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What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest Since the Eighteenth Century

By Kathleen Lubey

What Pornography Knows offers a new history of pornography based on forgotten bawdy fiction of the eighteenth century, its nineteenth-century republication, and its appearance in 1960s paperbacks. Through close textual study, Lubey shows how these texts were edited across time to become what we think pornography is--a genre focused primarily on sex.

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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

By Nancy Isenberg

The New York Times Bestseller, with a new preface from the author "This estimable book rides into the summer doldrums like rural electrification. . . . It deals in the truths that matter. "--Dwight Garner, The New York Times "This eye-opening investigation into our country's entrenched social hierarchy is acutely relevant.

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The Lion Awakes: Adventures in Africa's Economic Miracle

By Ashish J. Thakkar

Three little known facts: Africa is now the world's fastest growing continent, with average GDP growth of 5. 5% the past 10 years. Malaria deaths have declined by 30% and HIV infections by 74%.

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Infinite Repertoire: On Dance and Urban Possibility in Postsocialist Guinea

By Adrienne J. Cohen

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The War That Doesn't Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo

By Jason K. Stearns

Why violence in the Congo has continued despite decades of international intervention Well into its third decade, the military conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been dubbed a "forever war"--a perpetual cycle of war, civil unrest, and local feuds over power and identity.

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Beginnings of Russian Industrialization, 1800-1860

By William L. Blackwell

Since Russian tradition and institutions resemble those of Asia and Africa as much if not more than the patterns of Western societies, the pre-1917 industrial history of Russia, as the last part of the tsarist regime, provides one of the most important examples of early industrialization in world history.

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The Eleventh Hour: How Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the U.S. Brokered the Unlikely Deal That Won the War

By L Douglas Keeney

In late November 1943, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his Joint Chiefs of Staff secretly boarded the battleship USS Iowa to attend a conference in Tehran with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin, where the Allies would come to an agreement on a war plan to defeat Germany.

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The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine (Revised)

By Serhii Plokhy

"As Ukraine is embroiled in an ongoing struggle with Russia to preserve its territorial integrity and political independence, celebrated historian Serhii Plokhy explains that today's crisis is a case of history repeating itself: the Ukrainian conflict is only the latest in a long history of turmoil over Ukraine's sovereignty ... This revised edition contains new material that brings this definitive history up to the present, from the election of Volodymyr Zelensky to the role of Ukraine in Trump's impeachment. As Ukraine once again finds itself at the center of global attention, Plokhy brings its history to vivid life as he connects the nation's past with its present and future"--