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[i]What is Early Modern History?[/i] offers a concise guide to investigations of the era from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries and an entry-point to larger questions about how we divide and organize the past and how the discipline of history has…
[i]What is Early Modern History?[/i] offers a concise guide to investigations of the era from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries and an entry-point to larger questions about how we divide and organize the past and how the discipline of history has…
‘Entertaining and absorbing’ – The Sunday Times A wonderfully written and entertaining book which places Britain under the microscope and asks who we are today and how we’ve changed as a nation.In 1841 there were 734 female midwives working in Britai…
‘Entertaining and absorbing’ – The Sunday Times A wonderfully written and entertaining book which places Britain under the microscope and asks who we are today and how we’ve changed as a nation.In 1841 there were 734 female midwives working in Britai…
[b]A concise yet comprehensive account of the roles and influences of gender over the millennia, featuring new and updated content throughout [/b]
[i]Gender in History: Global Perspectives, Third Edition[/i], explores the construction and evolution o…
[b]A concise yet comprehensive account of the roles and influences of gender over the millennia, featuring new and updated content throughout [/b]
[i]Gender in History: Global Perspectives, Third Edition[/i], explores the construction and evolution o…
‘Fantastic … It explains the misperception of stacked odds and personal powerlessness that stops individuals challenging bad behaviour. Stunning. Humbling. Thought-provoking’ Kathryn Mannix, author of With the End in MindIn the face of discrimination…
‘Fantastic … It explains the misperception of stacked odds and personal powerlessness that stops individuals challenging bad behaviour. Stunning. Humbling. Thought-provoking’ Kathryn Mannix, author of With the End in MindIn the face of discrimination…
[b]Discover the complexity of China’s past with this multi-faceted portrayal of the storied nation from a leading expert in the field[/b]
The newly revised Second Edition of [i]A History of China[/i] delivers a comprehensive treatment of the politica…
[b]Discover the complexity of China’s past with this multi-faceted portrayal of the storied nation from a leading expert in the field[/b]
The newly revised Second Edition of [i]A History of China[/i] delivers a comprehensive treatment of the politica…
Igor Torbakov explores the nexus between various forms of Russian political imagination and the apparently cyclic process of decline and fall of Russia’s imperial polity over the last hundred years. While Russia’s historical process is by no means un…
Igor Torbakov explores the nexus between various forms of Russian political imagination and the apparently cyclic process of decline and fall of Russia’s imperial polity over the last hundred years. While Russia’s historical process is by no means un…
The first single-volume history of India since the 1950s, combining narrative pace and skill with social, economic and cultural analysis. Five millennia of the sub-continent’s history are interpreted by one of our finest writers on India and the Far …
The first single-volume history of India since the 1950s, combining narrative pace and skill with social, economic and cultural analysis. Five millennia of the sub-continent’s history are interpreted by one of our finest writers on India and the Far …
This book is part of an initiative in cooperation with renowned Chinese publishers to make fundamental, formative, and influential Chinese thinkers available to a western readership, providing absorbing insights into Chinese reflections of late.
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This book is part of an initiative in cooperation with renowned Chinese publishers to make fundamental, formative, and influential Chinese thinkers available to a western readership, providing absorbing insights into Chinese reflections of late.
