America, Inc - The 400-Year History of American Capitalism (Srinivasan Bhu)(Paperback / softback)

America, Inc - The 400-Year History of American Capitalism (Srinivasan Bhu)(Paperback / softback)

From the 'Mayflower' to the iPhone, this is the story behind America's economic power. Selected in The Economist's Best Books of

White Trash - The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Isenberg Nancy)(Paperback / softback)

A New York Times Bestseller, and a ground-breaking history of the class system in America, which challenges popular myths about equality in the land of

Behold, America - A History of America First and the American Dream (Churchwell Sarah)(Paperback / softback)

Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property: Capitalism and Class Conflict in American History (Fraser Steve)(Paperback)

A collection of essays on class politics in America In popular retellings of American history, capitalism generally doesn't feature much as part of the founding or development of the nation. Instead, it is alluded to in figurative terms as opportunity, entrepreneurial vigor, material abundance, and

Capitalism in America - A History (Greenspan Alan)(Paperback / softback)

American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (Woodard Colin)(Paperback)

- A New Republic Best Book of the Year - The Globalist Top Books of the Year - Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction - Particularly relevant in understanding who voted for who in this presidential election year, this is an endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the

American Colonies: The Settling of North America (the Penguin History of the United States, Volume 1) (Taylor Alan)(Paperback)

A multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American Revolutions In the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by

Making Of Global Capitalism - The Political Economy Of American Empire (Gindin Sam)(Paperback / softback)

The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century was generally attributed to the superiority of competitive markets. Globalization had appeared to be the natural outcome of this unstoppable process. But today, with global markets roiling and increasingly

History of the World in Seven Cheap Things - A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet (Patel Raj)(Paperback / softback)

A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the

The Chinese in America: A Narrative History (Chang Iris)(Paperback)

A quintessiantially American story chronicling Chinese American achievement in the face of institutionalized racism by the New York Times bestselling author of The Rape of Nanking In an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, Iris Chang tells of a people's search for a

The Darkest Year: The American Home Front 1941-1942 (Klingaman William K.)(Paperback)

The Darkest Year is acclaimed author William K. Klingaman's narrative history of the American home front from December 7, 1941 through the end of 1942, a psychological study of the nation under the pressure of total war. For Americans on the home front, the twelve months following the Japanese

The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America (Wolmar Christian)(Paperback)

America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line--the first American railroad--in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by visionaries and built through heroic effort, the

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Isenberg Nancy)(Paperback)

The New York Times Bestseller, with a new preface from the author 'This estimable book rides into the summer doldrums like rural electrification. . . . It deals in the truths that matter.'--Dwight Garner, The New York Times 'This eye-opening investigation into our country's entrenched social

American Covenant: A History of Civil Religion from the Puritans to the Present (Gorski Philip)(Paperback)

The long battle between exclusionary and inclusive versions of the American storyWas America founded as a Christian nation or a secular democracy? Neither, argues Philip Gorski in American Covenant. What the founders envisioned was a prophetic republic that would weave together the ethical vision

The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean (Horne Gerald)(Paperback)

Chronicles how American culture - deeply rooted in white supremacy, slavery and capitalism - finds its origin story in the 17th century European colonization of Africa and North America, exposing the structural origins of American 'looting'Virtually no part of the modern United States--the economy,

Debate on Black Civil Rights in America (Verney Kevern)(Paperback / softback)

Once a neglected area, African American history is now the subject of extensive scholarly research. The Debate on Black Civil Rights in America is the first full-length study to examine the changing academic debate on developments in African American history from the 1890s to the present. It

Talking to My Daughter - A Brief History of Capitalism (Varoufakis Yanis)(Paperback / softback)

Fantasyland - How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History (Andersen Kurt)(Paperback / softback)

Spanish-American War: A Captivating Guide to the War Between the United States of America and Spain along with The Philippine-American War t (History Captivating)(Paperback)

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Spanish-American War, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: The Spanish-American War: A Captivating Guide to the Armed Conflict Between the United States of America and Spain That Took Place after the U.S. Intervened in

False Apocalypse: From Stalinism to Capitalism (Lubonja Fatos)(Paperback)

This unique and disturbing work concerns the events of 1997, a tragic year in the history of post-communist Albania. After the world's most isolated country emerged from Stalinist dictatorship and opened to capitalism, many people fell prey to fraudsters who invited them to invest in so-called

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Rothstein Richard)(Paperback)

In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation--that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of

Silver, Sword and Stone - The Story of Latin America in Three Extraordinary Lives (Arana Marie)(Paperback / softback)

A thousand years of Latin American history, told through the three obsessions that have held the region tightly in its

1776 - America and Britain at War (McCullough David)(Paperback / softback)

Presents the story of the year of the birth of the United States of America. This book tells two stories: how a group of squabbling, disparate colonies became the United States, and how the British Empire tried to stop them. It features a cast of amazing characters from George III to George

The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States (Johnson Walter)(Paperback)

A searing and 'magisterial' (Cornel West) history of American racial exploitation and resistance, told through the turbulent past of the city of St. Louis. From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson