Read Series: Modern Library Chronicles
by Author Robert S. Wistrich
Hitler and the Holocaust (2003)
Hitler and the Holocaust is the product of a lifetime’s work by one of the world’s foremost authorities on the history of anti-Semitism and modern Jewry. Robert S. Wistrich examines Europe’s long history of violence against its Jewish populations, looks at the forces that shaped Hitler’s belief i...
Baseball: A History of America's Favorite Game (2006)
“Football is force and fanatics, basketball is beauty and bounce. Baseball is everything: action, grace, the seasons of our lives. George Vecsey’s book proves it, without wasting a word.”–Lee Eisenberg, author of The NumberIn Baseball, one of the great bards of America’s Grand Old Game gives a ro...
IGLESIA CATOLICA, LA (2005)
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The City: A Global History (2006)
"Cities compress and unleash the creative urges of humanity. ... [T]hree critical factors have determined the overall health of cities -- the sacredness of place, the ability to provide security and project power, and last, the animating role of commerce. Where these factors are present, urban c...
The Balkans: A Short History (2002)
We are so familiar with nation-states; every country is supposed to have a native population that belongs to a single race or ethnicity, speaks a single language, follows a single religion (or professes nominal ties to it), and expresses itself through a culture produced by the synthesis of the a...
Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea (2006)
The subtitle of this book lets you know what to expect if you pick it up intending to read it: Nonviolence: Twenty Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea.For me, nonviolence is a part of an ideal world. I am drawn to it but do not know where in my being it originated. I do not want to ...
Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History (2010)
A brief discourse on how history is always changing over time, how it can never achieve the analytical precision of science, and how all nations and many non-national groups can shift and alter history to produce narratives, and change it to their favor. Particularly relevant reading this on the ...