Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West
If you like book Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West here is the list of books you may also like
Buy this book on AmazonPaper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West similar books
-
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago Ameri…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War
At a time when liberalism is in disarray, this vastly illuminating book locates the origins of its crisis. Those origins, says Alan Brinkley, are paradoxically situated during the second term of Frank…
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the l…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and tran…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
-
The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World
How has a small nation of 9 million people, forced to fight for its existence and security since its founding and riven by ethnic, religious, and economic divides, proven resistant to so many of the s…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
A gripping account of the billion-dollar timber black market -- and how it intersects with environmentalism, class, and culture.
Buy this book on Amazon
In Tree Thieves, Lyndsie Bourgon takes us deep into the underbelly of th… -
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War—a slow-burning crisi…
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
The winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael’s tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disturbing of events. Raging civil war has sent refugees fleeing north from Worcester. Among them are two or…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East to territories west of the Mississippi River. Justified as a humanitarian enterprise, the undertaking …
Buy this book on Amazon -
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.
Buy this book on Amazon
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despi… -
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadlie…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
From the Haitian-style “shotgun” houses of the 19th century to the lavish high-rises of the 21st century, a walk through the streets of America’s neighborhoods that reveals the rich history—and future…
Buy this book on Amazon -
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
From the author of 1491—the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas—a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs.
Buy this book on Amazon
More than 200 millio… -
-
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
From the cubit to the kilogram, the humble inch to the speed of light, measurement is a powerful tool that humans invented to make sense of the world. In this revelatory work of science and social his…
Buy this book on Amazon