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Discover how the modern world came to be with this easy-to-follow and up-to-date history companion Want to get a taste of the entirety of human ...
Praise for the author's A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths: 'Eminently sane, highly informative'
PAUL CARTLEDGE, BBC History magazine
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THE PERSIANS is a definitive new history of the Persian Empire, the world's first superpower.
The Great Kings of Persia ruled over the largest ...
'Brilliantly recapturing the febrile atmosphere of Berlin in the first four years after the Second World War, Giles Milton reminds us what an excellent story-teller ...
From the leading scholars behind The Greek Plays, a collection of the best translations of the foremost Greek historians, presenting a sweeping history of ancient ...
A visual exploration of the movements of peoples, cultures, and ideas that brings a human perspective to a global phenomenon
Discover how the migration of ...
'A galloping journey through thousands of years of Chinese culinary history . . . a timely reminder that the country's modern cuisine is the delicious fruit of ...
A revelatory account of early Islam's great diversity by the world's leading scholar of early Qur'anic manuscripts
According to Muslim dogma, the ...
The history of Germany is intricately woven. Threaded in time through its struggles and triumphs with religion, industrialisation, enlightenment, politics, unification, and war.
In A ...
One of the most monstrous enterprises in the annals of international history,' said Karl Marx. 'A madness without parallel since Don Quixote,' said a future ...
A history of the countries bordering the Black Sea told through the stories of the people who live there.
Fringing the Black Sea is a ...
John Julius Norwich presents a sweeping tour of forty great cities that shaped the ancient world and its civilizations - and which in turn have shaped ...
Emotionally resonant photographs of everyday life in the Jewish Lodz Ghetto taken during WWII
From 1941 to 1944, the Polish Jewish photographer Henryk Ross (1910-91 ...
A compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library
In this engaging life of the twentieth century's most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey ...
A comprehensive history of the Georgians, comparing past views of these exciting, turbulent, and controversial times with our attitudes today.
The Georgian era is often ...
