by Adam Hochschild (1998)
The haunting account of King Leopold II of Belgium's predatory plunder of the Congo Free State during the late 19th century rubber boom, which decimated an estimated ten million African lives.
James M. McPherson
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. The definitive single-volume chronicle of the American Civil War, brilliantly weaving together the political, social, and military forces that tore the United States apart between 1848 and 1865.
Ramachandra Guha
The first volume of Ramachandra Guha definitive two-part biography tracing Mohandas Gandhi from his humble childhood in Gujarat through his formative decades as a lawyer and activist in South Africa, where he invented satyagraha.
Dee Brown
Dee Brown’s monumental classic tells the tragic story of the systematic destruction of Native American tribes during the late nineteenth century using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand accounts.
William J. Callahan
"This book provides a comprehensive history of one of Spain's key institutions during a long and conflictive period. This study examines the reasons behind the Church's failure to recreate the Catholic Spain of a vanished golden age and the consequences of that failure, particularly during the Second Republic, the Civil War of the 1930s, and the regime of Francisco Franco. The alliance of Church and State under Franco, although far from being as untroubled as apologists maintained in public, began to break down during the 1960s. The causes of deteriorating relations between the Church and the regime form an important part of the book because they formed the background for an astonishing transformation that saw the Church accept democracy following Franco's death in 1975. Although the Church's adaptation to a pluralistic society was far from smooth, that it happened at all is remarkable, given the historic opposition of a majority of clergy and laity to liberalism, democracy, and intellectual freedom."--BOOK JACKET.