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'Extraordinary' Ai Weiwei'Brilliant' Simon SchamaFear has long been a driving force - perhaps the driving force - of world history: a coercive tool of power and ...
Ocean is an ambitious history of the pre-Columbian Atlantic Ocean, a story that begins with the formation of the mid-Atlantic ridge some 200 million years ...
Thoroughly updated and revised for 2024, JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY is the history of the Middle East through the lens of the Holy City and the ...
In After Eden, prominent Latin American historian John Charles Chasteen provided a concise history of the world, in which he explores the origins and persistence ...
The stories of hibakusha - Japanese for atomic bomb survivors - lie at the heart of this compelling minute-by-minute account of 6 August 1945 - the day the ...
WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE 2024
SHORTLISTED FOR THE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2024
A Sunday Times, BBC History Magazine, and Evening Standard Book of the ...
'An absorbing and eye-opening account of what the Plantagenets did for us.' - HELEN CASTOR
'Burt and Partington show precisely and engagingly why the Middle Ages ...
National Bestseller
Winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction
The city, a concept nearly as old as history itself, is a paradox of human innovation and intervention, order and conflict. From ancient civilizations to ...
A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR
'A diligent historian and a superb writer' THE TIMES
A gripping new history of the making of England ...
'Alice Hunt brilliantly reanimates this most extraordinary decade. It is a gripping tale of political and cultural crisis but also one of joy and hopeful ...
The best-selling historian of medieval manuscripts discovers the most intimate surviving relic of Thomas Becket.
The assassination of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 ...
A riotous biography of the charismatic ruler of 18th-century Poland and Saxony, and his catastrophic reign.
Both King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, Augustus ...
The first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history
Historians Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished ...
A compelling, authoritative history of how women shaped the Reformations and transformed religious life across the globe
The Reformations, both Protestant and Catholic, have long ...