Addressing the key questions of what history is, and why and how one studies it, this text represents a positive affirmation of the vital importance to society of the study of the past, and of the many crucial learning outcomes which accrue from historical study.

Examines how political news was concealed, manipulated and distorted during the tumultuous later years of James I's reign.

A captivating literary portrait of the writers who explore the city at night, and the people they met

'A GENUINELY NEW HISTORY OF OUR NATION' DAN JONES 'A LASTING WORK OF SOCIAL HISTORY' THE TIMES ***** FIVE STARS FROM THE INDEPENDENT *****

Now that's what I call a history of the 1980s is a political and cultural History of Britain in the long 1980s in ten objects or moments. Neither a top down history, nor nostalgic celebration, it reframes the decade around local, national, and global politics of gender, race, age and sexuality. -- .

Translation of: Or noir: la grande histoire du p etrole.

A landmark work by the UK's only Aztec historian that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by exploring how the great civilisations of the Americas - the Aztecs, Maya, Totonacs, Inuit and others - discovered Europe

A landmark work by the UK's only Aztec historian that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by exploring how the great civilisations of the Americas - the Aztecs, Maya, Totonacs, Inuit and others - discovered Europe

Surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation - a way for writers, philosophers and colonial administrators to deal with the 'otherness' of eastern culture, customs and beliefs.

Previous edition published: New York: Monthly Review Press, A1999.

The Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the Earth's awesome impact on the shape of human civilisations. Blending science and history, Origins reveals the Earth's awesome impact on the shape of human civilisations - and helps us to see the challenges and opportunities of the future.

An original and compelling history of the northern European medieval renaissance in art, science and philosophy, which rivalled its Italian counterpart, by the author of The Florentines and The Borgias.

The Italian Renaissance in Europe and beyond

A revelatory history of humanity - spanning thousands of years and ranging across the world - told through the lens of a misunderstood disease. 'Remarkable .