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TV presenter and all-round car nut Ant Anstead takes the reader on a journey that mirrors the development of the motor car itself from a stuttering 20mph annoyance that scared everyone’s horses to 150mph pursuits with aerial support and sophisticated…
TV presenter and all-round car nut Ant Anstead takes the reader on a journey that mirrors the development of the motor car itself from a stuttering 20mph annoyance that scared everyone’s horses to 150mph pursuits with aerial support and sophisticated…
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction‘A devastating indictment’ SUNDAY TIMES‘An important book, a superb piece of reporting’ OBSERVER‘With great narrative verve, and a sober and subtle intelligence, she carries us deep behind the scenes of his…
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction‘A devastating indictment’ SUNDAY TIMES‘An important book, a superb piece of reporting’ OBSERVER‘With great narrative verve, and a sober and subtle intelligence, she carries us deep behind the scenes of his…
Czechoslovakia played an important role within the Soviet bloc, yet its history remains under-researched. This monograph blends historical analysis of the superpowers’ foreign policies with an assessment of their impact on Czechoslovakia and its posi…
Czechoslovakia played an important role within the Soviet bloc, yet its history remains under-researched. This monograph blends historical analysis of the superpowers’ foreign policies with an assessment of their impact on Czechoslovakia and its posi…
[b]DISCOVER THE INDIGNITIES AND REALITIES OF SLAVERY FROM A CAPTIVATING FIRST-HAND NARRATIVE[/b]
Olaudah Equiano’s interesting narrative is an astonishing first-hand account of kidnapping, enslavement and eventual emancipation that has horrified and …
[b]DISCOVER THE INDIGNITIES AND REALITIES OF SLAVERY FROM A CAPTIVATING FIRST-HAND NARRATIVE[/b]
Olaudah Equiano’s interesting narrative is an astonishing first-hand account of kidnapping, enslavement and eventual emancipation that has horrified and …
‘Concise, elegant and lucid … A very useful primer on the delusions of an English mentality’ GuardianWhat do we get wrong about Britain’s history and its place in the world? In a brilliant, big-picture history, bestselling author David Reynolds moves…
‘Concise, elegant and lucid … A very useful primer on the delusions of an English mentality’ GuardianWhat do we get wrong about Britain’s history and its place in the world? In a brilliant, big-picture history, bestselling author David Reynolds moves…
‘Addictively compelling’ The Times‘A joy to read’ Maggie O’FarrellAs she watched, the darkness unfolded itself, stood and took the shape of a young black woman, barefoot, in a yellow dress. Now Honor must actually do something, though she did not yet…
‘Addictively compelling’ The Times‘A joy to read’ Maggie O’FarrellAs she watched, the darkness unfolded itself, stood and took the shape of a young black woman, barefoot, in a yellow dress. Now Honor must actually do something, though she did not yet…
[b]Discover the fascinating details that make Australia the country it is today [/b]
[i]Australian History For Dummies[/i] is your rough-and-ready tour guide through Australia’s whirlwind past.We’ll introduce you to the people and events that have sh…
[b]Discover the fascinating details that make Australia the country it is today [/b]
[i]Australian History For Dummies[/i] is your rough-and-ready tour guide through Australia’s whirlwind past.We’ll introduce you to the people and events that have sh…
In one corner, a godless young warrior, Voltaire’s heralded ‘philosopher-king’, the It Boy of the Enlightenment. In the other, a devout if bad-tempered old composer of ‘outdated’ music, a scorned genius in his last years. The sparks from their brief …
In one corner, a godless young warrior, Voltaire’s heralded ‘philosopher-king’, the It Boy of the Enlightenment. In the other, a devout if bad-tempered old composer of ‘outdated’ music, a scorned genius in his last years. The sparks from their brief …
From the international bestselling author comes a World War Two tale of one boy’s fight for survival in Nazi Europe A secret mission…1939. As Europe teeters on the brink of war, Alfred Kendall is tasked with carrying out a minor mission for the Briti…
From the international bestselling author comes a World War Two tale of one boy’s fight for survival in Nazi Europe A secret mission…1939. As Europe teeters on the brink of war, Alfred Kendall is tasked with carrying out a minor mission for the Briti…
As one of the heroes of the 1917 February Revolution and then Prime Minister at the head of the Provisional Government, Alexander Kerensky was passionately, even fanatically, lauded as a leader during his brief political reign. Symbolic artefacts – s…
As one of the heroes of the 1917 February Revolution and then Prime Minister at the head of the Provisional Government, Alexander Kerensky was passionately, even fanatically, lauded as a leader during his brief political reign. Symbolic artefacts – s…
This book explores the war writings of Patrick MacGill, James Hanley, and Liam O’Flaherty, working class, Roman Catholic Irishmen, all of whom fought in the First World War as privates and who, collectively, it is argued, constitute a distinct trio o…
This book explores the war writings of Patrick MacGill, James Hanley, and Liam O’Flaherty, working class, Roman Catholic Irishmen, all of whom fought in the First World War as privates and who, collectively, it is argued, constitute a distinct trio o…