History

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

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...

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, ...

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...

Author: His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Cover: Softback, Pages: 272...

John Kampfer Paperback 400 pages Ever since John Kampfner was a young journalist in Communist East Berlin, he hasn't been able to get the city out of his mind. It is a place tortured by its past...

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...

John Goodlad Hardback 272 pages This is the extraordinary story of how salt fish from Shetland became one of the staple foods of Europe, powered an economic boom and inspired artists, writers and...

Paul Cooper Hardback 544 pages Based on the hit podcast with over 100 million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophisticat...

Mary Beard Paperback 336 pages What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the unco...

Professor Prof Roderick Beaton Paperback 608 pages The Greeks is a story which takes us from the archaeological treasures of the Bronze Age Aegean and myths of gods and heroes, to the politics o...

Author: Adam Hochschild, Cover: Softback, Pages: 416...

Peter Godfrey-Smith Paperback The eagerly anticipated conclusion to Peter Godfrey-Smith's three-part exploration of the origins of intelligence on Earth, which began with the bestselling Other Mi...

Anne Applebaum Hardback 240 pages One of the world's most celebrated historians and journalists uncovers the networks trying to destroy the democratic worldAll of us have in our minds a cartoon i...

Stefanos Geroulanos Hardback 512 pages ooks about the origins of humanity dominate best-seller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings and spe...

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...

Murray Pittock Paperback / softback 528 pages, 64 b-w illus. An engaging and authoritative history of Scotland's influence in the world and the world's on Scotland, from the Thirty Years' War to...

Jacob Mikanowski Hardback 400 pages Eastern Europe is more than the sum total of its annexations, invasions and independence declarations. From the Baltics to the Balkans, from Prague to Kiev, t...

Julie Summers Paperback 416 pages Dressed For War: The Story of Audrey Withers, Vogue editor extraordinaire from the Blitz to the Swinging Sixties is the untold story of our most iconic fashion ...

Thomas Cirotteau, Jennifer Kerner & Eric Pincas Paperback 240 pages 45,000 years ago, rare and precious statues of faceless women with hourglass figures, sturdy hips and generous breasts surfaced...

Carlo Rovelli Paperback 208 pages A triumph. . . We are left in a world that is not disenchanted by science, but even more magical' Financial TimesIn June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner H...

Tom Standage Paperback 272 pages The product of deep research, great intelligence and burnished prose . . . It is rare that I encounter a non-fiction author whose prose is so elegant that it ...

Kate Lister Paperback 464 pages, Color illustrations throughout An eye-opening exploration of the weird and wonderful things human beings have done in pursuit (and denial) of the mighty orgasm, b...

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...