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From classicist James Romm comes a "striking...fascinating" (Booklist) deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great ...
The Israel-Palestine 'conflict' is often understood to be a clash between ethnic groups inhabiting the same land. This book proves something quite different: the violent ...
An exhilarating exploration of the medium through which almost everyone has interacted with scripture, by the author of the bestselling A History of the Bible ...
An important and entertaining revisionist biography of Henrietta Maria (1609-1699) by one of our most respected historians
A Best Book of 2022, The Times
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The second part of an infamous memoir about life in the time of Napoleon by a rebellious literary celebrity.
In 1800, Fran ois-Rene de Chateaubriand ...
The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day
"Beginning in the hunting-and-gathering past ...
Fifty years after his death, Portugal's Salazar remains a controversial and enigmatic figure, whose conservative and authoritarian legacy still divides opinion. Some see him ...
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South Africa was born in war, has been cursed by crises ...
The Four Horsemen - War, Pestilence, Famine and Death - first appeared in the Book of Revelations a thousand years ago, but they continue to track us ...
From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thing all humans ...
For nearly two hundred years the Society has been awarding gold medals to those individuals who have contributed most to our geographical knowledge. Winners of ...
The Great Lighthouses of Ireland is a collection of striking images and fascinating stories about the lighthouses around Ireland's coast and the extraordinary men ...
The final destruction of the Ottoman Empire - one of the great epics of the First World War
Eugene Rogan's remarkable book recreates one of ...
When the samurai warlord and respected castle architect Todo Takatora died in 1630, the funeral attendants responsible for preparing his body were shocked to note ...
At its height in the second century AD, the Roman Empire extended across continents, from Hadrian's border wall to the port towns of the ...
