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An illustrated study of the history of the Moscow Kremlin, a metaphor for Russia, a symbol for its government and an enduring icon of the ...
Tour the Roman Empire at its height with Marcus Sidonius Falx and his amanuensis, Dr Jerry Toner.
Travelling east, Falx explores the great cultural centre ...
This is a profoundly original and entertaining history of France, from the first century bc to the present day, based on countless new discoveries and ...
According to legend, the Roman emperor Nero set fire to his majestic imperial capital on the night of July 19, AD 64 and fiddled while ...
Compact edition of the first fully integrated visual reference on Big History for general readers
Discover how we got to where we are, in this ...
In 1962 the American statesman Dean Acheson famously charged that Britain had lost an empire and failed to find a new role. Nearly sixty years ...
The rise of American Empire has coincided with appeals for a more humane war. But what if efforts to make war more ethical-to ban torture ...
Contrary to nationalist legend and schoolboy history lessons, the British Empire was not a great civilising power bringing light to the
darker corners of the ...
At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, key figures in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement who left Washington, D ...
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes the story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought freedom and ...
I felt that Mary was there, pulling at my sleeve, willing me to appreciate the artistry, wanting me to understand the dazzle of the material ...
A New Statesman Book of the Year
"Reveals how ideology corrupts the truth, how untrammeled ambition destroys the soul, and how the vanity of white ...
Winner of the Runciman Award
Winner of the Charles J. Goodwin Award
"A magisterial contribution to this hitherto obscure but clearly important restructuring of time ...
A brilliant and novel examination of how Abraham Lincoln mastered the art of leadership
"Abraham Lincoln had less schooling than all but a couple of ...
On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those ...
