NEW HISTORICAL BOOKS

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Indiana University Press
RUSSIAN PEASANTS GO TO COURT: Legal Culture in the Countryside, 1905-1917 by Jane Burbank


Univ. Press of Kentucky
April
GERALD FORD AND THE CHALLENGES OF THE 1970S BY Yanek Mieczkowski
PROLOGUE TO CONFLICT: The Crisis and Compromise of 1850 by Holman Hamilton
UNCLE SAM'S WAR OF 1898 AND THE ORIGINS OF GLOBALIZATION by Thomas Schoonover
THE UNKNOWN DEAD: Civilians in the Battle of the Bulge by Peter Schrijvers
June
THE INTREPID GUERRILLAS OF NORTH LUZON by Bernard Norling
IT SEEMS TO ME: Selected Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt Edited Leonard C. Schlup & Donald W. Whisenhunt
SWEET PEA AT WAR: History of USS Portland by William Thomas Generous Jr.

Univ. of Nebraska Press
April
VENERAL DISEASE AND THE LEWIS & CLARK EXPEDITION by Thomas B. Lowry
May
THE FRENCH NAVY AND THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR by Jonathan R. Dull
REMEMBER THIS!: Dakota Decolonization and the Eli Taylor Narratives by Waziyatawin Angela Wilson
June
THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE: A History, 2nd Ed. by James A. Rawley with Stephen D. Behrendt
July
CREEKS AND SOUTHERNERS: Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier by Andrew K. Frank
Bison Books
May
HITLER'S SECRET PRIVATE FLEET by James P. Duffy
KIT CARSON AND THE INDIANS by Tom Dunlay
THROUGH ORDINARY EYES: The Civil War Correspondence of Rufus Robbins, Private, 7th Reg. Mass. Volunteers - Edited by Ella Janes Bruen & Brian M. Fitzgibbons
THE TRIALS OF MRS. LINCOLN by Samuel A. Schreiner Jr.
June
NEBRASKA: An Illustrated History, 2nd Ed. by Frederick C. Luebke
ON THE TRAIL TO THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH by Alonzo Delano
July
CHAINBREAKER: Revolutionary War Memoirs of Gov. Blacksnake - Edited by Thomas S. Abler
DELBRUECK'S MODERN MILITARY HISTORY by Hans Delbrueck

Oxford University Press

Penguin Putnam
Berkley
April
A PIRATE OF EXQUISITE MIND: Life of William Dampier, Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer by Diana & Michael Preston
May
THE AMBER ROOM: The Fate of the World's Greatest Lost Treasures by Catherine Scott-Clark & Adrian Levy
Berkley Caliber Hardcover
July
CHOPPER: History of American Military Helicopter Operations from WWII to War of Terror by Robert F. Dorr
NAL
April
SECRET COMMANDOS: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG by John L. Plaster
May
BIGGEST BROTHER: The Life of Major Dick Winters, The Man Who Led the Band of Brothers by Larry Alexander
July
BLOSSOMS IN THE WIND: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze by M.G. Sheftall
Overlook Press
April
PENDULUM OF WAR: The Three Battles of El Alamein by Niall Barr
SONS OF THE CONQUERORS: The Rise of the Turkic World by Hugh Pope
Overlook Press
May
CHARIOT: The Rise and Fall of the World's First War Machine by Arthur Cotterell
June
ALEXANDER THE CORRECTOR by Julia Keay
THE CARDINAL'S HAT: Money, Ambition, and Housekeeping in a Renaissance Court by Mary Hollingsworth
August
GREAT SOUTHERN LAND: A New History of Australia by Frank Welsh
The Penguin Press
Viking
April
PARIS: The Biography of a City by Colin Jones
May
CONDUCT UNDER FIRE: Four American Doctors and Their Fate as POWs in the Pacific, 1941-45 by John A. Glusman
June
MARTHA WASHINGTON: An American Life by Patricia Brady
THE UNKNOWN AMERICAN REVOLUTION: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America by Gary B. Nash
July
THE RUIN OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER: The Birth of the Modern Arms Race by Priscilla J. McMillan
August
BREAD AND ROSES: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream by Bruce Watson
HER MAJESTY'S SPYMASTER: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham and the Birth of Modern Espionage by Stephen Budiansky


Princeton University Press
NEW TIMES IN MODERN JAPAN by Stefan Tanaka
SLUMMING: Sexual & Social Politics in Victorian London by Seth Koven