Жанр "История. Социология. Политика"

Britain shaped the modern Middle East through the lines that it drew in the sand after the First World War and through the League...

One of them was a military genius; one murdered his mother and fiddled while Rome burned. Six of their number were assassinated,...

In this sharp and witty book, long-time Silicon Valley observer and author Andrew Keen argues that, on balance, the Internet has...

Who is Theophrastus, and why should we care?

Once, he was the equal of Plato and Aristotle. Together he and Aristotle invented...

At first, gunner Clarence Smoyer and his fellow crewmen in the legendary 3rd Armored Division – ‘Spearhead’ – thought their tanks...

Emerging from a collection of city states 150 years ago, no other country has had as turbulent a history as Germany or enjoyed so...

London hosts twelve major railway stations, more than any other city in the world. They range from the grand and palatial, such...

In Babylon, Paul Kriwaczek tells the story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements around 5400 BC, to the eclipse of...

Today's world is in flux. Competition between the great powers is back on the agenda and governments around the world are turning...

Was Harold Wilson a bigger figure than Denis Healey? Was John Major more 'prime ministerial' than Michael Heseltine? Would David...

What makes the English so . . . English? The English are often confused about who they are. They say 'British' when they mean...

Five hundred years ago Protestant Christianity began with one stubborn monk – today, it includes a billion people across the...

Who owns England?

Behind this simple question lies this country's oldest and best-kept secret. This is the history of how...

The extraordinary story of the UK’s most gruelling and spectacularly beautiful islands. Tom Steel’s acclaimed portrait of the St...

From award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true historical detective story set in sixteenth-century...

A shocking investigative journey into the way the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa, ‘The Looting Machine’ explores the dark...

The Untold History of the United States is filmmaker Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick's riveting landmark account of the...

Stone... , Kuznick...

Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick examine the dark side of American history from the beginning of...

A family story and the tale of a nation.

Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - weaves a...

The first-ever translation of the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead of Sobekmose-fully illustrated and explained by a leading...

We live at a time when billions have access to unbelievably powerful technology. The most extraordinary tool that has been...

Being Jewish Today gives an account of both the journey of a particular British Jew and the journey of millions of women and men...

In When America Stopped Being Great, veteran reporter and BBC New York correspondent Nick Bryant reveals how America's decline...

As globalisation continues languages are disappearing faster than ever, leaving our planet's linguistic diversity leaping towards...

Ewan Forbes was born Elisabeth Forbes to a wealthy landowning family in 1912. It quickly became clear that the gender applied to...

The Digital Republic is the definitive guide to the great political question of our time: how can freedom and democracy survive...

How should we talk about sex?

It is a thing we have and also a thing we do; a supposedly private act laden with public...

How did a collective of self-taught internet sleuths end up solving some of the biggest crimes of our time?

Bellingcat, the...

By the end of the First World War, the whereabouts of more than half a million British soldiers were unknown. Most were presumed...

London, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home.

Nandor...