History books

What does it mean to be an heir, as a woman writer, to colonial and postcolonial cultures in which European language...  Read More >>

Like the media coverage of the civil rights era itself, Hollywood dramas have reinforced regional stereotypes of...  Read More >>

In 1986 the Compact of Free Association marked the formal end of U.S. colonialism in the Republic of the Marshall...  Read More >>

Black Revolutionaries is an accessible yet rigorously argued history of the Black Panther Party (BPP), one of the...  Read More >>

Appalachian Mountain Christianity examines the beliefs and practices of certain Protestant religious groups, primarily...  Read More >>

This collection of more than a dozen essays focuses on the political dynamics of race, class, and nationalism in...  Read More >>

A revelatory look at the photography that shaped the American Jazz Age. In this book, Alan John Ainsworth considers...  Read More >>

A vivid account of the life and work of Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli.  Read More >>

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marramarra highlights contemporary Indigenous art from across the planet and how artists and their communities are...  Read More >>

The great historian of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Russia returns with an enthralling revisionist history...  Read More >>

Editor is the definitive inside story of newspapers from Max Hastings, one of Britain’s most highly regarded military...  Read More >>

Appalachian Mountain Christianity examines the beliefs and practices of certain Protestant religious groups, primarily...  Read More >>

Like the media coverage of the civil rights era itself, Hollywood dramas have reinforced regional stereotypes of...  Read More >>

In 1986 the Compact of Free Association marked the formal end of U.S. colonialism in the Republic of the Marshall...  Read More >>

This collection of more than a dozen essays focuses on the political dynamics of race, class, and nationalism in...  Read More >>

Black Revolutionaries is an accessible yet rigorously argued history of the Black Panther Party (BPP), one of the...  Read More >>

The first modern commentary on Cicero's last dialogue, written in the months after Caesar's assassination. Designed...  Read More >>

In his book Imagining America (originally published in 1980), Peter Conrad shows how the English literary imagination...  Read More >>

This classic work tells the story of much of the surprising and hidden shady criminal past of leading figures in...  Read More >>

A revelatory new history of the ancient world told through its seven greatest monuments, by bestselling author and...  Read More >>

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, two friends, writers living in post-conflict regions, decided to publish...  Read More >>

This book makes it possible to comprehend, via the trench naming, the daily life in the trenches, the vast range...  Read More >>

First published in 1987, The Writing on the Wall tells the story of the muddle, shortsightedness and duplicity which...  Read More >>