World History - Page 40

The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper

Diaries, sketchbooks, common-places, notebooks, ledgers and ships' logs: how the blank book changed...

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For God and Liberty: Catholicism and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1790-1861

The Age of Revolution has traditionally been understood as an era of secularization, giving the tran...

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Cold War Exiles and the CIA: Plotting to Free Russia

At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, the United States government unleashed covert operations...

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Lost Peace: How The West Failed to Prevent a Second Cold War

The end of the Cold War was an opportunity – our inability to seize it has led to today’s renewed er...

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Napoleon: A Life in Gardens and Shadows

'Glorious... Scurr is one of the most gifted non-fiction writers alive' Simon Schama, Financial Time...

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The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East

Robert Fisk’s bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive...

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Games People Played: A Global History of Sport

The first truly global history of sport, covering everything from curling to baseball. Games Pe...

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Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe, 40th Anniversary Edition

This penetrating analysis of eight classic nineteenth-century thinkers explains how historians use l...

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The Globe: How the Earth Became Round

A history of how we came to know that the earth is round, rather than flat. The Globe tells the...

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Policy of Deceit: Britain and Palestine, 1914-1939

In this eye-opening book, Peter Shambrook delves into the secret correspondence between the British...

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Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor

This revelatory and inclusive book “unearths the stories of the people—farm laborers, domestic worke...

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The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict

Propaganda, pulp fiction, spies and censorship: the fascinating and action-packed story of books in...

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Watergate Burglars: Nixon, Dirty Tricks, and the CIA

The victory of Richard Nixon in the US presidential election of 1968 swung on an “October Surprise”—...

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The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam

On May 7, 1954, when the bullets stopped and the air stilled in Dien Bien Phu, there was no doubt th...

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History Made Conscious: Politics of Knowledge, Politics of the Past

During the last fifty years, the writing of history underwent two massive transformations. First, po...

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