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Originally published in 1967, this work offers a detailed reconstruction of government borrowing during the first half of the 18th century. Utilizing a range of ...
Updated with a new foreword by Tom Hanks: acclaimed historian William Manchester A World Lit Only by Fire is a "captivating and marvelously vivid" popular ...
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent ...
Reprint. Originally published: Random House, 1991. An account of one of the most gigantic and astonishing episodes in human history . . . First-class . . . Meticulously written and researched ...
In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The ...
Bede's Ecclesiastical History was completed in 731 and still ranks among the most popular of history books. By the end of the eighth century ...
A reissue of Simon Schama's landmark study of the Netherlands from 1780-1813, this is a tale of a once-powerful nation's desparate struggle to ...
Robert Conquest uses fresh and dramatic material, which has only recently become available, to give further depth and breadth to his history of the momentous ...
The Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In ...
The enchanted world of fairy tales has been an integral part of childhood for hundreds of years. But what do they really mean and what ...
The Stefano was wrecked on the North West Cape in Western Australia in 1875. After clashes with the natives the last two survivors were finally ...
A history of Europe since Napoleon, covering all of the main topics of that period.
Written in AD 731, Bede's work opens with a background sketch of Roman Britain's geography and history. It goes on to tell of ...
An enthralling account of day-to-day life in a medieval French village. Using records gathered by the Catholic Church in its pursuit of heretics, the book ...
