History

Author: Tim Blanning, Cover: Softback, Pages: 432...

Cover: Hardback, Pages: 376, Author: Jeremy Mynott...

Mike Jay Paperback 384 pages A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the hidden regions of the mind Until the twent...

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Author: Marc Davis Baer Cover: Hardback Pages: 496, 8pp colour...

Author: Peter Jones Cover: Hardback Pages: 368...

Author: John Green, Cover: Softback, Pages: 208...

Author: Russell Shorto, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 416...

Author: Ian Buruma, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 400...

Author: Ada Palmer, Cover: Softback, Pages: 768...

Author: Michael Albertus, Cover: Softback, Pages: 336...

Author: Michel Krielaars , Cover: Paperback, Pages: 336...

Author: Helen MacEwan, Cover: Softback, Pages: 224...

Author: Caitlin Blackwell Baines, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 320...

Author: Richard Willmott, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 224...

Author: Philippa Gregory , Cover: Paperback, Pages: 288...

Softback Emma Southon Rome as you’ve never seen it before – brazenly unconventional, badly behaved and ever so feminine. ‘Hugely entertaining and illuminating’ —Elodie Harper, author of...

David Van Reybrouck Paperback On a sunny Friday morning in August 1945, a handful of tired people raised a homemade cotton flag and on behalf of 68 million compatriots announced the birth of a new...

David Grann Paperback 368 pages a mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth.  On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle ves...

Jacob Mikanowski Hardback 400 pages Eastern Europe is more than the sum total of its annexations, invasions and independence declarations. From the Baltics to the Balkans, from Prague to Kiev, t...

Nicholas Guyatt Paperback 432 pages Buried in the history of our most famous jail, a unique story of captivity, violence and race. It's 1812 - Britain and America are at war. British redcoats to...

Paperback 288 pages This rich history of Antwerp was a Times Book of the Year and Radio 4 Book of the WeekEven before Amsterdam there was a dazzling North Sea port at the hub of the known world: t...

Tom Standage Paperback 272 pages The product of deep research, great intelligence and burnished prose . . . It is rare that I encounter a non-fiction author whose prose is so elegant that it ...

SoftbackValerie Hansen When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen shows, it was the year ...