History General
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A Marxist History of the World: From Neanderthals to Neoliberals
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Magisterial analysis of human history, from the first hominid to the Great Recession of 2008. Written from the pers...
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£7.99
Midnight in Peking: The Murder That Haunted the Last Days of Old China
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Peking, 1937: The teenage daughter of a British consul is brutally slaughtered. The police investigation is botched...
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£20.00
A Concise History of the Arabs
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An accessible and essential introduction to the history of the Arab world for the general reader, covering fourteen...
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£16.99
Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations
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Simon Schama, the author of Landscape and Memory and Citizens, sets out to tell the history of two certainties, of ...
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£30.00
Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present
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Tells the story of a group of competitive and mutually suspicious dynasties, and also of a continent prone to inter...
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£19.99
The State of Freedom: a Social History of the British State Since 1800
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Patrick Joyce offers a bold and highly original contribution to the history and theory of the state.
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£9.99
The Great Railway Revolution: The Epic Story of the American Railroad
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The first new and comprehensive narrative history of the American railroads in a generation. ‘Shrewd, articu...
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The History of the World: From the Dawn of Humanity to the Modern Age
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In a narrative beginning almost 1.5 million years ago with the emergence of Homo erectus, Frank Welsh takes the rea...
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The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences
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Shows how so much of the writing of history has been driven by a fatal desire to dramatize differences – to c...
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£16.99
A Short History of Byzantium
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Constantine the Great moved the seat of Roman power to Constantinople in AD 330 and for eleven brutal, bloody centu...
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The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England
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We think of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign as a golden age. But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan E...
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£14.95
The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties
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The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire – a millennium a...
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What it Means to be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the Present
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In 1872, a woman known only as ‘An Ernest Englishwoman’ published an open letter entitled ‘Are wo...
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