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The decline of the Roman Empire has been a subject of fascination and debate for centuries. In this original new work, Neil Christie draws on ...
The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a succession of rulers ...
Cleopatra s palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years ...
First Modern Classics publication of this landmark work of social anthropology
Tristes Tropiques begins with the line 'I hate travelling and explorers', yet during his ...
McGregor offers a holistic interpretation of the complex relationship between Indigenous and settler Australians during the middle four decades of the twentieth century. Combining the ...
Alan Wood's ambitious work is the first to address the whole span - both chronologically and thematically - of the development of Siberia, and its role ...
"Great Discoveries in Medicine" provides an unrivalled account of the evolution of medical knowledge and practice from ancient Egypt, India and China to todays latest ...
In the 1800s Britain was making a mint selling Indian opium to China. In return, they were buying tea, silks and ceramics. When eventually China ...
How can a man who achieved so much be so little remembered?
Explorer, pioneer aviator, war photographer, naturalist, meteorologist, author, student of the paranormal, and ...
n fighting? In almost every major war there has come a point where defeat has loomed for one side and its rulers have cut a ...
Manitou Springs has long been known as a spiritual hot spot. From the healing waters of the local springs to the town's patron spirit ...
In this acclaimed exploration of the culture of others, Rebecca Solnit travels through Ireland, the land of her long-forgotten maternal ancestors. A Book of Migrations ...
From the death of Louis XIV to the Revolution-in Sweden, Austria, Italy, Spain, England, Russia, and Germany; among kings and queens, diplomats, military leaders, writers ...
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, many worry that the emerging economic power of China and India spells the end of the West as ...
