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A revised and updated edition of Philip Marsden's classic travel book, published to coincide with the centenary of the Armenian massacres.
After centuries of ...
Crises of Empire offers a comprehensive and uniquely comparative analysis of the history of decolonization in the British, French and Dutch empires. By comparing the ...
Horse Nations provides the first globally comparative study of the impact of the horse on the Indigenous societies of North and South America, southern Africa ...
Disease is the true serial killer of human history: the horrors of bubonic plague, cholera, syphilis, smallpox, tuberculosis and the like have claimed more lives ...
The extraordinary history of news and its dissemination, from medieval pilgrim tales to the birth of the newspaper
Long before the invention of printing, let ...
The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters tells nothing less than the story of how the modern, Western view of the world was born. Cultural ...
"This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fine ...
Tuberculosis is characterized as a social disease and few have been more inextricably linked with human history. There is evidence from the archaeological record that ...
You mean this place we go to five days a week has a history? Cubed reveals the unexplored yet surprising story of the places where ...
Originally written in 1921 for the author's grandchildren, Hendrik Willem van Loon's The Story of Mankind has charmed generations with its warmth, simplicity ...