Жанр "История. Социология. Политика"

Social media is supposed to bring us together - but it is tearing us apart.

'A blisteringly good, urgent, essential read'...

A captivating new book from Wade Davis - winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Into the Silence - that brings vividly to life...

The untold story of Britain's most secretive special forces unit

June 1942. The shadow of the Third Reich falls across Europe....

America is in crisis.

In the space of a generation the country has become divided between winners and losers, with its...

On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not stop for ten weeks.

The...

What would a fair and equal society actually look like?

Imagine a world with no banks. No stock market. No tech giants. No...

Evans... , Evans...

What does it mean to be mixed race in today's society?

In this powerful book, Natalie and Naomi Evans, founders of anti-racist...

Malin... , Bell...

Powerful. Self-assured. Independent. Unattached.

Thirty women, from Megan Barton-Hanson and Shaparak Khorsandi to Shon Faye...

If all the best people are in all the top jobs, then why is Britain such a fucking bin fire?

Britain is in a long-distance...

How are borders built in the modern world? What does Brexit mean for Ireland's border? And what would happen if Elon Musk...

65,000 tons. 280 metres long. A flight deck the size of sixty tennis courts. A giant piece of Sovereign British territory that's...

A brilliant, global look at Universal Basic Income - a regular payment given to everyone - and why it might be the answer to...

The Ottoman Endgame is the first, and definitive, single-volume history of the Ottoman empire's agonising war for survival....

The Elizabethan age was a tumultuous time, when long-cherished certainties were crumbling and life was exhilaratingly uncertain....

From their earliest meetings, activist David Graeber knew that the Occupy Wall Street movement was something different. From...

Part of a trilogy on Scottish history, T.M. Devine's The Scottish Nation: A Modern History traces the epic story of a nation from...

The extraordinary story of how China became the powerful country it is today.

Even at the high noon of Europe's...

A comprehensive and absorbing history of a country that is constantly evolving.

From Bannockburn and Robert the Bruce to the...

The truth behind Richard the Lionheart and Bad King John - brilliantly readable, scrupulously researched and full of powerful...

This major and long-awaited work is the definitive history of the American Civil War by our greatest military historian.

The...

Jeremy Paxman's history of the British Empire accompanied by a flagship 5-part BBC TV series

The influence of the British...

Parris... , Bryson...

Matthew Parris's Parting Shots is a treasure trove of wit, venom and serious analysis.

Up till 2006 a British Ambassador...

'War is too important to be left to the generals' snapped future French prime minister Georges Clemenceau on learning of yet...

Edgehill, 1642: Surveying the disastrous scene in the aftermath of the first battle of the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell...

'Because it was fought so close to his old home ground, Homer might have seen this war on the Gallipoli Peninsula as an epic....

Two centuries of reform, revolution and political intrigue in Chris Bryant's epic biography of Parliament

Over the last two...

John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. His best-selling books of...

The people of the first nomadic empire left no written records, but from 200 BC they dominated the heart of Asia for 400 years....

Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of hard-fighting,...

North Korea is like no other tyranny on earth. It is Orwell’s 1984 made reality.

The regime controls the flow of information...