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The fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 has become the commemorative symbol of the French Revolution. But this violent and random act was ...
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 ...
In this chilling history of the bodysnatching trade, the stories of Britain's lesser known Resurrection Men are told. Here are the stories of the ...
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 ...
"No ruling regime," writes Hamid Dabashi, "could ever have a total claim over the idea of Iran as a nation, a people." For decades, the ...
Not so long ago we timed our lives by the movement of the sun. These days our time arrives atomically and insistently, and our lives ...
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 ...
This fourth and final volume, which completes the Cambridge edition of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, covers the final twenty-four years of what was, as ...
Despite dramatic advances in technology and equipment over the centuries, there is one vital piece of kit in most explorers' pockets that hasn't changed ...
Spoken by eighty million people, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother ...
The history of Ancient Babylonia in ancient Mesopatamia is epic. After playing host to three great empires, the Hammurabic and Kassite empires, and the Neo-Babylonian ...