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Humans - A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up

An exhilarating journey through the most creative and catastrophic f**k ups in human history In the seventy thousand years that modern hu...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Frederick Douglass's Narrative recounts his life as a slave in Maryland and escape to freedom in 1838. An important slave autobiography, ...

Empress Dowager Cixi - The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in Chinese history - b...

Midnight in Chernobyl - The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Adam Higginbotham writes for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, GQ, Businessweek, Smithsonian, Men¿s Journal, and The At...

Empire - How Britain Made the Modern World

Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford U...

The Boundless Sea - A Human History of the Oceans

WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2020 A SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, THE TIMES AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR For most of...

Figuring Out The Past - The 3,495 Vital Statistics that Explain World History

Germania - A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern

'A splendid offering' Financial Times 'An idiosyncratic, often funny fusion of history writing, travel writing and disrespect' Sir Tom St...

The Gates of Europe - A History of Ukraine

Serhii Plokhy is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University and a leading authority on Eastern Europe. ...

The Edge of the World - How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are

Michael Pye has written eleven previous books, translated into eleven languages, including two British bestsellers and two New York Times...

Who We Are and How We Got Here - Ancient DNA and the new science of the human past

Huge advances in our ability to sequence ancient DNA have revolutionised what we know about the earliest human populations. David Reich e...

Danubia

Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2013. For centuries the very peculiar Habsburg family ruled most of Central Europ...

A Short History of London - The Creation of a World Capital

Paperback editon of the concise history of London, which follows on from Ackroyd's "A Short History Of Europe" and "A Short History Of En...

God - A Human History of Religion

Reza Aslan is an internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions. He is also a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. At Harva...

Thomas Cromwell - A Life

Diarmaid MacCulloch is Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University. His Thomas Cranmer (1996) won the Whitbread Biography...

Millennium - The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom

Tom Holland, author of RUBICON and PERSIAN FIRE, gives a thrilling panoramic account of the birth of the new Western Europe in the year 1...

Winston Churchill - A Life in the News

A books which traces Churchill's life in the news from cradle to grave, showing how tensions between tradition and novelty played into hi...

Rivers of Power - How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World

'As fascinating as it is beautifully written' JARED DIAMOND, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs and Steel Rivers, more than any...

Time of the Magicians - Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger and the Great Decade of Philosophy

AN ECONOMIST, GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A gripping narrative of the intertwined lives of the four philosophers whose id...

Coffeeland - A History

*Winner of the 2022 Cherasco International Prize* 'Thoroughly engrossing' Michael Pollan, The Atlantic 'Wonderful, energising' Kathryn Hu...

A Short History of Russia

'Fascinating... One of the most astute political commentators on Putin and modern Russia' Financial Times 'An amazing achievement' Peter ...

The Collapse of Complex Societies

Any explanation of political collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all complex soc...

Religion in Human Evolution - From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age

A New York Times Book Review Editors¿ Choice An ABC Australia Best Book on Religion and Ethics of the Year Distinguished Book Award, Soci...

Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants - Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans

Why didn't the ancient Greeks or Romans wear pants? How did they shave? How likely were they to drink fine wine, use birth control, or su...

Capitalism and Slavery

'It's often said that books are compulsory reading, but this book really is compulsory. You cannot understand slavery, or British Empire,...

Short History of War

Jeremy Black examines war as a global phenomenon, looking at the First and Second World Wars as well as those ranging from Han China and ...

The Trial of Henry Kissinger

Christopher Hitchens goes straight for the jugular in The Trial of Henry Kissinger. Under his fearsome gaze, the former Secretary of Stat...

The Mediterranean in History

The only complete and up-to-date overview of Mediterranean history from 1000 to the end of the 20th century.

Rise and Fall - A History of the World in Ten Empires

Rise and Fall opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the imm...

A Short History of England

From the invaders of the dark ages to the aftermath of the coalition, one of Britain's most respected journalists, Simon Jenkins, weaves ...

Napoleon

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The Chronicle and Directory for China, Japan and the Philippines for the year 1870

The Chronicle and Directory for China, Japan and the Philippines for the year 1870 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original ...

Theory of the History Classroom

This volume proposes a theory of history education in formal classroom settings. Specifically, it aims to outline how the particular sett...

