In a polarized era, history can become a subject of political contention. Many have seen America as perfect, many others argue that the...
A unique illustrated exploration of the development of finance that combines data from every part of the world and covers five thousand years of history...
An arresting and poignant cultural history of graveyards, from early burial sites to now. Why, how and where do we inter our dead? How do...
The first in a ground-breaking two-volume history of Henry III's rule",Professor Carpenter is one of Britain's foremost medievalists...No one knows more about Henry, and a...
From two expert scholars comes a comprehensive study of the dating of the Hebrew Bible The age of the Hebrew Bible is a topic that...
Go behind the scenes of The Umbrella Academy, one of Netflix's most watched shows with a second season debuting July 31st 2020! Dive into the...
From Arcadia to Guerilla Gardening, Bomarzo to Little Sparta, Roberto Burle Marx to Fritz Haeg, the Anthropocene to Vibrant Matter: a brilliant and...
An Ostarbeiter was an 'Eastern Worker', rounded up by Nazi Germany from the captured territories in Central and Eastern Europe. By the end of the...
The first biography to trace the remarkable life and career of Boris Iofan, beautifully illustrated with many of Iofan's previously unseen sketchbooks and photographs from...
The first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history &,nbsp,“Almost every page contains an eye-opening detail. . .. The Great...
The obituary page of The New York Times is a celebration of extraordinary lives. This groundbreaking package includes 300 obits in the book with exclusive...
The inside story, told by the archaeological detectives themselves, of the extraordinary discovery of the world's oldest papyri - revealing how King Khufu's men built...
Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, its legacy and the accompanying Russian-American tension continues to loom large. Russia's access to detailed...
A cunning group of street artists is appropriating public spaces with astonishing artistic interventions. We Come at Night introduces the work of thirteen street artists...
A thrilling deep dive into the creation of the revered PlayStation RPG. Comprising over thirty interwoven voices, this beautifully produced book offers unprecedented insight into...
Witness the rise and fall of ancient empires and forgotten cultures, and their epic stories with this unique map-led history.From Mesopotamia’s thriving trade hubs to...
The first volume of a ground-breaking and truly global trilogy on the Second World War, from an exciting, prize-winning academic. Between 1931 and 1949, a...
A provocative analysis of how Christianity helped legitimize the death penalty in early modern Europe, then throughout the Christian world, by turning execution into a...
A new history of the idea of Europe from Ancient Greece to the present'A magisterial history, written with great panache, that is both enlightening and...
Discover the epic history of human exploration and migration, and the stories of fearless pioneers the world over, with this stunning tour of history -...
