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The pre-eminent historian of his day, Edward Gibbon (1737-94) produced his magnum opus in six volumes between 1776 and 1788. Reissued here is the authoritative ...
The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne's empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even ...
In 15,000 B.C. early humankind, who had evolved in Africa tens of thousands of years before, arrived in Siberia, during the Ice Age ...
Hu Feng, the "counterrevolutionary" leader of a banned literary school, spent twenty-five years in Chinese Communist Party prison system. But back in the early days ...
Written as an engrossing detective story by the leading authority, this is the first major attempt in nearly eighty years to deal with the core ...
David Livingstone has gone down in history as a fearless explorer and missionary, hacking his way through the forests of Africa to bring light to ...
We think of the Renaissance as a shining era of human achievementa pinnacle of artistic genius and humanist brilliance, the time of Shakespeare, Michelangelo, and ...
Alistair Moffat traces the history of the clans from their Celtic origins to the coming of the Romans; from Somerled the Viking to Robert the ...
"Twilight of the Romanovs" opens a door onto the world of pre-revolutionary Russia in original photographs taken during the last decades of Romanov rule. They ...
Published on the anniversary of when President Abraham Lincoln's order went into effect, this book offers readers a unique look at the events that ...
The Napoleonic Wars have an important place in the history of Europe, leaving their mark on European and world societies in a variety of ways ...
The history of the world has been the history of peoples on the move, as they occupy new lands and establish their claims over them ...
The Council of Trent (1545--1563), the Catholic Church's attempt to put its house in order in response to the Protestant Reformation, has long been ...
