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The Congo-Ocean railroad stands as one of the deadliest construction projects in history. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony ...
Since the Venerable Bede wrote his iconic Ecclesiastic History of England in the eighth century, King Penda has been relegated to the role of villain ...
In early October 1795, Napoleon Bonaparte led the governing Directory's army against the rioting royalists in Paris (who were rebelling to restore the monarchy ...
In June 1996 Martin Gilbert took a group of students on a two-week journey across middle-Europe which encompassed all the major places in the Holocaust ...
A panoramic new history of the revolutionary decades between 1760 and 1825, from North America and Europe to Haiti and Spanish America, showing how progress ...
An illuminating biography reconstructing the life and legacy of a unique king in world history and the most famous emperor in South Asian history
There ...
Lost on the other side of the world since 1855, the story of John Swanson Jacobs finally returns to America.
For one hundred and sixty-nine ...
The essential guide to the world of Aztec mythology, based on Nahuatl-language sources that challenge the colonial history passed down to us by the Spanish ...
The product of years of diligent research, this ambitious title brings the incredibly varied lives (and deaths!) of 1000 Tudor people into a single, accessible ...
"Compelling."-Mathew Lyons, Times (UK)
"Authoritative."-Marcus Nevitt, Spectator
"A sympathetic portrayal of communities fighting for all they held dear."-Lucy Wooding, Times Literary Supplement ...
De Gaulle and Churchill examines the tense and complicated relationship between General de Gaulle as leader of the Free French on the one hand and ...
This is a story about a dangerous idea-that all men are created equal-which ignited revolutions in America, France, and Haiti; burst across Europe in the ...
Both revolutionary and reactionary, the Islamic Republic of Iran has long been a conundrum for Western observers. A theocracy that aspires to a popular mandate ...
A new history of the American Jewish relationship with Israel focused on its most urgent and sensitive issue: the question of Palestinian rights
American Jews ...
The Scythians were a horse nomads from the central Eurasian steppes who migrated south and west into the region around the Black Sea from the ...
