General & World History

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

Since the earliest known marker denoting the edge of one land and the beginning of the nexta stone column inscribed with Sumerian cuneiformborders ...

In a brilliant procession through the last 250 years, Ute Frevert looks at the role that public humiliation has played in modern society, showing h...

In this magisterial narrative, Zara Steiner traces the twisted road to war that began with Hitler's assumption of power in Germany. Covering a wide...

Although we may often think of the apple as quintessentially English, its origins lie in China. The apple (the Malus genus) arose in the Tertiary p...

Flooded Pasts examines a world famous yet critically underexamined eventUNESCO's International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia (196080)to s...

'Atlas of Improbable Places has that rare, through-the-wardrobe quality. It is a delightful compendium of the strangest places on the planet. DAILY...

This title presents a daily chronicle of 80 years of world events. Facts On File's Day by Day series provides researchers of all ages with a comple...

A collection of humanitys most inspiring ideas throughout time, bringing perspective to the challenges and wonders of being alive. This is an unus...

A superb biographical portrait and work of historical analysisLet us hope that it will serve if not as a manual then at least as an inspirationgood...

In a decade, between 1940 and 1950, the old world order collapsed, and a new one was created. Old European empires - France, Germany and the Unit...

The late twentieth century saw charities grow from timid service deliverers into major providers with campaigning teeth. What caused this? How did ...