World History - Page 15

Abraham Lincoln: A Life

Hailed as the definitive portrait of the sixteenth president, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame's i...

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38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia

‘A globe-trotting legal thriller, a personal history and a twin portrait of a pair of mass murderers...

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A Short History of Japan

In this enormously enjoyable introduction to a remarkable country, Christopher Harding traces Japan'...

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The Devil's Best Trick: A History of Evil

How we explain the evils of the world – and the darkest parts of ourselves – has preoccupied humans...

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Lineages of Modernity: A History of Humanity from the Stone Age to Homo Americanus

In most developed countries there is a palpable sense of confusion about the contemporary state of t...

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Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and Its Struggle for Survival

'Compelling and important' - Rana Mitter, The Observer'Few books qualify as essential reading but Gh...

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The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan

When the Inter-Continental Kabul opened in 1969, Afghanistan’s first luxury hotel symbolised a dream...

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Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

A unique history of the ancient Near East that compellingly presents the life stories of kings, prie...

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The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years

In this paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has reshaped the planet, and the planet has...

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More and More and More: An All-Consuming History

It has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition: with wood supe...

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Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity

In Against the Machine, “furiously gifted” (The Washington Post) novelist, poet, and essayist Paul K...

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Germany and Israel: Whitewashing and Statebuilding

According to common perception, the Federal Republic of Germany supported the formation of the Israe...

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Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World

The ending of the slave trade and abolition of slavery by European powers during the 19th century is...

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Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity

The Bible observes that God made humanity ‘for a while a little lower than the angels’. If humans ar...