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\nAn experienced, multi-faceted historian shows how revisionist history is at the heart of creating historical knowledge\n…

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\nAn entirely original account of Victoria\'s relationship with the Raj, which shows how India was central to the Victorian…

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

\nEmotionally resonant photographs of everyday life in the Jewish Lodz Ghetto taken during WWII\n…

The first global history of the epic early days of the iron railway…

A study of the Holocaust, evaluating accepted views of its history and meaning. Yehuda Bauer offers his own interpretation…

An incisive, authoritative account of the West''s failures in Afghanistan, from 9/11 to the fall of Kabul…

A biography that offers a fresh portrait of Anne Boleyn, one of England's most captivating queens. Through a wide-ranging…

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

A brisk and brilliant survey of modern western thought, setting texts and theories in their wider cultural and historical…

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A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders…

A biography of the influential jazz pianist, Bill Evans. Peter Pettinger, himself a concert pianist, describes Evans's life,…

\nThe origins and evolution of Irish American identity, from colonial times through the twentieth century\n…

\nA fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch\n…

A major new history of the Crusades that illuminates the strength and sophistication of the Western and Muslim armies…

An entirely original account of Victoria's relationship with the Raj, which shows how India was central to the Victorian…

An imaginative retelling of London's history, framed through the experiences of Indigenous travelers who came to the city…

\nThe first Yale French Studies issue on photography, examining French photography\'s place in art, identity, and society…

\nThe selected correspondence of the great American abolitionist and reformer dating from the immediate post-Civil War…

Encompassing the period from Rome's founding in the eighth century BC through Justinian's rule in the sixth century AD, the…

This is a biography of Peter the Great. It tells his life story in 12 chapters, including two final chapters on his legacy…

Rejecting the conventional Western interpretation of Middle Eastern history as an offshoot of global power politics, the…

\nA compelling, authoritative account of the brilliant, conflicted, visionary world of Tudor England\n…

\nA powerful and poignant translation of Vergil\'s epic poem, newly equipped with introduction and notes\n…

\nThe surprising story of Iran\'s transformation from America\'s ally in the Middle East into one of its staunchest…

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The 1947 UN resolution to partition Palestine irrevocably changed the political landscape of the Middle East, giving rise to…

The harrowing first-person account of a French foot soldier who survived four years in the trenches of the First World War…

A timely and illuminating history of Tibet, from the seventh century to what it means to be Tibetan today…

\nAn investigation into the evolution of the seven-day week and how our attachment to its rhythms influences how we live\n…

The Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 was an ill-fated Allied attempt to shorten the war by eliminating Turkey, creating a…

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

An imaginative reassessment of thelred "the Unready," one of medieval England's most maligned kings and a major Anglo-Saxon…

\nA new edition of a seminal work-one that explores crucial changes within Europe from the fifteenth to the eighteenth…

In the 50 years between 1530 and 1580, England moved from being a lavishly Catholic country to a Protestant nation.…

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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…

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The untold story of how the Dutch conquered the European book market and became the world\'s greatest bibliophiles…

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

An enthralling account of the entwined histories of Britain, Spain, and their empires in the Americas…

Hilary Davidson delves into the clothing of one of the world's great authors, providing unique and intimate insight into her…

A landmark history of the world economic order, exploring how developing countries have fought to escape impoverishment…

\nA new portrait of Betty Friedan, the author and activist acclaimed as the mother of second-wave feminism\n…

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An enchanting history of the otherworld of elves and fairies, from the nature spirits of Iceland and Ireland to Avalon and…

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A copiously illustrated global history of magic books, from ancient papyri to pulp paperbacks Grimoires, textbooks of magic…

\nThe most complete English-language collection of the prose of Tadeusz Borowski, the most challenging chronicler of…

A new appraisal of the first Tudor queen, her European connections, her ambitions and intentions, and the religious violence…