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Dreams of El Dorado A History of the American West H. W. BRANDS
“Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope, this is a bravura performance from one of our master historians.” —Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Blood and Thunder
978-1-5416-7252-9 • $32.00 / $40.00 (Can.) • 544 pp. • October 2019
Children of Ash and Elm A History of the Vikings NEIL PRICE
A definitive new history of the Vikings.
978-0-465-09698-5 • $35.00 / $44.00 (Can.) • 608 pp. • May 2020
Dominion How the Christian Revolution Remade the World TOM HOLLAND
“Dominion is an immensely powerful and thought- provoking book. It is hard to think of another that so effectively and readably summarizes the major strands of Christian ethical and political thought across two millennia.” —Wall Street Journal
978-0-465-09350-2 • $32.00 / $40.00 (Can.) • 624 pp. • October 2019
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War Fever Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War RANDY ROBERTS and JOHNNY SMITH
A vivid portrait of Boston in the throes of World War I, told through the stories of three men: Karl Muck, the German conductor; Charles Whittlesey, a Harvard law graduate; and Babe Ruth, the most famous baseball player of all time.
978-1-5416-7266-6 • $30.00 / $38.00 (Can.) • 368 pp. • March 2020
No Man’s Land The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain’s Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I WENDY MOORE
The inspiring story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who ran the only military hospital staffed entirely by women during World War I—and who transformed medicine in the process.
978-1-5416-7272-7 • $30.00 / $38.00 (Can.) • 368 pp. • April 2020
The Fortress The Siege of Przemy´sl and the Making of Europe’s Bloodlands ALEXANDER WATSON
“Vividly written and well-researched, The Fortress is a masterpiece. It deserves to become a classic of military history.” —The Times (UK)
978-1-5416-9730-0 • $32.00 • 400 pp. • February 2020
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Double Crossed The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War MATTHEW AVERY SUTTON
“Arresting and informative.... Double Crossed is a great read and a fresh, archive-intensive contribution to our understanding of American intelligence during World War II.” —Washington Post
978-0-465-05266-0 • $30.00 / $38.00 (Can.) • 416 pp. • September 2019
Hitler’s First Hundred Days When Germans Embraced the Third Reich PETER FRITZSCHE
The breathtaking rise of Hitler in 1933—and the making of the Nazis.
978-1-5416-9743-0 • $35.00 / $44.00 (Can.) • 432 pp. • March 2020
Poland 1939 The Outbreak of World War II ROGER MOORHOUSE
“A fascinating book.... There are moments of heroism and defiance here that will put a catch in your throat, and a shiver down your spine.” —Sunday Telegraph (UK)
978-0-465-09538-4 • $30.00 / $38.00 (Can.) • 368 pp. • May 2020
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Hitler A Global Biography BRENDAN SIMMS
“This vivid and painstakingly researched volume revises fundamentally how historians ought to view the geopolitical motivations of the Nazi leader.... Engaging and essential reading for anyone interested in Hitler’s policymaking.” —Foreign Affairs
978-0-465-02237-3 • $40.00 • 704 pp. • October 2019
Heirs of an Honored Name The Decline of the Adams Family and the Rise of Modern America DOUGLAS R. EGERTON
“An eloquent group biography of the descendants of Abigail and John Quincy Adams … chronicled by Egerton with sensitivity and nuance.” —James M. McPherson, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Battle Cry of Freedom
978-0-465-09388-5 • $35.00 / $44.00 (Can.) • 480 pp. • October 2019
Passionate Spirit The Life of Alma Mahler CATE HASTE
“In this meticulously researched and absorbing biography … Mahler is depicted as a woman who not only facilitated the creative pursuits of her husbands and lovers, but was an intellectual and creative force in her own right.” —Guardian (UK)
978-0-465-09671-8 • $32.00 / $40.00 (Can.) • 368 pp. • September 2019
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The Sword and the Shield The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. PENIEL E. JOSEPH
“A landmark.... Peniel Joseph deploys his supreme talents as a biographer and movement historian to interweave the world-shattering lives of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.” —Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist
978-1-5416-1786-5 • $30.00 / $38.00 (Can.) • 384 pp. • April 2020
The Broken Heart of America St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States WALTER JOHNSON
A groundbreaking portrait of pervasive exploitation and radical resistance in America, told through the turbulent history of St. Louis.
