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The West: The History of an Idea

How did “the West” come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural...

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On War (Everyman's Library)

ON WAR is the most significant attempt in Western history to understand war, both in its internal dy...

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Life and Afterlife in Ancient China

The three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC cemented man...

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The Dandy: A People's History of Sartorial Splendour

A history of the dandy from below, from Beau Brummell and Baudelaire to Bowie and Bolan... and beyon...

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The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality?...

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Why War?

There can be few more important but also more contentious issues than attempting to unde...

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The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin

Political thinkers from Plato to John Adams saw revolutions as a grave threat to society and advocat...

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What Is Ancient History?

It’s easy to think that ancient history is, well, ancient history—obsolete, irrelevant, unjustifiabl...

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A History of Women in 101 Objects

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Goodbye Globalization: The Return of a Divided World

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The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China

George Macartney’s disastrous 1793 mission to China plays a central role in the prevailing narrative...

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10 Mistakes That Changed History: The Reckless Rulers, Monumental Mishaps and Disastrous Decisions That Have Shaped Our World

We all make mistakes, but rarely do they change the course of human history. From brea...

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The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World

This remarkable book recreates one of the watershed moments in the history of the Middle East: the f...

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Battleground: Ten Conflicts That Explain the New Middle East

The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East The Middle East is in crisis. The shock...