Letters to Thos. A. Morris

Letters to Thos. A. Morris is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1871. Hansebooks is editor of the literature ...

Lyrical Poems

Lyrical Poems is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1885. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different ...

Stowe - A Description of the House and Gardens of the Most Noble and Puissant Prince, George Grenville Nugent Temple, Marquis of Buckingham

Stowe - A Description of the House and Gardens of the Most Noble and Puissant Prince, George Grenville Nugent Temple, Marquis of Buckingh...

English Travellers and Italian Bringands: - A Narrative of Capture and Captivity, in Two Volumes, Vol. II

English Travellers and Italian Bringands: - A Narrative of Capture and Captivity, in Two Volumes, Vol. II is an unchanged, high-quality r...

Napoleon and Bluecher

Napoleon and Bluecher is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1893. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on di...

The Prophets and Kings of the Old Testament

The Prophets and Kings of the Old Testament is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks is editor o...

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on differe...

The Life and Letters of Sydney Dobell - Volume II

The Life and Letters of Sydney Dobell - Volume II is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1878. Hansebooks is ed...

The American Revolution - Volume II

The American Revolution - Volume II is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the li...

Roba di Roma - Volume I. Fifth Edition

Roba di Roma - Volume I. Fifth Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1867. Hansebooks is editor of the...

Familiar quotations: - Being an attempt to trace to their source passages and phrases in common use

Familiar quotations: - Being an attempt to trace to their source passages and phrases in common use is an unchanged, high-quality reprint...

Essays, Educational and Historic - Or X-rays on some important episodes

Essays, Educational and Historic - Or X-rays on some important episodes is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of ...

Babyn Yar: Past, Present, Future - Past, Present, Future

Babyn Yar: Vergangenheit, Gegenwart, Zukunft fasst die Forschungs- und Gedenkbemühungen des Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center seit sein...

Elizabethans

The Sunday Times bestseller Now a major BBC TV series presented by Andrew Marr

TRESMINAS - Eine kurze Einführung in das römische Goldbergwerk

Das römische Reich benötigte für seine Truppen jährlich 400 bis 500 Millionen Sesterzen, wobei der grösste Teil dieser Summe aus logistis...

In the Gray Zones of History - The Prague Pediatrician Berthold Epstein (1890-1962)

The Jewish pediatrician Berthold Epstein qualified scientifically in Prague, where he rose to become chair and director of the renowned 2...

Henry V (Penguin Monarchs) - From Playboy Prince to Warrior King

Henry V's invasion of France, in August 1415, represented a huge gamble. As heir to the throne, he had been a failure, cast into the poli...

A Short History of Europe - From Pericles to Putin

Simon Jenkins is author of the bestselling A Short History of England, A Short History of Europe, Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations, En...

The Ship Asunder - A Maritime History of Britain in Eleven Vessels

A Sunday Times Book of the Year 'Three and a half millennia of British Maritime history, from the Middle Bronze Age to the early 20th cen...

1922 - Scenes from a Turbulent Year

1922 was a year of great turbulence and upheaval. Its events reverberated throughout the rest of the twentieth century and still affect u...

Time's Witness - History in the Age of Romanticism

From the Wolfson Prize-winning author of God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain Between the fall of the Bastille in ...

Black Ghost of Empire - The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation

A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic world To fully understand why the shadow of slavery h...

Future Stories - A user's guide to the future

'David Christian's approach to understanding history can help all of us learn to prepare for the future' - Bill Gates A user's guide to t...

Learning from the Germans - Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil

'An ambitious and engrossing investigation of the moral legacies which stubbornly refuse to pass' Brendan Simms As the western world stru...

Prisoners of Time - Prussians, Germans and Other Humans

An intellectual tour de force: the major essays of the esteemed author of international bestseller The Sleepwalkers Christopher Clark's T...

Time's Monster - History, Conscience and Britain's Empire

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NEW STATESMAN AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE 'In this searing book, Priya Satia demonstrates, yet again, that s...

Historicizing the French Revolution - The Two Hundred Years' War

This book provides a critical examination of over 300 historical works about the French Revolution, published in Europe (in particular in...