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'An illuminating work of massive insight' Alan Moore
'A sensational book. Heartily recommended' Rufus Hound
It is the century about which we know too much ...
The history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals - from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet ...
A bullet misses its target in Sarajevo, a would-be Austrian painter gets into the Viennese academy, Lord Halifax becomes British prime minister in 1940: seemingly ...
Hard to believe but true:
The Passover Seder is a Greco-Roman symposium banquet
The Talmud rabbis presented themselves as Stoic philosophers
Synagogue buildings were Roman ...
When Charlemagne died in 814 CE, he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything seen in Western Europe since the fall of Rome ...
In the early nineteenth century, a series of murders took place in and around London which shocked the whole of England. The appalling nature of ...
The Land Is Our History tells the story of indigenous legal activism at a critical political and cultural juncture in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand ...
Superlatives tend to fail in describing Joan Blaeu's Atlas Maior-that being said, it stands as one of the most extravagant feats in the history ...
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The life of one of America's founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton.
The riveting life of Alexander Hamilton, an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean ...
We all know that some of the greatest inventions came from the Victorian age, the successors of which are still with us today. But this ...
"The Gieses carefully a mine a large mountain of human interest and appeal."-David Herlihy, Keene Professor of History, Brown University
This new reissue of ...