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£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780753558263 | ISBN 10: 0753558262
'Beautifully written, wonderfully free-ranging and gloriously original, Femina makes us look into the mists of history in new, exciting and provocative ways. A joyous read' - Peter Frankopan, bestselling author of The Silk Roads
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£22.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781789048643 | ISBN 10: 1789048648
The British Marxist Historians remains the first and most complete study of the founders of one of the most influential contemporary academic traditions in history and social theory.
In this classic text, Kaye looks at Maurice Dobb and the ... more
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£18.99 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780241611401 | ISBN 10: 0241611407
'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-selling Dawn of Everything' ~ Amitav GhoshÂ
The E ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781474622479 | ISBN 10: 147462247x
This groundbreaking new collection addresses the burning issue of how we interpret history today. What stories are told, and by whom, who should be celebrated, and what rewritten, are questions that have been asked recently not just within the histor ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781787396425 | ISBN 10: 1787396428
An alternative history of the world that exposes some of the biggest lies ever told and how they've been used over time.
Lincoln did not believe all men were created equal.
The Aztecs were not slaughtered by the Spanish Conquistadors.
An ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780141991061 | ISBN 10: 0141991062
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike.
Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781474624916 | ISBN 10: 147462491x
A fascinating and colourful social history of the nighttime.Â
‘A wonderful revelation of a vanished age of darkness’ SPECTATOR
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781785786907 | ISBN 10: 1785786903
From the fall of Rome to the rise of the Wild West, David Mountain brings colour and perspective to historical mythmaking.
The stories we tell about our past matter. But those stories have been shaped by prejudice, hoaxes and misinterpret ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781781259016 | ISBN 10: 1781259011
An exuberant work of popular history: why something as seemingly mundane as an address can save lives or serve the powerful.Â
Starting with a simple question, 'what do street addresses do?', Deirdre Mask travels the world and back in time to work ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529378771 | ISBN 10: 152937877x
An unforgettable 3,000-year-old journey - from Mesopotamian clay tablets trying to predict the future, to Tudor book-hunters and Nazi bonfires, and on into the dangers of our increasingly digital existence, Burning the Books shows how the preservatio ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781788737746 | ISBN 10: 1788737741
Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth.
In A History of the ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786897268 | ISBN 10: 1786897261
Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries - beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of pla ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780141982526 | ISBN 10: 0141982527
1968 saw an extraordinary range of protests across much of the western world. Some of these were genuinely revolutionary - around ten million French workers went on strike and the whole state teetered on the brink of collapse. Others were more easily ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781472141422 | ISBN 10: 1472141423
In this timely and very readable new work, Walvin focuses not on abolitionism or the brutality and suffering of slavery, but on resistance, the resistance of the enslaved themselves – from sabotage and absconding to full-blown uprisings – and its ... more
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£15.00 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781781259979 | ISBN 10: 1781259976
A companion to the major new BBC documentary series CIVILISATIONS, presented by Mary Beard, David Olusoga and Simon Schama
Oscar Wilde said 'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.' Was he right? In Civilisations, David Olusoga tr ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780745338040 | ISBN 10: 0745338046
History is a weapon. The powerful have their version of events, the people have another. And if we understand how the past was forged, we arm ourselves to change the future.
This is the history of the struggle and revolution of human society ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780141984087 | ISBN 10: 0141984082
How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world - from American 'shooters' and ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism across the world to racism and misogyny on social med ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780857301154 | ISBN 10: 0857301152
Witchcraft has recently been undergoing a huge popular revival, but does modern pagan witchcraft really bear any resemblance to its historical antecedents?
The witch in history was a very different creature from her modern counterpart, and t ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571312337 | ISBN 10: 0571312330
Vibrantly and sympathetically told, this is the story of one remarkable year - a capsule history of exhilarating triumphs and shattering defeats around the world.