978-0-465-06426-7 • $35.00 / $44.00 (Can.) • 544 pp. • April 2020
American Queenmaker How Missy Meloney Brought Women Into Politics JULIE DES JARDINS
“In this compelling study, Des Jardins brings Missy Meloney out of the shadows and allows her at last the public acclaim she deserves.” —Carol Berkin, author of A Sovereign People
978-1-5416-4549-3 • $32.00 / $40.00 (Can.) • 384 pp. • January 2020
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America for Americans A History of Xenophobia in the United States ERIKA LEE
“The most comprehensive and chilling history of anti-immigrant sentiment in America ever written.... An indispensable and sobering guide to the politics of our own time.” —Gary Gerstle, author of American Crucible
978-1-5416-7260-4 • $32.00 / $40.00 (Can.) • 432 pp. • November 2019
Barrio America How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City A. K. SANDOVAL-STRAUSZ
“A path-breaking book.... Challenging previous histories of the urban crisis, Barrio America excites the imagination and forces all of us to rethink the rampant xenophobia of our day.” —Ramón A. Gutiérrez, University of Chicago
978-1-5416-9724-9 • $32.00 / $40.00 (Can.) • 416 pp. • November 2019
The Sum of the People How the Census Has Shaped Nations, From the Ancient World to the Modern Age ANDREW WHITBY
The fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census, revealing why the true boundaries of today’s nations aren’t lines on a map, but columns in a census tabulation.
978-1-5416-1934-0 • $30.00 / $38.00 (Can.) • 368 pp. • March 2020
Basic Books • 8 NEW HARDCOVERS
Fighting Words The Bold American Journalists Who Brought the World Home Between the Wars NANCY F. COTT
A riveting group portrait of international journalists in the interwar period.
978-1-5416-9933-5 • $32.00 / $40.00 (Can.) • 416 pp. • March 2020
Political Junkies From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy CLAIRE BOND POTTER
A wide-ranging history of seventy years of change in political media, and how it transformed—and fractured—American politics.
978-1-5416-4499-1 • $32.00 / $40.00 (Can.) • 368 pp. • July 2020
They Didn’t See Us Coming The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties LISA LEVENSTEIN
A vibrant portrait of a riotous age in the history of the feminist movement.
978-0-465-09528-5 • $30.00 / $38.00 (Can.) • 304 pp. • June 2020
Basic Books • 9 NEW HARDCOVERS
Give Me Liberty A History of America’s Exceptional Idea RICHARD BROOKHISER
“Subtle, economic, and gripping.... An original reflection on the nature of our American experiment, the work of a man who has for many years immersed himself in the minds of those who forged our freedom.” —National Review
978-1-5416-9913-7 • $28.00 / $35.00 (Can.) • 304 pp. • November 2019
Bound by War How the United States and the Philippines Built America’s First Pacific Century CHRISTOPHER CAPOZZOLA
A sweeping history of America’s long and fateful military relationship with the Philippines, amid a century of Pacific warfare.
978-1-5416-1827-5 • $35.00 / $44.00 (Can.) • 496 pp. • May 2020
The Abandonment of the West The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy MICHAEL KIMMAGE
How the West became the dominant idea in US foreign policy in the first half of the twentieth century — and how that consensus has unraveled.
