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Prisoners of Geography meets Bill Bryson: a funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated and timely history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer ...
'An epic treasure hunt into the highways and byways of stored knowledge across faiths and continents.' John Agard, poet and playwright
In The Map of ...
Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Why Nations Fail sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory ...
For 700 years, Rome and Persia clashed as the superpowers of the Ancient World. The final phase of their great war is one of the ...
Imperial conquest and colonisation depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global power by asserting a right to use unilateral force at ...
'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 ...
For our entire history, humans have always searched for new ways to share information. This innate compulsion led to the origin of writing on the ...
How the rich and the super-rich throughout Western history accumulated their wealth, behaved (or misbehaved) and helped (or didn't help) their communities in times ...
A global account of pirates and their modus operandi, from the Middle Ages to the present day
In the twenty-first century piracy has regained a ...
How deadly germs and pandemics have shaped history - and why they are products of our success as a species.
Plagues upon the Earth is a ...
Most things you 'know' about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain ...
A new and original history of the forces that shaped the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
We thought we knew the story of the twentieth century ...
From Stonehenge to microchips, discover the one simple method used to engineer the world as we know it
Discover the secret method used to build ...
'Brilliantly funny' SHAPARAK KHORSANDI
'Immensely enjoyable' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE
'Every page contains delights' LINDSEY FITZHARRIS
Why is Italy called Italy? How old is curry? How ...
In 14 original essays, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from the ancient world ...