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The first full-length history of England in one volume for many decades - now in paperback
The English first came into existence as an idea, before ...
John Diefenbaker has been unfairly treated by history. Although he wrestled with personal demons, his governments launched major reforms in public health care, law reform ...
The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice . A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller-about the U.S.-sanctioned ...
This American Book Award winning title about Native American struggle and resistance radically reframes more than 400 years of US history
New York Times Bestseller ...
As any historian will testify, a nineteenth-century woman's place was very much at home. Or was it? For a lucky (and plucky) few, who ...
The second volume of this ground-breaking trilogy covers the reigns of Ptolemy II, III, IV, V and VI, who between them reigned for a century ...
Stephen. John. Edward II. Richard II. Richard III. These five are widely viewed as the worst of England's medieval kings. Certainly, their reigns were ...
'Highly entertaining' - The Times
'A hymn book to the London street' - TLS
'an artful recipe book for that most crucial of human achievements: good cities ...
A broad-ranging history of defectors from the Communist world to the West and how their Cold War treatment shaped present-day restrictions on cross-border movement.Defectors ...
This book integrates Soviet and post-Soviet Russian history into a coherent whole by focusing on the culture, role models, habits and behavior patterns that provide ...
A descent into discovering different versions of hell and its realms of torture around the world across literature, religions, culture, and folklore, gorgeously illustrated and ...
Hailed as the definitive portrait of the sixteenth president, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame's impressive two-volume biography has been masterfully abridged and revised.
Sixteenth president ...
Ancient Rome's original archconservative.
M. Porcius Cato (234-149 BC), one of the best-known figures of the middle Roman Republic, remains legendary for his political ...
A lively and comprehensive history of Belfast-covering the highs and lows of a resilient city
Modern Belfast is a beautiful city with a vibrant tradition ...
