Aster - 20th Century 1

Tracing the troubled roots of American capitalism and imperialism Coedited by noted Masters scholar, Jason Stacy, and his class, “Editing History,” this annotated edition of Edgar Lee Masters’s The ……続きを見る

Institution Architecture: Building the Avant-Garde takes a terminological, sociological, and semiological approach that develops by tracing the ‘avant-garde’ in a century span of literatures for a t……続きを見る

Illinois political scandals reached new depths in the 1960s and '70s. In Illinois Justice, Kenneth Manaster takes us behind the scenes of one of the most spectacular. The so-called Scandal of 1969 n……続きを見る

Bette Davis's career becomes a vehicle for a deep examination of American race relations. Bette Davis was not only one of Hollywood's brightest stars, but also one of its most outspoken advocates on……続きを見る

Post-communism, Democracy, and Illiberalism in Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union explores how the downfall of communism brought about a difficult transition for Eastern a……続きを見る

A memoir of working as one of the few female employees at the Kennedy Space Center in the 1960s. Martha Lemasters's gripping memoir tells the remarkable story of her life as a single mother employed……続きを見る

In "The American Scene," Henry James embarks on a contemplative exploration of America during the early 20th century, capturing the nuances of American identity through the lens of a returning expat……続きを見る

Author Lee Lancaster retraces the movement of a remarkable time in our nation's agricultural history. In 1976, America sent a peanut farmer from Plains to Washington, D.C. Farmers throughout the nat……続きを見る

A fascinating and shocking historical exposé, The Malaria Project is the story of America's secret mission to combat malaria during World War IIーa campaign modeled after a German project which test……続きを見る

More Than 1001 Days and Nights of Hong Kong Internment is the wartime journal of Sir Chaloner Grenville Alabaster, former attorney-general of Hong Kong and one of the three highest-ranking British o……続きを見る

The untold, almost unbelievable, story of the daring pilots who risked their lives in an unprecedented air race in 1919ーand put American aviation on the map. Years before Charles Lindbergh’s flight……続きを見る

"The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C." ーH. R. McMaster (from the Conclusio……続きを見る

In veel opzichten doet Athenaeum Boekhandel denken aan de Bibliotheek van Babel uit het beroemde, gelijknamige verhaal van Jorge Luis Borges. Er zijn veelhoekige kamers, geheime galerijen en verborg……続きを見る

Winner of the Mystery Writers of America's Prestigious "Best Fact Crime" Award, the riveting, forgotten narrative of the most corrupt attorney general in American history and the maverick senator wh……続きを見る

The role of the peasantry during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) has long been neglected by historians, in part because they have been viewed as a 'primitive' mass devoid of political c……続きを見る

The first of John Master's evocative memoirs about life in the Gurkhas in India on the cusp of WWII John Masters was a soldier before he became a bestselling novelist. He went to Sandhurst in 1933 a……続きを見る

Lynching is often viewed as a narrow form of violence: either the spontaneous act of an angry mob against accused individuals, or a demonstration of white supremacy against an entire population cons……続きを見る

Career convict and con artist Ed Hubbard and his accomplice Willie Roberts, a young and attractive prostitute, set out to play a long game against the farmer Pleas Burns, who owned a spread on the S……続きを見る

The Condition of England was first published in 1909. Faber Finds are reissuing it to celebrate its one hundredth anniversary. Although copies are now hard to come by, it was a success on first publ……続きを見る

Despite the appalling record of the Soviet Union on human rights questions, many western intellectuals with otherwise impeccable liberal credentials were strong supporters the Soviet Union in the in……続きを見る

It has long been the custom to begin the history of our country with the discovery of the New World by Columbus. To some extent this is both wise and necessary; but in following it in this instance ……続きを見る