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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 ...

A concise history of France from prehistory to the present, recounting the great events and personalities and exploring France's cultural and polit...

The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. In this broad and rea...

Amid the ongoing Brexit crisis, both sides are appealing to Britains past relationship with Europe to justify their positions. But much specious hi...

There is little documented mapping of conflict prior to the Renaissance period, but, from the 17th century onwards, military commanders and strateg...

William Shakespeares lifetime (15641616) spanned the reigns of the last of the Tudors, Elizabeth I and the first of the Stuart kings, James I and t...

Naval operations and warfare were, and remain, a key element for mapping. Maps were vital for commanders in drawing up plans of attack, and their ...

Information is power. For more than five hundred years the success or failure of nations has been determined by a country''s ability to acquire kno...

The history of Germany is intricately woven. Threaded in time through its struggles and triumphs with religion, industrialisation, enlightenment, p...

Tracing the development of the University of Exeter over the six decades since it was granted its royal charter in 1955, this book tells the histor...

There is little doubt that the 45 rebellion was the greatest challenge to the eighteenth-century British state. The battle of Culloden in which it ...

There is little doubt that the 45 rebellion was the greatest challenge to the eighteenth-century British state. The battle of Culloden in which it ...

Beginning with an overview of the age of Dickens, Professor Jeremy Black guides the reader through the biography and writings of the great man to s...