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Combining new approaches with a groundbreaking historical synthesis, this accessible work is the most thorough and up-to-date general history of French Indochina available in English ...
Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were the two 'dirty centuries'? Why did gas lighting cause Victorian ladies to faint? Why, for centuries ...
This book traces the papal line down the centuries from St Peter himself - traditionally (though by no means historically) the first pope - to the present ...
A succinct guide to Aboriginal art that outlines the history and cultural significance of Indigenous rock painting, bark painting, carvings and sculpture and the 'modern ...
This is a revealing, in-depth biography of the mysterious and dynamic Englishman whose daring exploits and romantic profile made him an object of intense fascination ...
Thanks in part to Shakespeare, Henry V is one of England's best-known monarchs. The image of the king leading his army against the French ...
After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both ...
Alcibiades is one of the most famous (or infamous) characters of Classical Greece. A young Athenian aristocrat, he came to prominence during the Peloponnesian War ...
Based on exclusive access to newly discovered Russian documents, the last word on the fate of the Romanov family. The overthrow and execution of Tsar ...
From Joan of Arc to ordinary servants, a unique collection of female voices from the Middle Ages
'Woman, who is equal to the moon in ...
A major new interpretation of one of the crucial events in modern world history - Britain's Industrial Revolution
Why did Western countries become so much ...
Plastic built the modern world. Where would we be without bike helmets, toothbrushes, babies bottles and pacemakers? But a century into our love affair with ...
The Corpse Walker is a collection of twenty-seven extraordinary interviews that opens a window, unlike any other, onto the lives of ordinary, often outcast, Chinese ...
