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The shocking massacre of 379 unarmed Indians in the enclosed Jallianwala Bath park on the command of a British army officer on April 13th, 1919 ...
Chinese culture is rich with marvelous folklore, and this exquisitely designed collection draws on that magnificent historical repository.
It features more than 200 fables and ...
A ground-breaking history that revolutionizes our view of West Africa
By the time of the 'Scramble for Africa' in the late nineteenth century, Africa had ...
THE LITTLE ICE AGE tells the fascinating story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history. Using sources ranging from ...
Sir Walter Ralegh was the favourite of Queen Elizabeth, who showered him estates, jewels, monopolies, and political appointments earning him the reputation of "the most ...
Stigmatized and relegated to the margins of Roman society, the Goths were violent ?barbarians? who destroyed ?civilization,? at least in the conventional story of Rome ...
The magnificent biography of Gandhi by India's leading historian
Gandhi lived one of the great 20th century lives. He inspired and enraged, challenged and ...
A gripping memoir written by a 96-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor about his escape from Nazi-occupied Poland in the 1930's and his adventures with the ...
What would Caligula do? What the worst Roman emperors can teach us about how not to lead
If recent history has taught us anything, it ...
In Someone Is Out to Get Us, Brian T. Brown explores the delusions, absurdities and best-kept secrets of the Cold War, during which the United ...
'Sharply observed, snappily written and thoroughly researched, SHE MERCHANTS provides a fabulous panorama of a largely ignored area of social history. Katie Hickman successfully challenges ...
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society surveys the landscape of contemporary research and charts principal directions of future inquiry. More than a history ...
'Wonderfully learned, wonderfully written, a microscopic examination of the acorn from which a truly mighty oak would spring. I learnt a huge amount.' - Tom Holland ...
Enigmatic, Eminence grise, the 'power behind the throne' - these phrases sum up Zhou Enlai's long and varied, but always pivotal, political career in the ...
November 12, 1941: war and revolution are in the air. At the Shanghai Race Club, the city's elite prepare to face off their best ...
