History

Two of the worlds leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated Sahagúns monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in M...

London has always been home to outsiders. To people who won't, or can't, abide by the conventions of respectable society. For close to two centurie...

Few 19th-century Americans were as adventurous as Henry Baxter. Best known for his Civil War exploits--from leading the 7th Michigan Volunteer I...

This biography of General Edwin Vose Sumner emphasizes his role in developing the mounted arm of the U.S. Army. Born in Boston in 1797 he abando...

This third combined and bound volume in the Irish Historic Towns Atlas series follows volumes I (1995) and II (2005). A 300-page special publicatio...

In July 1935, a month before the notorious Nuremberg Laws prohibiting marriage between Jews and non-Jews came into effect, the official Nazi SS new...

On 22 January 1879 a powerful British column invading Zululand was decisively defeated beneath a hill called Isandlwana. Later on the same day, 4,0...

After falling for one historical misconception too many, the time is now right to launch a spirited fightback. The moment has come to set the recor...

This book describes the political history of Pakistan from the time of Partition to the Musharraf government. In considerable detail, the authors h...

The bifurcation of Pakistan resulting in the emergence of Bangladesh in December 1970 was a decisive and irreversible event in the short history of...

'You have to read it' Volodymyr Zelensky'Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis...

Timothy Webster, best known for his work as a spy for the Union during the Civil War, began his career as a New York City policeman. In the mid-...

The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on myths. Not simply an effort to free the country from G...