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Stunningly illustrated biographies of the world's greatest cities, packed with paintings, photographs, maps, and artefactsFrom the first towns in Mesopotamia to today's global ...
An exciting social history of Afghanistan told through art. From the complete coverage of chadaris to mini-skirts, and back again. From ancient carpet designs to ...
Lion City tells the extraordinary story of Singapore - the world's most successful city state.
In 1965, Singapore's GDP per capita was on a ...
An extraordinary tale of transformation from the renowned Italian writer, thinker and publisher
'When hunting began, it was not a man who chased an animal ...
Henry Every was the seventeenth century's most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular--and wildly inaccurate--reports of his nefarious adventures. The British government offered ...
A historical detective story and a gripping account of one historian's hunt for answers as he delves into the surprising life of an ordinary ...
The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero
The Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue ...
In May 1882, a double murder occurred in full daylight in Dublin's Phoenix Park. One victim was an Irish bureaucrat, Thomas Burke; the other ...
Britain's most passionate Francophile takes us on a wonderfully rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon ...
Why did the Romans never try to conquer Ireland? Why did the King of Spain give his name to an Irish county? And how did ...
Can a drop of perfume tell the story of the twentieth century? Can a smell bear the traces of history? What can we learn about ...
A vivid, novelistic history of the rise of Athens from relative obscurity to the edge of its golden age, told through the lives of Miltiades ...
An epic story of resistance, suffering and survival. Tongerlongeter resurrects a once-in-a-generation leader all Australians can admire. Australia has no war hero more impressive than ...
From acclaimed historian Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, an incomparable introduction to this momentous period in the history of Europe
The Holy Roman Empire emerged in the Middle ...
History is not, and has never been, inert, certain, merely factual, and beyond reinterpretation. Taking readers from Thucydides to the origin of the French Revolution ...
