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1. Governing China: From Revolution to Reform

   Kenneth Lieberthal

   Second Edition

   Governing China: From Revolution to Reform, the leading text for courses on Chinese politics has been thoroughly revised and updated.More

2. The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History

   J. R. McNeill, William H. McNeill

   Why did the first civilizations emerge when and where they did? How did Islam become a unifying force in the world of its birth? What enabled the West to project its goods and power around the world from the fifteenth century on? Why was agriculture invented seven times and the steam engine just once?More

3. A Secret History of the IRA

   Ed Moloney

   An epic portrayal of one of the twentieth century's longest wars—based on unprecedented access to all the players.More

4. The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town

   Helmut Walser Smith

   One of the most dramatic explorations of a German town in the grip of anti-Semitic passion ever written.More

5. Holocaust: A History

   Debórah Dwork, Robert Jan van Pelt

   A magisterial, dramatic account that reshapes the way we think and talk about the greatest crime in history.More

6. An Essay on the Principle of Population

   Thomas Robert Malthus, Philip Appleman

   Second Edition

   While millions face hunger, malnutrition, and starvation, the world’s population is increasing by over 225,000 people per day, 80 million per year.More

7. Red Cavalry

   Isaac Babel, Nathalie Babel, Peter Constantine, Et Al.

   "Amazing not only as literature but as biography."—Richard Bernstein, The New York TimesMore

8. Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914

   Peter Gay

   "This is cultural history of the first order, and it is liberal and humane history at its very best."—David CannadineMore

9. The Healing Wound: Experiences and Reflections, Germany, 1938-2001

   Gitta Sereny

   "[A]n astonishing, subtle study of many Holocaust perpetrators and participants."—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewMore

10. Globalization in World History

    A G. Hopkins

    Globalization has become an issue of the greatest urgency in the first decade of the new century.
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11. The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance

    Larry Gonick

    An irreverent survey in comics spanning world history from the birth of Islam to the Byzantine Empire to the Italian Renaissance.More

12. Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket

    Richard Holmes

    A rich, anecdotal history of the British soldier from the American Revolution through the Indian Mutiny.More

13. Napoleon and His Collaborators: The Making of a Dictatorship

    Isser Woloch

    A great historian explains how Napoleon forged a dictatorship and explores the dilemmas of collaboration, personal and political.More

14. The Stones of Balazuc: A French Village Through Time

    John Merriman

    Experience village France with its historical dimension in place. In a spirited history, John Merriman allows us to see the presence of the past in the people and ways of this beautiful village in the Ardeche.More

15. The Revolutionary Era, 1789-1850

    Charles Breunig, Matthew Levinger

    Third Edition

    The Revolutionary Era, Third Edition, provides a vivid historical account of the forces that shaped early nineteenth-century Europe.More