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

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An exploration of how China's Belt and Road Initiative seeks to reshape international order and how it has catalyzed a new…

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

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

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

For two hundred years historians have viewed England's Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 as an un-revolutionary revolution -…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

\nAn introduction to the design, production and use of luxury embroideries in medieval England (c. 1200-1530).\n…

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

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

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An expansive look at the significant role of Hungarian immigrants in shaping American photographic culture and practice in…

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

Assembles some of the top secret Soviet documents, from the era of Stalin's purges. This title includes the dossiers, police…

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

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

Encompasses the entire life of Ivan the Terrible and views him in the context of his own time. Notorious for a policy of…

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

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

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

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

Henry VIII's reformation remains among the most crucial yet misunderstood events in English history. This work presents the…

\nHow democracies compete with autocracies to bias international order in their favor-and why democracies are losing\n…

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

\nThe untold story of the greatest library of the Renaissance and its creator Hernando Colon\n…

\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…

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

Alexander McQueen (1969-2010) was one of the most influential, imaginative and inspirational designers at the turn of the…

\nA comprehensive study of the connection between Calvinist missions and Dutch imperial expansion during the early modern…

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

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

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Astrup's innovative, vividly colored paintings and woodcuts of the western Norwegian landscape come alive in this probing…