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Land of Tears: The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa

Robert Harms

A prizewinning historian’s epic account of the scramble to control equatorial Africa

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Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes

Zachary Carter

In the spring of 1934, Virginia Woolf sketched an affectionate biographical portrait of her great friend John Maynard Keynes. Writing a full two years before Keynes would revolutionize the economics…

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Ottoman Odyssey: Travels through a Lost Empire: Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award

Alev Scott

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR.* A journey across the former Ottoman Empire reveals its legacy and the integral diversity threatened amid rising nationalism.

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These Are the Names: Jewish Lives in Australia, 1788-1850

John S. Levi

Between 1788 and 1850, more than 1500 Jewish men and women were either transported to Australia as convicts or arrived as free settlers. This important biographical dictionary presents the details…

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European Vision and the South Pacific (Third edition)

Bernard Smith, Sheridan Palmer (ed.)

From Australia's greatest art historian and pioneer of post-colonialism Bernard Smith comes a new edition of this classic study of an imagined southern world.

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The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848

Eric Hobsbawm

The first volume of Hobsbawm's classic and universally acclaimed trilogy on the 19th century, beautifully repackaged as an Abacus History Great

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The Age of Extremes: 1914-1991

Eric Hobsbawm

The Age of Extremes is eminent historian Eric Hobsbawm’s personal vision of the twentieth century.

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The Age of Capital: 1848-1875

Eric Hobsbawm

Hobsbawm’s brilliant history, beautifully repackaged as an Abacus History Great

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The History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks

Emma Marriott

History is a rich, varied and fascinating subject, so it’s rare to find the whole lot in one book … until now. Author Emma Marriott pulls it all together, from…

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The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History

Kassia St Clair

A new history of ingenuity from the author of The Secret Lives of Colour.

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Budapest: Between East and West

Victor Sebestyen

The dramatic story of Budapest, a city on the fault line between East and West in the heart of Europe.

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A Brief History of the Dynasties of China

Bamber Gascoigne

By focusing on the key colourful characters of the eight major dynasties, Bamber Gascoigne brings to life 3500 years of Chinese civilization.

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The Balkans

Mark Mazower

A short history of the Balkans from the Romans to the present, which provides vital historical and cultural background to contemporary Balkan politics and offers the reader a fresh view…

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Peterloo: The Story of the Manchester Massacre

Jacqueline Riding

The story of a defining moment in the history of British democracy: the horrific Peterloo massacre of 1819.

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Life and Afterlife in Ancient China

Jessica Rawson

The three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC cemented many of the distinctive elements of Chinese civilisation still in place today: formidable…

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1923: The Forgotten Crisis in the Year of Hitler’s Coup

Mark Jones

The astonishing story of one of the most significant years in modern European history.

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Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India’s Freedom

Ramachandra Guha

An extraordinary history of resistance and the fight for Indian independence from Ramachandra Guha.

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Jena 1800: The Republic of Free Spirits

Peter Neumann

The history of the German idealist oasis where discussions of revolution, literature, beliefs, romance, and concepts gave birth to the modern world –

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Prisoners of History: What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves

Keith Lowe

A Spectator Book of the Year 2020 ‘Inspired … Lowe’s sensitive, disturbing book should be compulsory reading for both statue builders and statue topplers’ MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMES What happens…

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Documents on Australian Foreign Policy: Australia and the Suez Crisis, 1950-1957

This volume, commissioned by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in the Documents on Australian Foreign Policy series, is the first comprehensive survey of Australia's approach to the Suez…

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Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors

Adrian Goldsworthy

A joint biography that investigates how, during their lifetimes, Philip and Alexander of Macedon transformed a weak kingdom in northern Greece into a globe-spanning empire, and in so doing changed…

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Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia

George Makari

Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award A Bloomberg Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 A startling work of historical sleuthing and synthesis, Of Fear and Strangers reveals the forgotten histories of…

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Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties

David de Jong

A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off the horrors of the Third Reich and World War II–and how America allowed them to get away…

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Mussolini’s Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe

Caroline Moorehead

The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Resistance Quartet returns with the incredible story of Mussolini’s daughter, Edda, one of the most influential women in 1930s Italy and…

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The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War

Giles Tremlett

A comprehensive and deeply researched history of the Spanish Civil War through the lens of the men and women who traveled from around the world to fight Franco’s fascism.

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Incomparable Grace: JFK in the Presidency

MarkK. Updegrove

Presidential historian Mark K. Updegrove, head of the LBJ Foundation, offers an … account of John F. Kennedy’s brief but transformative tenure in the White House –

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Hitler’s Girl: The British Aristocracy and the Third Reich on the Eve of WWII

Lauren Young

This alternative history of 1930s Britain examines how fascist sympathizers in the aristocracy nearly helped authoritarianism take hold in Great Britain as it did in Italy and Germany, through secret…

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Cover image for The Harvest of War: Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis: The Epic Battles That Saved Democracy
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The Harvest of War: Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis: The Epic Battles That Saved Democracy

Stephen P Kershaw

"The year 2022 marks 2,500 years since Athens, the birthplace of democracy, fought off the mighty Persian Empire. This is the story of the three epic battles--Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis--that…

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The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts

Silvia Ferrara

Silvia Ferrara leads a code cracking mission to decipher the hidden truths and histories of our greatest invention-the art of writing –

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Cover image for Enemy Of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
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Enemy Of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History’s First Global Manhunt

Steven Johnson

How did a single manhunt spark the modern era of multinational capitalism?

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Dean Acheson: A Biography

Robert L. Beisner

Dean Acheson was one of the most influential Secretaries of State in US history, presiding over American foreign policy during a pivotal era - the decade after World War II…

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V Is for Victory

Craig Nelson

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023 "Belongs in the library alongside the histories and biographies of Martin Gilbert, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and David McCullough." --Doug Stanton, #1 New York…

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Pipe Dreams: The Urgent Global Quest to Transform the Toilet

Chelsea Wald

From an award-winning science journalist, a lively, informative, and humorous deep dive into the future of the toilet–from creative uses for harvested biosolids, to the bold engineers dedicated to bringing…

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