Spring Trade Paperbacks: History

Birlinn

(dist. by Interlink)

The Sea Kingdoms: The History of Celtic Britain and Ireland (Apr., $20) by Alistair Moffat investigates the oral history, legends and culture of Celtic Britain.

Black Dog & Leventhal

(dist. by Workman)

Historic Maps and Views of New York (May, $19.95) by Vincent Virga collects 24 framable historic maps from the 1600s through the present.

John F. Blair

Voices from St. Simons: Personal Narratives of an Island’s Past (Mar., $12.95), edited by Stephen Doster, records interviews with 17 people whose connection with this Georgia Sea Island stretches back generations.

Cambridge Univ. Press

The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A History (May, $23) by Paul Clark analyzes the 1960s campaign that sought to purge Chinese society of liberal bourgeois elements.

Continuum

Fixing the System: A History of Populism, Ancient and Modern (May; $18.95, cloth $75) by Adrian Kuzminski traces the history of sharing wealth and power and suggests alternatives to the current political scene.

Cornell Maritime Press

Famous Maryland Women (Mar., $TBA) by Katherine Kenny and Eleanor Randrup focuses on 16 notable women in the state’s history.

Fair Winds

Failures of the Presidents: Our Leaders’ Worst Decisions from the Dred Scott Case to Watergate to the Bay of Pigs to Iraq (Aug., $19.95) by Thomas Craughwell.

Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales

(dist. by Antique Collectors’ Club)

Lure of the Southern Seas: The Voyages of Dumont d’Urville 1826–1840 (Apr., $49.95) by Susan Hunt traces d’Urville’s expeditions in the Pacific and Antarctica.

Information Today

Web of Conspiracy: A Guide to Conspiracy Theory Sites on the Internet (June, $24.95) by James F. Broderick and Darren W. Miller explores 18 of the world’s most intriguing conspiracy theories.

Inner Traditions/Bear & Company

The Secret History of Western Sexual Mysticism: Sacred Practices and Spiritual Marriage (May, $14.95) by Arthur Versluis reveals this heretofore secret history.

Little, Brown/Virago

(dist. by Trafalgar Square/IPG)

Rebel Girls: Their Fight for the Vote (Apr., $19.95) by Jill Liddington explores how suffrage campaigners went from community suffragists to militant mavericks.

Louisiana State Univ. Press

The New Orleans of George Washington Cable: The 1887 Census Office Report (June, $18.95), edited by Lawrence N. Powell, provides a historical survey of colonial and antebellum New Orleans. Advertising .

Oak Tree Press

The Last Stop: Lincoln in Christian County (Aug., $12.95) by Alan Bower looks at Lincoln during his circuit-riding days in a county on the Illinois frontier.

Odyssey Publishing

(dist. by IPG)

35 Miles from Shore: The Ditching and Rescue of ALM Flight 980 (Apr., $14.95) by Emilio Corsetti III recounts the story of a 1970 airline disaster.

Penguin

A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans: Pirates, Skinflints, Patriots, and Other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of History (Apr., $15) by Michael Farquhar rescues from limbo such figures as pirate Anne Bonny and socialite explorer Louise Arner Boyd. 5-city author tour.

Potomac Books

Congress at War: The Politics of Conflict Since 1789 (Apr., $10) by Charles A. Stevenson provides an overview of Congress’s wartime legislation.

Union Square Publishing

(dist. by Sterling)

Mudslingers: The Twenty-Five Dirtiest Political Campaigns of All Time (Mar., $12.95) by Kerwin C. Swint looks at history’s most smear-filled political races.

Univ. of California Press

Sensing the Past: Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting and Touching in History (Mar., $19.95) by Mark M. Smith surveys the emerging field of sensory history.

Univ. of Hawai'i Press

We Fought the Navy and Won: Guam’s Quest for Democracy (May, $24) by Dolores Coulter Cogan details the years from 1945 to 1950, when Guam struggled to liberate itself from the U.S. Navy.

Univ. of Massachusetts Press

Jump for Joy: Jazz, Basketball, and Black Culture in 1930s America (June; $26.95, cloth $80) by Gena Caponi-Tabery explores the outburst of cultural exuberance that swept African-American culture during this period.

Univ. of New Mexico Press

The Black Panther Party: Service to the People Programs (June, $19.95) by the Huey P. Newton Foundation, edited by David Hilliard, looks at city, state and federal bureaucracies that have failed to provide for African-American communities.

Walker & Company

Live from the Campaign Trail: The Greatest Presidential Campaign Speeches of the Twentieth Century and How They Shaped Modern America (May, $14.95) by Michael A. Kohen.

Watkins

(dist. by Sterling)

The Rise and Fall of Atlantis: And the Mysterious Origins of Human Civilization (Mar., $19.95) by J.S. Gordon considers new evidence about the lost city.

Wiley

The History Detectives Explore Lincoln’s Letter, Parker’s Sax, and Mark Twain’s Watch: And Many More Mysteries of America’s Past (May, $19.95) by Barb Karg ties in to the PBS show.