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As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People's Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution ...
A compelling account of why Ireland was so very Catholic for so long, and why that changed
When Berlin-based journalist Derek Scally visited Christmas Vigil ...
The first volume in a landmark three-part biographical series chronicling Soeharto's rise to power
When a reluctant President Sukarno gave Lieutenant General Soeharto full ...
The 1917 Revolution sent shockwaves throughout the globe, setting a chain of events in motion that would change the entire course of the 20th century ...
In the mid-sixteenth century, Spanish explorers in the Chesapeake region kidnapped an Indian teenager and took him back to Spain, a common occurrence at the ...
'We felt an urge to document what we had witnessed. If we who had experienced it, I reasoned, did not reveal the bitter truth, people ...
The Tudor period has long gripped our imaginations. Because we have consumed so many costume dramas on TV and film, read so many histories, factual ...
While conquering Greece and Macedonia the Romans defeated an intervention by the Seleucid Empire, the most powerful of the Hellenistic states founded by Alexander the ...
'Nanna was an imposing woman. She was large and dark, with strong arms and silver hair that fell to her waist ... Her scars bore testament ...
The paradigm-shifting classic that connected the dots between transatlantic slavery, capitalism and racism
'If one criterion of a classic is its ability to reorient our ...
Initially a slaving vessel itself, the Black Joke was captured in 1827 and repurposed by the Royal Navy to catch its former compatriots. Over the ...
A vivid double biography of two fearless Early Medieval queens, and an enthralling journey of discovery across the unfamiliar and blood-soaked historical landscape of sixth-century ...
A scholarly approach to sixty-one stories from the book of Genesis, following in the lucid format of Graves' canonical The Greek Myths. With a new ...
The famous Benin Bronzes are among the most prized possessions of the British Museum. Celebrated for their great beauty, they embody the history, myth and ...
Venice, 1522. Sensitive intelligence arrives from the east confirming the European powers' greatest fear- the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has amassed all he needs to ...
