World History

In Deep: The FBI, the CIA, and the Truth about America's "Deep State": The FBI, the CIA, and the Tru

A two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist’s investigation of the "deep state". Three-quarters...

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€15.70

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000

WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE Paul Kennedy’s international bestseller is a sweeping account o...

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Main Currents of Marxism: The Foundes- The Golden Age- The Breakdown

Leszek Kolakowski’s masterpiece, one of the twentieth century’s most important books—for the first t...

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American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850

From a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, the powerful story of a precarious United States as it expa...

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The Utopians: Six Attempts to Build the Perfect Society

The Utopians is the remarkable story of six experimental communities – Santiniketan-Sriniketan in In...

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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

A fascinating look at four of the most spectacular cities in human history—and why they were all aba...

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Revolt: The Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization

'A well-written and thought-provoking account of the current crisis of globalization. Not everyone w...

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From Rebel to Ruler: One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party

On the centennial of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, the definitive history of how Mao...

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One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965

A sweeping history of the twentieth-century battle to reform American immigration laws that set the...

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Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History

Plagues upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand n...

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Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present

Central Asia is often seen as a remote and inaccessible land on the peripheries of modern history. E...

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€33.50

Operation Morthor: The Death of Dag Hammarskjold and the Last Great Mystery of the Cold War

LONGLISTED FOR THE ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION'One of the mysteries I've long been fascinated b...

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The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present

A Telegraph Book of the YearA remarkable, unprecedented account of the role of magic in cultures bot...

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Crossing Continents: A History of Standard Chartered Bank

For almost a hundred years from the 1860s, the City of London's overseas banks financed the global t...

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Why War?

What are humanity’s biological origins? What are the mechanisms, including culture, that continue to...