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'Toweringly ambitious, virtually flawlessly realized, a masterpiece and, without doubt, my book of the year' John Harding, Daily Mail
And the Land Lay Still is ...
Combining new approaches with a groundbreaking historical synthesis, this accessible work is the most thorough and up-to-date general history of French Indochina available in English ...
This book traces the papal line down the centuries from St Peter himself - traditionally (though by no means historically) the first pope - to the present ...
This is a revealing, in-depth biography of the mysterious and dynamic Englishman whose daring exploits and romantic profile made him an object of intense fascination ...
Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were the two 'dirty centuries'? Why did gas lighting cause Victorian ladies to faint? Why, for centuries ...
A succinct guide to Aboriginal art that outlines the history and cultural significance of Indigenous rock painting, bark painting, carvings and sculpture and the 'modern ...
Thanks in part to Shakespeare, Henry V is one of England's best-known monarchs. The image of the king leading his army against the French ...
After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both ...
Alcibiades is one of the most famous (or infamous) characters of Classical Greece. A young Athenian aristocrat, he came to prominence during the Peloponnesian War ...
From Joan of Arc to ordinary servants, a unique collection of female voices from the Middle Ages
'Woman, who is equal to the moon in ...
Based on exclusive access to newly discovered Russian documents, the last word on the fate of the Romanov family. The overthrow and execution of Tsar ...
A major new interpretation of one of the crucial events in modern world history - Britain's Industrial Revolution
Why did Western countries become so much ...
