Re: concierge tells it all

E.P. Thompson--try _Making of the English Working Class_ or
_Witness Against the Beast_.  Christopher Hill, try
_The World Turned Upside Down_.  Robert Darnton, try 
_The Forbidden Bestsellers of Pre-Revolutionary France_ or
_The Great Cat Massacre_.  Back to Thompson, try
_Customs in Common_.  C.L.R. James, try _The Black Jacobins_.
Dava Sobel, _Longitude_ (popular, fun). _The Kingdom of
Matthias_ (a pair of authors, I forget their names).
True--this is a narrow range, but the concierge is stuck at the
desk.
Tom Dillingham