978-0-465-05590-6 • $32.00 / $40.00 (Can.) • 384 pp. • April 2020
Basic Books • 10 NEW HARDCOVERS
Island Stories An Unconventional History of Britain DAVID REYNOLDS
“A concise, elegant, and lucid revisiting of key themes in British history in the light of Brexit.” —Fintan O’Toole, Guardian (UK)
978-1-5416-4692-6 • $30.00 / $38.00 (Can.) • 304 pp. • March 2020
Walter Ralegh Architect of Empire ALAN GALLAY
“It is hard to know which is better: Sir Walter Ralegh as fascinating subject of global biography or Alan Gallay as gifted biographer. Together, they make for a big, important, and gloriously good book about the nature of power in the early modern world.” —Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave Ship
978-1-5416-4579-0 • $40.00 / $50.00 (Can.) • 576 pp. • November 2019
Uncrowned Queen The Life of Margaret Beaufort, Mother of the Tudors NICOLA TALLIS
“Stunning—informed, assured, and compulsively readable. Nicola Tallis gives us not only the story of how the Tudor dynasty began, but a sympathetic and convincing portrait of the flesh-and-blood woman who was its founding mother.” —Sarah Gristwood, author of Game of Queens
978-1-5416-1787-2 • $32.00 / $40.00 (Can.) • 368 pp. • June 2020
Basic Books • 11 NEW HARDCOVERS
The Mutual Admiration Society How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women MO MOULTON
“A fresh and invigorating narrative that brings to life a close-knit coterie of brilliant and accomplished Oxford women.” —Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
978-1-5416-4447-2 • $30.00 / $38.00 (Can.) • 384 pp. • November 2019
The Betrayal of the Duchess The Scandal That Unmade the Bourbon Monarchy and Made France Modern MAURICE SAMUELS
The dramatic tale of the duchesse de Berry’s quest to retake the French throne for the Bourbons—and her betrayal at the hands of one of her closest advisors.
978-1-5416-4545-5 • $32.00 / $40.00 (Can.) • 416 pp. • April 2020
A New World Begins The History of the French Revolution JEREMY D. POPKIN
“A lucid, engaging, authoritative, accurate, and up- to-date history of the French Revolution. Jeremy Popkin is one of the great living experts on the subject, and he has drawn on a half-century of study to produce this first-rate work.” —David A. Bell, Princeton University
978-0-465-09666-4 • $35.00 / $44.00 (Can.) • 640 pp. • December 2019
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The Accursed Tower The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades ROGER CROWLEY
“A gripping and brilliantly researched story of the bloody climax of the Crusader experiment in the Middle East. This is history red in tooth and claw.” — Justin Marozzi, author of Islamic Empires
978-1-5416-9734-8 • $28.00 / $35.00 (Can.) • 272 pp. • November 2019
The Habsburgs To Rule the World MARTYN RADY
The definitive history of the Habsburg dynasty and their enduring belief that they were destined to rule the world as defenders of the Roman Catholic Church, guarantors of peace, and patrons of learning.
