OK: The Improbable Story of America’s Greatest Word, Allan Metcalf (Oxford University Press)

From its birth as a joke in a newspaper article in 1839 to its global success as the word with which all non-Americans are familiar, this study traces the evolution of the word OK – how it was coined, what it stood for, and the extent of its influence.
Daily Life during the Reformation, James M. Anderson (Greenwood)
Drawing on eyewitness accounts, this study explores the lives of ordinary people from 1517 and 1648 - the conditions in which they lived and died, their roles in the unfolding events of the Protestant Reformation and the Reformation’s effects on them.
Stride Toward Freedom, Martin Luther King, Jr. (Souvenir Press)
The first UK edition of Stride Toward Freedom, Martin Luther King’s autobiography and account of the start of the Civil Rights movement, first published in the US in 1958.
Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature, Emelyne Godfrey (Palgrave Macmillan)
A study of crime fighting from the seldom explored viewpoint of the civilian city-goer in the period of the 1850s to the First World War, when, although rates of violent crime were generally declining, there remained a fascination with physical threat and personal protection.