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1956 was one of the most remarkable years of the twentieth century. All across the ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781780226576 | ISBN 10: 1780226578
The twentieth century should make sense. It's the period of history that we know the most about, an epic geo-political narrative that runs through World War One, the great depression, World War Two, the American century and the fall of the Berlin Wal ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571277636 | ISBN 10: 0571277632
The pop world accelerated and broke through the sound barrier in 1966. In America, in London, in Amsterdam, in Paris, revolutionary ideas slow-cooking since the late '50s reached boiling point. In the worlds of pop, pop art, fashion and radical polit ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408834329 | ISBN 10: 1408834324
The mud-filled, blood-soaked trenches of the Low Countries and North-Eastern Europe were essential battlegrounds during the First World War, but the war reached many other corners of the globe, and events elsewhere significantly affected its course.
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£10.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408839997 | ISBN 10: 1408839997
The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed: where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now turns to the east...
For centuries, fame and fo ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099590088 | ISBN 10: 0099590085
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us.
We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have lived. W ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780141979984 | ISBN 10: 0141979984
Winner of the 2015 Bancroft Prize and the 2015 Philip Taft Prize
Finalist for the 2015 Pulizter Prize for History and shortlisted for the 2015 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature
For about 900 years, from 1000 to 1900, cotton was the w ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781848319462 | ISBN 10: 1848319460
Who first thought of atoms? How much can you learn about archaeology from an oil lamp? Who came up with the theory of the ‘wandering womb’?
Oxford Classicist Jane Hood delves into the history, culture, literature, mythology and philosophy of ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780141975986 | ISBN 10: 0141975989
From Eduardo Galeano, one of Latin America's greatest living writers, author of the Memory of Fire trilogy, comes Children of the Days a new kind of history that shows us how to remember and how to live.
This book is shaped like a calendar ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780349139098 | ISBN 10: 0349139091
An engaging and provocative look at culture, from one of our best-known historians.
Born at the turn of the 20th century and raised in Vienna, Eric Hobsbawm, who was to become one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age, was unique ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780141024486 | ISBN 10: 0141024488
Over the past 500 years, the West achieved global dominance, but do Westerners necessarily have better ideas about how to raise children, care for the elderly, or simply live well?
In this epic journey into our past, Jared Diamond reveals th ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781680919 | ISBN 10: 1781680914
One of Britain’s foremost political writers confronts the decade of living dangerous: from 9/11 to the Arab Spring and beyond.
From 9/11 to the Arab Spring and beyond – encompassing the economic crisis, the rise of China, and conflicts in the Middle ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781846683947 | ISBN 10: 1846683947
There are many ways to try to improve our lives - we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely to look to history for inspiration - and when we do it can be surprising ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780241951774 | ISBN 10: 0241951771
Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them.
Encompassing a grand sweep of human history, "A History of the Worl ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781843547617 | ISBN 10: 1843547619
From Samuel Johnson Prize Shortlisted author Dominic Streatfeild comes a brilliantly original and stunningly readable work of investigative history which paints an revealing picture of the world since the attacks on the World Trade Centre. Essential ... more
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£12.95 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906387785 | ISBN 10: 1906387788
Since its first publication twenty years ago, Eurocentrism has become a classic of radical thought.
Written by one of the world's foremost political economists, this original and provocative essay takes on one of the great 'ideological defo ... more
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£14.95 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906387969 | ISBN 10: 1906387966
Responding to the need to take a fresh look at world history, hitherto dominated by Eurocentric ideologues and historians in their attempt to justify the nature and character of modern capitalism, this book looks at the ancient world system and how i ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781846682100 | ISBN 10: 184668210x
If misrepresented, the past can cause confusion, conflict and tragedy. With care, it can help us to understand the present. Award-winning historian Margaret Macmillan proves that history really does matter.
The past is capricious enough to s ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781408802885 | ISBN 10: 1408802880
Alice Roberts traces the epic routes by which our human ancestors set out from Africa and peopled the entire planet.
Alice Roberts has been travelling the world – from Ethiopian desert to Malay peninsula and from Russian steppes to Amazon ... more
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£18.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780199590049 | ISBN 10: 0199590044
What is a grimoire?