978-1-5416-4450-2 • $32.00 / $40.00 (Can.) • 416 pp. • May 2020
Land of Tears The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa ROBERT HARMS
“An unwaveringly detailed account of the colonization of central Africa.... For anyone interested in capitalism and empire, this book is as devastating as it is important.” —Maya Jasanoff, author of The Dawn Watch
978-0-465-02863-4 • $35.00 / $44.00 (Can.) • 544 pp. • December 2019
Basic Books • 13 NEW HARDCOVERS
What Was Liberalism? The Past, Present, and Promise of a Noble Idea JAMES TRAUB
“No post-mortem, James Traub’s urgent book accounts for what liberalism has been, why it stumbled, and why it must revive.” —Sean Wilentz
978-1-5416-1685-1 • $30.00 / $38.00 (Can.) • 320 pp. • September 2019
Ways of Heaven An Introduction to Chinese Thought ROEL STERCKX
“An outstanding introduction to the world of thought in classical China. Engagingly written and beautifully argued, Ways of Heaven is an invaluable work for anyone interested in exploring the key ideas and concerns that have animated so much of Chinese civilization.” —Michael Puett, author of The Path
978-1-5416-1844-2 • $35.00 • 512 pp. • September 2019
Music A Subversive History TED GIOIA
“A dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched labor of cultural provocation.” —Robert Christgau, Los Angeles Times
978-1-5416-4436-6 • $35.00 / $44.00 (Can.) • 528 pp. • October 2019
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The Second World Wars Summer for the Gods VICTOR DAVIS HANSON EDWARD J. LARSON 978-1-5416-7410-3 978-1-5416-4603-2
Fortress America Chernobyl ELAINE TYLER MAY SERHII PLOKHY 978-1-5416-4652-0 978-1-5416-1707-0
Mortal Republic The Cold War EDWARD J. WATTS ODD ARNE WESTAD 978-1-5416-4648-3 978-1-5416-7409-7
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Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow Origins Faces at the Bottom of the Well JACQUELINE JONES LEWIS DARTNELL DERRICK BELL 978-0-465-01881-9 978-1-5416-1790-2 978-1-5416-4553-0
Winter War The Rape of Nanking Bloodlands ERIC RAUCHWAY IRIS CHANG TIMOTHY SNYDER 978-0-465-09458-5 978-0-465-06836-4 978-0-465-03147-4
Behind the Throne A Girl Stands at the Door God’s Red Son ADRIAN TINNISWOOD RACHEL DEVLIN LOUIS S. WARREN 978-0-465-09402-8 978-1-5416-9733-1 978-0-465-01502-3
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The Half Has Never Been Told Gay New York “A Problem from Hell” EDWARD E. BAPTIST GEORGE CHAUNCEY SAMANTHA POWER 978-0-465-04966-0 978-1-5416-9921-2 978-0-465-06151-8
Working Toward Whiteness John Marshall Anointed with Oil DAVID R. ROEDIGER RICHARD BROOKHISER DARREN DOCHUK 978-1-5416-7347-2 978-0-465-09622-0 978-0-465-06086-3
Napoleon The Social Transformation Endurance ADAM ZAMOYSKI of American Medicine ALFRED LANSING 978-0-465-05593-7 PAUL STARR 978-0-465-06288-1 978-0-465-09302-1
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Consider the Fork The German War Europe BEE WILSON NICHOLAS STARGARDT BRENDAN SIMMS 978-0-465-05697-2 978-0-465-09489-9 978-0-465-06486-1
Berlin at War Stokely Moral Combat ROGER MOORHOUSE PENIEL E. JOSEPH R. MARIE GRIFFITH 978-0-465-02855-9 978-0-465-06558-5 978-0-465-09475-2
The Only Grant-Writing An Iron Wind Blood Brothers Book You’ll Ever Need PETER FRITZSCHE RANDY ROBERTS ELLEN KARSH 978-1-5416-9882-6 & JOHNNY SMITH & ARLEN SUE FOX 978-0-465-09322-9 978-1-5416-1781-0 Basic Books 18 BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS
Ring of Steel Roman Warfare One Nation Under God ALEXANDER WATSON ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHY KEVIN M. KRUSE 978-0-465-09488-2 978-1-5416-9923-6 978-0-465-09741-8
The Fall of the Ottomans The Savage Wars of Peace The Little Ice Age EUGENE ROGAN MAX BOOT BRIAN FAGAN 978-0-465-09742-5 978-0-465-06493-9 978-1-5416-1859-6
A History of U.S. Feminisms The Women Who Made New York She the People RORY DICKER JULIE SCELFO JEN DEADERICK 978-1-5800-5588-8 978-1-5800-5653-3 978-1-5800-5871-1
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The Idea of the Brain The Irony of Modern Catholic History MATTHEW COBB GEORGE WEIGEL 978-1-5416-4685-8 978-0-465-09433-2
A Thousand Small Sanities So You Want to Talk About Race ADAM GOPNIK IJEOMA OLUO 978-1-5416-9934-2 978-1-5800-5882-7
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