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By the end of the 1960s the process of decolonization had practically run its course in Southeast Asia. One exception, however, was tiny Portuguese Timor ...
Explorer Jules-Sebastien-Cesar Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) is sometimes called France's Captain Cook. Born less than a year after the beginning of the French Revolution ...
Ask anyone what single object they associate with China and the most common answer will be a Ming vase. Probably without even knowing the dates ...
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014
From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in ...
During the eighteenth and early years of the nineteenth century, the red tide of British expansion had covered the entire Indian subcontinent reaching the borders ...
For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and ...
Key Selling Points: Previously unpublished letters give a unique insight into his life, particularly during periods of desperation, hunger and loneliness A re-evaluation of Livingstone ...
This compendious celebration of ineptitude includes some of history s most spectacularly ill-conceived expeditions and entirely useless pursuits, and features tales of black comedy, insane ...
The politicians, writers, artists and philosophers of ancient Greece turned a small group of city states into a civilization whose legacy can be found everywhere ...
Following the acclaimed Walk Into Prehistory, Walk Into the Dark Ages explores approximately 40 of Britain and Ireland's most important and impressive Dark Ages ...
