Historie og arkeologi

"Trilogin kommer att bli en svensk klassiker, en djupgående skildring av samhälle och människor i beredskapstid, i ett land som flera gånger balanserade på randen mot katastrof …

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 …

Colours make the map: they affect the map’s materiality, content, and handling. With a wide range of approaches, 14 case studies from various disciplines deal with the colouring of …

Memorising kanji readings is one of the biggest hurdles when learning Japanese. The Kanji Code teaches a systematic method of learning the readings of kanji or Chinese characters. …

'Absolutely brilliant' Dominic Sandbrook, The Rest is History A thrilling work of popular history that gives a new perspective on the Viking-Anglo Saxon conflicts and brings the …

Empires rise and fall; they do not last. In the eyes of many, the US exerts the strongest destabilizing influence on world events, and thus presents the greatest threat to world …

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize, a revelatory, fearless history of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century.In …

'Few historians write with Serhii Plokhy’s authority, clarity or global vision... Essential reading, and a marvellous book' Peter FrankopanFrom the bestselling author of Chernobyl …

Hvorfor har Vesten fått dominere verden? De fleste kan enes om at de eurasiske sivilisasjonene har hatt en overlegen teknologi (våpen), motstandskraft mot sykdom (pest) og et …

This book forms the second volume of Tucker's biography of Stalin, the first volume of which was "Stalin as Revolutionary". The author shows that Stalin was a Bolshevik of the …