Metropolitan Books imprint: 234 books

Homophobia

A History

by Byrne Fone
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2001

The first comprehensive history of homophobia-from ancient Athens to the halls of Congress-this bold, original work is certain to become a classic. It is the last acceptable prejudice. In an age when racial and ethnic name-calling are viewed with distaste, and physical epithets are frowned...

A Perfect Fit

Clothes, Character, and the Promise of America

by Jenna Weissman Joselit
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014

A striking and inventive social history of the role of clothing in the making of modern Americans. While fashions of the rich and famous have been lushly chronicled, little attention has been paid to the meaning of clothes for everyone else. Yet between 1890 and the outbreak of World War II,...

Black Earth City

When Russia Ran Wild (And So Did We)

by Charlotte Hobson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003

A young woman's heady encounter with the new Russia, as she and the country thrill to their first taste of freedom It is September 1991 and the dismantling of the Soviet Union is under way. In Voronezh, a provincial town famous for its loamy black earth, a sense of lightheartedness-part fear,...

The Wall and the Gate

Israel, Palestine, and the Legal Battle for Human Rights

by Michael Sfard
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018

From renowned human rights lawyer Michael Sfard, an unprecedented exploration of the struggle for human rights in Israel's courts A farmer from a village in the occupied West Bank, cut off from his olive groves by the construction of Israel’s controversial separation wall, asked Israeli human...

Building Jerusalem

The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City

by Tristram Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2006

From Manchester's deadly cotton works to London's literary salons, a brilliant exploration of how the Victorians created the modern city Since Charles Dickens first described Coketown in Hard Times, the nineteenth-century city, born of the industrial revolution, has been a byword for deprivation,...

Hitler's Beneficiaries

Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State

by Götz Aly
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008

A stunning account of the economic workings of the Third Reich—and the reasons ordinary Germans supported the Nazi state In this groundbreaking book, historian Götz Aly addresses one of modern history's greatest conundrums: How did Hitler win the allegiance of ordinary Germans? The answer...

Rewilding the World

Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution

by Caroline Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014

A gripping account of the environmental crusade to save the world's most endangered species and landscapes—the last best hope for preserving our natural home Scientists worldwide are warning of the looming extinction of thousands of species, from tigers and polar bears to rare flowers, birds,...

This Land Is Their Land

Reports from a Divided Nation

by Barbara Ehrenreich
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008

America in the 'aughts—hilariously skewered, brilliantly dissected, and darkly diagnosed by the bestselling social critic hailed as "the soul mate"* of Jonathan Swift Barbara Ehrenreich's first book of satirical commentary, The Worst Years of Our Lives, about the Reagan era, was...

Global Discontents

Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy

by Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017

In a compelling new set of interviews, Noam Chomsky identifies the “dry kindling” of discontent around the world that could soon catch fire. In wide-ranging discussions with David Barsamian, his longtime interlocutor, Noam Chomsky asks us to consider “the world we are leaving to our grandchildren”:...

What We Say Goes

Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World

by Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007

An indispensable set of interviews on foreign and domestic issues with the bestselling author of Hegemony or Survival, "America's most useful citizen." (The Boston Globe) In this new collection of conversations, conducted in 2006 and 2007, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate...

The Poisoned City

Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy

by Anna Clark
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018

When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins. Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government had switched the city’s water supply to a source that corroded Flint’s aging lead pipes....

Reskilling America

Learning to Labor in the Twenty-First Century

by Katherine S. Newman, Hella Winston
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016

From Katherine Newman, award-winning author of No Shame in My Game, and sociologist Hella Winston, a sharp and irrefutable call to reenergize this nation's long-neglected system of vocational training After decades of off-shoring and downsizing that have left blue collar workers obsolete and...

Going to Tehran

Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran

by Flynt Leverett, Hillary Mann Leverett
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013

An eye-opening argument for a new approach to Iran, from two of America's most informed and influential Middle East experts Less than a decade after Washington endorsed a fraudulent case for invading Iraq, similarly misinformed and politically motivated claims are pushing America toward war...

Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet

The New Geopolitics of Energy

by Michael Klare
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008

From the author of the now-classic Resource Wars, an indispensable account of how the world's diminishing sources of energy are radically changing the international balance of power Recently, an unprecedented Chinese attempt to acquire the major American energy firm Unocal was blocked by Congress...
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