Akkadian, comprising the Babylonian, Assyrian and Old Akkadian dialects, is the earliest known Se...

Jeremy Black explores the relationship between purpose, force, implementation, and effectiveness ...

A concise and wonderfully readable history of Germany through the ages In A Brief History of Germ...

A concise history of the Pacific, which emphasises the very different physical and human environm...

Jeremy Black examines war as a global phenomenon, looking at the First and Second World Wars as w...

The British vote to leave the European Union stunned everyone 2016, but was it really a surprise?...

A concise history of Paris and the great events and personalities, from prehistory to the present...

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How a distinctively British form of monarchical government emerged 1714-1830, while the crowned h...

Erstverkaufstag: 15.07.2025

New paperback edition - Is it possible to overestimate the impact of the railway in history? Jere...

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An accessible book to draw on popular interest in transport history, routes, vehicles and experie...

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First published as a collection in 2006, this title covers the Atlantic slave trade from its orig...

Erstverkaufstag: 07.01.2025

Originally published as a collection in 2006, the essays in this volume discuss the reasons for t...