books in Culture & Politics released in 2017 in History

Chief Engineer: Washington Roebling, The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge by Erica Wagner

A New Statesman Book of the Year for 2017

His father conceived of the Brooklyn Bridge, but it was Washington Roebling who built this iconic ...

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In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies by David Rieff

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Jewish History: A Very Short Introduction by David N. Myers

How have the Jews survived? For millennia, they have defied odds by overcoming the travails of exile, persecution, and recurring plans for their annihilation. Many ...

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