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General & World History
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A Brief History of the Universe (and our place in it)Special Price €19.99 Regular Price €23.99
We have always looked up at the sky and wondered. The desire to explore and understand what lies beyond us is at the heart of scientific discovery. Ever since the ancient Babylonians tracked celestial objects on clay tablets, the search for meaning in an infinitely vast universe has been a profoundly human pursuit.
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Red Dawn Over China : How Communism Conquered a Quarter of HumanitySpecial Price €23.99 Regular Price €29.99
The history of modern China has long been portrayed as a tale of Communists fighting in the hills for freedom, gradually gaining popular support by taking land from the rich and giving it to the poor.
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The Cultural Revolution in China€10.99
Mao launched the Cultural Revolution in 1966 to purge his critics and blood a new generation of fighters. A decade later, almost two million people were dead and China’s heritage had largely been obliterated.
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Repeat : A Warning from History€14.99An urgent, surprising and altogether persuasive read, Repeat: A Warning from History will open your eyes. . .
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Political Girl : Life and Fate in Russia€29.99What can you do when your country becomes a repressive authoritarian state? 2014: Russia prepares to host the Winter Olympics. Russia invades Crimea.
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Sugar : A Bittersweet History€16.99Sugar was once the most powerful commodity on earth. It shaped world affairs, influenced the economic policies of nations, drove international trade and left a legacy of suffering that still resonates today. . .
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Carthage : A new history of an ancient empire€28.99Carthage was a power that dominated the western Mediterranean for almost six centuries before its fall to Rome. The history of the realm and its Carthaginians was subsumed by their conquerors and, along the way, the story of the real Carthage was lost.
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At the Edge of Empire : A Family's Reckoning with China€15.99In 1962, Edward Wong's father, disillusioned with Communism, fled China for Hong Kong and later the USA. From then on, he rarely spoke of his homeland, or his years crisscrossing the country in Mao's People's Liberation Army.
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The Other Ancient Civilisations : Decoding Archaeology’s Less Celebrated Cultures (History Gifts, Ancient World History)€31.99Uncover the real stories behind the myths, and see how cultures from the Indus Valley to Great Zimbabwe, from the Olmec to the Xiongnu, helped shape the world we live in today.
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The CIA : An Imperial History€19.99The CIA is the story of the birth of a new imperial order in the shadows. It offers the most complete account yet of how America adopted unaccountable power and secrecy both at home and abroad.
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The Shortest History of Japan€12.99Japan is a country of islands, strung like a necklace around the Asian mainland…Ever since US Commodore Matthew Perry forced Japan to open its borders in 1853, the culture of this remarkable and distant archipelago has enriched western life.
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The Great Wave : The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider€12.99In the twenty-first century, a wave of political, cultural and technological change has capsized our old certainties and assumptions, creating both opportunity and danger.
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Thomas Pakenham : The Scramble For Africa€22.99Thomas Pakenham's story of the conquest of Africa is recognised as one of the finest narrative histories of the last few decades.
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What Is Free Speech? : The History of a Dangerous Idea€39.00A fresh and exciting approach to one of the most controversial subjects of our time ‘Free Speech!’ is a clarion call all over the world, yet what it means today is more contested than ever.
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A History of the World in 47 Borders : The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps€14.99From the Roman attempts to define the boundaries of civilisation, to the secret British-French agreement to carve up the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, to the reason why landlocked Bolivia still maintains a navy, this is a fascinating, witty and surprising look at the history of the world told through its borders.
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Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic€19.99In 1896, a Jewish state was a pipe dream. Today the overwhelming majority of Jews identify as Zionists. How did this happen? Ilan Pappe unveils how over a century of aggressive lobbying changed the map of the Middle East.
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A Training School for Elephants€28.99From the acclaimed author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia, comes a new journey, following four 19th century elephants marched from the East African coast towards Congo, to tell a heartbreaking story of folly and colonial greed.
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The Shortest History of Economics€12.99Always accessible, expertly written and highly illuminating, The Shortest History of Economics is a perfect introduction to the subject.
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The Question of Palestine€19.99A major work by one of the great public intellectuals of the twentieth century, The Question of Palestine was the first book to narrate the modern Palestinian experience in English.
