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A comic history of humankind's love affair with booze, from the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author of The Etymologicon
Almost every culture on ...
The British in this book lived in India from shortly after the reign of Elizabeth I until well into the reign of Elizabeth II. They ...
A fresh treatment of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, revealing the close ties between Mussolini and Hitler and their regimes
From 1934 until 1944 Mussolini ...
If history is written by the victors, can we really know Hannibal, whose portrait we see through the eyes of his Roman conquerors?
"Eve MacDonald ...
The Viking Conquest of England in 1016 - a far tougher and more brutal campaign than the Norman Conquest exactly half a century later - saw two ...
A timely and fascinating history of how law rather than war became the norm in settling disputes between nations
Since the end of the Second ...
This remarkable true story pays tribute to a band of Aboriginal boys who grew up together in one group home - many succeeding spectacularly in later ...
An extraordinary account of the occupants of the Prague Villa Petschek, and their place against the history of Europe, written by the former US ambassador ...
Beautifully illustrated and rich in detail, Theatre of the World reignites our curiosity with the world both ancient and modern. Before you could just put ...
'Such a brilliant idea! Drilling down into Victoria's diaries Worsley gives us Victoria in all her infinite variety - queen and mother, matriarch and minx ...
The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that ...
This updated second edition of Mark Moberg's lively book offers a fresh look at the history of anthropological theory. Covering key concepts and theorists ...
Cage of Ghosts - 2019 Winner NSW Premier's History Prize - is a landmark publication. In this richly illustrated and thought-provoking book, photographer and writer Jon ...
An Economist Best History Book 2017
"History as it should be written."-Barry Cunliffe, Guardian
"Scott hits the nail squarely on the head by exposing ...
