History books

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This volume—the second in A General History of Chinese Wushu and one of the most substantively grounded works of...  Read More >>

First comprehensive history of Belgian cinema in the post-war decades. Between the liberation of 1944 and the mid-1960s,...  Read More >>

An unparalleled history of the Eurovision Song Contest and its political and cultural significance from the postwar...  Read More >>

An unparalleled history of the Eurovision Song Contest and its political and cultural significance from the postwar...  Read More >>

The cultural and scientific significance of animal magnetism as performance. The long nineteenth century bears...  Read More >>

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Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, this book explains what made skin newsworthy in Victorian Britain. Narratives...  Read More >>

This volume brings together a diverse range of contributors to explore the significance of intersectionality and...  Read More >>

This book examines how European farmers responded to the economic and political challenges created by the First...  Read More >>

The 2024 Elizabeth Longford prizewinning biography of the founder of Impressionism Based on thousands of never-before...  Read More >>

Nature editor and Science Book Prize winner Henry Gee explores the future of our species and our probable extinction,...  Read More >>

The thrilling true story behind the Allies’ mission to take back Venice from the Germans – and save its artistic...  Read More >>

The eminent classicist and historian delves into Homer's Iliad and Odyssey to tell for the first time the previously...  Read More >>

Like a long winter's dream, this haunting and visionary new novel from 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang takes us...  Read More >>

The ""engaging"" (New Yorker), New York Times best-selling story of how coyotes took over North America-and are...  Read More >>

Invisible Women meets Doughnut Economics- An international bestseller from an exciting new voice in the feminist...  Read More >>

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A remarkable account of the terrible climax of the Second World War in Asia In the closing months of the Second...  Read More >>

Join Alistair Moffat in this concise and colourful account of Edinburgh, one of the UK's top tourist destinations...  Read More >>

A razor-sharp, utterly immersive political travelogue that reveals one of the world’s most enigmatic regions  Read More >>

A prescient, thoughtful and chilling examination of the current state of the world If there are lessons from history,...  Read More >>

Charts world history from the dawn of civilisation to the modern culture we live in today. From the origins of homo-sapiens...  Read More >>

A chronological account of twenty-one women who made French history, from the fifth to the twenty-first century....  Read More >>

Gold, greed, empire – the hidden history of Britain’s stolen West African treasure  Read More >>