Жанр "История. Социология. Политика"

Probably written by a student of Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution is both a history and an analysis of Athens' political...

Gerald of Wales was among the most dynamic and fascinating churchmen of the twelfth century. A member of one of the leading...

One of the greatest figures of his age, Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59) was widely admired throughout his life for his prose,...

The Green Flag stands as the most comprehensive and illuminating history of Irish Nationalism yet published. For many years...

Recently many people have assumed that we are blank slates shaped by our environment. But this denies the heart of our being:...

For centuries Spain had been the most feared and predatory power in Europe - it had the largest empire and one of the world's...

Little... , Silber...

The Death of Yugoslavia is a survey of the pressures and events that contributed to the break-up of former Yugoslavia, considered...

Every day, in every court and tribunal, advocates represent us all - Crown and defendant, landlord and tenant, rich and poor,...

The sixth of nine volumes in the major Penguin History of Britain series, A Monarchy Transformed narrates the tempestuous...

The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and...

A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics...

Armed with the insights of the scientific revolution, the men of the Enlightenment set out to free mankind from its age-old...

McPherson recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War including the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the French Revolution, this is the book for you . . .

Concise, convincing...

In the terrible aftermath of the moorland battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs....

1969 was a year of rising tension, violence and change for the people of Northern Ireland. Rioting in Derry's Bogside led to the...

Australia celebrated one hundred years as a nation in 2001. This book - part history, part travelogue, part memoir - tells the...

A great thinker's final testament: a characteristically wise and forthright collection of essays from the author of Postwar and...

'Flaneuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from the French. Feminine form of flaneur [flanne-euhr], an idler, a dawdling observer, usually...

There is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that...

In the last few years the world has changed in unexpected ways. The power of radical ideas and groups is growing. What was once...

We all have ten types of human in our head.

They're the people we become when we face life's most difficult decisions. We want...

The folk-memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, orderly and thriving country. She...

Guns. Sex. Drugs. Murder.
The Dark Net is just a click away.
Beyond the familiar online world that most of us inhabit lies a...

We spend more time than ever online, and the digital revolution is rewiring our sense of what it means to be human. Smartphones...

During the First World War three quarters of a million British people died – a figure so huge that it feels impossible to give it...

A young army captain who risked execution to swim from free-market Taiwan to Communist China.
A barber who made $150 million in...

A timely lesson in the perils of nation-building and a sobering reminder of the limits of military power from the Costa Award...

The definitive account of North Korea - its veiled past and uncertain future - from former White House adviser and Korea expert...

So how did such this extraordinary man get erased by history? Why are there no statues of 'Monsieur Humanity' as his troops...