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Publius Quinctilius Varus is famous as the incompetent commander duped into an ambush that wiped out three legions in one of the most humiliating defeats ...
An investigation into the evolution of the seven-day week and how our attachment to its rhythms influences how we live
"[Henkin] scours American literature, diaries ...
This book brings together archaeological and linguistic evidence to provide a sweeping global history of ancient Africa, tracing how the continent played an important role ...
A thought-provoking, authoritative biography of one of history's most maligned rulers: France's Louis XVI
"The definitive contribution to our understanding of Louis XVI ...
An exhilarating, accessible chronicle of the ruling families of France and England, showing how two dynasties formed one extraordinary story
The twelfth and thirteenth centuries ...
Bone and tooth tools and ornaments have been made by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for at least 46,000 years some of the ...
This is a new history of the region known as Kyivan Rus', a state in eastern and northern Europe from the late ninth to the ...
Cattle were introduced to North America as early as the 1680s. But the true era of the cowboy required an intersection of inventions and conditions ...
The extraordinary story of St. Paul's Churchyard-the area of London that was a center of social and intellectual life for more than a millennium ...
A global account of pirates and their modus operandi, from the Middle Ages to the present day
In the twenty-first century piracy has regained a ...
A concise history of the goddess-like figures who evade both Christian and pagan traditions, from the medieval period to the present day
In this riveting ...
The shocking, untold story of how African independence was strangled at birth by America's systematic interference.
Accra, 1958. Africa's liberation leaders have gathered ...
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus "discovers" a strange continent and brings back tales of untold riches ...
A portrait of Jane Austen's England told through the career paths of younger sons-men of good family but small fortune
In Regency England the ...
A compelling, authoritative account of the brilliant, conflicted, visionary world of Tudor England
When Henry VII landed in a secluded bay in a far corner ...
