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"[A] smart take on modern Chinese nationalism" (Foreign Policy). Bill Hayton tells the story of how 'China' came to think of itself as China- and ...
In the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed that henceforth German would be the language of his realm. His intention was to forge a ...
Scotland is one of the oldest nations in the world, yet by some it is hardly counted as a nation at all. Neither a colony ...
For almost 350 years the Plantagenet family held the English throne - longer than any dynasty in English history - and yet its origins were in Anjou ...
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY
WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY
"Full of...lively insights and lucid prose" (The ...
In Lives Between the Lines, Michael Vatikiotis traces the journey of his Greek and Italian forebears from Tuscany, Crete, Hydra and Rhodes, as they made ...
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, January 2022
A TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR
A BBC HISTORY MAG ...
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Holy Land covers the 3,000 years which saw the rise of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and relates the ...
A TIMES BEST PAPERBACK OF 2022
'Glorious ... It's rare to read anything so teeming with life' SPECTATOR, Books of the Year
'This is Kynaston ...
Offers evidence from Jesse James's secret encoded diaries
Examines Jesse James's close ties with other notorious outlaws, such as Johnny Ringo, Jesse Evans ...
"Myth and misunderstanding spring from the American frontier as readily as rye grass from sod, and - like the wiry grass - seem as difficult to weed ...
"Richly detailed. . . an intimate portrait of a diplomat." -New Yorker
Now in paperback with a new epilogue
In this revealing, funny, and inspiring memoir, seven-time ...
A dramatic retelling of the story of the final years of the Western Roman Empire and the downfall of Rome itself from the perspective of ...
'Heart-stopping . . . The book is both forensic and a page-turner, and ultimately deeply tragic, for Ireland as much as for the murder victim.' - MICHAEL PORTILLO
'Gripping ...
A thrilling tale of discovery and the history of Homo floresiensis.
There is only one kind of human on earth today- us. But we are ...
