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Any explanation of political collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all complex societies in both ...
Thurston Clarke's gripping account of the last months of the life of President John F. Kennedy weaves together his public and private life and ...
What is a homeland, and when does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for such places throughout ...
Following the destruction of its armed forces in the autumn of 1939, the Republic of Poland was partitioned between Nazi and Soviet forces and officially ...
If history is written by the victors, can we really know Hannibal, whose portrait we see through the eyes of his Roman conquerors?
"Eve MacDonald ...
From the award-winning author of Almost a Miracle and The Ascent of George Washington, this is the rare work of scholarship that offers us irresistible ...
Plantagenet is the name given to the English royal house descended from the union of Queen Matilda of England and her second husband Geoffrey of ...
This book deals with the incredible rise and unbelievable fall of Josephine, a mistress, courtesan and Revolutionary heroine whose energy and ambition has often been ...
Since the age of Alexander the Great, waves of foreign armies have invaded the Middle East and South Asia to plunder their vast treasures. In ...
On 8 June 1972, nine-year-old Kim Phuc, severely burned by napalm, ran from her burning village and into the eye of history. Her photograph, seen ...
In this brilliant collection of pieces on the question of Palestinian self-determination, Edward Said - the most celebrated, visible, and outspoken Arab writing in America today ...
We still live in the shadow of the classical world. At every level from languages to calendars to political systems, we are the descendants of ...
A compelling history of the contradictory, often militaristic, role of Zen Buddhism, this book meticulously documents the close and previously unknown support of a supposedly ...
