Under the Radar: New Microhistories

  • Joyce Oldham Appleby–The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism
  • Janet Clarkson–Pie: A Global History
  • Randi Hutter Epstein–Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank
  • Claire Harman–Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World
  • Elaine Tyler May–America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation
  • James McManus–Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker
  • Sonia Shah–The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
  • Melanie Thernstrom–The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Spells, Remedies, Prayers, Myths, Misconceptions, Brain Scans, and the Science of Suffering

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