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Richard Evans wrote In Defence of History at a time when the historian's profession was coming under heavy attack as a result of the ...
The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But ...
Perhaps no work of history written in the 20th century has done more to undermine an existing consensus and cause its readers to re-evaluate their ...
Pigs unite and divide people, but why?
Pig/Pork explores the love-hate relationship between humans and pigs through the lenses of archaeology, biology, history and ...
The story of sugar, and of mankind's desire for sweetness in food and drink is a compelling, though confusing story. It is also an ...
The end of the Cold War, which occurred early in the 1990s, brought joy and freedom to millions. But it posed a difficult question to ...
The fun way to research your family history Genealogy For Dummies, 8th Edition covers everything you need to know about starting a genealogical research project-including ...
American scholar Jared Diamond deploys his powers of interpretation to great effect in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, which seeks to understand ...
One criticism of history is that historians all too often study it in isolation, failing to take advantage of models and evidence from scholars in ...
In his 1997 work Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond marshals evidence from five continents and across 13,000 years of human history in an ...
The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i Noor, arguably the most celebrated and mythologised jewel in the world.
On 29 March 1849, the ...
"Surprising. Impressive. Cannibalism restores my faith in humanity." --Sy Montgomery, The New York Times Book Review
For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a ...
In this monumental book, Chris Harman achieves the impossible - a gripping history of the planet from the perspective of the struggling people throughout the ages ...
Wall Street and the Russian Revolution will give readers critical insight into what might be called the "Secret History of the 20th century". The Russian ...
