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This highly accessible guide to world history brings key milestones and events to life in visual timelines
Packed with illustrations and fascinating facts, this book ...
'If there were a Nobel Prize in History, Colley would be my nominee' - Jill Lepore, New Yorker
'One of the most exciting historians of her ...
A biography of a staple grain we often take for granted, exploring how wheat went from wild grass to a world-shaping crop.
At breakfast tables ...
Discover how the modern world came to be with this easy-to-follow and up-to-date history companion Want to get a taste of the entirety of human ...
'Brilliantly recapturing the febrile atmosphere of Berlin in the first four years after the Second World War, Giles Milton reminds us what an excellent story-teller ...
A visual exploration of the movements of peoples, cultures, and ideas that brings a human perspective to a global phenomenon
Discover how the migration of ...
How deadly germs and pandemics have shaped history - and why they are products of our success as a species.
Plagues upon the Earth is a ...
Compact edition of the first fully integrated visual reference on Big History for general readers
Discover how we got to where we are, in this ...
Sanjay Subrahmanyam is becoming well known for the same sort of reasons that attach to Fernand Braudel and Carlo Ginzburg, as the proponent of a ...
On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those ...
Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for NonfictionThe Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the ...
Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the world stage and define eras; where ideas flourish, revolutions are born and ...
From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought ...
A GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR
'A superb book' Simon Sebag Montefiore
'An empowering story of human ingenuity' Economist
'Full of curious ...
More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of ...
