The gripping inside story of Gordon Brown’s rise to become Prime Minister.
Gordon Brown’s arrival at the Treasury in May 1997 was greeted with great excitement – not to mention anticipation. Officia……続きを見る
著者:Peter Icke
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2012年11月12日
The contemporary Dutch historical theorist/philosopher Frank Ankersmit, an erstwhile advocate and promulgator of what has become known as "the linguistic turn" in historical theory, is very well kno……続きを見る
Richard Bosworth's overview of Italy's role in European and world politics from 1860 to 1960 is lively and iconclastic. Based on a combination of primary research and secondary material he examines ……続きを見る
著者:David Art
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
What explains the cross-national variation in the radical right's electoral success over the last several decades? Challenging existing structural and institutional accounts, this book analyzes the ……続きを見る
著者:John Updike
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年01月15日
In John Updike’s second collection of assorted prose he comes into his own as a book reviewer; most of the pieces picked up here were first published in The New Yorker in the 1960s and early ’70s. I……続きを見る
In July 1964, after a decade of intense media focus on civil rights protest in the Jim Crow South, a riot in Harlem abruptly shifted attention to the urban crisis embroiling America's northern citie……続きを見る
People around the world are confused and concerned. Is it a sign of strength or of weakness that the US has suddenly shifted from a politics of consensus to one of coercion on the world stage? What ……続きを見る
They called themselves the Motherfuckers; others called them a "street gang with an analysis." Osha Neumann's thoughtful, funny, and honest account of his part in ’60s counterculture is also an unfl……続きを見る
著者:Lee Henry
出版社: Blackstaff Press Ltd
発売日: 2012年09月10日
In Belfast Taxi the city’s taxi drivers – of all ages and from all backgrounds – tell their stories in their own words, covering everything from the beginnings of the public-hire and private-hire in……続きを見る
著者:Bruce Watson
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年08月16日
In this groundbreaking narrative of one of America?s most divisive trials and executions, award-winning journalist Bruce Watson mines deep archives and newly available sources to paint the most comp……続きを見る
A ground-breaking history of the twentieth century in Ireland, written on the most ambitious scale by a brilliant young historian.
It is significant that it begins in 1900 and ends in 2000 - most ac……続きを見る
著者:Barbara W. Tuchman
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2009年07月22日
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • “A brilliant piece of military history which proves up to the hilt the force of Winston Churchill’s statement that the first month of World War I was ‘a drama never surpassed……続きを見る
A vivid blend of history and travel and a sweeping story of collaboration and resistance, fear and heroism, pacifism and sacrifice all set against the backdrop of the Pyrenees.
'A beguiling mix of t……続きを見る
著者:Adrian Shubert
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2003年09月02日
Insightful and accessible, A Social History of Modern Spain is the first comprehensive social history of modern Spain in any language. Adrian Shubert analyzes the social development of Spain since 1……続きを見る
A beguiling, entrancing novel that tells the story of a prominent Egyptian family’s struggle to survive the turmoil of post-World War II Cairo.
Gigi grew up in a wonderful house in Cairo, a house th……続きを見る
In 1961 Adolf Eichmann went on trial in Jerusalem for his part in the Nazi persecution and mass murder of Europe’s Jews. For the first time a judicial process focussed on the genocide against the Je……続きを見る
The Weimar Republic was born out of Germany's defeat in the First World War and ended with the coming to power of Hitler and his Nazi Party in 1933. In many ways, it is a wonder that Weimar lasted a……続きを見る
Down South by Chris Parry - one man's astonishing diary of war in the Falklands
'A gripping account of heroism - and chaos - in the South Atlantic' Mail on Sunday
'Compelling, gripping. A vividly wr……続きを見る
著者:Kaye Jones
出版社: HarperCollins Publishers
発売日: 2011年12月08日
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.
During the year 1066, England had three different kings and fought three huge battles in defence of the realm, including the bloody Battle of H……続きを見る
By January 1943, Australia had emerged from the shadow of war in a strong position. The victories in 1942 at Kokoda, Guadalcanal, Buna, Gona and Sanananda had secured the northern coastlines of Papu……続きを見る
This book presents an innovative investigation of the policies of the Indian Congress during the late colonial period. Departing from the existing historiography of Indian nationalism, it analyses t……続きを見る
著者:Jeff Greenfield
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年10月22日
What if Kennedy were not killed that fateful day? What would the 1964 campaign have looked like? Would changes have been made to the ticket? How would Kennedy, in his second term, have approached Vi……続きを見る
The number 1 non-fiction bestseller.More than 100,000 copies sold!
'What we have, we hold'MOttO OF AUStRALIA'S 2/17tH BAttALIONIn the tradition of his bestselling Kokoda, Peter FitzSimons, Australia……続きを見る
著者:Sidney Day
出版社: HarperCollins Publishers
発売日: 2009年09月17日
An extraordinary memoir from a man in his nineties who remembers everyday life in a North London now long gone: the hardships and deprivations of a life of poverty but also the resourcefulness and f……続きを見る
著者:Richard Pipes
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年05月04日
From the accliamed authority on Russia and the Russian Revolutionーthe final volume in his magisterial history of the Russian Revolution, covering the period from the outbreak of the Civil War in 19……続きを見る
著者:A. Scott Berg
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年09月10日
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, "a brilliant biography"* of the 28th president of the United States.
*Doris Kearns Goodwin
One hundred years after his inauguration, Woodrow Wilson sti……続きを見る
AMERICA IS FACING UNPRECEDENTED CHAL LENGESーnew threats to our economic well-being, our environment, and our security. The American people are looking for real answers; the next president must mobi……続きを見る
著者:John Nadler
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年12月18日
It’s 1942 and Hitler’s armies stand astride Europe like a colossus. Germany is winning on every front. This is the story of how one of the world’s first commando units, put together for the invasion……続きを見る
Screenwriters have always been viewed as Hollywood’s stepchildren. Silent-film comedy pioneer Mack Sennett forbade his screenwriters from writing anything down, for fear they’d get inflated ideas ab……続きを見る