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Pearl Zane Grey was best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that were a basis for the Western genre in literature and the arts, but he also wrote two hunting books, six children’s bo……続きを見る

American slavery in the antebellum period was characterized by a massive wave of forced migration as millions of slaves were moved across state lines to the expanding southwest, scattered locally, a……続きを見る

As the U.S. Army shrinks, a private army steps into the breach. A Bloody Business offers an unprecedented look behind the scenes and into the ranks of this mercenary force (numbering as many as 15,0……続きを見る

“A brilliant, coherent social and political overview spanning three turbulent centuries.”ーSan Francisco Chronicle Stanley Karnow won the Pulitzer Prize for this account of America’s imperial experi……続きを見る

“A riveting look at today’s Russia under the leadership of Vladimir Putin.”ーThe Kingston Observer In Putin’s Labyrinth, acclaimed journalist Steve LeVine, who lived inand reported from the former S……続きを見る

Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world. Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Laca……続きを見る

In Georgian London: Into the Streets, Lucy Inglis takes readers on a tour of London's most formative age - the age of love, sex, intellect, art, great ambition and fantastic ruin. Travel back to the……続きを見る

Francis Bacon’s landmark writings on subjects ranging from anger and ambition, marriage and money, to envy and empire established him as the founding father of modern scientific thinking, with his r……続きを見る

The universal jubilation that greeted Nelson Mandela's inauguration as president of South Africa in 1994 and the process by which the nightmare of apartheid had been banished is one of the most thri……続きを見る

Meet Frantz Schmidt: executioner, torturer and, most unusually for his times, diarist. Following in his father’s footsteps, Frantz entered the executioner’s trade as an Apprentice. 394 executions an……続きを見る

A comprehensive overview of twentieth-century Russian history that treats the years from 1917 to 2000 as a single period and analyses the peculiar mixture of political, economic and social ingredien……続きを見る

For centuries Spain had been the most feared and predatory power in Europe - it had the largest empire and one of the world's great navies to defend it. Nothing could have prepared the Spanish for t……続きを見る

'A highly enjoyable exercise in financial disaster tourism... politically incorrect, often very funny, and shot through with genuine insight' Robert Harris, The Times In this hilarious, fascinating,……続きを見る

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there... Imagine you could travel back to the fourteenth century. What would you see, and hear, and smell? Where would you stay? What are yo……続きを見る

Mass international migration is a response to extreme global inequality, and immigration has a profound impact on the way we live. Yet our views - and those of our politicians - remain caught betwee……続きを見る

A history of the Habsburg monarchy from the end of the Holy Roman Empire to the monarchy's dissolution in 1918. The book offers an insight into the problems inherent in the attempt to give peace, st……続きを見る

Half a millennium of European warfare brilliantly retold by masterly historian Brendan Simms At the heart of Europe's history lies a puzzle. In most of the world humankind has created enormous polit……続きを見る

Stephanie Williams's Running the Show is a brilliant look at the men and women of Empire. 'May God forgive us for our sorry deeds and for our glorious intentions' Who were the men governing the Empi……続きを見る

Although 1759 is not a date as well known in British history as 1215, 1588, or 1688, there is a strong case to be made that it is the most significant year since 1066. In 1759 - the fourth year of t……続きを見る

A TRUE STORY OF LIES, BEAUTY AND BLACKMAIL IN VICTORIAN LONDON _________________________ Madame Rachel had everything. A Mayfair address; the title of 'purveyor to Her Majesty the Queen'; a shop ful……続きを見る

Damn' Rebel Bitches takes a totally fresh approach to the history of the Jacobite Rising by telling fascinating stories of the many women caught up in the turbulent events of 1745-46. Many historian……続きを見る

Mrs Jordan's Profession is the acclaimed biography of Dora Jordan by bestselling author Claire Tomalin 'Intelligent, finely made and wonderfully readable. As gripping as the best fiction' Independen……続きを見る

Also known as the Lettres anglaises ou philosophiques, Voltaire's response to his exile in England offered the French public of 1734 a panoramic view of British culture. Perceiving them as a veiled ……続きを見る

Christian C. Walther hat die Fülle des Materials neu gesichtet und bisher unbeachtete Quellen erschlossen. Auf der Basis neuester Erkenntnisse stellt er die existierenden Theorien auf die Probe und ……続きを見る

Die Ur-Katastrophe der Deutschen Mit einem Aufstand in Böhmen begann im Jahr 1618 der Dreißigjährige Krieg, doch bald schon hatte das blutige Ringen um Glaubensfragen und die Vormacht in Europa den ……続きを見る

Preußische Könige und deutsche Kaiser Kaum ein anderes Fürstengeschlecht ist so eng mit fast tausend Jahren deutscher Geschichte verbunden wie die Hohenzollern. Von ihrer Stammburg auf der Schwäbisc……続きを見る

Provokant, aufrüttelnd, thesenstark und streitbar: der brisante Enthüllungsreport über die Zukunft der Angestellten Günter Ogger analysiert die Bedrohungen, denen sich die Angestellten heute gegenüb……続きを見る

»Ein Abgrund von Landesverrat« – als die Demokratie in Gefahr geriet Im Oktober 1962 veröffentlichte der SPIEGEL einen Artikel, in dem die Bundeswehr als »bedingt abwehrbereit« beschrieben und die a……続きを見る

Welche Faktoren haben 1914 den Zusammenbruch der europäischen Ordnung tatsächlich bewirkt? Wie wäre die Entwicklung verlaufen, wenn Großbritannien nicht in den Krieg eingetreten wäre? Niall Ferguson……続きを見る

Das Schweigen der Mehrheit Man musste kein Held sein, um in der DDR zumindest passiven Widerstand zu leisten. Ohne die Mitläufer hätte die Diktatur nicht vierzig Jahre lang so funktioniert. Das Regi……続きを見る