Walter LaFeber
Second Edition
Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica are five
small countries, and yet no other part of the world is more important to
the US.More
Timothy J. Colton, Robert Legvold
The failed coup by Communist hardliners in Moscow in August 1991 marked the inevitable disintegration of the Soviet Union. No single event since the end of World War II will have more far-reaching effects.More
Marshall I. Goldman
Updated
"Once again, Marshall Goldman has put his finger directly on the problems that hamper reform in the Soviet Union. Anyone who wants to understand Gorbachev's failings, the bureaucratic infighting and built-in reluctance to change will gain insights from this taut, readable book."—Hedrik SmithMore
John Morton Blum
"A vivid and masterful account of the terrible discord and violence of those years."—C. Vann WoodwardMore
William Cronon
Awarded the 1992 Bancroft Prize and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award for Best Nonfiction Book of 1991.More
Niccolò Machiavelli, Robert M. Adams
Second Edition
Robert M. Adams’s superb translation of Machiavelli’s best-known work is again the basis for this Norton Critical Edition.More
Nell Irvin Painter
The first major migration to the North of ex-slaves.More
Robert C. Tucker
"To my mind, the most significant single scholarly contribution made to date, anywhere, to the history of Soviet power."—George F. KennanMore
Stanley I. Kutler
"The definitive account of Watergate." —St. Louis Post-DispatchMore
Zhores Medvedev
"A damning history of the Chernobyl affair, from its origins in the plant's primitive design and careless management to the economic and political crisis the accident precipitated." —Clenn Garelik, New York Times Book ReviewMore
Pauline Maier
"An intellectual interpretation of the American revolution that raises it to a new height of comprehensiveness and significance. A superbly detailed account of the ideological escalation . . . that brought Americans to revolution." —Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book ReviewMore
Daniel Defoe, Paula R. Backsheider
This Norton Critical Edition of one of Defoe’s most important works
reprints the 1722 text, the only edition published in Defoe’s lifetime.More
Herodotus, Walter Blanco, Jennifer Tolbert Roberts
This Norton Critical Edition offers an introduction to Herodotus for students approaching the history of Western Civilization or classical Greece for the first time. It features a new translation and selection of Herodotus’s The Histories by Walter Blanco, supplemented by critical works chosen by Jennifer Roberts.More
Byron Farwell
"The stories are glorious and told with zest and verve."—Washington TimesMore
John D. Marks
"The CIA exposé to end all CIA exposés." —New YorkMore