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China's Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the revolution was just beginning. Andrew Walder ...
From the Vikings to the EU the Baltic has been a Nordic Mediterranean, a shared maritime zone with distinct patterns of trade, cultural exchange, and ...
Patrice Gueniffey, the leading French historian of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic age, takes up the epic narrative at the heart of this turbulent period: the ...
Despite the long history of debate and the recent resurgence of interest in empires and imperialism, no one seems very clear as to what exactly ...
The Nazis provided Franco's Nationalists with planes, armaments, and tanks in their civil war against the Communists but behind this largesse was a Faustian ...
Thomas Cromwell's life has made gripping reading for millions through Hilary Mantel's bestselling novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. But who ...
The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar ...
This edition collects both volumes of Modernity Britain for the first time
Following Austerity Britain and Family Britain, the third volume in David Kynaston's ...
Winner of the 2015 Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance
Winner of the 2016 Magarey Medal for Biography
'Connors lays down ...
In the depths of the Great War, with millions of dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle ...
A new perspective on the calamitous fall of France in 1940 and why blame has been misplaced ever since
In this revisionist account of France ...