Жанр "История. Социология. Политика"

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...

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

At 6 am on...

Saul David's All The King's Men is a thrilling history of the British Redcoat from the English Civil War to Waterloo.

Between...

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have...

A hauntingly beautiful social history of the Thames Estuary, from the author of On Brick Lane.

Out at the eastern edge of...

Brick Lane today is a place of extremes - a street that's constantly reinventing itself. Blending history and reportage with...

A fully revised, expanded and updated edition of this masterly portrayal of contemporary Spain.

The restoration of democracy...

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

In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who sought his destiny abroad, provides an enthralling eyewitness...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was...

The Northmen’s Fury tells the Viking story, from the first pinprick raids of the eighth century to the great armies that left...

Nothing experienced in human history, before or since, eclipses the terror, tragedy and scale of the Black Death, the disease...

This highly original book brilliantly exposes the phenomenon of false allegations of lunacy and the dark motives behind them in...

On two days in 1761 and 1769 hundreds of astronomers pointed their telescopes towards the skies to observe a rare astronomical...

In August 1914 the two greatest navies in the world confronted each other across the North Sea. At first there were skirmishes,...

This is the archetypal story of the American West. Whether it is cast as a tale of unmatched bravery in the face of impossible...