Hill And Wang imprint: 184 books
Ramp Hollow
The Ordeal of Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
How the United States underdeveloped Appalachia
Appalachia—among the most storied and yet least understood regions in America—has long been associated with poverty and backwardness. But how did this image arise and what exactly does it mean? In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll launches an original...
by Alan Trachtenberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2008
A new assemblage of masterly essays from a foremost scholar of American history and culture
Alan Trachtenberg has always been interested in cultural artifacts that register meanings and feelings that Americans share even when they disagree about them. Some of the most beloved ones—like the...
Broadcast Hysteria
Orson Welles's War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
On the evening of October 30, 1938, radio listeners across the United States heard a startling report of a meteor strike in the New Jersey countryside. With sirens blaring in the background, announcers in the field described mysterious creatures, terrifying war machines, and thick clouds of poison...
Larding the Lean Earth
Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2003
A major history of early Americans' ideas about conservation
Fifty years after the American Revolution, the yeoman farmers who made up a large part of the new country's voters faced a crisis. The very soil of American farms seemed to be failing, and agricultural prosperity, upon which the Republic...
by Eliza McFeely
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
A bold new study of the Zuni, of the first anthropologists who studied them, and of the effect of Zuni on America's sense of itself
The Zuni society existed for centuries before there was a United States, and it still exists in its desert pueblo in what is now New Mexico. In the late nineteenth...
Climate Capitalism
Capitalism in the Age of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Believe in climate change. Or don't. It doesn't matter.
But you'd better understand this: the best route to rebuilding our economy, our cities, and our job markets, as well as assuring national security, is doing precisely what you would do if you were scared to death about climate change....
Innumeracy
Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Why do even well-educated people understand so little about mathematics? And what are the costs of our innumeracy? John Allen Paulos, in his celebrated bestseller first published in 1988, argues that our inability to deal rationally with very large numbers and the probabilities associated with them...
Dogs and Demons
Tales From the Dark Side of Modern Japan
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2002
The crises--and failures--of modernization in Japan, as seen up close by a resident expert
Japan is a nation in crisis, and the crisis goes far beyond its well-known economic plight. In Dogs and Demons, Alex Kerr chronicles the crisis on a broad scale, from the failure of Japan's banks and...
Day
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2006
"Not since Albert Camus has there been such an eloquent spokesman for man." --The New York Times Book Review
The publication of Day restores Elie Wiesel's original title to the novel initially published in English as The Accident and clearly establishes it as the powerful conclusion...
A Nation Among Nations
America's Place in World History
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2006
A provocative new book that shows us why we must put American history firmly in a global context--from 1492 to today
Americans like to tell their country's story as if the United States were naturally autonomous and self-sufficient, with characters, ideas, and situations unique to itself. Thomas...
Freedom's Cap
The United States Capitol and the Coming of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
The modern United States Capitol is a triumph of both engineering and design. From its 9-million-pound cast-iron dome to the dazzling opulence of the President's Room and the Senate corridors, the Capitol is one of the most renowned buildings in the world. But the history of the U.S. Capitol is also...
Why the Cocks Fight
Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Like two roosters in a fighting arena, Haiti and the Dominican Republic are encircled by barriers of geography and poverty. They co-inhabit the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, but their histories are as deeply divided as their cultures: one French-speaking and black, one Spanish-speaking and mulatto....
Bringing It All Back Home
An Oral History of New York City's Vietnam Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
A collection of heartrending oral histories that topples assumptions about the people who served in Vietnam
The Vietnam War was a defining event for a generation of Americans. But for years, misguided and sometimes demeaning clichés about its veterans have proliferated widely. Philip F. Napoli's...
by Thomas P. Slaughter
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
An important new interpretation of the American colonists' 150-year struggle to achieve independence
"What do we mean by the Revolution?" John Adams asked Thomas Jefferson in 1815. "The war? That was no part of the Revolution. It was only an effect and consequence of it."...