The epic of Chicago is the story of the emergence of modern America. Here, witness Chicago's growth from a desolate fur-trading post in the 1830s...
Can anyone really own a culture? This magnificent account argues that the story of global civilisations is one of mixing, sharing, and borrowing. It shows...
Would Hiroshima have been bombed if Japanese contained a phrase meaning 'no comment'? Is it alright for missionaries to replace the Bible's 'white as snow'...
In this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with disabilities, Lennard J. Davis argues forcefully against ",ableist", discourse and...
Tour the Roman Empire at its height with Marcus Sidonius Falx and his amanuensis, Dr Jerry Toner. Travelling east, Falx explores the great cultural centre...
A landmark account of gay and lesbian creative networks and the seismic changes they brought to twentieth-century culture In a hugely ambitious study which crosses...
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Biography | Goldsmith Book Prize 2025 Winner (Trade) | A New Yorker Best Book of 2024...
'Deftly punctures popular misconceptions... Could a history book be more timely?' The Economist'Engaging and persuasive' New Statesman'A compelling and timely study of what drove history's...
*Winner of the European Award for Investigative And Judicial Journalism 2021**Winner of the Premio Alessandro Leogrande Award for Investigative Journalism 2022**Winner of the Premio Angelo...
In the bestselling tradition of The World Is Flat and The Next 100 Years comes a contrarian and eye-opening assessment of American power. In THE...
'Deirdre Mask's book was just up my Strasse, alley, avenue and boulevard. A classic history of nomenclature - loaded, complex and absorbing.' -Simon Garfield, author...
'An old world is dying, a new world is being born, now is the time of monsters' Antonio GramschiSolnit maps the extraordinary revolution of ideas...
The history of the Celts is the history of a misnomer. There has never been a distinct people, race or tribe claiming the name of...
An international best-seller, first published in 1970 when Shulamith Firestone was just twenty-five years old, The Dialectic of Sex broke new ground in presenting a...
Ilan Pappe's pioneering work, first published in 2014, is a devastating critique of the conceptual foundations of the Israeli state. Divorced from material and political...
From the distinguished American historian whose work has been acclaimed around the world, a major new book that penetrates one of the most bizarre and...
Why is green the colour of envy? Why is black 'evil'? Why is white pure? Why do we 'feel blue' or 'see red'?...
The American experiment rests on three ideas-",these truths",, Jefferson called them-political equality, natural rights and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too, ",on...
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER FROM THE 45th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES'I like thinking big. I always have. To me it's very simple: If you're...
'An utterly dazzling book, the best piece of history I have read for a long time' Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World...
