Medical historian Playdon recounts the life of an aristocratic Scottish trans man whose victory in a 1968 civil case could have protected trans rights-if it hadn’t been kept secret. This feminist history features a Sumerian beer goddess and Savoy Hotel bartender Ada Coleman. Girly Drinks: A Women’s History of Drinking 19 ($35, ISBN 978-5-7)Īnthropologist Graeber, who died in 2020, and archaeologist Wengrow cast doubt on the assumption that civilization could only be achieved by taming humanity’s baser instincts. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanityĭavid Graeber and David Wengrow. National Book Award–finalist Reséndez recovers the lost history of the 16th-century Black mariner who navigated an easterly course across the Pacific Ocean from the Orient to the New World. 21 ($30, ISBN 978-1-63149-898-5)Įllis’s latest focuses on the brutality of the Revolutionary War and how the founders dealt with the issue of slavery.Ĭonquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of DiscoveryĪndrés Reséndez. The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773–1783 pacifism and reveal secret CIA missions in Africa and Afghanistan. Fall’s histories recover the lost stories of Black pioneers offer new takes on the Revolutionary War, the Middle Ages, the Ottoman Empire, and U.S.
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