History

Rashid I. Khalidi Paperback / softback 336 pages, Maps and b&w photos The twentieth century for Palestine and the Palestinians has been a century of denial: denial of statehood, denial of natio...

Paperback 624 pages At the end of the fifteenth century, Burgundy was extinguished as an independent state. It had been a fabulously wealthy, turbulent region situated between France and Germany, ...

Patrick Radden Keefe Paperback 528 pages One night in December 1972, Jean McConville, a mother of ten, was abducted from her home in Belfast and never seen alive again. Her disappearance would ha...

Katherine Rundell Paperback 352 pages John Donne lived myriad lives. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, Donne was incapable o...

Cover: Hardback, Pages: 256, Author: Wolfgang Munchau...

Hanno Sauer Hardback 416 pages For almost five million years, humans have been locked in a relationship with morality, inventing and reinventing the concepts of 'Good' and 'Evil', and weaving the...

Paperback 608 pages Ancient Rome matters. Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories - from Romulus and Remus to...

Author: Marion Gibson , Cover: Softback, Pages: 320...

Author: Dan Jones, Cover: Softback, Pages: 464...

Cover: Paperback, Pages: 288...

Caroline Moorehead Paperback Edda Mussolini was Benito's favourite daughter: spoilt, venal, uneducated but clever, faithless but flamboyant, a brilliant diplomat, wild but brave, and ultimately st...

Author: Mohsen M. Milani , Cover: Hardback, Pages: 368...

Author: Ben Gazur , Cover: Hardback, Pages: 288...

Author: William Dalrymple, Cover: Softback, Pages: 608...

David Van Reybrouck Paperback On a sunny Friday morning in August 1945, a handful of tired people raised a homemade cotton flag and on behalf of 68 million compatriots announced the birth of a new...

Silvia Federici Paperback 400 pages A cult classic since its publication in the early years of this century, Caliban and the Witch is Silvia Federici's history of the body in the transition to ca...

SoftbackAdam Hochschild Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, King Leopold's Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. With an introductio...

Cover: Paperback, Pages: 304, Author: Rebecca Simon...

Saidiya Hartman Paperback 560 pages In this radical re-evaluation of American history, Saidiya Hartman draws together a striking portrait of nineteenth-century slavery and its many afterlives. ...

Author: Robert Peckham, Cover: Softback, Pages: 448...

James Crossland Paperback 376 pages, 12 black & white illustrations In the dying light of the nineteenth century, the world came to know and fear terrorism. Like today, this was a time of progre...

Norman Ohler Hardback 240 pages Berlin, 1945. Following the fall of the Third Reich, drug use - long kept under control by the Nazis' strict anti-drug laws - is rampant throughout the city. In...

Quinn Slobodian Paperback 352 pages Look at a map of the world and you'll see a neat patchwork of nation-states. But this is not where power actually resides. From the 1990s onwards, globaliz...

Ian Mortimer Paperback 256 pages The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval EnglandWe tend to think of the Middle Ages as...