Author: Jeremy Black

This brilliantly concise history of the Pacific Ocean nevertheless succeeds in examining both the indigenous presence on ocean's islands and Wester...

Britains key importance in world history was a product of its constitution and its empire, but both, in turn, were sustained and supported by Brita...

From explorers tracing rivers to navigators hunting for longitude, spatial awareness and the need for empirical understanding were linked to Britis...

The Weight of Words Series continues with Daniel Defoe, as historian Jeremy Black uses this writer to interpret Britain in the late 1600s, and like...

The key importance of naval success in Britains rise to being the leading power in the world was a hard-won process, one that linked fighting effec...

A thought-provoking analysis of how the acquisition and utilization of information has determined the course of history over the past five centurie...

Placing eighteenth-century warfare in a truly global context, Jeremy Black challenges conventional accounts and offers a reappraisal of debates in ...

The British monarchy is at a turning point. Concise and engaging, this book charts the very beginnings of British reign through to the longest serv...

The bitter and often bloody fight which accompanied the emergence of the United States of America as an independent force on the world stage has al...

In A History of Britain in 100 Maps Jeremy Black takes readers deep into the unparalleled collections of the British Library Map Room to tell a new...

An engaging, accessible introduction to war, from ancient times to the present and into the future  Forty short chapters . . . describe war from th...

As the United Kingdom left the European Union, during a period of international and domestic turmoil, London found itself at a turning point. This ...