\nThe unlikely beginnings of the East India Company—from Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior Dutch—to laying the…

Kniha 9780300196955 Impressionist France Simon Kelly…

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\nA provocative account showing that \"China\"-and its 5,000 years of unified history-is a national myth, created only a…

\nA moving, deeply researched account of survivors\' experiences of liberation from Nazi death camps and the long, difficult…

• Rok vydání 2024

\nA lively and inviting history of Belfast—exploring the highs and lows of a resilient city\n…

\nAn engaging, inclusive history of the NHS, from its surprising survival over the decades to today’s crises\n…

\nA prominent historian provides an engaging on-the-ground account of the everyday authoritarianism that produced the Arab…

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\nA concise history of how American law has shaped-and been shaped by-the experience of contagion\n…

\nAn insightful new biography of the central figure of the Dreyfus Affair, focused on the man himself and based on newly…

\nA timely look at the impact of China\'s booming emergence on the countries of Southeast Asia\n…

• Rok vydání 2023

\nA thought-provoking, authoritative biography of one of history\'s most maligned rulers\n…

\nA fascinating study of the root motivations behind the political activities and philosophies of Putin\'s government in…

\nA comprehensive history of the Georgians, comparing past views of these exciting, turbulent, and controversial times with…

\nA rich and fascinating exploration of the Volga-the first to fully reveal its vital place in Russian history\n…

• Rok vydání 1549

\nThe fascinating story of the so-called “Prayer Book Rebellion” of 1549 which saw the people of Devon and Cornwall rise up…

\nMore than just a single-minded warrior-king, Henry V comes to life in this fresh account as a gifted ruler acutely…

\nAn incantatory poetic novel that interweaves the legends, tragedies, and histories of a village in Vietnam\n…

\nA portrait of Jane Austen\'s England told through the career paths of younger sons-men of good family but small fortune\n…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nA not-for-the-squeamish journey back through the centuries to urban England, where the streets are crowded, noisy, filthy,…

• Rok vydání 2022

\nThe first volume in a pioneering account of Oliver Cromwell-providing a major new interpretation of one of the greatest…

A timely exploration of the allusive, sculptural fiber work of an important contemporary South African artist…

\nThe first history of all the English cathedrals, from Birmingham and Bury St Edmunds to Worcester and York Minster\n…

\nIn the fourth volume in the Why I Write series, the iconic Samuel Delany remembers fifty years of writing and shaping the…

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\nA deep dive into how F. Scott Fitzgerald\'s vision of the American Dream has been understood, portrayed, distorted,…

\nA vivid history of the relationship between Britain and China, from 1600 to the present\n…

\nThe leading U.S. expert on abortion law charts the many meanings associated with Roe v. Wade during its fifty-year…

\nThe miraculous story of Madrid—how a village became a great world city\n…

\nThe first account of the Allied navies’ vital contribution to the success of the D-Day landings and the Normandy campaign\n…

\nA rediscovery of patriotism as a virtue in line with the core values of democracy in an extremist age\n…

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\nThe first major English-language history of Ukraine from its emergence after the demise of the Soviet Union through the…

\nA provocative look at the relationship between the far right and the American conservative movement from the 1930s to the…

\nAn ambitious alternative history of the modern Middle East\n…

\nA compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present\n…

\nThe untold history of America\'s mid-twentieth-century program of hepatitis infection research, its scientists\'…

\nA writer\'s travels along the legendary yet contested Jordan River-exploring the long conflict over water supply\n…

\nThe remarkable story of how a handful of intrepid scientific navigators underpinned British naval dominance in the…

\nA lively and inviting history of Belfast-exploring the highs and lows of a resilient city\n…

\nThe story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history\n…

\nA prominent historian provides an engaging on-the-ground account of the everyday authoritarianism that produced the Arab…

\nA former Harvard president reflects on how elite universities are responding to critiques from the left and the right, and…

\nThe first history of childhood in Tudor England\n…

\nThe first book to bring together the key writings and speeches of civil rights activist Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander -…

\nAn intimate and candid account of our national parks detailing their strengths, vulnerabilities, and essential role in…

\nAn authoritative account of Stalin as a wartime leader-showing how his paradoxical policies of mass mobilization and…

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\nRobert Frank\'s and Todd Webb\'s parallel 1955 projects to photograph America are considered in the context of…

\nReassessing the career of the hugely influential Harper’s Bazaar art director, who changed the course of twentieth-century…

\nA comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century\n…