HISTORY / Modern / General
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- A thousand small sanities, the moral adventure of liberalism, Adam Gopnik
- The one-cent magenta, inside the quest to own the most valuable stamp in the world, James Barron
- Empire of guns, the violent making of the Industrial Revolution, Priya Satia
- Liquid rules, the delightful and dangerous substances that flow through our lives, Mark Miodownik
- The menu, memorable meals from Escoffier at the Ritz to a suffragettes' victory dinner to the first meal on the Moon, Eve Marleau ; foreword by Polly Russell
- The invented part, Rodrigo Fres?n ; translated from the spanish by Will Vanderhyden
- Für Volk and Führer, the memoir of a veteran of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, Erwin Bartmann ; translated and edited by Derik Hammond
- A decade of disruption, America in the new millennium 2000-2010, Garrett Peck
- A history of the Low Countries, Paul Arblaster
- The beauty of her age, a tale of sex, scandal and money in Victorian England, Jenifer Roberts
- Rethink, the surprising history of new ideas, Steven Poole
- Milk of paradise, a history of opium, Lucy Inglis
- Americana, a 400-year history of American capitalism, Bhu Srinivasan
- 'The world's most prestigious prize':, the inside story of the Nobel Peace Prize, Geir Lundestad
- France since 1870, culture, politics, and society, Charles Sowerwine
- A modern history of European cities, 1815 to the present, Rosemary Wakeman
- Biafra's war 1967-1970, a tribal conflict in Nigeria that left a million dead, Al J. Venter
- Scorched earth, environmental warfare as a crime against humanity and nature, Emmanuel Kreike
- The Oxford illustrated history of modern China, edited by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
- Soldiers of the nation, military service and modern Puerto Rico, 1868-1952, Harry Franqui-Rivera
- Counterinsurgency in paradise, seven decades of civil war in the Philippines, Aaron Morris
- Pennsylvania histories, two hundred years of personalities and events, 1750-1950, Sheldon Spear
- Prince Charles, the passions and paradoxes of an improbable life, Sally Bedell Smith
- Great speeches in minutes, Jacob F. Field
- The address book, what street addresses reveal about identity, race, wealth, and power, Deirdre Mask
- African, Native, and Jewish American literature and the reshaping of Modernism, Alicia A. Kent
- The Braganzas, the rise and fall of the ruling dynasties of Portugal and Brazil, 1640-1910, Malyn Newitt
- Paris in modern times, from the old regime to the present day, Casey Harison, University of Southern Indiana, USA
- Oil, power, and war, a dark history, Matthieu Auzanneau ; translated by John F. Reynolds ; foreword by Richard Heinberg
- Soul, self, and society, the new morality and the modern state, Edward L. Rubin
- Gender, a world history, by Susan Kingsley Kent
- A history of civilizations, Fernand Braudel ; translated by Richard Mayne
- Visual voyages, images of Latin American nature from Columbus to Darwin, Daniela Bleichmar
- The 1960s look, recreating the fashions of the sixties, Mike Brown
- The great Hanoi rat hunt, empire, disease, and modernity in French colonial Vietnam, Michael G. Vann, Liz Clarke
- Local memories in a nationalizing and globalizing world, edited by Marnix Beyen, Senior Lecturer in modern political history, University of Antwerp, Belgium, and Brecht Deseure, Postdoctoral researcher, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium
- Meat planet, artificial flesh and the future of food, Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft
- De-Stalinising Eastern Europe, the rehabilitation of Stalin's victims after 1953, edited by Kevin McDermott, Sheffield Hallam University, UK and Matthew Stibbe, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
- A history of the Netherlands, from the sixteenth century to the present day, Friso Wielenga
- Croatia, a history from the Middle Ages to the present day, Marcus Tanner
- The passion projects, modernist women, intimate archives, unfinished lives, Melanie Micir
- Lincoln & Churchill, statesmen at war, Lewis E. Lehrman
- Jewish emancipation, a history across five centuries, David Sorkin
- Liberty, conscience, and toleration, the political thought of William Penn, Andrew R. Murphy
- Brand Luther, 1517, printing, and the making of the Reformation, Andrew Pettegree
- A cure for darkness, the story of depression and how we treat it, Alex Riley
- Atlas of the transatlantic slave trade, David Eltis and David Richardson ; foreword by David Brion Davis ; afterword by David W. Blight
- How to be a liberal, Ian Dunt
- "There she is, Miss America", the politics of sex, beauty, and race in America's most famous pageant, edited by Elwood Watson and Darcy Martin
- The politics of humiliation, a modern history, Ute Frevert ; translated by Adam Bresnahan