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The Mediterranean was one of Napoleon's greatest spheres of influence. With territory in Spain, Italy and, of course, France, Napoleon's regime dominated the ...
In September 1941, two and a half months after the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, the German Wehrmacht encircled Leningrad. Cut off from the rest ...
The exploits of Alexander the Great were so remarkable that for centuries after his death the Macedonian ruler seemed a figure more of legend than ...
Colin Jordan and Britain's Neo-Nazi Movement casts fresh light on one of post-war Britain's most notorious fascists, using him to examine the contemporary ...
Hazel Forsyth delvesin to never-before-studied primary sources to shed light on thedramatic aftermath of the disaster and reveal the very personalstories of the people who ...
For two thousand years the real, physical metropolis lay buried while another, ghostly city lived on through ideas as varied as the legendary Hanging Gardens ...
In the febrile religious and political climate of late sixteenth-century England, when the grip of the Reformation was as yet fragile and insecure, and underground ...
In this Very Short Introduction, Jon Balserak explores major ideas associated with the Calvinist system of thought. Beginning during the Protestant Reformation in cities like ...
Big History, the field that studies the entire known past of our universe to give context to human existence, has so far been the domain ...
Major transformations in society are always accompanied by parallel transformations in systems of social communication A what we call the media. In this book, historian ...
From the bestselling author of A History of the World in 21 Women
They were famous queens, unrecognised visionaries, great artists and trailblazing politicians. They ...
Millions of people in a nation are necessary for a single genius to arise, millions of tedious hours must pass before a truly historic shooting ...
How did everything get so dumb?
How did we become hostages to idiocy?
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This classic, clear-eyed account', writes renowned historian Bill Gammage, is the most comprehensive record of first contact anywhere in the world'.
Middle Kingdom chronicles the ...