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In a fast-paced narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, the award-winning historian Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-year ...
For many decades, Indigenous peoples have been advocating to have a say on matters that impact upon their lives. On 14 October 2023, the Australian ...
Southeast Asia: An introductory historywas first published in 1979 and immediately filled a need for travellers and students interested in one of the most dynamic ...
A rich history of the years leading up to 1066 when Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and Normans vied for the English crown. A tale of loyalty, treason ...
Isaac Deutscher was planning to write a biography of Lenin after he completed the Trotsky trilogy. But he changed his mind and wrote one of ...
An influential medieval allegorical interpretation of the Metamorphoses that uncovers the hidden moral truths of Ovid's stories, translated into English for the first time ...
What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle ...
The magnificent wonders of China, ancient and modern, revealed by an international team of leading scholars from Asia and the West.
China is the oldest ...
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 in the so-called burned-over district of western New York, which ...
An authoritative, richly illustrated history, and affectionate celebration, of Siena, one of the best-loved and most-visited cities in Italy.
Occupying a hilltop site in the ...
The first comprehensive history of the Mason-Dixon Line, the borderland that encapsulated the American story of rivalry and settler-colonial violence, slavery and audacious growth.
The ...
'History', suggests Robert Gildea, 'is a battlefield.' Questions of power, rights, identity and nationhood always have an ancient and modern historical dimension and countries still ...
In this ground-breaking, posthumous study, the late Lo Jung-pang discusses the geographic, political, and commercial factors that led to the emergence of seapower and a ...
Kawai Koume (1804-1889) was an accomplished poet and painter and a wife, mother, and grandmother in a lower-ranking samurai family in the provincial castle town ...
A portrait of one of the ancient world's first political celebrities, who veered from failure to success and back again
"This colorful biography of ...