History

The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many years later, Obama...

To understand what Britain has become it is necessary to know what it has been. The second volume in this history takes the story of Britain from the Civil War...

Old English verse and prose depict the human mind as a corporeal entity located in the chest cavity, susceptible to spatial and thermal changes corresponding to the psychological states: it...

Few cities in the world abound with so many extraordinary stories as Glasgow and the best of these are found in this collection. The city has witnessed some of the...

This is a guide both to the history of the British fighting man and to museums, galleries and sites of special interest. It explains the changing life and experience of...

The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural awakening among African Americans between the two world wars. It was the cultural phase of the "New Negro" movement, a social and political phenomenon...

General James Longstreet is one of the most controversial figures of the American Civil War. According to some, he was partially to blame for the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg; according...

The first in a new series of studies of great military men as battlefield commanders and controllers of fighting forces. Known as a fine motivator of men and a master...

In the course of the Peninsular War, Wellington became the most celebrated general in British history. This book offers a narrative account of the Peninsular Campaign from 1809-1814 - its...

As a young man Winston Churchill set out to become a hero, to make a name for himself in the public eye as a soldier and so make possible a...

Khadija was the first believer, to whom the Prophet Muhammad often turned for advice. At a time when strongmen quickly seized power from any female Muslim ruler, Arwa of Yemen...

'As much a history of the deeply crooked culture of Italian politics as it is a vivid biography of one man' SUNDAY TIMES'Fascinating' SPECTATOR'Vivid and disturbing but utterly compelling' DAILY...

It is widely argued that Britain has always followed a coherent imperialist strategy in Northern Ireland. Paul Bew and Henry Patterson take issue with this assumption in the first serious...

Emily Wilding Davison's image has been frozen in time since 1913. On the 4 June of that year, Emily was struck by the king's horse, Anmer, during the Epsom Derby....

The nine centuries described in this book, ending with the political upheavals of the seventh century AD, coincide with a golden age of Indian civilization. In the context of political...

This is the story of how a cocktail of extraordinary traits were combined to create us, human beings. Fusing epic science with the drama of individual lives, it is the...

An indispensable guide to Greenland-why it matters, who covets it and why this wilderness of 56,000 inhabitants could become the next global flashpoint.Greenland is no ordinary island. From its discovery...

The second edition of the definitive book on how modern Japan works, now fully updated up to include the new 'Reiwa' Era and the year of the Olympics'A superb book...

Why are democracies pursuing more military conflicts, but achieving worse results? Democratic Militarism shows that a combination of economic inequality and military technical change enables an average voter to pay...

Writer and critic Vivian Gornick's long-unavailable classic exploring how Left politics gave depth and meaning to American life "Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew...

Modern democracies face tough life-and-death choices in armed conflicts. Chief among them is how to weigh the value of soldiers' lives against those of civilians on both sides. The first...

In The Gift of Freedom, Mimi Thi Nguyen develops a new understanding of contemporary United States empire and its self-interested claims to provide for others the advantage of human freedom....