- The history of Chile, John L. Rector
- Does Spelling Matter?, Simon Horobin
- The great sea, a human history of the Mediterranean, David Abulafia
- History and theory in anthropology, Alan Barnard
- Holy bones, holy dust, how relics shaped the history of Medieval Europe, Charles Freeman
- The irresistible fairy tale, the cultural and social history of a genre, Jack Zipes
- Body dressing, edited by Joanne Entwistle and Elizabeth Wilson
- The greatest shows on earth, a history of the circus, Linda Simon
- Spam, a shadow history of the Internet, Finn Brunton
- Demystifying China, new understandings of Chinese history, edited by Naomi Standen
- Famine, a short history, Cormac Ó Gráda
- The Social construction of technological systems, new directions in the sociology and history of technology, edited by Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes, and Trevor J. Pinch
- On politics, a history of political thought from Herodotus to the present, Alan Ryan
- A history of future cities, Daniel Brook
- American umpire, Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman
- Heaven on earth, a journey through shari'a law from the deserts of ancient Arabia to the streets of the modern Muslim world, Sadakat Kadri
- The novel, an alternative history : beginnings to 1600, Steven Moore
- Fairy tales, a new history, Ruth B. Bottigheimer
- In the land of invented languages, Esperanto rock stars, Klingon poets, Loglan lovers, and the mad dreamers who tried to build a perfect language, Arika Okrent
- The relentless revolution, a history of capitalism, Joyce Appleby
- The rise and fall of North American Indians, from prehistory through Geronimo, William Brandon