Hill And Wang imprint: 184 books
Rudeness and Civility
Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1991
With keen insight and subtle humor, John F. Kasson explores the history and politics of etiquette from America's colonial times through the nineteenth century. He describes the transformation of our notion of "gentility," once considered a birthright to some, and the development of etiquette...
by Ronald G. Walters
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1997
For this new edition of American Reformers 1815-1860, Ronald G. Walters has amplified and updated his exploration of the fervent and diverse outburst of reform energy that shaped American history in the early years of the Republic. Capturing in style and substance the vigorous and often flamboyant...
Fixing Climate
What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat--and How to Counter It
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Dealing with the Root Cause of Global Warming Calls for New Remedies, Says Expert
The product of a unique collaboration between a pioneering earth scientist and an award winning science writer, Fixing Climate takes an unconventional approach to the vitally important issue of global warming....
Many Worlds in One
The Search for Other Universes
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
A Leading Figure in the Development of the New Cosmology Explains What It All Means
Among his peers, Alex Vilenkin is regarded as one of the most imaginative and creative cosmologists of our time. His contributions to our current understanding of the universe include a number of novel ideas,...
Forgotten Allies
The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
Combining compelling narrative and grand historical sweep, Forgotten Allies offers a vivid account of the Oneida Indians, forgotten heroes of the American Revolution who risked their homeland, their culture, and their lives to join in a war that gave birth to a new nation at the expense of their own....
Simple's Uncle Sam
With a New Introduction by Akiba Sullivan Harper
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Langston Hughes's most beloved character comes back to life in this extraordinary collection
Langston Hughes is best known as a poet, but he was also a prolific writer of theater, autobiography, and fiction. None of his creations won the hearts and minds of his readers as did Jesse B. Semple,...
American Transcendentalism
A History
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
The First Comprehensive History of Transcendentalism
American Transcendentalism is a comprehensive narrative history of America's first group of public intellectuals, the men and women who defined American literature and indelibly marked American reform in the decades before and following the...
by C. Eric Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
A classic work on religion and the racial problems of modern america -now brought up to date.
Since the early days of the Republic, Americans' exuberant, unchastened idealism, their commitment to the notion of a perfect society in the New World, has clashed with the reality of ugly American...
Sea of Gray
The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007
Assembled from hundreds of original documents, including intimate shipboard journals kept byShenandoah officers, Sea of Gray is a masterful narrative of men at sea
The sleek, 222-foot, black auxiliary steamer Sea King left London on October 8, 1864, ostensibly bound for Bombay. The subterfuge...
The H. L. Hunley
The Secret Hope of the Confederacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
On the evening of February 17, 1864, the Confederacy's H. L. Hunley sank the USS Housatonic and became the first submarine in world history to sink an enemy ship. Not until World War I—half a century later—would a submarine again accomplish such a feat. But also perishing that moonlit night, vanishing...
Dawn
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2006
**"The author…has built knowledge into artistic fiction."—**The New York Times Book Review
Elisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli freedom fighter in British-controlled Palestine; John Dawson is the captured English officer he will murder at dawn in...
The Battle for Wisconsin
Scott Walker and the Attack on the Progressive Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
This past January, the newly elected governor Scott Walker declared war on Wisconsin's progressive roots. Under the guise of budget repair, he and his Republican colleagues in the state legislature introduced a whole host of initiatives meant to roll back hard-won gains for workers and recast the...
The Modern Temper
American Culture and Society in the 1920s
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1995
When most of us take a backward glance at the 1920s, we may think of prohibition and the jazz age, of movies stars and flappers, of Harold Lloyd and Mary Pickford, of Lindbergh and Hoover--and of Black Friday, October 29, 1929, when the plunging stock market ushered in the great depression.
But...
Who Owns History?
Rethinking the Past in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2003
A thought-provoking new book from one of America's finest historians
"History," wrote James Baldwin, "does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled...