Allmän historia, världshistoria

*NOW WITH A FUN PUB QUIZ*'An idiosyncratic ride through history' Independent 'Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular history for the modern age' The TimesThe …

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the Pulitzer-prize winning author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should …

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe second bestselling book from 'the most joyous and brain-enhancing podcast out there' (The Times) - also including puzzles and a quiz!Tom …

Huippuhistorioitsijan vankka suurteos näyttää, mistä moderni maailma on syntynyt.Turkiksia, hopeaa ja öljyä. Ideoita, uskontoja ja keksintöjä. Kauppareittien kuhina on kietonut …

The force that forged an empire. The furious thunder of thousands of hooves, the clatter and sheen of bronze armor sparkling in the desert sun, the crunch of wooden wheels racing …

Syria has long been one of the most trouble-prone and politically volatile regions of the Near and Middle Eastern world. This book looks back beyond the troubles of the present to …

Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern world It was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial …

Sima Qian (145?-90? BCE) was the first major Chinese historian. His Shiji, or Records of the Grand Historian, documents the history of China and its neighboring countries from the …

World-historical questions such as these, the subjects of major works by Jared Diamond, David Landes, and others, are now of great moment as global frictions increase. In a …

Historical actors are as central to the history of knowledge as to all historical scholarship. Every country, every era has its biographies of eminent scientists, intellectuals, …