Historia

Anna Lindhagen drog igång koloniträdgårdsrörelsen i Sverige under tidigt 1900-tal och stod på barrikaden för kvinnors rösträtt. Som en av de första kvinnorna i stadsfullmäktige …

A beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color blue throughout the agesBlue has had a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. The ancient Greeks …

Harald Hardrada had a career that spanned much of the known world of the eleventh century. Here was a man who was born in Norway, was exiled to Russia, spent time as a mercenary …

Only those who allowed their inner hold on their moral and spiritual selves to subside eventually fell victim to the camp's degenerating influence - while those who made a victory …

Människan har alltid varit i rörelse på flykt eller sökande efter bättre livsförutsättningar. I sin nya bok undersöker Dick Harrison migrationens historia, med fokus på den period …

Published with a new afterword from the author--the classic, bestselling account of how the modern Middle East was created The Middle East has long been a region of rival …

Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a "mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and …

In early 1815, Secretary of State James Monroe reviewed the treaty with Britain that would end the War of 1812. The United States Navy was blockaded in port; much of the army had …

The Iran-Iraq War is one of the largest, yet least documented conflicts in the history of the Middle East. Drawing from an extensive cache of captured Iraqi government records, …