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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, awarded both the Pulitzer and the Bancroft prizes, has become a classic of American historical literature. Hailed at ...
The Archduke Charles was the most formidable of Napoleon's continental foes but only once came into direct conflict with him: this was in the ...
The Library of Congress brings booklovers an enriching tribute to the power of the written word and to the history of our most beloved books ...
'Virgin Queen' is the name for which the powerful and fearless daughter of Henry the Eighth and Anne Boleyn is best remembered and may explain ...
A riveting account of the part Russian composer Shostakovich played in the Siege of Leningrad from award-winning author M. T. Anderson. From internationally acclaimed YA ...
'Gladiators and Beasthunts' is a comprehensive survey of arena sports in ancient Rome, focusing upon gladiatorial combat and the beast-hunts (venationes). Whilst numerous books have ...
This illustrated Chinese history book takes the reader on a visual journey of the most brilliant and significant segments of Chinese civilization over the course ...
Although he was never faithful, Jones sees him as a serial monogamist: he spent his life in search of a perfect woman, a search that ...
What does drug addiction mean to us? What did it mean to others in the past? And how are these meanings connected? In modern society ...
The cross stirs intense feelings among Christians as well as non-Christians. Robin Jensen takes readers on an intellectual and spiritual journey through the two-thousand-year evolution ...
Regarded as a central part of Kapuscinski's work, these vivid portraits of life in the depths of Poland embody the young writer's mastery ...
"We make landfall on an island of oaks." So reads a 12th century Templar manuscript recovered from a medieval Italian church. Two of history's ...