Regional og nasjonal historie

In July 1936 a military revolt brought civil war to Spain; it erupted into a bitter political contest and a brutal land war which have been well covered by historians – a less …

«Formidabel lesefest på 900 sider! Råsterk og lettlest roman om det afrikanskamerikanske folkets livsbetingelser med slaveri og rasisme i århundrer. (...) Det har blitt en …

The Medieval Calendar Year celebrates the pictorial convention known as "The Labors of the Months" and the ways it was used in the Middle Ages. Richly illustrated and elegantly …

Tells the story of JFK, the Cold War, and the power of oratory to change the course of history. This title recalls the days from October 1962 to September 1963, when JFK marshaled …

'The following year Qin unified all under Heaven and the title of August Emperor was immediately adopted.' The short-lived Qin dynasty unified China in 221 BC and created an …

This "comprehensive, judicious, and finely detailed" (Roderick MacFarquhar, The New York Review of Books) biography of Mao Zedong traces how he created a totalitarian government …

Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that …

Den danske forfatter og polarforsker Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen (1872-1907) blev især berømt for de to grønlands-ekspeditioner, som han planlagde og deltog i: Den Litterære …

Trotsky's theory of the permanent revolution is one of the most important additions to the arsenal of marxism. It was first developed by Trotsky in 1904, on the eve of the first …