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Captive Queen - The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots

"For almost two decades before her execution at Fotheringhay Castle in 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots was a prisoner. From her chambers, she ...

The New Lunar Society - An Enlightenment Guide to the Next Industrial Revolution

How to create our industrial future with inspiration and lessons from the originators of the industrial revolution. Climate change, globa...

Insurgent Empire - Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent

Upsets received views to show how rebellious colonies changed British attitudes to empire Much has been written on the how colonial subje...

Dark Renaissance - The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival

In brutally repressive sixteenth-century England, artists had been frightened into dull conventionality; foreigners were suspect; popular...

The Dreadful History and Judgement of God on Thomas Müntzer - The Life and Times of an Early German Revolutionary

How did the son of a coin-maker from central Germany, Thomas Müntzer, rise in just a few short years to become one of the most feared rev...

Embroidering Her Truth - Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power

I felt that Mary was there, pulling at my sleeve, willing me to appreciate the artistry, wanting me to understand the dazzle of the mater...

Blood, Fire and Gold - The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici

'A story told with verve and passion' The Times, Book of the Week 'An alternative and engaging biography...accessible and unpretentious' ...

Hidden Patrons - Women and Architectural Patronage in Georgian Britain

An enduring myth of Georgian architecture is that it was purely the pursuit of male architects and their wealthy male patrons. History st...

The Dark Side of the Enlightenment: Wizards, Alchemists, and Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Reason - Wizards, Alchemists, and Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Reason

In The Dark Side of the Enlightenment, John V. Fleming shows how the impulses of the European Enlightenment-generally associated with gre...

Articulating Difference - Sex and Language in the German Nineteenth Century

Enriches contemporary debates about gender and language by probing the histories of the philosophy and sciences of language. Drawing on a...

The Invention of International Order - Remaking Europe after Napoleon

The story of the women, financiers, and other unsung figures who helped to shape the post-Napoleonic global orderIn 1814, after decades o...

Agony and Eloquence - John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and a World of Revolution

The drama of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson is the foundational story of America—courage, loyalty, hope, fanaticism, greatness, failure,...

Inventing the Renaissance - Myths of a Golden Age

The Renaissance is one of the most studied and celebrated eras of history. Spanning the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of modern...

The Russian Army 1801-1806: Cuirassiers and Dragoons - Organization, Actions, Uniforms and Equipment of the Heavy Cavalry

In this volume, the author provides a detailed picture of the Russian cuirassiers and dragoons at the beginning of the 19th century. He h...

Fighting for Philadelphia - Forts Mercer and Mifflin, the Battle of Whitemarsh, and the Road to Valley Forge, October 5-December 19, 1777

The first complete study to merge the strategic, political, and tactical history of the complex operations sandwiched between Germantown ...

Magnificent Rebels - The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self

A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ • From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarkable grou...

Czech Broadside Ballads as Text, Art, Song in Popular Culture, C.1600-1900

This landmark collection makes a major contribution to the burgeoning field of broadside ballad study by investigating the hitherto unexp...

Fatal Discord - Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind

An engrossing dual biography and fascinating intellectual history that examines two key figures of European history—Erasmus of Rotterdam ...

The Enlightenment that Failed - Ideas, Revolution, and Democratic Defeat, 1748-1830

The Enlightenment that Failed explores the growing rift between those Enlightenment trends and initiatives that appealed exclusively to e...

The Fourth Part of the World - An Astonishing Epic of Global Discovery, Imperial Ambition, and the Birth of America

"The Fourth Part of the World" is an epic adventure story about the creation of the map that introduced Europe to America and ushered in ...

Grenzenlos? - Weltläufigkeit in der Frühen Neuzeit

Making an Industrial Revolution - Skill, Knowledge, Community and Innovation

A new look at Britain's industrial revolution showing how communities of shared skill, knowledge and experience drove industrial innovati...

Alexander Hamilton

You've seen the show, you've sung the songs, now read the full story of America's most misunderstood founding father. 'I was swept up by ...

Dark Renaissance - The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival, Christopher Marlowe

Poor boy. Dark star. Spy. Transgressor. Genius. This is the thrilling and subversive life story of Christopher Marlowe - Shakespeare's in...

Queer Georgians - A hidden history of lovers, lawbreakers and homemakers

History Hit podcast presenter Dr Anthony Delaney reveals the fascinating lives of those long written out of the nation's story, now lovin...

Victoria's Secret - The Private Passion of a Queen

*The book that inspired the major Channel 4 documentary airing this summer!* A passionate and provocative re-evaluation of Queen Victoria...

The Wide Wide Sea

*** BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER READING LIST 2024 *** *** One of the New York Times Top Ten Books of 2024 *** *** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ***...

Ottoman Ni¿ - Territorialisation and Urban Space in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Balkans

The city of Ni , now in Serbia, was part of the Ottoman Empire for about half a millennium. This study offers the first in-depth examinat...

Shakespeare's Sisters - Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance

This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into th...

Legacy of Violence - A History of the British Empire

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize, a revelatory, fearless history of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of viole...

Waterloo

On the 18th June 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels. The little village north...

Waterloo

On the 18th June 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels. The little village north...

A history of modern britain - A HISTORY OF MODERN BRITAIN

A "History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visi...

The Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy (1867-1918)

The era of the Austro-Hungarian Empire occupying the second half of the 19th century is perhaps the most exciting period in the modern hi...

Companion to the Later Crusades (1400-1700)

The crusading movement endured well beyond the 14th century. Across Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, the desire for crusading conti...

Pan-African Aesthetics - Colonial to Postcolonial Struggles for Definitions (1956-2016)

Pan-Africanism has been a global project aiming to unite people of African descent since the late nineteenth century. Notions of Black an...

Pragmatics of Democracy - A Political Theory of African American Literature Before Emancipation

Radical Humanism - Decolonizing Perspectives in Critical Psychology

Radical Humanism uses concepts from Marxism, anarchism, critical theory, psychoanalysis, and African, Asian, and Latin American philosoph...

An Indigenous Cosmopoetics of Justice - Law, Posthumanism and the Ecology of Cocoa

This book examines cocoa farming in northeast Brazil to explore a fundamental question: can ecological relationships create their own for...

Decolonisation in the 21st Century - Rethinking Coloniality, Resistance and Solidarity

Amid rising global inequality, intensifying geopolitical frictions, and the renewed force of colonial logics, this volume offers a critic...

Printing the Event - The Press as Mass Medium in Italy and Germany in the First Age of Print

Printing the Event explores the relationship between events and the printing press from its advent around 1450 to ca. 1515. Beginning wit...

The City as the Southern Question - Alternative Histories of Urbanisation After Gramsci

This innovative edited volume places global urbanism in the context of the phenomenal growth of cities of the South, investigating their ...