Жанр "История. Социология. Политика"

In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built - and then lost - over nearly a...

Today, the bunker has become the extreme expression of our greatest fears: from pandemics to climate change and nuclear war. And...

The acclaimed historian of modern Britain, Dominic Sandbrook, tells the story of the early 1980s: the most dramatic, colourful...

China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan...

After decades of peace and prosperity, the international order put in place after World War II is rapidly coming to an end....

The Prince, a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, is widely regarded...

Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays showcases the Hitchens' rejection of consensus and cliche, whether he's reporting from...

Since the end of the Cold War so-called experts have been predicting the eclipse of America’s “special relationship” with...

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In the mid-sixteenth century, England was a small and relatively insignificant kingdom on the periphery of Europe, and it had...

Without a moment's pause, we share our most intimate thoughts with trillion-dollar tech companies. Their algorithms categorize us...

Never in human history was there such a chance for freedom of expression. If we have Internet access, any one of us can publish...

The official account – complete with full-colour illustrations – of how four ordinary people managed to expose the government’s...

The untold story of the remarkable young men who played a central role in the history of British horticulture and helped to shape...

When the First World War broke out, the suffragettes suspended their campaigning and joined the war effort. For pioneering...

On a sunlit evening in l882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were...

More than one fifth of children want to become influencers and it's easy to understand why. What if you could escape economic...

Updated with a new introduction by the author for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, For All Mankind is both an...

P.J. O'Rourke says we've worked ourselves into a state of anger and perplexity, and it's no surprise because perplexed and angry...

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...

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...

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...

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...