History

Latin was for many centuries the common literary language of Europe, and Latin literature of immense range, stylistic power and social and politica...

An enriching history that surpasses, at least in lore, any other city in the world, Tales of Manhattan Through Time is an exploration of a utopia o...

This is the illustrated story of the artillery used by the armed forces of the Republic of Ireland, from independence in 1922 to the present day. F...

Plight and Fate of Children During and Following Genocide examines why and how children were mistreated during genocides in the twentieth and twent...

Steeped in romanticism, The China Tea Book focuses on the land where tea was born - China. A host of facts and tales associated with this magical...

Effervescent Adventures with Britannia is the latest addition to Wm Roger Louiss stimulating and acclaimed series, Adventures with Britannia. It dr...

This collection of essays by leading scholars and Parnell experts reconsiders Charles Stewart Parnell and the Parnell family legacy in the context ...

Democracy today is widely regarded as an ideal form of government. Yet in practice it sometimes seems a sham, a political puppet show in which hidd...

This volume documents the Sudanese government's campaign of genocidal attacks and forced starvation against the people of the Nuba Mountains in the...

More reliable than Herodotus and more upbeat than The Book of the Dead, this is the essential guide for the discerning time-traveller. This new add...

'The Book Collectors of Daraya celebrates the political and therapeutic power of the written word . . . defiant and cautiously optimistic' Financia...

Behind every soldiers death lies a story, a tale not just of the cold mathematics of the battlefield but of an individual human being who gave his ...

While in his own time Gandhi was recognised by friends and enemies alike as a major political force, not only in India but the world at large, in o...

The World Crisis is considered by many to be Winston S. Churchills literary masterpiece. Published across five volumes between 1923 and 1931, Churc...

For those living outside Scandinavia, the Viking Age effectively began in 793 with an attack on the monastery at Lindisfarne, a characteristically ...

This comprehensive and compelling visual encyclopaedia tells the story of our world in true depth and detail, from the origins of life on Earth rig...

For most of western history, all sex outside marriage was illegal, with the church and state punishing any dissent. Between 1600 and 1800, this ent...

In American politics, at least since the Civil War, the great philosophical divide is between progressives and founders of the American regime. The...

From the faithful wife to the powerful queen, the untouchable priestess to the high-living prostitute, the daily lives and roles of women in the an...

Few people know much about the government of Sudan's genocidal attack against the people of the Nuba Mountains in the late 1980s and early 1990s. T...

This authoritative survey of Viking history and culture, now available in paperback, tells the complete story of the Vikings from their origins in ...

The Disunity of American Culture describes culture now, when different forces are influencing it than in the past, altering it to near incomprehens...

Since 2003, obstetrician Alice Rothchild has traveled annually to Israel/Palestine with other concerned Americans, to learn about health and human ...

Uncover the recipes and stories from a largely unheralded region of Tuscany, the Silver Coast; a place of wild natural beauty, idyllic coastlines a...

From 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered at the hands of its very own Jack the Ripperstyle killer. The story has been the subject of websites, short...

The scrapping of the Nimrod programme has been one of the most controversial events in the military aviation world for many a year. For most of its...

The cartoon has a special place in the history of World War II, and the power of its message was felt by all sides of the conflict. Acclaimed carto...