The word has a familiar ring to many people, particularly as a consequence of such popular television dramas as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed. But few people are sure exactly what it means. Put simply, grimoires are bo ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781906523190 | ISBN 10: 1906523193
Through this very simple, yet intriguing, concept the reader will experience the intensely real but often ignored political and environmental truths of our era. It's funny, poignant and painfully true. Tracking everything from the very beginnin ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780747598718 | ISBN 10: 0747598711
Payback is an intelligent, wide-ranging book that examines the metaphor of debt and the role it takes in our lives. “Debt” is like air – something we take for granted and never think about until things go wrong. This is not a book about debt manageme ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780300143324 | ISBN 10: 030014332x
In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschich ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847671141 | ISBN 10: 1847671144
Between 1965 and 1972, political activists around the globe prepared to mount a revolution, from the Black Panthers to the Gay Liberation Front, from the Yippies to the IRA. Rock and soul music supplied the revolutionary tide with anthems and iconic ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099492887 | ISBN 10: 0099492881
A Chinese woman pushes her way to the front of a hiring queue outside a factory in Shenzhen...A Bolivian miner, without light or ventilation, crawls deep inside a deserted mine...A group of Somali cleaners files into an investment bank in London's Ca ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847080080 | ISBN 10: 1847080081
Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. She discovers that the same elements come up in every human culture throughout history: a love of masking, carnival, music-making and dance. Although sixteent ... more
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£9.99 hardback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781904048770 | ISBN 10: 1904048773
Witchcraft has recently undergone a huge popular revival, but does modern pagan witchcraft really bear any resemblance to its historical antecedants? The witch in history was a very different creature from her modern counterpart, and this book sets ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780099516682 | ISBN 10: 0099516683
Like Jared Diamond's Collapse, Clive Ponting's book studies the relationship between the environment and human history. It examines world civilizations from Sumeria to ancient Egypt, from Easter Island to the Roman Empire and it argues that human bei ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780099494126 | ISBN 10: 0099494124
The conventional history of nations, even continents, is a history of warfare. According to this view, all the important ideas and significant changes of humankind occured as part of an effort to win one violent, bloody conflict or another. This appr ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781904456476 | ISBN 10: 1904456472
Most people's knowledge of world history is hazy and incomplete at best. We know bits without always understanding how they fit together. This No-Nonsense Guide gives a full picture, revealing what's hidden by conventional textbooks - from the civi ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780091903404 | ISBN 10: 0091903408
For three exhausting years Andrew Carroll travelled the world, zealously collecting unpublished letters and emails from soldiers and civilians from over 35 different countries. The letters covered a staggering range of events, from World Wars I and I ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780140279511 | ISBN 10: 0140279512
From the ghostly stone heads of Easter Island to crumbling Mayan cities hidden deep in the jungle, the mysterious ruins of lost worlds and vanished civilisations continue to haunt us. How could such mighty societies fall? And could our skyscrapers o ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781843541059 | ISBN 10: 184354105x
A bold and strikingly innovative study of how basic emotions rule the world. Walton contends that in the last two hundred and fifty years there have been big changes in the unwritten rules that govern what can be expressed in public and in private. ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780192805782 | ISBN 10: 0192805789
Jacquard's Web tells one of the greatest untold stories of science: how Joseph-Marie Jacquard, a master silk-weaver in Napoleonic France, invented a loom that was to spark the beginning of today's information age.
The revolutionary Jacquard ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780099429623 | ISBN 10: 0099429624
Encompassing the worlds of youth and music, politics, war, economics, demonstrations and the media, 1968 shows us how we got to where we are today. It was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll; it was also the year of the Martin Luther King an ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780099281993 | ISBN 10: 0099281996
Homer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped civilisation from the beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780099266112 | ISBN 10: 0099266113
The heroes of Pilger's narrative are the many ordinary people he has witnessed coping with their lives in difficult and often brutal conditions: dissidents in the Soviet Union; those struggling for universal freedoms in Vietnam, Cambodia, Africa, Ind ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780192853523 | ISBN 10: 019285352x
There are many stories we can tell about the past, and we are not, perhaps, as free as we might imagine in our choice of which stories to tell, or where those stories end.
John Arnold's Very Short Introduction is a stimulating essay about h ... more
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£20.00 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780942299328 | ISBN 10: 0942299329
Following in the wake of his groundbreaking work, War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Manuel De Landa presents a brilliant, radical synthesis of historical developments during the last one thousand years. He sketches the outlines of a renewed ma ... more
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