History books

Explore how music has changed our world through 50 pieces across classical, folk and world traditions with BBC presenter...  Read More >>

""A graphic novel about the 2013 Muzaffargnar Riot in Uttar Pradesh, India, that expands to investigate the mechanics,...  Read More >>

Despite extensive scholarship on the social and cultural history of industrial England there is little work that...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive scholarly reassessment of the 1974 Ethiopian revolution and its broader significance, published...  Read More >>

A brilliant new history of the English house, encapsulated in eight buildings This is the story of the superbly...  Read More >>

This sweeping new history of Mexico spans 500 dramatic years of conquest, innovation and revolution It begins in...  Read More >>

This book challenges existing and popular understandings of Kwame Nkrumah's ideas and struggles.  Read More >>

A concise history of America's relationship with its veterans, from the Revolution and Civil War to Vietnam and...  Read More >>

The world was shocked when Putin's Russia invaded Ukraine: how could a war break out in Central Europe in the 21st...  Read More >>

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With a great deal of intensive research, Author and Genealogist, Cora Lee (Perry) Palma-Hayden has constructed an...  Read More >>

En 1911, mientras Torreón arde en una de las masacres más silenciadas de la historia de México, un joven inmigrante...  Read More >>

El cristianismo surgió en un contexto cultural y religioso profundamente marcado por el mundo mediterráneo oriental,...  Read More >>

Step into the shadowed parlours and fog-filled streets of the Victorian era-an age fascinated by ghosts, omens,...  Read More >>

La Biblia no nació en el vacío. Mucho antes de profetas, mandamientos y templos, ya existían mitos que hablaban...  Read More >>

This book provides the first detailed account of how and why fitness and physical culture underwent rapid globalization...  Read More >>

500 Fakten, die Sie über Deutschland noch nie gehört haben: verstörend, cool, unbekannt und absolut süchtig machend....  Read More >>

History rarely shines a light on the formidable Mughal begums who boldly navigated the imperial courts, brokered...  Read More >>

This edition of the iconic biography of Rudolph Valentino is updated with expanded archival material and is fully...  Read More >>

For lovers of words and seekers of wisdom, here is a lively history of aphorisms--the oldest written art form--and...  Read More >>

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From the First World War's Zeppelins to the Second World War's large bombers, military aircraft were vulnerable...  Read More >>

A radical retelling of the drama of emancipation, from New York Times bestselling author and winner of the National...  Read More >>

Sunstruck Giant presents a thorough military history of the First Sino-Japanese War, detailing its campaigns, battles,...  Read More >>

An original work of social history focusing on numerous fascinating aspects of life in an English town in the late...  Read More >>