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North American Indian Chiefs

By Karl Nagelfell

Simon Bolivar (Simon Bolivar): A Life

By John Lynch

Horizons: A Global History of Science

By James Poskett

A Merciless Place: The Lost Story of Britain's Convict Disaster in Africa

By Emma Christopher (Australian Research Council Fellow, University of Sydney)

Mestizo Genomics: Race Mixture, Nation, and Science in Latin America

By Peter Wade, Carlos Lopez Beltran, Eduardo Restrepo, Ricardo Ventura Santos

Material Life in America, 1600-1860

By Robert Blair St.George

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

By Eggers, Dave

Education and the State in Modern Peru: Primary Schooling in Lima, 1821-c. 1921

By G. Espinoza

Cuba Under Siege: American Policy, the Revolution and Its People

By K. Bolender

The Nuclear Age in Popular Media: A Transnational History, 1945-1965

By Dick Van Lente

Society of the Snow: The Definitive Account of the World's Greatest Survival Story

By Pablo Vierci, Jennie Erikson

Conquistadors

By Michael Wood

History and Social Theory

By PETER BURKE

The Hour of Eugenics": Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America

By Nancy Leys Stepan

Medieval Britain: A Very Short Introduction

By John Gillingham (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, London School of Economics), Ralph A. Griffiths (Professor of Medieval History, Professor of Medieval History, University of Wales, Swansea)

The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950

By Avner Offer (, Chichele Professor of Economic History, University of Oxford, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and Fellow of the British Academy)

First Peoples, First Contact: Native

By J.C.H King

Gold Fever: One Man's Adventures on the Trail of the Modern Gold Rush

By Steve Boggan

A Rumor Of War

By Philip Caputo

How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS

By France, David

Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding

By Husain Haqqani

Vietnam: An Epic History of a Tragic War

By Hastings, Max

50 THINGS YOU didn't KNOW ABOUT ANGUILLA

By Blondel Cluff, David Wells

The Great Crashes: Lessons from Global Meltdowns and How to Prevent Them

By Linda Yueh

Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld

By James Belich (Professor of History, Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington)

Hard Choices

By Hillary Rodham Clinton

Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire

By Hugh Thomas

Judge Sewall's Apology: The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of a Conscience

By Richard Francis

100 American Independent Films

By Jason Wood

The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

By Maria A Trapp