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Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries brings together Kate's rich and detailed knowledge of unheard and under-heard women's history, and of how and why ...
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The history of humanity's relationship ...
Baillie-Gifford award-winner Serhii Plokhy returns with an illuminating exploration of the atomic age through the history of six nuclear disastersIn 2011, a 43-foot-high tsunami crashed ...
A dazzling history of the world's emperors, spanning the last thousand years
For millennia much of the world was ruled by emperors- a handful ...
The gripping true story of the intrepid curators who saved China's art from the ravages of the Sino-Japanese War and WW2.
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An award-winning historian's revisionary account of the early modern world, showing how apocalyptic ideas stimulated political, religious, and intellectual transformations
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This groundbreaking new collection addresses the burning issue of how we interpret history today. What stories are told, and by whom, who should be celebrated ...
'Alex von Tunzelmann is one of the most gifted historians writing today. Brilliant and trenchant, witty and wise, Fallen Idols is a book you will ...
This second edition contains an afterword on COVID-19, looking at the origins and nature of the virus, and how governments across the globe dealt with ...
The sixth edition of this bestselling book takes students on a journey through the 20th century and provides a clear overview of the key events ...
The brilliant untold story of three daughters of diplomacy: Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, glamorous, fascinating young women who accompanied their famous fathers ...
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There are many stories we can spin about years gone by, but which accounts come to be told, and by whom? A single author can ...
