Author: Philipp Blom

When the Great War ended in 1918, the West was broken. Religious faith, patriotism and the belief in human progress had all been called into questi...

Dazzling recreation of the world of radical free-thinkers in 18th-century FranceFrom the 1750s to the 1770s, the Paris salon of Baron d'Holbach was...

Although hints of a crisis appeared as early as the 1570s, the temperature by the end of the sixteenth century plummeted so drastically that Medite...

Hailed as an arresting (Lawrence Klepp, New Criterion) account, Natures Mutiny chronicles the great climate crisis of the seventeenth century that ...

Twilight of the Romanovs opens a door onto the world of pre-revolutionary Russia in original photographs taken during the last decades of Romanov r...