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People have been looking for the sites of the long-lost and mysterious battles of King Arthur for a thousand years. In this book, the result ...
This book tells the story of the archaeology and history of Somerset from the earliest times up to the twentieth century. Illustrated with 100 drawings ...
The Syrian state is less than 100 years old, born from the wreckage of World War I. Today it stands in ruins, shattered by brutal ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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WRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore selects over one hundred letters ...
The American experiment rests on three ideas-"these truths", Jefferson called them-political equality, natural rights and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too ...
In the wake of one of the most tumultuous conventions in Republican history, the party of Lincoln nominated in 1940 a prominent businessman and Wall ...
Winner of the Whitbread Biography of the Year.
William Gladstone was, with Tennyson, Newman, Dickens, Carlyle, and Darwin, one of the stars of nineteenth-century British ...
All textiles begin with a twist. From colourful 30,000-year old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to what the linen wrappings ...
Americans who remember World War II reminisce about how it brought the country together. The less popular truth behind this warm nostalgia: until the attack ...
The history of the Fabii Maximii is in many ways that of the Roman Republic. In the legends and historical scraps that survived the Republic ...
Tracing the rise of commercial fetish art from its shadowy beginnings in the 1940s to its acceptance in the 1970s, this illustrated biography explores the ...
In Antony Cummins' new work, the hidden life of Old Japan is brought to the fore using newly translated original documents from the times of ...
