World History

In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama

In the centuries leading up to our own, the volume of traffic across Asian sea routes—an area stretc...

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€36.70

The World: A Family History

From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author – the story of humanity from preh...

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€44.80

Rules: A Short History of What We Live By

Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set...

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€31.40

Accident: A Philosophical and Literary History

From ancient philosophy to Tristram Shandy and Buster Keaton movies, this book tells the engaging hi...

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€31.40

A Pipeline Runs Through It: The Story of Oil from Ancient Times to the First World War

'Fascinating revelations' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'Wonderfully detailed and colourful' Steven Pool...

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€44.90

Cairo 1921: Ten Days that Made the Middle East

The first comprehensive history of the 1921 Cairo Conference which reveals its enduring impact on th...

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€23.00

Supertall: How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives

The global boom in skyscrapers—why it’s happening now, how they’re made, and what they do to cities...

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€26.70

Slow Rise: A Bread-Making Adventure

'Compelling, vivid . . . Slow Rise will be welcomed by the new bread geeks' SpectatorOver the course...

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€14.30

Haunted by Chaos: China’s Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping

“Readers will not find a shrewder analysis as to why the Chinese act as they do.”—Robert D. Kaplan...

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€26.00

The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egypt

In 1799, a French Army officer was rebuilding the defenses of a fort on the banks of the Nile when h...

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€24.00

Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

'Magisterial ... Immensely readable' Douglas Alexander, Financial Times'Insightful, productively pro...

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€14.30

The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance

A pioneering history traces the origins of global economic governance—and the political conflicts it...

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€37.70

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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€16.80

A Natural History of Beer

A celebration of beer—its science, its history, and its impact on human culture “Curatorial eminence...

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€13.50

Beer: A Global Journey Through the Past and Present

A fascinating exploration of beer, ancient and contemporary, and its role in shaping human societyBe...

€27.40 -10%

€24.70

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