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

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

Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
Hardback
A magisterial, revisionist narrative history of the Soviet Union in its post-Stalin heyday, bringing a forgotten society to vivid life and offering a new explanation for how it suddenly collapsed.

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

Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
Paperback
“A tour de force. . . . No one has ever written a book on the Declaration quite like this one.” —Gordon S. Wood, New York Review of Books


