Quick view The Earth Transformed by Professor Peter Frankopan Now: $17.88 MSRP: Was: From the international bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes a major history of how a changing climate has dramatically shaped the development—and demise—of civilisations across time. When we think about history, we rarely pa… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Book of Phobias and Manias by Kate Summerscale Now: $6.59 MSRP: $23.38 Was: Plunge into this rich, surprising and stunningly designed A-Z compendium to discover how our fixations have taken shape, from the Middle Ages to the present day, as bestselling author Kate Summerscale deftly traces the threads bet… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology by Lucy Moore Now: $10.99 MSRP: $24.75 Was: The story of the pioneering anthropologists and their adventures among civilisations that were first thought of as being primitive and savage. What they discovered, however, would change the way we think about ourselves. In the la… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Forgotten Warriors: A History of Women on the Front Line by Sarah Percy Now: $17.88 MSRP: Was: From Boudicca to Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of female fighters. We have all heard of Joan of Arc, but not the cross-dressing soldiers whose disguises were so effective the men around them… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO by Peter Apps Now: $23.38 MSRP: Was: The inside story of the world's most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Born in the aftermath of World War II, NATO was the brainchild of Allied leaders and offic… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Homelands by Timothy Garton Ash Now: $15.13 MSRP: Was: Drawing from the people who lived it, Homelands explores how Europe slowly recovered and rebuilt from World War Two. And then faltered. Timothy Garton Ash, our greatest writer about Europe, has spent a lifetime studying Europe and… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare by Paul Strathern Now: $15.95 MSRP: Was: Through the lives of major figures from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, including Copernicus, Gutenberg, Luther, Catherine de Medici, Rabelais, van Eyck and Shakespeare, Paul Strathern tells the fascinating story of th… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The New Cold War by Robin Niblett Now: $17.88 MSRP: Was: We have entered a new Cold War. The contest between America and China is global and unbridgeable, and it encompasses all major instruments of statecraft - economic, political and military.It has its tinder box: Taiwan. And both pr… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Dark History of the Occult by Paul Roland Now: $5.50 MSRP: $13.75 Was: From black magic murders to satanic sex cults, occult expert Paul Roland traces the history of the Black Arts and the roots of these strange and evil practices.This illustrated account includes detailed explorations of animal sacr… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A History of the Classical World: The Story of Ancient Greece and Rome by Elizabeth Wyse Now: $10.99 MSRP: $27.50 Was: This richly illustrated hardback chronicles the rise and fall of the ancient Greek and Roman empires, accompanied by full-colour images of artefacts, artwork, maps and more.From palace-based societies in Minoan Crete to the German… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view History's Greatest Battles by Nigel Cawthorne Now: $5.50 MSRP: $13.75 Was: Great battles mark history's turning points, occurring where cultures and ideologies clash. While some battles have been won by the superior force, others have been won by a sheer dogged refusal to surrender in the face of overwhe… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Histories of the Unexpected by Dr Sam Willis & Professor James Daybell Now: $6.59 MSRP: $15.13 Was: Did you know that the history of the beard is connected to the Crimean War; that the history of paperclips is all about the Stasi; and that the history of bubbles is all about the French Revolution? And who knew that Heinrich Himm… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Goodbye Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land by Jacob Mikanowski Now: $13.75 MSRP: $15.13 Was: An epic history of the ‘other’ Europe, a place of conflict and coexistence, of faith and folklore. ‘Do not rush to bid farewell to eastern Europe until reading this book. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this very … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule by Angela Saini Now: $15.13 MSRP: Was: In this bold and radical book, award-winning science journalist Angela Saini goes in search of the true roots of gendered oppression, uncovering a complex history of how male domination became embedded in societies and spread acro… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Underground Sea by John Berger Now: $20.89 MSRP: $23.38 Was: The Underground Sea is a succinct, urgent collection of writing from John Berger's archive. It brings together for the first time his work on mineworkers and the miners' strikes and has been edited as a set of actions for today. P… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view How the World Made the West by Josephine Quinn Now: $20.89 MSRP: $23.38 Was: The West, history tells us, was built on the ideas and values of Ancient Greece and Rome, which disappeared from Europe during the Dark Ages and were then rediscovered by the Renaissance. But what if that isn't true? What if the s… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das Now: $17.88 MSRP: Was: When Thomas Roe arrived in India in 1616 as James I’s first ambassador to the Mughal Empire, the English barely had a toehold in the subcontinent.Their understanding of South Asian trade and India was sketchy at best, and, to the … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past by Christopher Hadley Now: $15.13 MSRP: Was: Have you ever heard the march of legions on a lonely country road? For two thousand years, the roads the Romans built have determined the flow of ideas and folktales, where battles were fought and where pilgrims trod. Almost every… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Remembering Peasants by Patrick Joyce Now: $32.99 MSRP: Was: A way of life that once encompassed most of humanity is vanishing in one of the greatest transformations of our time: the eclipse of the rural world by the urban. In this new history of peasantry, Patrick Joyce tells the story of … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view To The City: Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul by Alexander Christie-Miller Now: $23.38 MSRP: Was: Walking along the crumbling defensive walls of Istanbul and talking to those he passes, Alexander Christie-Miller finds a distillation of the country's history, a mirror of its present, and a shadow of its future. Caught between t… Add to Cart The item has been added