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Both revolutionary and reactionary, the Islamic Republic of Iran has long been a conundrum for Western observers. A theocracy that aspires to a popular mandate ...
"A landmark If you have time to read only one book on the Bible this year, make sure that it is this one."-Katherine J ...
'Toner again spins a tale that is enjoyable and informative.' - The Times
Tour the Roman Empire at its height with Marcus Sidonius Falx and his ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
'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 ...
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 ...
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 ...