Biography: Historical, Political & Military

This book is an introduction to the remarkable life of Charles Plomer Hopkins. Charles Plomer Hopkins, a Victorian church organist, called by circu...

Lee Kuan Yew once described the opportunity to remake Singapore as 'a chance of a lifetime'. This book explores Lee's pivotal role in Singapore's u...

Maud Berridge (18451907) was the wife of a Master Mariner, and she travelled with him on at least five occasions (1869, 1880, 1882, 1883, 1886), sa...

Between 1483 and 1485 Viscount Francis Lovell was one of the most important and influential men in the government of his childhood friend Richard I...

Authorised biography of Welsh nationalist and activist John Barnard Jenkins, one of the most iconic figures in recent Welsh history. The leader of ...

Henry Opukahaia (ca. 17921818), Native Hawaiian, and Itankusun Wanbli (ca. 18791900), Oglala Lakota, lived almost a century apart. Yet the cultural...

Living Artfully is Downton Abbey during the Mad Men era, a slick and stylish book about the life, workings and staff of the three main estates of M...

On the seventy-fifth anniversary, the authors of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Eleventh Day unravel the mysteries of Pearl Harbor to expose the scape...

The only historic figure outside the early Christian tradition to whom the Gospels ascribe a dialogue with Jesus is the first-century Roman prefect...

The United States has invested hundreds of billions of dollars in the idea that state-building can make the world safe for democracy but the return...

General William Tecumseh Shermans 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Evolving from a spirited student at West Poin...

With unprecedented access to newly discovered sources, Donna M. Lucey illuminates the lives of four women painted by the society portraitist John S...

Winner of the 2021 San Diego Book Award  Empire Builder is the previously untold story of a pioneer who almost singlehandedly transformed the bankr...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Part of the `Biographic series, which presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the worlds greatest thinkers and creatives. This book...

A Times Political Book of the Year A Daily Mail Political Book of the Year A Guardian Political Book of the Year An Independent Political Book o...