• Rok vydání 2021

\nA detailed study of Tudor textiles, highlighting their extravagant beauty and their impact on the royal court, fashion,…

This paperback edition does not contain the appendixes included in the hardcover edition. All appendixes can be found at…

The forgotten story of how ordinary families managed financially in the Victorian era--and struggled to survive despite…

\nA groundbreaking account of Napoleon Bonaparte, Pope Pius VII, and the kidnapping that would forever divide church and…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nThe new paperback edition of Roy Strong\'s popular introduction to Elizabethan portraiture.\n…

• Čeština

Overturning the received narrative of Europe's military and religious conquest and colonization of the region, the author…

A beautifully illustrated and unique history of the '"queen of flowers'" in art, medicine, cuisine, and more…

A global history of how Thomas Jefferson''s descendants navigated the legacy of the Declaration of Independence on both…

\nA major new history of the Royal Navy during the tumultuous age of revolution\n…

\nThe first telling of the unknown story of America\'s two-hundred-year history as a slave-trading nation\n…

\nHow a strategist\'s ideas were catastrophically ignored in 1914-but shaped Britain\'s success in the Second World War and…

\nA thoroughly researched assessment of how China\'s economic success continues to be shaped by the communist ideology of…

• Rok vydání 1848

The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb''s library in 1848…

\nHow herbaria illuminate the past and future of plant science\n…

\nA highly original and compelling account of individual Jews who resisted Nazi persecution, challenging the traditional…

\nA definitive account of the great revolt of Jews against Rome and the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple\n…

\nThe first comprehensive guide to Elizabethan ideas about the mind\n…

The first part of a sweeping two-volume history of the devastation brought to bear on Indian nations by U.S. expansion…

\nThe first integrative history of Nazi mass killing-showing how policies of mass murder were crucial to the regime\'s…

Presents the global history of genocide and extermination from ancient times. This book examines outbreaks of mass violence…

A penetrating look into the extreme plutocracy Vladimir Putin has created and its implications for Russia's future…

\nThe definitive account of the superior fighting force that powered the English Revolution\n…

\nA comprehensive survey of Syriac Christianity from its origins in Hellenistic and ancient Near Eastern cultures to the…

\nThe story of a remarkable era of reform, controversy, optimism, and Cold War confrontation in the Soviet Union\n…

\nA wide-ranging, insightful history of culture in West Germany-from literature, film, and music to theater and the visual…

\nThe first biography of Charles Cornwallis in forty years-the soldier, governor, and statesman whose career covered…

\nAn award-winning historian\'s revisionary account of the early modern world, showing how apocalyptic ideas stimulated…

A landmark biography of the charismatic king beloved of fourteenth-century England…

Presents the history of the bicycle, an invention that precipitated nothing short of a social revolution. This book recounts…

\nA new history of English trade and empire-revealing how a tightly woven community of merchants was the true origin of…

\nThe paperback edition of this captivating story of Tudor dress, and the people who made and wore it.\n…

This book is the indispensable guide to the history of architecture in Venice, encompassing the city's fascinating variety…

\nAn account of the alliance between the Catholic Church and the Italian Fascist regime in their campaign against…

• Angličtina

The definitive biography of the celebrated composer, published in English to coincide with the centenary of his death…

A new look at the crusaders, which shows how they pursued long-term plans and clear strategic goals…

The first comprehensive collection of the letters of one of the most successful American songwriters of the twentieth century…

A monumental work, decades in the making: the first atlas to illustrate the entire scope of the transatlantic slave trade…

A revelatory and informative presentation of the anti-apartheid posters created by Medu Art Ensemble…

An analysis of ancient Greek and Roman works alongside contemporary literature, exploring how these classics shape our…

\nA major new assessment of the \"vanished kingdom\" of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth-one which recognizes its…

\nA wide-ranging illustrated history of transparency as told through the evolution of the glass window\n…

\nA vibrant, diverse history of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples in the age of Romanticism\n…

The story of colonists who were neither loyalists nor patriots during the American Revolution, told through the experiences…

\nAn essential exploration of how Russian ideas about the United States shaped architecture and urban design from the…

An incisive, comparative study of the development of Post'-World War II progressive politics in the United States, Britain,…

A fascinating social history of the guitar, reasserting its long-forgotten importance in Romantic England…

\nA one-volume collection of the prose and poetry of eighteenth-century Britain\'s pre-eminent lexicographer, critic,…

The story of India\'s exuberantly colored textiles that made their mark on design, technology, and trade around the world…