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The gripping true story of the intrepid curators who saved China's art from the ravages of the Sino-Japanese War and WW2.
'The kind of ...
An award-winning historian's revisionary account of the early modern world, showing how apocalyptic ideas stimulated political, religious, and intellectual transformations
"A masterful synthesis of ...
This groundbreaking new collection addresses the burning issue of how we interpret history today. What stories are told, and by whom, who should be celebrated ...
'Alex von Tunzelmann is one of the most gifted historians writing today. Brilliant and trenchant, witty and wise, Fallen Idols is a book you will ...
This second edition contains an afterword on COVID-19, looking at the origins and nature of the virus, and how governments across the globe dealt with ...
The sixth edition of this bestselling book takes students on a journey through the 20th century and provides a clear overview of the key events ...
The brilliant untold story of three daughters of diplomacy: Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, glamorous, fascinating young women who accompanied their famous fathers ...
'One of the best makers of sentences around.' - OLIVIA LAING
'An erudite writer with a wonderful wit and gaze'. - JOY WILLIAMS
This is the story ...
A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world history
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as ...
With the end of the Cold War and the triumph of globalization, many believed that nationalism was now a thing of the past: instead, the ...
There are many stories we can spin about years gone by, but which accounts come to be told, and by whom? A single author can ...
A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic world
To fully understand why the shadow of slavery haunts us today ...
A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
'Full of delightful nuggets' Guardian online
'Entertaining, informative and philosphical ... An essential read' All About History
'Extraordinary range ...
A provocative, original and compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences
Disasters are by their very nature hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial ...