History Books

A Dictionary of True Crime - A Reference Guide to the Dark and Curious Crimes of British HistoryA Dictionary of True Crime is a guide to the most compelling cases of extreme and violent crime in the writing files, from the 17th century to present day. Amongst notorious criminals like Jack the Ripper and the Moors Murderers, lesser-known but provoking cases which have occupied the writ... Read More...

British Gangs - From 1900 to 1950 By Paul DettmannBritish Gangs covers the first fifty years of the twentieth century, a time of upheaval and war during which the public came to fear groups of young men. Much of this fear was whipped up by an expanding newspaper industry trying to increase sales with alarming and salacious stories. The book finds that the gangs were not as big a menac... Read More...

Alexandria - The City that Changed the WorldAn original, authoritative, and lively cultural history of the first modern city, from pre-Homeric times to the present day.Islam Issa’s father had always told him about their city's magnificence, and as he looked at the new library in Alexandria it finally hit home. This is no ordinary library. And Alexandria is no ordinary city.Combining r... Read More...

Social Formations in the Ancient World: From Evolution of Humans to the Greek CivilisationThis book encapsulates a long period of history of human progress by highlighting crucial social, economic, and cultural dynamics. It presents recent historiography and new analytical tools used to analyse multi-dimensional themes involved in social formations in different parts of the world. Thi... Read More...

The Athenian Army 507-322 BCThis fully illustrated study explores the formidable Athenian army, rivalled only by the Spartan army in terms of battlefield prowess and influence.In 508 BC, the reforms of Kleisthenes established the ten tribes of Athens, inaugurating a system of military organization that remained in place for nearly 200 years until Athens' eclipse by the growing power o... Read More...

The Madness of Courage - The Exceptional Achievements of Gilbert InsallGroup Captain Gilbert Insall holds a unique record: he is the only person to have both won a Victoria Cross and escaped successfully from a German prisoner of war camp during the First World War. The Madness of Courage describes how, when forced down by engine damage after destroying a German fighter, Gilbert ignor... Read More...

The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt - History, Archaeology and SocietyFor the ancient Egyptians, the Middle Kingdom (c. 2000-1700 BC) was a classical period of art, history and literature. The Twelfth Dynasty was one of the strongest ever to rule on the banks of the Nile: some of its kings were later worshipped as local gods, and were made famous by classical Greek authors. Yet Egypto... Read More...

The Missing Thread - A Women's History of the Ancient WorldSpanning 3,000 years, from the birth of Minoan Crete to the death of the Julio-Claudian dynasty in Rome, a magisterial new history of the ancient world told, for the very first time, through women.For centuries, men have been writing histories of antiquity filled with warlords, emperors and kings. But when it comes to incorpor... Read More...

Dark Brilliance - The Age of Reason - From Descartes to Peter the GreatA sweeping history of The Age of Reason, revealing how—although it was a time of great progress—it was also an era of brutality and intolerance with a very human cost.During the 1600s—between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment—Europe lived through an era known as The Age of Reason. Th... Read More...

Building the Metropolis - Architecture, Construction, and Labor in New York City, 1880-1935A sweeping history of New York’s urban development that chronicles the making of one of the world’s great cities. Between the 1880s and the 1930s, New York City experienced explosive growth, as nearly a million buildings, half a dozen bridges, countless tunnels and subway tracks, and miles of ne... Read More...

The Crazies - The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector, and a War Out WestA dazzling piece of narrative nonfiction about land lust and the American West, The Crazies tells the story of a wind farm that triggers a 21st century range war between a struggling fifth-generation rancher and the billionaires next door.Most locals in Big Timber, Montana learn to live with the wind. Rick Jarrett sou... Read More...

House of Huawei - The Secret History of China's Most Powerful CompanyThe untold story of the mysterious company that shook the world.On the coast of southern China, an eccentric entrepreneur spent three decades steadily building an obscure telecom company into one of the world’s most powerful technological empires with hardly anyone noticing. This all changed in December 2018, when th... Read More...

In Open Contempt - Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public SpaceA stirring journey into the soul of a fractured America that confronts the enduring specter of white supremacy in our art, monuments, and public spaces, from a captivating new literary voiceAmid the ongoing reckoning over America’s history of anti-Black racism, scores of monuments to slaveowners and Confederate sold... Read More...