What’s new in history, government, and economics? Here’s a list of our latest purchases in these areas:
America’s Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
Balkans: A Short History
Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide
End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for our Time
European Imperialism, 1830-1930: Climax and Contradiction
First Democracy: The Challenge of an Ancient Idea
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War
Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Prisoner in the Garden: Opening Nelson Mandela’s Prison Archive
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
Shades of Glory: The Negro Leagues and the Story of African American Baseball
Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America
What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany
World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
All these books have been received and should be on the shelves soon, if they aren’t there already.
-Amy