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The Silk Roads

The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed: where for the last five ...

Conquerors

An epic tale of navigation, trade, technology, money, religion, diplomacy, espionage and shipwrecks, charting how Portugal set about expl...

Mary Boleyn

Subtitled, "The Great & Infamous Whore". Paperback edition of Weir's full-scale biography of Anne Boleyn's sister, who was mistress to bo...

Elizabeth of York

Prominent historian and novelist Alison Weir reveals the true story Elizabeth of York, a key figure in the Wars of the Roses and the Tudo...

Napoleon the Great

Andrew Roberts is a biographer and historian of international renown whose books include Salisbury: Victorian Titan (winner, the Wolfson ...

A Very British Murder

Dr Lucy Worsley is a historian and Chief Curator of the Historic Royal Palaces, where she looks after the Tower of London and Hampton Cou...

How the French Won Waterloo - or Think They Did

Two centuries after the Battle of Waterloo, the French can't quite believe that Napoleon had victory snatched from his grasp. Based on me...

Napoleon

'Napoleon is an out-and-out masterpiece and a joy to read' Sir Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad A landmark new biography that presents...

The Swerve

In the winter of 1417, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties plucked a very old manuscript off a dusty shelf in a remot...

The Witches

A Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling historian explores the Salem witch trials, one of the greatest mysteries of American history.

The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

Dr Ian Mortimer is the author of the bestselling Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, eight other books and many peer-reviewed art...

Frederick the Great

Tim Blanning is the author of a number of major works on eighteenth century Europe, including The Pursuit of Glory : Europe 1648-1815, Th...

Grant

The author of the Pulitzer prize-winning "Titan: The Life Of John D. Rockefeller, Sr." applies the same depth of biographical engagement ...

Henry VIII and the men who made him

Henry VIII is well known for his tumultuous relationships with women, and he is often defined by his many marriages. But what do we see i...

The Island at the Centre of the World

A new edition of Shorto's history of Dutch Manhattan, New York (formerly New Amsterdam). Reissued to tie in with the paperback edition of...

The Ugly Renaissance

Featuring the beauties of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, combined with the dark and hidden side of the Renaissance, by an acclaimed ...

Nature's Mutiny

Hailed as an "arresting" (Lawrence Klepp, New Criterion) account, Nature's Mutiny chronicles the great climate crisis of the seventeenth ...

16th century in Switzerland

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 51. Chapters: 16th-century Swiss people, Huldrych Zwingli, Theodore Beza, Johann Stumpf, Heinrich Bullinger, Jo...

A House Divided

This new edition of A House Divided provides a synthetic overview of one of the most complex eras in American history, giving students a ...

The Europeans

'Magnificent. Beautifully written, immaculately researched and thoroughly absorbing from start to finish. A tour de force that explains h...

The Habsburg Mediterranean 1500-1800

This volume presents the Mediterranean as a crucial part of the social and cultural fabric of the early modern Habsburg world. The sea wa...

Registering Life in a Multicultural City. Late Ottoman Nicosia

The book is a product of the "Ottoman Cyprus" Research Project, which was launched in 2010 as part of the Programm of Ottoman Studies at ...

Registering Life in a Multicultural City. Late Ottoman Nicosia

The book is a product of the "Ottoman Cyprus" Research Project, which was launched in 2010 as part of the Programm of Ottoman Studies at ...

Jesuit and Pietist Missions in the Eighteenth Century

In the long 18th century, the hitherto predominant Catholic missionary activity overseas received noticeable competition from new Christi...

Early Modern Emotions

Early Modern Emotions is a student-friendly introduction to the concepts, approaches and sources used to study emotions in the early mode...

Sir Charles Oman's History of the Peninsular War Volume VI: September 1, 1812 - August 5, 1813 The Siege of Burgos, the Retreat from Burgos, the Campa

Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain

"A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain" presents 33 essays by expert scholars on all the major aspects of the political, social, econ...

British Army Uniforms of the American Revolution 1751 - 1783

Based on contemporary records and paintings, this book identifies each cavalry and infantry regiment and illustrates changes in uniforms,...

