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Two hundred and fifty years ago Captain James Cook, during his extraordinary voyages of navigation and maritime exploration, searched for Antarctica the Unknown Southern Continent ...
The centuries that followed the fall of the Western Roman Empire in AD 476 saw the formation of numerous Romano-Germanic kingdoms from the fusion between ...
Much has been written about the historical persecution of Catholics. Priests in particular became prime targets during the heightened tensions of the Armada and the ...
In the days of Egyptian antiquity, many of the gods were abstract concepts rather than the actual anthropomorphic god-pictures familiar to us today. Many of ...
Despite Rome's conquest of the Mediterranean, by the turn of the first century BC, Rome's influence barely stretched into the East. In the ...
With the huge popularity of mythological retales, here is a timely, multi-author story of the flawed but all-powerful Odin, told through ancient and modern hands ...
A gripping new history of London during the Blackout-revealing the violent crime that spread across the capital under the cover of darkness
Fear was the ...
A memoir that combines political and economic commentary with personal and national history.
Mohammad Tarbush was born in British Mandate Palestine. As an infant, he ...
The Silk Road may be one origin of globalization, but the Indian Ocean is another. Barry Cunliffe examines the beginning of maritime trade using the ...
A richly illustrated publication that explores the networks of contacts and exchanges spanning Afro-Eurasia from 500 to 1000 ce, highlighting how the movement of people ...
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring In 432 BCE the powerful city-state of Sparta on the peninsula of the Peloponnesus in southwestern Greece declared war ...
Joe Sacco's breakthrough work of graphic journalism -- a now-established genre almost single handedly invented by Sacco -- won the American Book Award upon its initial ...
This lavishly illustrated history re-tells the story of the battle and Henry V's Normandy campaign from the perspective of the commander of the English ...
Is it true that the trans-Atlantic slave trade, about which so much has been heard in recent years, would have been impossible without the willing ...
The epic struggle between Carthage and Rome, two of the superpowers of the ancient world, is most famous for land battles in Italy, on the ...