on the power of the century's worst disaster to move their audience.
The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
Paperback
"A pioneer work in…the sexual structuring of society. This is not just another book about witchcraft." —Edmund S. Morgan, Yale University