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Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. The ‘Great War’, from July 1914 to November 1918, was without parallel. It brought to an end four dynasties, ignited revolution, and forged new……続きを見る

How empires have used diversity to shape the world order for more than two millennia Empiresーvast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambitionーhave dominated the political landsc……続きを見る

A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders Throughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology, ……続きを見る

'Een relevante dwarsdoorsnede van gebeurtenissen en mensen die Nederland hebben gevormd. Van harte aanbevolen.' National Geographic Historia Als je Nederland met dezelfde nieuwsgierige blik bekijkt ……続きを見る

In A History of Science in Society, Ede and Cormack trace the history of the changing place of science in society and explore the link between the pursuit of knowledge and the desire to make that kn……続きを見る

FREIHEIT, GLEICHHEIT, GERECHTIGKEIT. EINE ETWAS ANDERE GESCHICHTE DER DEMOKRATIE Dass alle Menschen - wirklich alle! - gleich sein sollen, galt die längste Zeit als absurd. Die Historikerin Hedwig R……続きを見る

In 'Het Plakkaat van Verlatinge' betoogt Anton van Hooff waarom de Acte van Verlatinge gezien kan worden als de geboorteakte van Nederland. In ‘Het Plakkaat van Verlatinge’ betoogt Anton van Hooff w……続きを見る

Discover the history of Europe - from the Dark Ages to present day - by the author of the bestselling A Short History of England Europe is an astonishingly successful place. But it would take volume……続きを見る

When the world closed its borders to desperate Jews fleeing Europe during World War II, Shanghai became an unexpected last haven for the refugees. An open port that could be entered without visas, t……続きを見る

John Hume, Ireland’s greatest peace-maker, is widely recognised as the architect of the Northern Ireland peace process. In John Hume in America, Maurice Fitzpatrick explores how Hume created this fr……続きを見る

In ‘De middeleeuwers’ vertellen Luit van der Tuuk en Leon Mijderwijk over echte mensen uit de middeleeuwen: barden, boeren, koningen en krijgslieden. 'De middeleeuwers' van Luit van der Tuuk en Leon……続きを見る

‘Biografie van de Zuiderzee’ vertelt de geschiedenis van de Zuiderzee aan de hand van 25 verhalen, waarin vaak mensen centraal staan. In ‘Biografie van de Zuiderzee’ vertelt Arie Kok de geschiedenis……続きを見る

Wer als Autor im Dritten Reich publizieren wollte, musste sich offiziell registrieren lassen als Mitglied der Reichsschrifttumskammer. Aber was bedeutete das? Wieviel Anpassung wurde verlangt? Wie w……続きを見る

In ‘De Germanen en het christendom’, dat door ‘Trouw’ werd beoordeeld met vier sterren, geeft Pierre Trouillez een inkijk in de vroege historie van christelijk Europa. In ‘De Germanen het christendo……続きを見る

In an elegant, eminently readable work, one of our most distinguished intellectual historians gives us a brilliant revisionist history. The Roads to Modernity reclaims the Enlightenment–an extraordi……続きを見る

In 'Stadhouders in de Nederlanden: van Holland tot Vlaanderen 1448-1879' biedt historicus Arnout van Cruyningen een verhalend overzicht van alle stadhouders van de Nederlanden. In ‘Stadhouders in de……続きを見る

The 1921 partition of Ireland had huge ramifications for almost all aspects of Irish life and was directly responsible for hundreds of deaths and injuries, with thousands displaced from their homes ……続きを見る

Historicus en journalist Rob Hartmans belicht de donkerste episodes uit de Nederlandse geschiedenis in 'Zwarte bladzijden uit de vaderlandse geschiedenis'. In 'Zwarte bladzijden uit de vaderlandse g……続きを見る

‘De dageraad van Holland’ van Henk ’t Jong is een geschiedenisboek over de vroegste geschiedenis van het graafschap Holland. Henk ’t Jong neemt ons in ‘De dageraad van Holland’ mee naar de hoogtijda……続きを見る

This is one of the most significant military books of the twentieth century. By an outstanding soldier of independent mind, it pushed forward the evolution of land warfare and was directly responsib……続きを見る

From the author of A Venetian Affair and Lucia comes a charming odyssey in the path of the mysterious Zen brothers, who explored parts of the New World a century before Columbus, and became both a s……続きを見る

No conflict of the Great War excites stronger emotions than the war in Flanders in the autumn of 1917, and no name better encapsulates the horror and apparent futility of the Western Front than Pass……続きを見る

A monumental work of history that captures the last days of the Third Reich as never before. Swansong 1945 chronicles the end of Nazi Germany through more than 1,000 extracts from letters, diaries, ……続きを見る

On the evening of May 16, 1937, the train doors opened at the Porte Dorée station in the Paris Métro to reveal a dying woman slumped by a window, an eight-inch stiletto buried to its hilt in her nec……続きを見る

In the late 1890s a journalist wrote, "Spanish women would rather weep at a husband's or a son's gravesite than blush for lack of patriotic fervor." Yet at a time when women were expected to sacrifi……続きを見る

Woher stammte Hitler? Wie erklärt sich die Wirkung von Hitlers Reden? Inwieweit hat die Großindustrie Hitler unterstützt? Wie übte Hitler seine Herrschaft aus? Welche Einkünfte bezog Hitler? War Hit……続きを見る

The appearance of a fourth printing of The Renaissance and English Humanism indicated the scholarly success this book has enjoyed for more than a decade. As a brief yet thoughtful and eloquent evalu……続きを見る

This study is the first up-to-date comprehensive analysis of Continental Saxon identity in antiquity and the early middle ages. Building on recent scholarship on barbarian ethnicity, this study emph……続きを見る

Most previous biographers of Thomas More have sought to prove him a saint; in this, the first full-scale biography of More in half a century, Richard Marius, a leading Reformation historian, seeks t……続きを見る

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Hugely ambitious in its historical focus and vast geographical scope, Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakesp……続きを見る