Only four countries around the world do not currently define themselves as democracies. But many more do not fulfil the four basic requirements of democracy:...
When we are born, we are each assigned a gender based on our physical anatomy. But why is it that some people experience such dissonance...
Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing AwardsIn this fascinating travelogue, the product of almost a decade of travel and intense study, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro strips...
A major new account of the emergence of Italian democracy after the Second World WarThe rebirth of Italy after the Second World War is one...
This new critical biography provides a complete picture of German novelist, playwright and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The book offers fresh, thought-provoking interpretations of...
A Finalist for the 2024 Cundill History PrizeLonglisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford PrizeA Best Book of the Year in The Economist, Prospect, The Telegraph,...
A major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day &,nbsp,“Cha and Pacheco Pardo have years of...
When he arrived in Moscow in 1851, a young Leo Tolstoy set himself three immediate aims: to gamble, to marry and to obtain a post....
A Financial Times Book Best Book of the Year 2020 A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year 2020 The gripping, untold story of how...
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A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 ‘A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe...
In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom...
",[An] incredibly moving collection of oral histories . . .important enough to be added to the history curriculum", Telegraph",Essential reading", History Today",A moving evocation ....
Is geography really destiny?Our maps may no longer be stalked by dragons and monsters, but our perceptions of the world are still shaped by geographic...
Mexico making a bid for global supremacy? Poland becoming America's closest ally? World War III taking place in space? It might sound fantastic but all...
'Compelling and informative... a useful gateway into [Xi Jinping's] mind' Rana Mitter, Literary ReviewFrom one of the most admired reporters covering China today, a vital...
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Holland, who co-hosts the podcast The Rest Is History, is at his best when having fun with Rome's bloody history' The...
An eye-opening expose of the men and women who change our minds....
A global account of pirates and their modus operandi, from the Middle Ages to the present day In the twenty-first century piracy has regained a...
