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Western exceptionalism-the idea that European civilizations are freer, wealthier, and less violent-is a widespread and powerful political idea. It has been a source of peace ...
A concise history of the goddess-like figures who evade both Christian and pagan traditions, from the medieval period to the present day
In this riveting ...
"Describes magnificent achievements, storms of controversy, and sometimes the pure devilment of scholars and printers Captivating and often amusing."
-Wall Street Journal
"Ideas, in this ...
Wallis Simpson, Theodore Roosevelt, Benito Mussolini, Evelyn Waugh, the great tenor Luciano Pavarotti, and the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, were all agreed: the ...
A compelling and vivid narrative history of one of the founding civilizations of the modern world, the Byzantine empire, evocatively told through the lives of ...
"A feat of both scholarship and storytelling" (Wall Street Journal)--the definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries.
In The ...
There is more to St Helena than an exiled emperor; the tiny island in the middle of the wild South Atlantic Ocean has a rich ...
A history of the countries bordering the Black Sea told through the stories of the people who live there.
Fringing the Black Sea is a ...
Emotionally resonant photographs of everyday life in the Jewish Lodz Ghetto taken during WWII
From 1941 to 1944, the Polish Jewish photographer Henryk Ross (1910-91 ...
A vivid double biography of two fearless Early Medieval queens, and an enthralling journey of discovery across the unfamiliar and blood-soaked historical landscape of sixth-century ...
A century before Britain became involved in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, whole villages and towns in England, Ireland, Italy, Spain and other European countries were ...
A thrilling history of the revolutionary birth of modern Greece
In the exhausted, repressive years that followed Napoleon's defeat in 1815, there was one ...
A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age.
In 1346, a catastrophic ...
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER & THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF 2021
'Astonishing and compelling' Bernard Cornwell
'This superb book is like a classical symphony, perfectly ...
A masterful history of the great dynasty of the Netherlands' Middle Ages.
'A sumptuous feast of a book' The Times, Books of the Year
'Thrillingly ...
