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According to legend, the Roman emperor Nero set fire to his majestic imperial capital on the night of July 19, AD 64 and fiddled while ...
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An illustrated study of the history of the Moscow Kremlin, a metaphor for Russia, a symbol for its government and an enduring icon of the ...
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At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, key figures in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement who left Washington, D ...
This is a profoundly original and entertaining history of France, from the first century bc to the present day, based on countless new discoveries and ...
The rise of American Empire has coincided with appeals for a more humane war. But what if efforts to make war more ethical-to ban torture ...
Contrary to nationalist legend and schoolboy history lessons, the British Empire was not a great civilising power bringing light to the
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Sanjay Subrahmanyam is becoming well known for the same sort of reasons that attach to Fernand Braudel and Carlo Ginzburg, as the proponent of a ...
Winner of the Runciman Award
Winner of the Charles J. Goodwin Award
"A magisterial contribution to this hitherto obscure but clearly important restructuring of time ...
A New Statesman Book of the Year
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A brilliant and novel examination of how Abraham Lincoln mastered the art of leadership
"Abraham Lincoln had less schooling than all but a couple of ...
On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those ...
As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People's Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution ...
