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A riotous biography of the charismatic ruler of 18th-century Poland and Saxony, and his catastrophic reign.
Both King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, Augustus ...
'Alice Hunt brilliantly reanimates this most extraordinary decade. It is a gripping tale of political and cultural crisis but also one of joy and hopeful ...
The first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history
Historians Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished ...
A compelling, authoritative history of how women shaped the Reformations and transformed religious life across the globe
The Reformations, both Protestant and Catholic, have long ...
Three thousand years of encounters with malevolent beings that have invaded our waking lives and our nightmares
A Penguin Classic
Three thousand years of encounters ...
An inspiring testament to China's dissident historians and activists, from the 1940s to the present
A documentary filmmaker who uncovered a Mao-era death camp ...
'A terrific book about a terrifying subject by the best historian of Russia working today' - Michael Burleigh, author of The Third Reich
In Blood on ...
This much needed new edition provides a complete and essential guide to this fast developing, ever changing and often tense region. This book, fully updated ...
Discover everything you've ever wondered about the legendary spirits, creatures, and figures of Japanese folklore including how they have found their way into every ...
An adventurous, dazzling and original continent-sized history that brings South America's untold past and fascinating present to life
Stretching from the edge of Antarctica ...
The classic, bestselling, official biography of Winston Churchill, back in print for the first time in two decades
'By far the most lucid, comprehensive and ...
'An enthralling guide to one of the world's great cities - that blends history and insights into the present day from one of the most ...
Cunning, monstrous, virtuous. Rediscover the overlooked women of Greek myth.
Goddesses and mortals, warriors and muses, women are at the heart of ancient Greek folklore ...
'A sweeping, absorbing history, deeply researched, of that extraordinary and enduring phenomenon: the library' - Richard Ovenden, author of Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge ...
WINNER OF THE 2021 NDR BOOK PRIZE IN GERMANY 'A must-read' Lyndal Roper, Regius Professor of History at Oriel College, OxfordFishing quotas on Lake Constance ...
