An extensively revised edition of Tim Jeal's classic biography published to mark the bicentenary of the great explorer…

\nThe first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day\n…

The Hell-Fire Clubs scandalized eighteenth-century English society. This book explores the social and economic context in…

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The newest best-seller by Patrick Modiano: a beautiful tapestry that brings together memory, esoteric encounters, and…

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Janusz Korczak devoted himself to the care of orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto after the Nazi occupation of Poland. This volume…

This new edition of Frank Ledwidge's eye-opening analysis of British involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan unpicks the causes…

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The dramatic life of William Tyndale, the first person to translate the Bible into English from the original Greek and…

In this nuanced portrait of Athelstan, Sarah Foot offers the first full account of the king ever written.…

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For the first time since his classic Just and Unjust Wars was published almost thirty years ago, this volume brings together…

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During the glory days of the French Renaissance, young John Calvin (1509-1564) experienced a profound conversion to the…

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\nA global account of pirates and their modus operandi, from the Middle Ages to the present day\n…

Vladislav Zubok offers a major reinterpretation of the final years of the USSR, refuting the notion that the breakup of the…

\nA vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential\n…

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Explores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and colonized by Europeans following…

Covers the Kosovo War, and the overthrow of Milosevic, with close-up accounts of his trial at the Hague, and subsequent…

A dazzling translation by Lydia Davis of the first volume of Michel Leiris's masterwork, perhaps the most important French…

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Originally published as Le Gout de l'archive. Editions du Seuil, 1989. Collection La Librairie du XXIe siecle sous la…

Despite a long and eventful reign, Britain's George II is a largely forgotten monarch, his achievements overlooked and his…

A biography that provides the most authoritative picture yet of King Stephen, whose reign (1135-1154), with its 'nineteen…

Demolishes the facade of objective research behind which the revolution in psychiatry has hidden. This book finds psychiatry…

In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, at the high tide of imperial struggles in North America, an indigenous…

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A fascinating look at the recent history of the beautiful but troubled Southeast Asian nation of Cambodia“A richly detailed…

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\nThe extraordinary story of St. Paul\'s Churchyard-the area of London that was a center of social and intellectual life for…

A seminal biography of the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the…

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\nAn authoritative life of Edward the Confessor, the monarch whose death sparked the invasion of 1066\n…

The dawn of print was a major turning point in the early modern world. This book reconstructs the first 150 years of the…

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A vast archive of documents, unread since the sixteenth century, revises the portrait of Spain's best-known king…

Looks at the tumultuous history of the Euro, its status in global economics and politics, and the pressures that present…

When the armies of the First Crusade wrested Jerusalem from control of the Fatimids of Egypt in 1099, they believed their…

Drawing on contemporary memoirs, diaries and letters, this book explores what actually happened in battle in Napoleonic…