Hill And Wang imprint: 184 books
The Age of Lincoln
A History
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
Stunning in its breadth and conclusions, The Age of Lincoln is a fiercely original history of the five decades that pivoted around the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Abolishing slavery, the age's most extraordinary accomplishment, was not its most profound. The enduring legacy of the age of Lincoln...
The Age of Great Dreams
America in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1994
In this book, David Farber grounds our understanding of the extraordinary history of the 1960s by linking the events of that era to our country's grand projects of previous decades. Farber's important study, based on years of research in archives and oral histories as well as in historical literature,...
Jonathan Edwards
America's Evangelical
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
An important new biography of America's founding religious father.
Jonathan Edwards was America's most influential evangelical, whose revivals of the 1730s became those against which all subsequent ones have been judged.
The marvelous accomplishment of Philip Gura's Jonathan Edwards...
Spreading the American Dream
American Economic and Cultural Expansion, 1890-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
In examining the economic and cultural trs that expressed America's expansionist impulse during the first half of the twentieth century, Emily S. Rosenberg shows how U.S. foreign relations evolved from a largely private system to an increasingly public one and how, soon, the American dream became global.
by Noam Chomsky
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 1992
From World War II until the 1980s, the United States reigned supreme as both the economic and the military leader of the world. The major shifts in global politics that came about with the dismantling of the Eastern bloc have left the United States unchallenged as the preeminent military power, but...
The Clamorgans
One Family's History of Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
The historian Julie Winch uses her sweeping, multigenerational history of the unforgettable Clamorgans to chronicle how one family navigated race in America from the 1780s through the 1950s. What she discovers overturns decades of received academic wisdom. Far from an impermeable wall fixed by whites,...
World as Laboratory
Experiments with Mice, Mazes, and Men
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2006
Deeply researched, World as Laboratory tells a secret history that's not really a secret. The fruits of human engineering are all around us: advertising, polls, focus groups, the ubiquitous habit of "spin" practiced by marketers and politicians. What Rebecca Lemov cleverly traces for the...
Mining California
An Ecological History
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush
Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil...
Chasing Hubble's Shadows
The Search for Galaxies at the Edge of Time
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2007
Chasing Hubble's Shadows is an account of the continuing efforts of astronomers to probe the outermost limits of the observable universe. The book derives its title from something the great American astronomer Edwin Hubble once wrote: "Eventually, we reach the dim boundary—the utmost limits...
Pillars of the Republic
Common Schools and American Society, 1780-1860
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Pillars of the Republic is a pioneering study of common-school development in the years before the Civil War. Public acceptance of state school systems, Kaestle argues, was encouraged by the people's commitment to republican government, by their trust in Protestant values, and by the development of...
No More Heroes
Madness and Psychiatry In War
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1988
No More Heroes is an in depth exploration of madness and psychiatry in war.
by Roland Barthes, Richard Howard
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
A major discovery: The lost diary of a great mind—and an intimate, deeply moving study of grief
The day after his mother's death in October 1977, the influential philosopher Roland Barthes began a diary of mourning. Taking notes on index cards as was his habit, he reflected on a new solitude,...
I Wonder as I Wander
An Autobiographical Journey
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s.
His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia, Japan, Spain (during its Civil War), through dictatorships, wars, revolutions. He meets and...
King
Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
A Stunning Reappraisal of King and His Increased Relevance
Might Martin Luther King Jr.'s greatest accomplishments have been ahead of him? His murder in April 1968 did far more than cut tragically short the life of one of America's most remarkable civil rights leaders. In this concise biography,...