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Beyond its housing estates and identikit high streets there is another Britain. This is the Britain of mist-drenched forests and unpredictable sea-frets: of wraith-like fog ...
Since Europeans first reached Brazil in 1500 it has been an unfailing source of extraordinary fascination. More than any other part of the 'New World ...
Richard Evans wrote In Defence of History at a time when the historian's profession was coming under heavy attack as a result of the ...
For many centuries, the history of the crusades, as written by Western historians, was based solidly on Western sources. Evidence from the Islamic societies that ...
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Claude Levi-Strauss is probably the most complex anthropological theorist of all time. His work continues to influence present-day thinkers in his field, but he is ...
In this gripping and haunting narrative, a renowned psychiatrist sheds new light on the psychology of the war criminals at Nuremberg
When the ashes had ...
Georges Lefebvre was one of the most highly-regarded historians of the 20th century - and a key reason for the high reputation he enjoys can be ...
A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan
This new edition of Yasmin Khan's reappraisal of ...
Tony Judt decided to write Postwar in 1989, the year the collapse of the Soviet Union provided European history with a rare example of a ...
Few historical problems are more baffling in retrospect than the conundrum of how Hitler was able to rise to power in Germany and then command ...
Pigs unite and divide people, but why?
Pig/Pork explores the love-hate relationship between humans and pigs through the lenses of archaeology, biology, history and ...
During the reign of Charles II, London was a city in flux. After years of civil war and political turmoil, England's capital became the ...
The story of sugar, and of mankind's desire for sweetness in food and drink is a compelling, though confusing story. It is also an ...