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The Silk Roads - A New History of the World

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 - How Portugal Forged the First Global Impire

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

Napoleon the Great

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

Elizabeth of York - The First Tudor Queen

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...

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...

The Swerve - How the World Became Modern

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...

Inglorious Empire - What the British Did to India

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

The Witches - Salem, 1692

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

Napoleon - The Man Behind the Myth

`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 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...

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-...

Nature's Mutiny - How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present

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

Queen Victoria - Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow

Bestselling author and historian Lucy Worsley tracks a new course through Queen Victoria's life, examining how she transformed from danci...

Frederick the Great - King of Prussia

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

The Private Lives of the Tudors - Uncovering the Secrets of Britain's Greatest Dynasty

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

The Lion House - The Rise of Suleyman the Magnificent

An immersive reconstruction of the life of the most feared and powerful man of the sixteenth century. 'Wolf Hall for the Ottoman Empire ....

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...

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 ...

Frederick the Great

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KATE WILLIAMSFrederick II of Prussia attempted to escape his authoritarian father as a boy, but went on to become...

The Age of Federalism

Written by two esteemed historians, this work gives readers a reflective, deeply formed analytical survey of this extraordinary period in...

The Europeans - Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture

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

The Fall of Robespierre - 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris

The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. Maxim...

16th century in Switzerland - 16th-century Swiss people, Huldrych Zwingli, Theodore Beza, Johann Stumpf, Heinrich Bullinger, Josias Simmler, Oswald Myconius, Reformation in Switzerland, Conrad Grebel, Johannes Oecolampadius, Thomas Erastus, Felix Manz

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

Travels From the Cape of Good Hope Into the Interior Parts of Africa, Including Many Interesting Anecdotes: With Elegant Plates, Descriptive of the Co

A Critique of Mau: Mute Compulsion and Other Essays - Seven More Argumentative Essays

The two first essays in A Critique of Mau: Mute Compulsion and Other Essays are critiques of Mau and Meiksins Wood for misreading Marx on...

The Last Colony - A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy

After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human rights and self-determination. Supported by Britain, these u...

The Kings Painter - The Life and Times of Hans Holbein

The first illustrated biography of Hans Holbein, the painter who depicted some of the most powerful people of the early sixteenth century...

From the Siegerland to Germanna - Trupbach's Virginia Emigrants 1712-1734

Authors and book also see publishers' website at http://www.frankfurt-academic-press.de/buecher/

The Strangest Family - The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians

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...

George III - The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch

The Times Book of the Year *Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, 2022* *Winner of the General Society of Colo...

Henrietta Maria - Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen

***A Best Book of 2022, The Times*** ***Book of the Year, Spectator*** A myth-busting biography of Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, wh...

Globalgeschichte / Global History 1 · 2023

Die Geschichtswissenschaft diskutiert seit Jahren intensiv über die Genese, Formen und Folgen weltweiter Verflechtungen und Austauschproz...

Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the Europ...

King of the World - The Life of Louis XIV

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

Empireland - How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain

EMPIREWORLD IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW WINNER OF THE 2022 BRITISH BOOK AWARD FOR NARRATIVE NONFICTION ***THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE CHANNE...

Until Proven Safe - The gripping history of quarantine, from the Black Death to the post-Covid future

A riveting, thought-provoking and very timely account of the idea and the reality of quarantine around the world, examining not only the ...

The 1619 Project - A New American Origin Story

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New American Origin Story o...

A Cultural History of Medicine in the Age of Enlightenment

The Enlightenment, as concept and time period, was haunted by ambiguities about the relationships between mind and body, humans and the n...

A Cultural History of Medicine in the Renaissance

Since the 'cultural turn' of the 1980s the history of Renaissance medicine has been radically transformed, with older narratives stood on...

The Devastating Wake

The Devastating Wake describes the environmental and social impacts of 13,000 voyages from New England to the Pacific Ocean in the ninete...

Villains of All Nations - Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age

Pirates have long been stock figures in popular culture, from "Treasure Island" to the more recent antics of Jack Sparrow. This rediscove...

Something Wicked - The Lives, Crimes and Deaths of the Pendle Witches

On 20 August 1612, ten people from Pendle were executed before a vast crowd at Lancaster's Gallows Hill. The condemned and their associat...

Speak for England - Leo Amery and the British Empire in the Age of Churchill

Leo Amery was a leading British Conservative politician and imperialist who played a pivotal role in the fall of Neville Chamberlain and ...

Killing Napoleon - The Plot to Blow up Bonaparte

New paperback edition - An amazing story that is still largely unknown in the English-speaking world - the plot to blow up Napoleon, an e...

Wellington's Eastern Front - The Campaign on the East Coast of Spain, 1810-1814

A detailed, fast-moving account of the fighting in a neglected theatre of the Peninsular War.

The Lost Homestead - My Mother, Partition and the Punjab

Through her mother's memories, accounts from her Indian family and her own research in both India and Pakistan, constitutional and human ...

The Radical Potter - Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain

*Longlisted for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History, 2022*A spectacular biography of the great designer, entrepreneur, ab...

A Problem from Hell - America and the Age of Genocide

From the Armenian Genocide to the ethnic cleansings of Kosovo and Darfur, modern history is haunted by acts of brutal violence. Yet Ameri...

Broken Threads - My Family From Empire to Independence

An extraordinary history of Mishal Husain's four grandparents, whose lives were shaped by the tumultuous politics and prejudices of empir...

Johnsonville - Union Supply Operations on the Tennessee River and the Battle of Johnsonville, November 4-5, 1864

Johnsonville unearths a wealth of new material that sheds light on the creation and strategic role of the Union supply depot, the use of ...

Confronting Napoleon: Levin Von Bennigsen's Memoir of the Campaign in Poland, 1806-1807 - Volume II - The Friedland Campaign

Volume 2 of General Levin von Bennigsen's memoirs offer unique insights into the epic confrontation between the French and Russians in Po...

Holding the Political Center in Illinois - Conservatism and Union on the Brink of the Civil War

The importance of political moderation in preserving the Union Holding the Political Center in Illinois charts the political trajectory o...

Young Queens - The Intertwined Lives of Catherine De' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots

The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots-three queens exerc...

The Radical Advocacy of Wendell Phillips - Abolitionism, Democracy, and Public Interest Law

Examining the life of an early advocate of the legal rights of Black Americans In this brisk, engaging exploration of 19th-century radica...

The Empire's Reformations - Politics and Religion in Germany, 1495-1648

The Empire's Reformations provides a concise overview of reform movements in 16th-century Germany that gave birth to the modern division ...

Wissenschaften zwischen Tradition und Innovation - Historische Perspektiven | Sciences between Tradition and Innovation - Historical Perspectives

The ideas of »tradition« and »innovation« articulated by cultural historiography have in recent decades been presented as central categor...

Tippu Tip - Ivory, Slavery and Discovery in the Scramble for Africa

Embark on a gripping journey through the life of Tippu Tip, a pioneering 19th-century ivory trader whose exploits left an indelible mark ...

Agents of Empire - Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits, and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World

The story of a Venetian-Albanian family in the late sixteenth century forms the basis of a sweeping account of the interaction between Ea...

The Covent Garden Ladies - the book that inspired BBC2's 'Harlots'

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

Black Spartacus - The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

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