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In this monumental, authoritative new history of Afghanistan, Jonathan L. Lee places the current conflict in its historical context and challenges many of the West ...
A horological history of human civilisation, told through twelve world-changing clocks
The measurement of time has always been essential to human civilization, from early Roman ...
Gnaeus Julius Agricola was a man fated for conquest and tied to the island of Britannia. He cut his teeth on military command during the ...
This book provides a complete and detailed analysis of the organisation and equipment of the Macedonian army built by Philip II and later employed to ...
From their nineteenth-century beginnings in the jungles of Costa Rica to reaching the halls of power in Washington, D.C, from the mass-marketing of the ...
How Slavery in the Americas Matters explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing that ...
An authoritative visual history of one of the world's oldest and most vibrant cultures, drawing on South Asian art and artefacts from prehistory to ...
'A fresh retelling of the story of the Normans . . . written with enthusiasm and brio' Marc Morris, bestselling author of The Anglo-Saxons
How did descendants of ...
A new interpretation of the Sarajevo assassination and the origins of World War I that places focus on the Balkans and the prewar period.The ...
The principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society -- even if, after more than two hundred years, they are ...
A bold new history of the rise and expansion of the Norman Dynasty across Europe from Byzantium to England
In the eleventh century the climate ...
New in paperback - The first biography of Alfred the Great's son, the forgotten king who was crucial to uniting England.
During the roaring twenties, two of the most revered and influential men in American business proposed to transform one of the country's poorest regions ...
A fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch
"The excellence of Leo Damrosch's energetic biography is that it ...
In 1187 Saladin's armies besieged the holy city of Jerusalem. He had previously annihilated Jerusalem's army at the battle of Hattin, and behind ...
