Historie

Timothy Snyder

Neil Price

Jason Burke

Charles C. Mann

Presenting the latest research by ecologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians, Mann shows how the creation of the Columbian exchange fostered the rise of Europe, devastated imperial…

Christopher Harding

Ivan Mrázek

Precious stones are masterpieces of nature and their mysterious shimmer has fascinated man since time immemorial. This overview publication briefly conveys the history of precious stones, introduces…

Joseph Henrich

Christopher Clark

The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era. An act of terrorism of staggering…

Christopher Clark

A brilliantly reviewed history of this 'Great Power' which dominated Europe from the 18th to the 20th Centuries, which includes remarkable accounts of some of the most extraordinary personalities in…

Brian C. Muraresku

Christopher Clark

Nicholas Jubber

Monsters, in all their terrifying glory, have preoccupied humans since we began telling stories. But where did these stories come from?In Monsterland, award-winning author Nicholas Jubber goes on a…

Ian Kershaw

When the two volumes of Ian Kershaw's biography of Hitler, Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis were published, they were immediately greeted around the world as the essential works…

David Abulafia

For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of world civilisation. From the time of historical Troy until the middle of the nineteenth century, human activity…

DK

Discover the rich and complex history of the peoples of Africa, and the struggles and triumphs of Black cultures and communities around the world. With profiles of key people, movements, and events…

Christopher Clark

Various

Scott Anderson

From the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller LAWRENCE IN ARABIA a stunningly revelatory narrative history of one of the most momentous events in modern times, the jaw-dropping stupidity…

Volker Ullrich

Simon Jenkins

Douglas Century

Katherine Howe

CNN anchor and New York Times bestselling author Anderson Cooper chronicles the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty—his mother's family, the Vanderbilts.Few names are as synonymous with wealth…

Dan Cruickshank