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Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart

By Krista Halverson

History of the Royal Astronomical Society: v. 2: 1920-80

By R. J. Tayler

Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914

By Elizabeth Kelly Gray (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, Towson University)

Learning Languages in Early Modern England

By John Gallagher (Lecturer in Early Modern History, Lecturer in Early Modern History, University of Leeds)

Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean, 1800-1850: Stammering the Nation

By Konstantina Zanou (Assistant Professor of Italian, Assistant Professor of Italian, Columbia University)

Forgotten English

By Jeffrey Kacirk

School of the Moon: The Highland Cattle-raiding Tradition

By Stuart McHardy

Consider the Fork: A History of Invention in the Kitchen

By Bee Wilson

Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail

By W. Jeffrey Bolster

An Economic History of the English Garden

By Roderick Floud

The Sinbad Voyage

By Severin, Tim

The Official History of Britain: Our Story in Numbers as Told by the Office For National Statistics

By Boris Starling, David Bradbury

Pittsburgh and the Great Migration: Black Mobility and the Automobile

By Frick Art & Historical Center

We Danced All Night: A Social History of Britain Between the Wars

By Martin Pugh

Farmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers: And other odd events on the way to scientific discovery

By New Scientist, Stephanie Pain

Sandwich in Old Photographs

By Charles A. Wanostrocht

Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality Since 1800

By J. Weeks

Soft: A Brief History of Sentimentality

By Ferdinand Mount

Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany

By Harald Jahner, Shaun Whiteside

Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures

By Lizzie Wade

History's Naughty Bits

By Karen Dolby

The Republic of Pirates: Being the true and surprising story of the Caribbean pirates and the man who brought them down

By Colin Woodard

The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe

By Martyn Rady

Chained to the Land: Voices from Cotton & Cane Plantations

By Lynette Ater Tanner

Actresses as Working Women: Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture

Venice's Secret Service: Organizing Intelligence in the Renaissance

By Ioanna Iordanou (Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management, Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management, Oxford Brookes University)

Flowers Through Concrete: Explorations in Soviet Hippieland

By Juliane Furst (Head of Department of Communism and Society, Head of Department of Communism and Society, Leibniz Centre of Contemporary History (ZZF), Potsdam)

Henry VII's New Men and the Making of Tudor England

By Steven Gunn (Fellow and Tutor in History, Fellow and Tutor in History, Merton College, Oxford)

These Truths: A History of the United States

By Jill Lepore

When They Go Low, We Go High: Speeches that shape the world – and why we need them

By Collins, Philip