History: specific events and topics

'The book is a house of wonders' The New York Times'Steven Johnson is the Darwin of technology' Walter Issacson, author of Steve JobsWhat connects Paleolithic bone flutes to the invention of computer software?

'Alive with human detail and acute political judgement, this book marks the arrival of a formidably gifted historian.

A hilarious time-capsule of 1970s television, Visions Before Midnight is the first collection of Clive James's much-loved, inimitable columns skewering the entertainment of the day.

A hilarious journey through the life and television of the 1970s and 80s, this nostalgic time capsule collects the treasured columns of Clive James.

Adding to an already unforgettable collection of comic brilliance, Clive James followed-up Visions Before Midnight and The Crystal Bucket with Glued To The Box - the third and final collection of his hilarious, inimitable columns of TV criticism and a time capsule of 1970s/1980s entertainment.

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'Violet Moller brings to life the ways in which knowledge reached us from antiquity to the present day in a book that is as delightful as it is readable.

A genuinely new Second World War story, The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram by David M.

The Sahara Desert, February 1962: the wreckage of a plane emerges from the sands revealing, too, the body of the plane's long-dead pilot.

Cultural criticism at its best, The Metropolitan Critic sees essayist, critic and poet Clive James mix high and pop culture commentary - from Tom Wolfe to Tom and Jerry, from Seamus Heaney to Oz magazine.

Thoughtful and funny, this fifth collection of essays from much-loved critic and author Clive James covers the art, politics and culture of 1987-1992.

Following Visions Before Midnight, The Crystal Bucket is another hilarious time-capsule of 1970s television - the second collection of Clive James's ruthlessly funny, inimitable columns dissecting the entertainment of the day.

His third book of cultural criticism, From the Land of Shadows sees essayist, critic and poet Clive James at his erudite, enlightening best.

'Bold, dazzling and provocative' - Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'This book uncovers what was lost when Christianity won' - The TimesIn The Darkening Age, historian Catherine Nixey tells the little-known - and deeply shocking - story of how a militant religion deliberately tried to extinguish the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in unquestioning adherence to the 'one true faith'.

Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne.

November 9th 1938 is widely seen as a violent turning point in Nazi Germany s assault on the Jews.

In The Spiritual Child, psychologist Lisa Miller presents the next big idea in psychology: the science and the power of spirituality.

A Sunday Times History Book of the YearShortlisted for The Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award'No Briton has written better than Winder about Europe' - Sunday TimesIn AD 843, the three surviving grandsons of the great Emperor Charlemagne met at Verdun.

'A book worth reading' Andrew Marr, Sunday TimesThe Debatable Land was an independent territory which used to exist between Scotland and England.

Anton de Kom s We Slaves of Suriname is a literary masterpiece as well as a fierce indictment of racism and colonialism.

The children of Auschwitz: this is the darkest spot in the ocean of suffering that was the Holocaust.

Hawaii, 7th December 1941, shortly before 8 in the morning: Japanese torpedo bombers launch a surprise attack on the US Pacific fleet anchored in Pearl Harbor.

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It is impossible to understand capitalism without analyzing slavery, an institution that tied together three world regions: Europe, the Americas, and Africa.

Every day we are inundated by propaganda that claims life will be better once we are connected to digital technology.

What remains of the colours of our childhood?

Libya is teetering on the edge of collapse, having become a new haven for terrorist organizations and an epicenter of the refugee crisis.

Silence is not simply the absence of noise.

During the age of empire, European and American colonists perpetrated one of history s most monstrous crimes: slavery.

In 1945, soon after the liberation of Auschwitz, Soviet authorities in control of the Kattowitz (Katowice) camp in Poland asked Primo Levi and his fellow captive Leonardo De Benedetti to compile a detailed report on the sanitary conditions they witnessed in Auschwitz.

Sketches in the Theory of Culture is a remarkable work by all measures.

How did the Nazis imagine their victory and the subsequent Thousand-Year Reich ?

Stretching 1,200 kilometres across six countries, the colossal mountains of the Alps dominate Europe, geographically and historically.

The Black Hole of Auschwitz brings together Levi s writings on the Holocaust and his experiences of the concentration camp, as well as those on his own accidental status as a writer and his chosen profession of chemist.

Colin Heywood's classic account of childhood from the early Middle Ages to the First World War combines a long-run historical perspective with a broad geographical spread.

James Raven, a leading historian of the book, offers a fresh and accessible guide to the global study of the production, dissemination and reception of written and printed texts across all societies and in all ages.

What is Cultural History?

In this devastatingly witty new book, Carl Cederstr m traces our present-day conception of happiness from its roots in early-twentieth-century European psychiatry, to the Beat generation, to Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.

Adonis' influence on Arabic literature has been likened to that of T.

Few countries can claim to have endured such a difficult and tortuous history as that of Iraq.

Munich 1919 is a vivid portrayal of the chaos that followed World War I and the collapse of the Munich Council Republic by one of the most perceptive chroniclers of German history.

Major transformations in society are always accompanied by parallel transformations in systems of social communication what we call the media.

Hannah's Dress tells the dizzying story of Berlin's modern history.

Until the 1970s the history of sexuality was a marginalized practice.

Frequently perceived as a characteristic of modern culture, the phenomenon of celebrity has much older roots.

The world is troubled and full of misunderstandings.

This book recounts one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century: the siege of Leningrad.

What is the history of knowledge?

During the Holocaust, 99 percent of all Jewish killings were carried out by members of state organizations.

This important new book from one of the world's leading sociologists of sport weaves together social theory, history and political economy to provide a highly original analysis of the complex relationship between sport and modernity.