The Armies and Wars of the Sun King 1643-1715 Volume 4

A new and updated vision of the War of Spanish Succession largely won by the Sun King's armies.

Central Europe and the Non-European World in the Long 19th Century

Central Europe and the Non-European World in the Long 19th Century explores various ways in which inhabitants of the Austro-Hungarian Mon...

Forging the Modern World

Explores the ways historians use and produce information to explain key transformations in global economic, political, and ideological re...

Black Skin, White Masks

Fanon's pivotal work on race and racism, available here as a "Penguin Modern Classic". Fanon was a major influence on civil rights, anti-...

Ain't I a Woman?

A collection of Sojourner Truth's iconic words, including her famous speech at the 1851 Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio A former...

King of the World

Winner of the Franco-British Society Book Prize 2019 'The ultimate biography of the Sun King' Simon Sebag Montefiore Louis XIV dominated ...

The Covent Garden Ladies

***By the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FIVE*** 'A fascinating expose of the seamy side of eighteenth century life' MAIL O...

An Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama, in Tibet

The first such work in the English language, this eyewitness description of Tibet and Bhutan was originally published in 1800.

Black Spartacus

The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero Toussaint Louverture The Haitian Revolu...

Dr James Barry

A Sunday Times Book of the Year As featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club Dr James Barry was many things in his life: Inspector General of...

Napoleon

'Glorious... Scurr is one of the most gifted non-fiction writers alive' Simon Schama, Financial Times A revelatory portrait of Napoleon w...

Winter King

Thomas Penn's bestselling Winter King was a Book of the Year in the Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Sunday Times and BBC History, and was awar...

Inglorious Empire

From the internationally acclaimed author comes his bestselling account of India's experience of British colonialism.

Song of Dewey Beard: Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn

Philip Burnham is an associate professor of composition at George Mason University and a former reporter for Indian Country Today. He is ...

Rhodes Must Fall

A decisive book written by the Rhodes Must Fall movement, offering unparalleled insight into the institutional racism at the heart of emp...

Mary Queen of Scots

Soon to be a major film, a dramatic and compelling reinterpretation of the monarch's life from authority on the period John Guy. *Also ap...

Year 501

A contemporary collection of classic works from one of the world's most important and respected commentators on global affairs, with cont...

The Strangest Family

A moving account of George III's doomed attempt to create a happy, harmonious family. George III came to the throne in 1760 determined to...

The Kaiser's Holocaust

On 12 May 1883, the German flag was raised on the coast of South-West Africa, modern Namibia - the beginnings of Germany's African Empire...

The Private Lives of the Tudors

The author of the bestselling biography of Thomas Cromwell takes us behind the scenes to reveal the intimate secrets of the Tudor court a...

Slavery and Islam

A thorough exploration of slavery from the perspective of Islam's authoritative texts as well as moral and philosophical debates on the s...

She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth

?Helen Castor has an exhilarating narrative gift. . . . Readers will love this book, finding it wholly absorbing and rewarding.? ?Hilary ...

Emilie Du Chatelet and the Foundations of Physical Science

The Foundations contains epistemology, metaphysics, methodology, mechanics, and physics. This book argues that Du Chatelet put her finger...

Shakespeares Welt

Die Vergangenheit ist eine Reise wert! Die Zeit von Shakespeare und Königin Elizabeth I. gilt als »goldenes Zeitalter«. Aber wie war es e...

The Interesting Narrative

The Interesting Narrative is a first-hand account of the horrors of slavery, published on the eve of the British abolition debate in 1789...

Blood on the River

The Hungry Empire

The way in which food drove the development of the British Empire and the way by extension that the trade in tea or the need for cod (for...

The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain

'Excellent... Mortimer's erudition is formidable' The Times A time of exuberance, thrills, frills and unchecked bad behaviour...Ian Morti...

Henrietta Maria

A myth-busting biography of Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, which retells the dramatic story of the civil war from her perspective He...

Ladies, Wives and Women: British Army Wives in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815

Scorched Earth

On Shedding an Obsolete Past

A renowned historian and writer dismantles foreign policy decisions of the Trump and Biden administration.