Inglorious Empire tells the real story of the British in India - from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj - revealing how Britain's rise was built upon its plunder of India.

Steven W. May and Arthur F. Marotti present the text and comment upon a recently discovered "household book" from sixteenth-century...

The sixth and final volume in Peter Ackroyd's magnificent History of England series, taking us from the Boer War to the Millennium Dome almost a hundred years later.

One of the most important voices in contemporary American journalism - Independent Matt Taibbi is one of the few journalists in America who speaks truth to power - Bernie Sanders Matt Taibbi is the best polemic journalist in America - Felix Salmon NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"The thing is, when you actually think about it, it's not funny.

Telling the full story of the Trump phenomenon, from its tragi-comic beginnings to the apocalyptic election, the author presents an analysis that goes beyond the bizarre and disturbing election to tell a wider story of the apparent collapse of American democracy.

The Irish Republican movement was one of the most significant revolutionary movements of the twentieth century. This book focuses on the issue of republican splits, which created the Provisional and Official republican movements, and the subsequent development of those movements.

Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination of President Kennedy in 1963 remains one of the most horrifying and inexplicable crimes in American history. Just as perplexing as the assassination is the assassin himself. This book charts Lee Harvey Oswald's sojourn in the Soviet Union - the last under-explored dimension of the Kennedy assassination.

International relations, as a discipline, tends to focus upon European and Western canons of modern social and political thought. This book sketches out the historical depth and contemporary significance of non-Western thought on modernity, as well as the rich diversity of its individuals, groups, movements and traditions.

For George Mallory as for all of his generation, death was but 'a frail barrier that men crossed, smiling and gallant, every day'. As climbers they accepted a degree of risk unimaginable before the war. What mattered now was how one lived, and the moments of being alive.

This volume examines British policy towards the Soviet Union in the aftermath of the invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979.

Examining the construction of the modern state of Iraq under the auspices of the British empire, this title uncovers a series of shocking parallels between the policies of a declining British empire and those of Coalition forces in Iraq since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.

'What is a German's fatherland?' This has arguably been the central question of modern German history. Germany explains the diverse ways in which national identity has been constructed over more than three centuries.

Explores the concept of improvement which took root in seventeenth-century England, the political and economic circumstances which led to its rise, the effect it had on the society and culture of England, and its subsequent outreach as the British Empire spread.

The timely and gripping story of Russia since the collapse of Communism, by The Economist's Moscow bureau chief.

Groundbreaking new work from the controversial author of The Invention of the Jewish People