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

Empress Dowager Cixi - The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Discover the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age, from the bestselling author of Wild Swans<BR>&...

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

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

Empire - How Britain Made the Modern World

Goodbye Eastern Europe - An Intimate History of a Divided Land

An epic history of the 'other' Europe, a place of conflict and coexistence, of faith and folklore.'Do not rush to bid farewell to eastern...

Germania - A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern

Poland - A History

Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised and updated...

The Gates of Europe - A History of Ukraine

How the World Made the West - A 4,000-Year History

'One of the most fascinating and important works of global history to appear for many years' William Dalrymple<BR><BR>'Quinn ...

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

God - A Human History of Religion

The Greatest Nobodies of History - Minor Characters from Major Moments

Unruly - A History of England's Kings and Queens

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

Thomas Cromwell - A Life

The Shortest History of Italy - 3,000 Years from the Romans to the Renaissance to a Modern Republic - A Retelling for Our Times

The calendar. The Senate. The university. The piano, the heliocentric model, and the pizzeria. It's hard to imagine a world without Itali...

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

A Short History of Russia

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

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...

Cummings, V: Neolithic of Britain and Ireland

The Neolithic of Britain and Ireland provides a synthesis of this dynamic period of prehistory from the end of the Mesolithic through to ...

The Middle Kingdoms - A New History of Central Europe

'Fascinating, masterful ... gems scattered throughout the book' Peter Frankopan, Spectator<BR><BR>'Quirkily original but also...

A Short History of England

To Remember Spain - The Anarchist and Syndicalist Revolution of 1936

In the essays that make up this book, Murray Bookchin places the Spanish anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist movements of the 1930s in the ...

Peak Human - What We Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of Golden Ages

Capitalism and Slavery

The Trial of Henry Kissinger

Short History of War

Ireland - A Short History

Kulturelle Einflüsse im Hanseraum

Die Geschichte der Hanse wird immer zuerst mit den wirtschaftlichen Entwicklungen und dem Handel zwischen Kaufleuten und Städten verbunde...

Antifeminismen | Antiféminismes

Antifeminismus ist eine Gegenbewegung. Antifeministische Ideen und Praktiken zirkulieren in dem Masse, in dem Frauen ihre Emanzipation fo...

Selbstständig - Geschichtslernen als Befähigung zum historischen Denken Festschrift für Andreas Körber zum 60. Geburtstag

Anlässlich des 60. Geburtstages von Andreas Körber widmen sich die Autor*innen in ihren Beiträgen dem von ihm immer wieder geforderte Zie...

Zeitschrift für Genozidforschung, 23. Jahrgang 2025, Heft 2 - Fokus: Genozid an den Armeniern

Das neue Heft der Zeitschrift für Genozidforschung rückt mit dem Genozid an den Armeniern ein Ereignis in den Fokus, das sich 2025 zum 11...

An active life - 90 years Reinhold Würth. 80 years Würth Group.

From hardware wholesaler to global market leader for assembly and fastening technology: This impressive development is the life's work of...

Arabkir-- Homage to an Armenian Community

From Area Studies to the Production of World Knowledge

Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung rückt Themen einer innovativen Weltgeschichte in de...

Schweizerisches Archiv für Volkskunde - Archives suisses des traditions populaires 2025/1

Die wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift 'Schweizerisches Archiv für Volkskunde' (SAVk) veröffentlicht Originalarbeiten (Abhandlungen,Debatten, ...

Tracking Dependency in Late-Antique Roman Domestic Architecture: - The Example of the Domus del Ninfeo at Ostia (III, VI, 1-3)

This short text focuses on the Domus del Ninfeo at Ostia as a case study of how built structures can be read as a powerful metaphor for t...

Moving the Social - Moving the Social 75 - 2025

In most European states, it was the oppressed and dissatisfied groups who mobilised against the state. However, this was not the case in ...

Age of Revolutions - Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

A New York Times Bestseller<BR><BR>The international best-selling author explores the revolutions, past and present, that def...

An Analysis of C.L.R. James's The Black Jacobins - The Black Jacobins

Published in 1938, The Black Jacobins tells the story of the only successful slave revolution in history-an uprising inspired by the idea...

Eat the Buddha - Life, Death and Resistance in a Tibetan Town

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGLONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONONE OF THE BEST BOOKS ...

The Power of Voluntary Activity: Global Perspectives

Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung rückt Themen einer innovativen Weltgeschichte in de...

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional...

Monumental Anthem

More than a century separates the writing of the Star-Spangled Banner in 1814 and its adoption as the national anthem in 1931. This curio...

The New South - A Chronicle of of Social & Industrial Evolution

In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt addressed the American Historical Association to call for American history to be written as compelling storie...

Who Are China's Walking Dead? - A personal journey into the strange world of communist culture and officialdom

The Neverending Empire - The Infinite Impact of Ancient Rome

From the international bestselling author and notable journalist Aldo Cazzullo comes a brilliantly researched and extremely accessible jo...

The Quakers and the Famine in West Cork

In this lecture, we will consider the work of the Quakers in relation to the Potato Famine during the years 1845-1848 with particular ref...

Enemy Encounters in Modern Warfare

While the 1914 Christmas truces have a mythological status in British culture, intimate interactions with the enemy are, this interdiscip...

The Disappearance of Percy Fawcett and Other Famous Vanishings

Technological Change, Mechanisation, Craftsmen's and Workers' Reactions in Mediterranean Europe, 19th-20th Century - Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movement

This Special Issue analyses the consequences of mechanisation in various fields in Mediterranean Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. F...

From 'Adam and Eve' to the Present Day: Family and Social Bonds in Biological and Cultural Perspective - FUNERALIA GNIE¿NIE¿SKIE - SPOTKANIE 24 / GNIEZNO FUNERALIA - MEETING 24

This volume brings together a rich collection of interdisciplinary research that explores how family and social bonds have been formed, l...

The World Turned Upside Down - Radical Ideas During the English Revolution

Charlotte - Being a True Account of an Actress's Flamboyant Adventures in Eighteenth-Century London's Wild and Wicked Theatrical W

The American Revolution, 1763-1783 - Being The Chapters And Passages Relating To America From The Author's History Of England In The 18th Century

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notation...

Khurasan and Sistan

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notation...

The Ugly History of Beautiful Things - Essays on Desire and Consumption

Streetscapes of War and Revolution - Prague, 1914-1920

Prague entered the First World War as the third city of the Habsburg empire, but emerged in 1918 as the capital of a brand new nation-sta...