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Our Common Ground
A History of America's Public Lands
The little-known story of how the U.S. government came to hold nearly one-third of the nation’s land primarily for recreation and conservation The U.S. government holds nearly one-third of the nation’s land—more...
A Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Engravers, 1714–1820
The first reference work to cover all engravers working on copper in Britain and Ireland 1714–1820 This biographical dictionary of engravers working on copper encompasses both those who produced fine art prints, and...
The Last Slave Ships
New York and the End of the Middle Passage
This stunning behind-the-curtain look into the last years of the illegal transatlantic slave trade in the United States represents ?"a signal contribution to U.S. antebellum historiography." (Library Journal,...
A Question of Freedom
The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War
Winner of the Mark Lynton Prize in History—the story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history"A rich, roiling history that Thomas recounts with eloquence and skill. ...
Global Calvinism
Conversion and Commerce in the Dutch Empire, 1600-1800
A comprehensive study of the connection between Calvinist missions and Dutch imperial expansion during the early modern period Calvinism went global in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as close to a...
The Frederick Douglass Papers
Series Four: Journalism and Other Writings, Volume 1
The journalism and personal writings of the great American abolitionist and reformer Frederick Douglass Launching the fourth series of The Frederick Douglass Papers, designed to introduce readers to the...
The Twilight Struggle
What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great-Power Rivalry Today
A leading historian’s guide to great-power competition, as told through America’s successes and failures in the Cold War The United States is entering an era of long-term great-power competition with China and...
Jonas Mekas
The Camera Was Always Running
Exploring the life and work of avant-garde film’s most influential and intriguing figure Between 1950 and his death, the filmmaker, videographer, photographer, archivist, and impresario Jonas Mekas (1922–2019) made...
Radical Form
Modernist Abstraction in South America
A timely look into how abstract art in South America aimed to envision a better society Emphasizing the open-ended and self-critical nature of the projects of abstraction in South America from the 1930s through the...
The Economic Weapon
The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period and the legacy of this development Economic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics today. First developed...