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One criticism of history is that historians all too often study it in isolation, failing to take advantage of models and evidence from scholars in ...
In his 1997 work Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond marshals evidence from five continents and across 13,000 years of human history in an ...
`Reconstruction' is the name given to the period that, beginning shortly before the end of the American Civil War and running until 1877, saw the ...
Daniel Goldhagen's study of the Holocaust offers conclusions that run directly counter to those reached by Christopher Browning, whose book Ordinary Men is also ...
General Sherman's 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary military tactics ...
American scholar Jared Diamond deploys his powers of interpretation to great effect in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, which seeks to understand ...
A unique, in-depth view of Victorian London during the record-breaking summer of 1858, when residents both famous and now-forgotten endured "The Great Stink" together
While ...
The Second World War was one of the most catastrophic events in human history. But how did the experience and memory of bloodshed affect our ...
The turbulent Tudor age never fails to capture the imagination. But what was it actually like to be a woman during this period? This was ...
The electrifying story of India's struggle for independence, told in this classic account by two fine journalists who conducted hundreds of interviews with nearly ...
When the world held its breath It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 ...
The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i Noor, arguably the most celebrated and mythologised jewel in the world.
On 29 March 1849, the ...
Based on exciting new research involving the largest sampling of DNA ever made in Britain, Alistair Moffat, author of the bestselling The
Scots: A Genetic ...
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The "masterful chronicle" of the discovery of the legendary lost civilization of the Maya and the quest to unlock their secrets ...
The 15 classic essays collected in Kokoro examine the inner spiritual life of Japan.The title itself can be translated as heart, spirit or inner ...
