Жанр "История. Социология. Политика"

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a shocking investigation into the cycles of racial violence in America

Barack...

In the darkest months of the Second World War, Churchill approved what seemed to many like a suicide mission. Under orders to...

An almighty storm hit Berlin in the last days of April 1945. Enveloped by the unstoppable force of East and West, explosive...

One of our most celebrated historians shows how we can use the lessons of the past to build a new post-covid society in...

'Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our...

London is a plutocrat's paradise, with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong Kong or Moscow. Far from trickling down,...

You think you know British Rail. But you don't know the whole story.

From its creation after the Second World War, through its...

Based on two decades of research, the five causes of wars and four ways to stop them

It's easy to overlook that most of the...

If Britain's maritime history were embodied in a single ship, she would have a prehistoric prow, a mast plucked from a Victorian...

Throughout his life George Orwell aimed, in his words, to make 'political writing into an art'. This collection brings together...

How does Britain get its food?
Why is our current system at breaking point?
How can we fix it before it is too late?

British...

A succinct, expert Pelican history of the most contentious issue of our time

After all the debates, manoeuvrings,...

In three thousand years of history, China has spent at least eleven centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at...

Meritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their status at birth. For much of...

Hazeley... , Morris...

This delightful book is the latest in the series of Ladybird books which have been specially planned to help grown-ups with the...

Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every place...

In the annals of military history, the Western Front stands as an enduring symbol of the folly and futility of war.

However,...

Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War is raging; Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy have just been assassinated. The...

October 21, 1967, Washington, D.C. 20,000 to 200,000 protesters are marching to end the war in Vietnam, while helicopters hover...

From Tristram Hunt, award-winning author of The Frock-Coated Communist and leading UK politician, Ten Cities that Made an Empire...

Andrew Rawnsley's bestselling The End of the Party lifts the lid on the second half of New Labour's spell in office.

Through...

Based on the author's own vivid experiences, The Cruel Sea is the nail-biting story of the crew of HMS Compass Rose, a corvette...

For the empires of Germany and Austria-Hungary the Great War - which had begun with such high hopes for a fast, dramatic outcome...

Patrick French's India: A Portrait tells the story of how India emerged from a turbulent struggle for independence to become a...

Christopher Clark's Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Life in Power is a short, fascinating and accessible biography of one of the 20th...

From Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice is a refreshing alternative approach to mainstream theories...

Brendan Simms's formidable, game-changing history of Europe

In this marvelously ambitious and exciting book, Brendan Simms...

The third volume of Peter Hennessy's landmark postwar history of Britain

Harold Macmillan - the presiding figure in Peter...

A castle filled with intrigue, a plotting duchess and a mysterious death in Catherine Bailey's The Secret Rooms.

At 6 am on...

The first part of his trilogy on the Spanish Empire, Hugh Thomas's Rivers of Gold brings the rise of Spain's global empire...