From the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention: the city. 'Brilliant...enchanting' Evening Standard 'Exhilarating' New York Times The story of the city is the story of civilisation.

The Mediterranean has nurtured three of the most dazzling civilisations of antiquity, witnessed the birth or growth of three of our greatest religions and links three of the world's six continents. This book tells the story of the Middle Sea itself - a story that begins with the Phoenicians and the Pharaohs and ends with the Treaty of Versailles.

A global account of military strategy throughout history, from imperial strategies to those of anti-imperial insurgents

A modern, comprehensive, easy to read and understand theory of war for the 21st century - from guerrilla war to nuclear war, war underwater to war in (cyber) space

Forensic history at its best: an ancient map reveals the origins of world trade, and surprising twists in China's history.

Part memoir, part detective story, part untold history of museums - this is a fascinating and moving family story.

Furedi finds a disturbingly deep conservative agenda stifling the experimental and new ideas around the studying of history.

Names are everywhere, identifying people, places, animals, plants, public houses and fields. The investigations in this work involve detective stories into the connections between names and related subjects - archaeology and the landscape; genealogy, genetics and family networks; dialects and social customs; and industrial and farming practices.

Based on the assumption that reality, reference and representation work together, this introductory textbook explains and illustrates the various ways in which historians write the past as history.

What did it mean to be a Covenanter?

A critical study of five historical armies that offers solutions for how contemporary forces need to change to deal with modern threats.

Focusing on the explosion of civil wars since 1945, Bill Kissane asks what makes the contemporary challenge posed by civil wars different to that of past periods - and looks at what the insights from the historical literature, going back to the ancient Greeks, can add to our understanding of this tragic phenomenon

A pioneering social and economic study, which sheds new light on London's social history. Chapters on demography, social and occupational structure, topography, population turnover and residential mobility, and neighbourly relations, lead to a discussion of the involvement of the district's inhabitants in local government and church ceremonial.

Offers the first overarching history of the humanities from Antiquity to the present.

An illustrated history of witchcraft. It includes an analysis of the importance of the Internet and films in the dissemination of witchcraft, and the potential tensions as a movement that was originally a closed, secretive cult becomes an open, recognized public religion.