History

Michael Pye Softback 400 pages This is a story of saints and spies, of fishermen and pirates, traders and marauders - and of how their wild and d

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

SoftbackFrancesca Wade 'I like this London life...the street-sauntering and square-haunting.' Virginia Woolf, diary, 1925 Mecklenburgh Square, on the

HardbackPeter Turchin What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieva