World History
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Colonialism
Nigel Biggar
A Moral Reckoning
A new assessment of the West’s colonial record In the wake of the...
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Migrants
Sam Miller
The Story of Us All
Migrants cuts through the toxic debates to tell the rich and...
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The Last Emperor of Mexico: A Disaster in the New World
Edward Shawcross
In 1864, a young Austrian archduke by the name of Maximilian crossed the Atlantic to...
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A Brief History of the Atlantic
Jeremy Black
The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with...
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Shortest Histories
Various
Time is very much of the essence with these indispensable narrative histories from Old Street...
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The History of Russia
Michael Kerrigan
From the Rus’ people to President Putin
From monarchy to the world’s first socialist state, from...
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The Sun Must Set
Andrew Hyde
Britain’s Betrayal of India
Demolishing the myth that British rule was on the whole advantageous to...
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The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club
Christopher de Hamel
The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art...
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Christendom
Peter Heather
The Triumph of a Religion
In the fourth century AD, a new faith exploded out of...
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Index, A History of the
Dennis Duncan
Most of us give little thought to the back of the book – it’s just...
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Figuring Out The Past
Peter Turchin
A History of the World in 3,495 Vital Statistics
- What was history’s biggest empire?
- Or the tallest...
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Fabric
Victoria Finlay
The Hidden History of the Material World
Bestselling author Victoria Finlay spins us round the globe...