Following on from his epic '1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow', bestselling author Adam Zamoyski has written the dramatic story of the Congress of Vienna.
The bestselling author of 'Maharanis' recreates the lives of six remarkable women who, in a time of violent revolution, leapt at the chance to exercise their considerable charm, intelligence and acumen, and make their mark on history.
From rebels to writers, athletes to astronauts, join Kate Fox takes on an entertaining and eye-opening journey through the lives of these extraordinary women whose lives and achievements have too long been hidden.
A New York Times Notable BookBest Books of 2021: TIME, SmithsonianNew York Times Book Review * Editors' ChoiceA radical reckoning with the racial inequality of America's past and present, by one of the country's leading scholars of policing and mass incarcerationBetween 1964 and 1972, the United States endured domestic violence on a scale not seen since the Civil War.
'The way Robert Peal describes Georgian England, you'd be mad not to want to live there yourself' GUARDIANAnne Bonny and Mary Read, pirate queens of the CaribbeanTipu Sultan, the Indian ruler who kept the British at bayOlaudah Equiano, the former slave whose story shocked the worldMary Wollstonecraft, the feminist who fought for women's rightsLadies of Llangollen, the lovers who built paradise in a Welsh valley'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' is how Lord Byron, the poet who drank wine from a monk's skull and slept with his half-sister, was described by one of his many lovers.
This extraordinary re-creation of the life of a medieval Italian merchant, Francesco di Marco Datini, is one of the greatest historical portraits written in the twentieth century.
'I cannot help but see the bodies of my near ancestors in the current caravans of desperate souls fleeing from place to place, chased by famine, war and toxins.
The first major account of the history of reggae, black music journalist Lloyd Bradley describes its origins and development in Jamaica, from ska to rock-steady to dub and then to reggae itself, a local music which conquered the world.
**MiCannes Award Music Book of the Year**The first full-length biography of Mal Evans, the Beatles' beloved roadie, assistant, confidant and friendA towering figure in horn-rimmed glasses, Malcolm 'Mal' Evans was an invaluable member of the Beatles' inner circle.
A New Yorker, Time Out, NPR, Electric Lit and Publishers Weekly Book of the Year, and Lambda Literary Award Finalist A fabulously riveting hybrid memoir and queer history lesson The New York TimesIt s 1996, and Jeremy, a young American, has met the British boy of his dreams just as, amid a media frenzy, US Congress prepares the Defense of Marriage Act, denying same-sex couples rights including immigration.
Uber Jahrtausende hinweg war die Ausdehnung von Imperien und die Reichweite von Entdeckern durch eine simple, biologische Grenze limitiert: den raschen Verfall von Nahrungsmitteln.
Er ist das unangefochtene Symbol des deutschen Sommerurlaubs: ein massives, geflochtenes Mobelstuck, das an Nord- und Ostsee als windgeschutzte Festung im Sand dient.
El libro en Nueva Espana reune estudios que abordan la historia material y cultural del impreso novohispano desde una perspectiva amplia: antecedentes, condiciones de produccion, circuitos de circulacion y practicas de lectura, sin aislar el libro de otros regimenes de transmision -oralidades, manuscritos y culturas graficas- que coexistieron con el.
Este libro presenta una recomposicion de la biografia intelectual de quien ha sido considerado como uno de los maximos representantes de la intelectualidad afrocolombiana: Manuel Zapata Olivella.
Diese kulturhistorische Studie ruckt eine zwar bekannte, in ihren konkreten Vollzugen aber wenig erforschte fruhneuzeitliche Praxis in den Fokus: die Unterscheidung der Geister, mit der die Menschen das Ubernaturliche zu prufen versuchten.
Certain individuals achieved cultural influence that transcended their specific artistic or creative fields, becoming symbols of broader social transformations and shaping how entire generations expressed identity, challenged conventions, and imagined alternative possibilities.
Auch wenn die Stadt Koln es in der Fruhen Neuzeit vermied, in Konflikte hineingezogen zu werden, spielte der Faktor Militar im Alltagsleben eine haufig unterschatzte Rolle.
