History

translated by Richard Howard* A Short History of Decay (1949) is E.M. Cioran's nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the ...

'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...

When 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...

translated 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...

In this highly-acclaimed work, Edward Said surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a power...

October 21, 1967, Washington, D.C. 20,000 to 200,000 protesters are marching to end the war in Vietnam, while helicopters hover overhead and federa...

Regarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, The History of the Russian Revolution offers an unparalleled account of ...

Hannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from history about the fragil...

translated by Richard Dixon The Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects: "the first is Talleyrand, and the second is everything else," wrote Italo Calv...

Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule and first published in 1961, Frantz Fanon's classic text has p...

In answering the question, 'what is history?', E.H. Carr's acclaimed and influential bestseller shows that the facts of history are simply those wh...