The fascinating history of poetry anthologies and their influence on British society and culture over the last four centuries. For hundreds of years, anthologies have...
This book introduces students to the key concepts of women’s history, gender as a category of analysis, and the history of feminism. Spanning the late...
What should you do at Christmas? In Edvard Munch's Christmas in the Brothel, the artist depicts himself sleeping off the effects of drink, but the...
Freedom Ship is a gripping history of stowaway slaves and the vessels that carried them to liberty. Up to 100,000 fugitives successfully fled the horrors...
The history of selling sex is a hidden one, its practitioners a 'damnable crew' pushed to the margins of history. Harlots, Whores &,amp, Hackabouts redresses...
This first full-length biography of the Nobel Laureate to appear in a quarter century explores John Steinbeck's long apprenticeship as a writer struggling through the...
Stalinism at War tells the epic story of the Soviet Union in World War Two. Starting with Soviet involvement in the war in Asia and...
We live in an age in which extraordinary wealth seems to arrive from unfathomable sources, such as when tech firms that have never made a...
'This unique and fascinating history explains why the blame now being piled upon meritocracy for many social ills is misplaced-and that assigning responsibilities to the...
The Original Rider Waite Tarot is the most popular and widely used tarot card deck in the world. First issued in 1910, each card is...
Once you accept that the impossible is really possible, what happens in Russia makes perfect sense In December 2013, David Satter became the first American...
A beautifully illustrated and unique history of the ",queen of flowers", in art, medicine, cuisine, and more...
At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern times. A...
Amid mounting fears of violent Islamic extremism, many Europeans ask whether Muslim immigrants can integrate into historically Christian countries. In a groundbreaking ethnographic...
This classic study remains the definitive account of witchcraft and magic in the centuries following the witch trials. The Witchcraft Act of 1736 brought an...
'A highly original thinker' -&,nbsp,New York Times&,nbsp,David Graeber (1961-2020) was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist who left us with new ways to understand humankind....
Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in Nonfiction“Sweeping…A new way to make sense not only of the past, but of the contemporary...
A three-thousand year history of the world that examines the causes of war and the search for peaceIn three thousand years of history, China has...
We live in an age of subterfuge. Spy agencies pour vast resources into hacking, leaking, and forging data, often with the goal of weakening the...
There is no better guide than Paul Krugman to basic economics, the ideas that animate much of our public policy. Likewise, there is no better...
