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A profound and ground-breaking ...
What would it feel like To Run the World? The Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. In this panoramic new ...
A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world
"[Petropoulos] brings Lohse into sharper focus, as a ...
'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.' Professor Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors
'A real-life Indiana Jones takes readers on a dive ...
A landmark history of the lost world of peasants and all it has to teach us, from one of Britain's leading social historians
A ...
In the nineteenth century, collectors and museum curators in Europe were fascinated by the antipodean colony of Tasmania. They cultivated contacts in the colony who ...
Zeinab Badawi, award-winning broadcaster and President of SOAS, tells an epic story of the oldest inhabited continent in the world from an African perspective, for ...
A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient world
Living in ancient Rome was superbly and vividly ...
A revelatory new account of the magus - the learned magician - and his place in the intellectual, social and cultural world of Renaissance Europe
At the ...
A UNIQUELY FASCINATING JOURNEY THROUGH THE HISTORY OF A CONTINENT AND ITS PEOPLES
Immerse yourself in the intricate story of Africa and discover Africa's ...
The gripping history of Taiwan, from the flood myths of indigenous legend to its Asian Tiger economic miracle - and the renewed threat of invasion by ...
A landmark study of the Enlightenment from an eminent historian
The Enlightenment is popularly seen as the Age of Reason, a key moment in human ...
A concise history of Paris and the great events and personalities, from prehistory to the present, that have shaped its unique cultural legacy.
Once described ...
Dazzling in scale, diversity and detail, the world never ceases to open our eyes and captivate our curiosity. Ever since the earliest cave paintings, humans ...
'A beautiful, beautiful book . . . archaeology is changing so much about the way we view the so-called Dark Ages ... [Williams] is just brilliant at bringing them ...
