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A history of Europe since Napoleon, covering all of the main topics of that period.
Written in AD 731, Bede's work opens with a background sketch of Roman Britain's geography and history. It goes on to tell of ...
An enthralling account of day-to-day life in a medieval French village. Using records gathered by the Catholic Church in its pursuit of heretics, the book ...
A fascinating description of the beginning of the modern world
For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning ...
Married at twelve, then separated, divorced and widowed, Nisa is the mother of four children, none of whom survived. She is strong, capable of foraging ...
From the distinguished American historian whose work has been acclaimed around the world, a major new book that penetrates one of the most bizarre and ...
This book collects ten essays from the five volumes of Subaltern Studies that have so far appeared. The aim of the studies is to 'promote ...
This is the first full-length analysis of the machinery and men of government under Henry I, which looks in much greater detail than is possible ...
Strabo (ca. 64 BCE to ca. 25 CE), an Asiatic Greek of Amasia in Pontus, studied at Nysa and after 44 BCE at Rome. He ...
The History of Herodian (born ca. 178-179 CE) covers a period of the Roman empire from the death of the emperor Marcus Aurelius (180 CE ...
This is the book that made Simon Schama's reputation when first published in 1987. A historical masterpiece, it is an epic account of Dutch ...
The first volume in William Manchester's masterful, magnum opus account of Winston Churchill's life. The Last Lion: Visions of Glory follows the first ...
Few legal institutions developed solely under the Roman Empire, but there is one which can provide a rare illustration of the emperors' involvement in building ...
