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This fascinating book tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought ...
The perfect gift for anyone interested in Irish folklore. These lrish tales are reprinted from nineteenth-century sources, but they date back to a centuries-old oral ...
A substantially revised and updated edition of the author's classic 1987 book, 'The Polish Way: A Thousand-Year History of the Poles and their Culture ...
Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of the World's Largest Archipelago Indonesia is by far the largest nation in Southeast Asia and one ...
Since its US debut, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy ...
In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers ...
In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory ...
The Mitchell Plateau area in Western Australia's Kimberley region has some of the world's most spectacular and ancient rock art, but much of ...
Like a modern Viking 32-year-old Nansen set sail from Norway in 1893 to reach the North Pole. Experts warned him that his voyage was tantamount ...
One of the greatest and most controversial feats of twentieth-century journalism
Hannah Arendt's authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi SS ...
One of the great landmarks of modern history publishing, Simon Schama's Citizens- A Chronicle of the French Revolution is the most authoritative social, cultural ...
Rome as you've never seen it before - brazenly unconventional, badly behaved and ever so feminine.
'Hugely entertaining and illuminating' -Elodie Harper, author of The ...
A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 ONDAATJE PRIZE'A masterful portrait of one of the world's greatest cities... A must-read ...
Margaret, the first Tudor princess and queen consort and queen regent of Scotland, is the forgotten Tudor. Yet the elder sister of Henry VIII led ...
