The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History

9 best books like The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History (Linda Colley): Harry the Dirty Dog, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement, The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making, The Reformation: A History, Empire of Cotton: A Global History, Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution

Harry the Dirty Dog

Author	Gene Zion
ISBN	0060268654

Gene Zion cunningly disguised one of the great existential questions of our age in this Dirty Harry book.



Do you feel lucky?

This is a book about identity:

Am I white (with black spots)
or black (with white spots)

About change and transition:

Do...

Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

Author	bell hooks
ISBN	0896086283

Acclaimed cultural critic bell hooks offers an open-hearted and welcoming vision of gender, sexuality, and society in this inspiring and accessible volume. In engaging and provocative style, bell hooks introduces a popular theory of feminism rooted in common sense and the wisdom of experience....

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

Author	David Graeber
ISBN	1933633867

Before there was money, there was debt

Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems—to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There’s not a shred...

Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire

Author	Judith Herrin
ISBN	0713999977

Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism - gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite different civilization. Avoiding a standard chronological account of the Byzantine Empire's millennium - long history, she identifies the fundamental...

The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement

Author

David Brooks

With unequaled insight and brio, David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bobos in Paradise, has long explored and explained the way we live. Now, with the intellectual curiosity and emotional wisdom that make his columns among the most read in the nation, Brooks turns to...

The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making

Author

Jared Yates Sexton

The author of The People Are Going to Rise Upon Your Shore turns his keen eye to our current crisis of masculinity using his upbringing in a rural, patriarchal home as an entry point to consider the personal and societal dangers of performative gender

Based on his provocative and popular New...

The Reformation: A History

Author

Diarmaid MacCulloch

At a time when men and women were prepared to kill—and be killed—for their faith, the Protestant Reformation tore the Western world apart. Acclaimed as the definitive account of these epochal events, Diarmaid MacCulloch's award-winning history brilliantly re-creates the religious battles...

Empire of Cotton: A Global History

Author	Sven Beckert
ISBN	0375414142

The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.

Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding the origins of modern capitalism. Sven...

Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution

Author	Nathaniel Philbrick
ISBN	0525426787

From the New York Times bestselling author of In The Heart of the Sea, comes a surprising account of the middle years of the American Revolution, and the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold.
 
In September 1776, the vulnerable Continental Army under an unsure...