Reviews and Comments

sure, it is verso, but a pretty nuance portrayal and deep history of how "international" US Labor was between 1940-80. Lots of "the CIA had so much stuff" going on at this time.

if you've ever travelled around europe and gone... how the heck was schengen made? and so recently? this book documents who was in and who was out in the creation of europe.

but depressing in the light of anti-democratic retrenchment

loved this translation of late ming era swindles, a fun romp of stories from the south china countryside

and charlatans really haven't changed, maybe we have

really well written, pretty short, fun history of the last nomadic empire

sort of Alexis opus, but really great both a post 1940s history of Oakland and CA, but specific tying it to the broader global forces that the bay unleashed. Way better than Palo Alto

who knew that the origins of new york could explain new york? really fun dutch / british / indian geographical history

SHORTO WRITES BANGERS

very much my bullshit, but loved this basically satire of a spy novel but also of internet school politics wrapped in a spy novel setting

really loved this as a history of england's postwar, and the long long shadow of the british empire in britian, along with how britian become (kinda? ) multicultural

you ever find out that there's a major event of american history that ... a well educated non-US nation has no idea about, like the Civil War or something like that?

this is like that for german history, had no idea of the ideological importance of 1500s era German peasants revolting againist serfdom. really good overview, great narrative and a interesting dive into german historiography

but picked this up ahead of a spain trip and had fun reading it, since to see that the imprint did some cool stuff

but an incredible look into how we think about accidents, and the history of the term, and the need for a no-shortcuts just society

4) Smoke Gets in your Eyes, by Caitlin Doughty a bit older but really loved this touching and also in depth guide to well, the death industry and memoir

(and shout of to THE LOVED ONE by Evelyn Waugh in this book, one of the great LA outside novels)

hessler rules, this is a good expansion of his NYer work, sad for sichuan province