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Postmodernism. What Moment? (Angelaki Humanities)

By Pelagia Goulimari

Original Zinn: Conversations On History And Politics

By Zinn, Howard

Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice

By Zinn Ph.D., Howard

The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States

By Wood, Gordon S

Self and History: A Tribute to Linda Nochlin

By D'Souza, Aruna

On Modern American Art: Selected Essays

By Rosenblum, Robert

Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague

By Zaretsky, Robert

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

By Blackmon, Douglas A

Of This Our Country: Essays from some of Nigeria’s greatest writers, including Ayobami Adebayo, Inua Ellams, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Helon Habila, Chigozie Obioma, Bolu Babalola and more

The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million

By Mendelsohn, Daniel

The Wordy Shipmates

By Vowell, Sarah

Fifty Years of the Supreme Court of India: Its Grasp and Reach

By Indian Law Institute

Granta 32: History (The Magazine of New Writing)

By Buford, Bill

Speeches That Changed the World — The Stories and Transcripts of the Moments That Made History

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions: The Inspiring Guide to Raising a Feminist

By Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda

The German Trauma: Experiences and Reflections 1938-2001

By Sereny, Gitta

Calm the F**k Down (A No F*cks Given Guide)

By Knight, Sarah

Speeches That Changed the World

By Sebag Montefiore, Simon, Cambridge Editorial Partners

Idiot Proof: A Short History of Modern Delusions

By Francis Wheen

Europe and Ethnicity: The First World War and Contemporary Ethnic Conflict

By Seamus Dunn, T.G. Fraser

The Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times

By Professor A. C. Grayling

George Cross Heroes: Incredible True Stories of Bravery Beyond the Battlefield

By Michael Ashcroft

Memoir of the Bobotes

By Joyce Cary

Progressive Historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington

By Richard Hofstadter

Cricketers of My Time: Heroes to Remember

By E.W. Swanton

The Modernist Period 1900 to 1945

By Patrick Lee-Browne

The Man Napoleon

By Marco Regali Nai, William Henry Hudson