This book explains how public housing projects are not the only housing policy mistakes. Lesser known efforts are just as pernicious, working in concert to undermine sound neighborhoods and perpetuate a dependent underclass.
Presents the history, archaeology, and legends of ancient Ireland from 9000 BC, when nomadic... Læs mere
In a re-evaluation of Mao Zedong's leadership, Feigon seeks a more informed perspective on one of the most important political leaders of our time.
Before Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" shocked the Western world, some readers already knew of prison life in the... Læs mere
The first full-length biography of the celebrated novelist, critic, editor (of The Masses), poet, and playwright, who was both central to radical culture in the early 20th century and profoundly skeptical of it.
Selections from the Civil War diaries and memoirs of twenty-three Southern women form an account of the war as it was lived and endured on the domestic front in the South.
A former prisoner tells the untold story of the Nazi concentration camp that secretly manufactured V-2 rockets.
These artful new translations of nine of Schnitzler's most important stories and novellas reinforce the Viennese author's remarkable achievement.
Matthews's book chronicles the changing fortunes and transformations of the organized suffrage movement, from its dismal period to its final victory that brought women the vote.
Lieberman looks at the cultural meaning of suicide and how it has gone from being seen as subversive to self-destructive.
This work shows how, on November 7, 1841, the "Creole" was transporting slaves from Richmond to the auction block at New Orleans. A band of slaves led by Madison Washington seized the crew, and forced the ship to sail into Nassau harbour, where the British offered them freedom.