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The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin

By Stephen F Cohen, PH.D. (Princeton University)

The Russian Intelligentsia

By Vladimir C. Nahirny

Landscape and Settlement in Romanov Russia, 1613-1917

By Judith Pallot, Denis J. B. Shaw

On Soviet Dissent: Interviews with Piero Ostellino

By Roy Medvedev

The Image of Peter the Great in Russian History and Thought

By Nicholas V. Riasanovsky

Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1928-1931

By Sheila Fitzpatrick

Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1928-1931

By Sheila Fitzpatrick

Narodniki Women: Russian Women Who Sacrificed Themselves for the Dream of Freedom

By Margaret Maxwell

Street of Dreams - Boulevard of Broken Hearts: Wall Street's First Century

By Howard M. Wachtel

A Bundle from Britain

By Alistair Horne

Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America

By Richard White (Stanford University)

They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush

By JoAnn Levy

Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built

By Duncan Clark

Access to History: The Witchcraze of the 16th and 17th Centuries Second Edition

By Alan Farmer

How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women

By Lindsey German

The Many-Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic

By Marcus Rediker, Peter Linebaugh

Regulating Womanhood

By Carol Smart

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

By Mike Davis, Robert Morrow

Bees and Their Keepers: From waggle-dancing to killer bees, from Aristotle to Winnie-the-Pooh

By Frank Perry, Lotte Moeller

Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience

By Shaun Usher, Shaun Usher

Lists of Note

By Shaun Usher

A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks

By David Gibbins

Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War

By Alistair Cooke

The New Book of Snobs: A Definitive Guide to Modern Snobbery

By D.J. Taylor

The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century

By Peter Linebaugh

The Sociology of Deviance

By Colin Sumner

A Just Measure of Pain

By Michael Ignatieff

Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the College De France, 1977 - 78

By M. Foucault

Gentlemen's Gentlemen: From Boot Boys to Butlers, True Stories of Life Below Stairs

By Rosina Harrison

Kings of Shanghai

By Jonathan Kaufman