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A bold new account of the Age of Revolution, one of the most complex and vast transformations in human history
"A fresh and illuminating framework ...
Picture, for a minute, every artwork of colonial New Zealand you can think of. Now add a chain gang. Hard labour men guarded by other ...
A Spectator Book of the Year
'Sweeping . . . Poetic . . . Not only readable but also vital' Literary Review
'A terrific storyteller' New York Times
'Exceptional . . . tender and ...
Histories you can trust.Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see itDLwith the ...
Histories you can trust.In 14 original essays, The Oxford History of the Book reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from ...
A bestselling, groundbreaking reappraisal of medieval femininity, revealing why women have been written out of history, and why it matters, by Oxford historian Janina Ramirez ...
A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic world
To fully understand why the shadow of slavery haunts us today ...
A brilliant exploration of how our understanding of the past was transformed between the French Revolution and the Great Exhibition by a band of long-forgotten ...
Most things you 'know' about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain ...
THE TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023
A BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT AND FINANCIAL ...
A bold new story of human progress, told through six materials that built our world and will transform our future. For fans of Tim Marshall ...
'A book of ideas [...] Strathern ably guides us through these moments of glory.' -- The Times
Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities ...
'This splendid and often moving work of history... Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly amusing asides' Daily Telegraph ...
A unique reframing of human history as shaped by our physical abilities and limitations - by the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Origins
Being Human is history ...
A new and original history of the forces that shaped the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
We thought we knew the story of the twentieth century ...