Hill And Wang imprint: 184 books
Ungentlemanly Acts
The Army's Notorious Incest Trial
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2001
The shocking story behind the U.S. Army's longest court-martial-full of sex, intrigue, and betrayal.
In April 1879, on a remote military base in west Texas, a decorated army officer of dubious moral reputation faced a court-martial. The trial involved shocking issues-of sex and seduction, incest...
Cuban Star
How One Negro-League Owner Changed the Face of Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
A proud and boisterous Negro League team owner, Alex Pompez rose to prominence during Latino baseball's earliest glory days. As a passionate and steadfast advocate for Latino players, he helped bring baseball into the modern age. But like many in the era of segregated baseball, Pompez also found that...
Ark of the Liberties
Why American Freedom Matters to the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
The United States stands at a historic crossroads; essential to the world yet unappreciated. America's decline in popularity over the last eight years has been nothing short of astonishing. With wit, brilliance, and deep affection, Ted Widmer, a scholar and a former presidential speechwriter, reminds...
Amusing the Million
Coney Island at the Turn of the Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amusing the Million examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its reputation as an amusement park and shows how America's changing social...
Bastard Tongues
A Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Why Do Isolated Creole Languages Tend to Have Similar Grammatical Structures?
Bastard Tongues is an exciting, firsthand story of scientific discovery in an area of research close to the heart of what it means to be human—what language is, how it works, and how it passes from generation to...
No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies
Women and the Obligations of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
This pioneering study redefines women's history in the United States by focusing on civic obligations rather than rights. Looking closely at thirty telling cases from the pages of American legal history, Kerber's analysis reaches from the Revolution, when married women did not have the same obligation...
Second Founding
New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
At the close of the Civil War, Americans found themselves drawn into a new conflict, one in which the basic shape of the nation's government had to be rethought and new rules for the democratic game had to be established. In this superb new study, David Quigley argues that New York City's politics...
by Brian Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
An Award-Winning Essayist Plies His Craft
Brian Hayes is one of the most accomplished essayists active today—a claim supported not only by his prolific and continuing high-quality output but also by such honors as the National Magazine Award for his commemorative Y2K essay titled "Clock...
Gaming the Vote
Why Elections Aren't Fair (and What We Can Do About It)
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Our Electoral System is Fundamentally Flawed, But There's a Simple and Fair Solution
At least five U.S. presidential elections have been won by the second most popular candidate. The reason was a "spoiler"—a minor candidate who takes enough votes away from the most popular candidate...
Writing World War II
A Student's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
An indispensable tool for high-schoolers, undergraduates, or even amateur enthusiasts, Writing World War II teaches the craft of history writing—by example. In a series of thoughtful essays, Sylvie Murray examines American involvement in World War II and how it has subsequently been portrayed by...
by David J. Silbey
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
The year is 1900, and Western empires—both old and new—are locked in regional entanglements across the globe. The British are losing a bitter war against the Boers while the German kaiser is busy building a vast new navy. The United States is struggling to put down an insurgency in the South Pacific...
Military Incompetence
Why the American Military Doesn't Win
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1986
The history of American military operations in the post-Vietnam era has been marked by failure and near-disaster. Since 1970, American forces have been committed in five operations--in Sontay to rescue prisoners, in Cambodia on behalf of the crew of the Mayaguez, in Iran to rescue the American hostages,...
A Tangled Web
The Making of Foreign Policy in the Nixon Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 1999
An authoritative historical assessment of american foreign policy in a crucial postwar decade.
William Bundy's magisterial book focuses on the controversial record of Richard Nixon's and Henry Kissinger's often overpraised foreign policy of 1969 to 1973, an era that has rightly been described...
Getting Into College
A Guide for Students and Parents
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
In his manual, Getting Into College, Leana provides both broad and very specific advice and information that will help high school students gain admission to the college of their choice. It discusses the role of parents, the special problems foreign students face, transfer admissions, using summer...