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Dripping with blood and gold, fetishized and tortured, gateway to earthly delights and point of contact with the divine, forcibly divided and powerful even beyond ...
In this timely and very readable new work, Walvin focuses not on abolitionism or the brutality and suffering of slavery, but on resistance, the resistance ...
Ghost towns, empty streets, crumbling ruins and lost empires this book reveals these and other deserted places. Many places featured were once populated and now ...
'F*cking brilliant' Sarah Knight
'Very funny' Mark Watson
AN EXHILARATING JOURNEY THROUGH THE MOST CREATIVE AND CATASTROPHIC F*CK-UPS OF HUMAN HISTORY, FROM OUR ...
WINNER OF THE 2019 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE
The fascinating history of Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son Hernando, guardian of his father's flame, courtier, bibliophile ...
History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that ...
When we think of climate change, we often picture man-made global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions. But natural climate change has occurred throughout human ...
Fat. Such a little word evokes big responses. While 'fat' describes the size and shape of bodies - their appearance - our negative reactions to corpulence also ...
Castles and palaces around the world are structures of grandeur, might and beauty.
From the flamboyance of Germany's fairy tale Neuschwanstein Castle to the ...
Discover the full stories behind over 85 of the world's most influential people
Explore the lives and achievements of more than 85 of the ...
The era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty nations have weapons that can search for and destroy enemy targets ...
The story of poison is the story of power. For centuries, the royal families of Western Europe have feared the gut-roiling, vomit-inducing agony of a ...