
A Fistful Of Shells
By the time of the 'Scramble for Africa' in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for many centuries. Its gold ha...
View full detailsBy the time of the 'Scramble for Africa' in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for many centuries. Its gold ha...
View full detailsHow did an obscure personality cult come to be the world's biggest religion, with a third of humanity its followers? This book, now the most compre...
View full detailsJudaism is by some distance the oldest of the three Abrahamic religions. Despite the extraordinarily diverse forms it has taken, the Jewish people ...
View full detailsWhy has opera transfixed and fascinated audiences for centuries? Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker answer this question in their scrupulous and provo...
View full detailsThe Bible is the central book of Western culture. For the two faiths which hold it sacred, it is the bedrock of their religion, a singular authorit...
View full detailstranslated by Richard Howard* A Short History of Decay (1949) is E.M. Cioran's nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the ...
View full detailsThe Reformation which engulfed England and Europe in the sixteenth century was one of the most highly-charged, bloody and transformative periods in...
View full detailsThe crucial 'difference', of course, was slavery. Here he examines its roots in the colonial era, early racial attitudes, the new Revolutionary com...
View full detailsAfter regaining independence in 1947, India immediately adopted a firmly democratic political system. The famines of the British era disappeared, a...
View full detailsFrom the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's il...
View full detailstranslated by Ivan Morris As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams is a unique autobiography in which the anonymous writer known as Lady Sarashina intersper...
View full detailsAugustine is the person from the ancient world about whom we know most. He is the author of an intimate masterpiece, the Confessions, which continu...
View full detailsOver thirteen centuries, Baghdad has enjoyed both cultural and commercial pre-eminence, boasting artistic and intellectual sophistication and an ec...
View full detailsDespite years of stagnation, Japan remains one of the world's largest economies and a country which exerts a remarkable cultural fascination. David...
View full detailsHuman history is a tale not just of constant change, but of perpetual restlessness. In Beneath Another Sky the esteemed historian Norman Davies emb...
View full detailsCheckpoint Charlie, 27 October 1961. At 9pm on a damp night, the Cold War reaches crisis point. US and Soviet tanks face off across the East-West d...
View full detailsOver the last five decades, no other city has changed more than Berlin. Divided in 1961, reunited in 1989, it has morphed over the last twenty-five...
View full detailsAs Europe's borderlands emerged from Soviet rule, Anne Applebaum travelled from the Baltic to the Black Sea, through Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine an...
View full detailsThe Nazis presented themselves as warriors against moral degeneracy. Yet, as Norman Ohler's gripping bestseller reveals, the entire Third Reich was...
View full detailsSince Europeans first reached Brazil in 1500 it has been an unfailing source of extraordinary fascination. More than any other part of the 'New Wor...
View full detailsToday, everybody seems to agree that something has gone badly wrong with the British welfare state. In the midst of economic crisis, politicians an...
View full detailsThis is a history of the ideas that shaped not only London, but Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham, Sheffield and other power-houses...
View full detailsOn 26 April 1986 at 1.23am a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded. While the authorities scrambled to understand...
View full detailsIn November 1838 Frédéric Chopin, George Sand and her two children sailed to Majorca to escape the Parisian winter. They settled in an abandoned mo...
View full details'We're not Christians, Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli.' Exiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition to Mussolini, Carl...
View full detailsWith a forensic, brilliant re-examination of all the key surviving texts of early Christianity, Geza Vermes illuminates the origins of a faith and ...
View full detailsIs America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush may have denied it but, as Niall Ferguson's brilliant and provocative book shows, ...
View full detailsThe Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was awesome and ...
View full detailsDomesday Book, compiled in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror, has been described as "the most valuable piece of antiquity possessed by an...
View full detailsDrawing on a wide range of sources - from declassified documents to oral testimonies and his own decades of reporting - Enemies and Neighbours brin...
View full detailsThis chronicle of the Byzantine Empire, beginning in 1025, shows a profound understanding of the power politics that characterized the empire and l...
View full detailsFrederick the Great, King of Prussia, dominated the eighteenth century in the same way that Napoleon dominated the start of the nineteenth. He was ...
View full detailsWe think we know ancient Greece, the civilisation that shares the same name and gave us just about everything that defines 'Western' culture today,...
View full detailsWhen the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, a new era in human history opened. Wri...
View full detailsAdolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most important things we think we know about him are wrong. As Brendan Simms's ...
View full detailsThe sixties: a decade of space travel, utopian dreams and - above all - sexual revolution. It liberated a generation. But mostly men. Meet dollybir...
View full detailsOn November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, a wealthy farmer, his wife and their two young children were found brutally murdered. B...
View full detailsThe Indian subcontinent might seem a self-contained world. Protected by vast mountains and seas, it has created its own religions, philosophies and...
View full detailsIran often appears in the media as a hostile and difficult country. But beneath the headlines there is a fascinating story of a nation of great int...
View full detailsPrussia began as a medieval backwater, but transformed itself into a major European power and the force behind the creation of the German empire, u...
View full detailsA significant contribution to the understanding of the medieval holy wars between Christians and Muslims, this volume brings together the best and ...
View full detailsIslamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering, cosmopolitan capitals, Islamic empires lorded it over the Mid...
View full detailsIt is told through the eyes of people who greeted this change not with the confidence and grasping ambition of Japan's modernizers and nationalists...
View full detailsKing of Prussia, German Emperor, war leader and defeated exile, Kaiser Wilhelm II was one of the most important - and most controversial - figures ...
View full detailstranslated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second World War? In the late 1970s...
View full detailsAre leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or does th...
View full detailsTaking us from the French Revolution to the Cold War and the Falklands, celebrated historian Andrew Roberts presents us with a bracingly honest and...
View full detailsAs the western world struggles with its legacies of racism and colonialism, what can we learn from the past in order to move forward? Susan Neiman'...
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