The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan
Category: World History
'Humanity has transformed the Earth: Frankopan transforms our understanding of history' —Financial Times 'Vast, learned and timely work' —Sunday Times From the international bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes a major history of how a changing climate has dramatically shaped the development-and ...Show more
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple
Category: World History
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World. The internationally bestselling author of The Anarchy returns with a sparkling, soaring history of ideas, tracing South Asia's under-recognized role in producing the world as we know it. Major religions that rose to dominate Earth's largest con ...Show more
Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter by Ian Mortimer
Category: World History
The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval EnglandWe tend to think of the Middle Ages as a dark, backward and unchanging time characterised by violence, ignorance and superstition. By contrast we believe progress arose from science a ...Show more
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
Category: World History
The definitive guide to the Female Body, Eve is the book women all over the world have been waiting for. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FOYLE'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 LONGLISTED FOR BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 A GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH and PROSPECT BEST BOOK OF 2023 How did wet nur ...Show more
Henry V: The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King by Dan Jones
Category: World History
Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months, and died at the age of just 35, but he looms over the landscape of the late Middle Ages and beyond. The victor of Agincourt was remembered as the acme of kingship, a model to be closely imitated by his successors. William Shakespeare de ...Show more
Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean - A Gripping New History of Cyprus by Alex Christofi
Category: World History
"A brilliant exploration of Cyprus's long history of cultural resilience. Superbly composed." -- Guardian "Poetic...Compelling" -- New Statesman An evocative and lyrical history of Cyprus and the Mediterranean. Think of a place where you can stand at the intersection of Christian and Arab cultures, ...Show more
Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory by Patrick Bishop
Category: World History
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author, comes a heart-stopping countdown narrative recreating the liberation of Paris in 1944, one of the great and most dramatic hinge moments of WW2 From the Sunday Times-bestselling author, comes a heart-stopping countdown narrative recreating the liberation of Paris ...Show more
How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator by Theodore Papakostas
Category: World History
An enormous bestseller in Greece, this is a spectacularly iconoclastic take on the story of Ancient Greece by a rising star in archaeology Two strangers meet in a trapped elevator. One is an archaeologist, the other isn’t. A simple question, ‘What do you do?’, becomes the springboard for a dialogue that ...Show more
Paris - A Short History by Jeremy Black
Category: World History | Series: A\Short History Ser.
Once described as "that metropolis of dress and debauchery" by the Scottish poet David Mallet, Paris has always had a reputation for a peculiar joie de vivre, from art to architecture, cookery to couture, captivating minds and imaginations across the Continent and beyond. In Paris: A Short History, his ...Show more
The West: A New History of an Old Idea by Naoíse Mac Sweeney
Category: World History
*A BBC RADIO 4 Book of the Week*'A fantastic achievement' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Bright, expansive, and iconoclastic, this deliciously witty book has the potential to upset the applecart of "Western Civilisation" itself... Magnificent' Prof. Suzannah Lipscomb_________________A radical ...Show more
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell
Category: World History
"This will be the most refreshing, entertaining history of England you'll have ever read. Certainly, the funniest. Because David Mitchell will explain how it is not all names, dates or ungraspable historical headwinds, but instead show how it's really just a bunch of random stuff that happened with a fe ...Show more
Empireworld - How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe by Sathnam Sanghera
Category: World History
How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe. 2.6 billion people are inhabitants of former British colonies. The empire's influence upon the quarter of the planet it occupied, and its gravitational influence upon the world outside it, has been profound- from the spread of Christianity by missionaries to ...Show more