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In his 1997 work Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond marshals evidence from five continents and across 13,000 years of human history in an ...
Frederick Jackson Turner's 1893 essay on the history of the United States remains one of the most famous and influential works in the American ...
A unique, in-depth view of Victorian London during the record-breaking summer of 1858, when residents both famous and now-forgotten endured "The Great Stink" together
While ...
Daniel Goldhagen's study of the Holocaust offers conclusions that run directly counter to those reached by Christopher Browning, whose book Ordinary Men is also ...
Keith Thomas's classic study of all forms of popular belief has been influential for so long now that it is difficult to remember how ...
American scholar Jared Diamond deploys his powers of interpretation to great effect in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, which seeks to understand ...
The Second World War was one of the most catastrophic events in human history. But how did the experience and memory of bloodshed affect our ...
The electrifying story of India's struggle for independence, told in this classic account by two fine journalists who conducted hundreds of interviews with nearly ...
When the world held its breath It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 ...
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The "masterful chronicle" of the discovery of the legendary lost civilization of the Maya and the quest to unlock their secrets ...
Based on exciting new research involving the largest sampling of DNA ever made in Britain, Alistair Moffat, author of the bestselling The
Scots: A Genetic ...
The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i Noor, arguably the most celebrated and mythologised jewel in the world.
On 29 March 1849, the ...
The 1745 Jacobite Rebellion was a turning point in British history. When Charles Edward Stuart, commonly known as the Young Pretender, sailed from France to ...
The Prisoner in His Palace is an evocative and thought-provoking account of how the lives of twelve young American soldiers deployed to Iraq are upended ...