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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
'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 ...
The first global history of the epic early days of the iron railway
Railways, in simple wooden or stone form, have existed since prehistory. But ...
A compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present
Russia and China, the largest and most ...
The definitive 2,500-year history of sugar and its human costs, from its little-known origins as a luxury good in Asia to worldwide environmental devastation ...
Can anyone really own a culture? This magnificent account argues that the story of global civilisations is one of mixing, sharing, and borrowing.
It shows ...
