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HISTORY CATALOG 2015 HISTORY CATALOG PRSRT STD PENGUIN GROUP USA US Postage Academic Marketing Dept. 375 Hudson Street PAID New York, NY 10014 Staten Island, NY Permit No. 169 PENGUIN GROUP USA PENGUIN GROUP USA HistoryBOOKS FOR COURSES Publishers of: Viking, The Penguin Press, Penguin, Penguin Classics, Dutton, Putnam, Signet, Signet Classics, Plume, Gotham, Perigee, Tarcher, Berkley, Riverhead, Avery, New American Library, Blue Rider USA GROUP PENGUIN Press, Sentinel, Portfolio, Alpha Books, Hudson Street Press, Prentice Hall Press, and Celebra Distributors of Library of America, Overlook Press, Europa Editions, Reader’s Digest 2 015 HISTORY 2015 ISBN 978-0-14-751781-4 History 2015 Cover IFC IBC.indd 1 11/18/14 4:02 PM HISTORY 2015 New from CONTENTS PENGUIN CLASSICS GENERAL WORKS & ANTHOLOGIES .......... 1 EUROPEAN HISTORY (CONTINUED) AMERICAN HISTORY ......................... 2 French ...................................... 50 The broadest and most comprehensive collection of writings available by an General Works & Anthologies .................... 2 Spanish & Portuguese .......................... 52 early civil and women’s rights pioneer, this volume covers the entire scope of The Library of America .......................... 4 Italian & Greek ............................... 52 Colonial & Revolutionary ........................ 7 Northern European ........................... 53 Wells’s remarkable career, collecting her early writings, articles exposing the Early National ................................. 8 German & Austrian ............................ 53 horrors of lynching, essays from her travels abroad, and her later journalism. Civil War & Reconstruction ..................... 11 Russian ..................................... 55 The Light of Truth is both an invaluable resource for study and a testament to The Frontier & Western Expansion ............... 12 Eastern European ............................. 57 Wells’ long career as a civil rights activist. SEE PAGE 25 The Gilded Age ............................... 13 Jewish Studies & the Holocaust .................. 57 1900-1945 ................................... 14 WORLD HISTORY ............................ 58 Sports History ............................... 16 General Works & Anthologies ................... 58 1945-2010 ................................... 17 Middle East .................................. 60 Vietnam Era .................................. 19 Africa ....................................... 61 America Today: At Home and in the World ......... 20 Asia ........................................ 63 ETHNIC HISTORY ........................... 22 China ...................................... 63 General Works ............................... 22 Japan ...................................... 64 African American ............................. 22 Korea ...................................... 65 Also of Interest American Indian .............................. 25 Southeast Asia ............................... 65 SARAH GRIMKÉ and ANGELINA GRIMKÉ Latino ...................................... 28 India ....................................... 65 Asian American ............................... 28 Central Asia ................................. 66 On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters CANADIAN HISTORY ........................ 29 Australia & New Zealand ....................... 67 A collection of historic writings from the LATIN AMERICAN & CARIBBEAN HISTORY ... 29 HISTORY OF GENDER & SEXUALITY ......... 67 slave-owner-turned-abolitionist sisters. ANCIENT HISTORY .......................... 31 VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS ............... 69 General Works & Anthologies ................... 31 Art History .................................. 69 SEE PAGE 23 Egypt & the Middle East ........................ 31 Music History ................................ 69 Greece ..................................... 32 Theater, Film, & Television ....................... 72 Rome ....................................... 34 FOOD AND CULTURE ....................... 70 Early Christian & Byzantine Eras ................. 36 MILITARY & DIPLOMATIC HISTORY .......... 73 EUROPEAN HISTORY ........................ 38 General ..................................... 73 General Works & Anthologies ................... 38 World War I ................................. 75 Medieval .................................... 38 World War II ................................. 76 Renaissance & Reformation ..................... 40 Korea ....................................... 79 Modern European ............................. 42 Vietnam ..................................... 79 NEW IN PAPERBACK FROM PENGUIN British ...................................... 42 Cold War .................................... 80 General Works & Anthologies ................. 42 War on Terror and the Iraq War ................. 80 Medieval & Early History ..................... 42 ECONOMIC & BUSINESS HISTORY ........... 81 “A brilliant recreation of that decisive year of victory and defeat, chaos Tudor & Stuart ............................. 44 HEALTH, MEDICINE, & SOCIETY ............. 84 18th-Century British ......................... 45 HISTORY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ..... 86 and humiliation, concentrating on peoples, not states. Gripping, poi- The Penguin History of Britain ................. 46 ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY ................. 89 gnant and unsparing., Year Zero is worthy of its author in being at 19th-Century British ......................... 46 MAPS & ATLASES ............................ 91 home in both Europe and Asia.” —Fritz Stern, Columbia University 20th- & 21st-Century British .................. 48 INDEX ....................................... 92 Irish ........................................ 49 Scottish ..................................... 50 EXAMINATION COPY ORDER FORM ............. 97 “Enriched by [Buruma’s] knowledge of six languages, a sense of per- Welsh ...................................... 50 College Faculty Information Service (CFIS) ........... 98 sonal connection to the era...and his understanding of this period.” Penguin History of American Life .................. 100 —The New York Times Book Review “Year Zero has a down-to-earth grandeur....A combination of mag- nificence and modesty.” —The Wall Street Journal Penguin Group (USA) offers free academic catalogs in many subjects including: Geography Literature Irish Studies For free catalogs, write to: “Well written and researched, full of little-known facts and incisive Sociology Classics African Studies political analysis....A stirring account.” Political Science Composition Asian Studies Penguin Group (USA) Academic Marketing Philosophy & Religion Communication & Media Studies Middle East Studies —The New York Review of Books Science & Technology Environment & Ecology Slavic Studies 375 Hudson Street Education & Guidance Business & Management German Studies New York, NY 10014 Military History Urban Studies “[Buruma] displays a fine grasp of the war’s scope and aftermath.” Latin American Studies Women’s Studies Penguin Classics or visit our website at —The Economist www.penguin.com/subjectcatalogs Native American Studies Signet Classics SEE PAGE 58 Cover image: “Napoleon Bonaparte as First Consul” painting by Joseph-Marie Vien the Younger (1761–1848). 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