History books

From ancient trebuchets to GPS-guided shells, this book traces artillery's evolution across cultures and eras, showing...  Read More >>

A sweeping history of Iceland from its volcanic origins to modern times, covering settlement, sagas, independence,...  Read More >>

Explore twenty-five legendary shipwrecks-from Vasa to Endurance-examining their causes, recoveries, and the technology...  Read More >>

who speaks for crazy horse is a politically charged poetry collection that confronts the brutal legacies of colonialism,...  Read More >>

The World Cup Final: Every Decider, Every Era, Every Legacy is a fact-based narrative history of football's greatest...  Read More >>

The Nihongi is a foundational chronicle of early Japan, standing among the most important historical texts of the...  Read More >>

This book summarizes the academic biography of most influential Neo–Confucian philosopher Wang Yangming's life in...  Read More >>

This book examines the forgotten proposal to make Constantinople the headquarters of the League of Nations after...  Read More >>

This book examines, with a particular emphasis on Brazil, how Japan’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) intertwined...  Read More >>

This volume gathers different disciplinary, methodological and thematic perspectives on architecture understood...  Read More >>

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John Cabot - builder of canals and bridges, devoted husband, and father of three - dreams of wealth and status for...  Read More >>

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One of literature's most moving portraits of friendship by an icon of literature.  Read More >>

The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera. About how one man – Vasili Mitrokhin...  Read More >>

Publishing to coincide with a major MoMA Retrospective, this book revisits the artist who upended modern art, and...  Read More >>

Presenting an analysis of contemporary classrooms, this book develops ideas about the ways teachers can be better...  Read More >>

A feminist history of Europe's largest red-light district and an examination of the lives of the women who worked...  Read More >>

Lanza explores radical attempts to remake Chinese cities during the Great Leap Forward in the first English history...  Read More >>

This is the first book-length, interdisciplinary investigation into the relationship between animals and the rational...  Read More >>

This Element investigates the 2016 installation of Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe language) toponym signs throughout the...  Read More >>

The Element adopts a historical approach to explore the psychological functioning of Cleopatra VII, the last ruler...  Read More >>

HMS Hood: The Pride and the Fall marks 85 years since the iconic battlecruiser's loss to Bismarck in 1941. Blending...  Read More >>

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