General & world history books

Through the Mackenzie Basin A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899, a classical...  Read More >>

"The pairing of slavery and Freemasonry may be surprising. It actually forms an antinomy a priori, which may seem...  Read More >>

For this rousing, revisionist history, the former head of exhibitions at England's National Maritime Museum has...  Read More >>

For this rousing, revisionist history, the former head of exhibitions at England's National Maritime Museum has...  Read More >>

Largely forgotten today, the Second Mexican Empire was a transformative nineteenth-century moment. Raymond Jonas...  Read More >>

Untold Truths brings together scholars, students, staff, and descendants to explore Loyola University Maryland's...  Read More >>

July 28th, 2024 is the 110th Anniversary of the beginning of the First World War The Great War as it came to be...  Read More >>

The 80th Anniversary of D-Day falls on June 6, 2024 In the early hours of that morning, three divisions of paratrooper...  Read More >>

An urgent examination of the world barrelling toward a new Cold War, from a scholar on the diplomatic front lines...  Read More >>

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One of the government’s former behavioural scientists reveals how you can do what you want, whilst everybody tries...  Read More >>

The Russian Workers’ Republic (1921) is a result of the author’s two-month travels through Soviet Russia. Moving...  Read More >>

One of the government’s former behavioural scientists reveals how you can do what you want, whilst everybody tries...  Read More >>

The definitive history of the idea of equality-and why we're so ambivalent about it  Read More >>

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11 October 2009 marks the bicentennial of Meriwether Lewis' death. As the leader of the Lewis and Clark expedition,...  Read More >>

How the demise of the Habsburg Empire, postwar sovereignty, and new diplomatic frontiers shaped the nature of citizenship,...  Read More >>

Award-winning author Francine Klagsbrun reveals the complex life and work of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah...  Read More >>

Taken collectively, the chapters in New Perspectives on the First World War: Beyond No Man’s Land not only illuminate...  Read More >>

Drawing together contributions from scholars in a wide range of fields inside Classics and Drama, this volume traces...  Read More >>

Humans did not make history - we played host. This major new history of the world, a Radio 4 Book of the Week, has...  Read More >>

"""In a revelatory dispatch from the frontier of capitalist extremism, an acclaimed historian of ideas shows how...  Read More >>

"""From nurses and teachers to rideshare drivers and funeral directors-an intimate, honest, and illuminating collection...  Read More >>

A History of the World in 100 Objects meets Sapiens- the first archaeological history of humanity's musical heritage,...  Read More >>

Operating from 1890 to 1914, Manhattan Beach Amusement Park was the first true amusement park in Denver and was...  Read More >>