From the grand palaces of Knossos and Phaistos to bustling trade routes that stretched across the Mediterranean, the Minoans created one of the most sophisticated societies of the ancient world.
After delving into centuries-old Chinese manuscripts, secret documents from the Forbidden City, and memoirs from ancient dynasties, a dark page of history has been revealed, one that was kept hidden from the world.
Middle Kingdom Lost: From the Invention of Gunpowder to the Nanjing Massacre explores one of history's great paradoxes: if China invented gunpowder, firearms, the compass, and many other technologies centuries before the West, how did foreign powers later defeat China using those same innovations?
Throne of the Red Sea: The Rise, Zenith, and Fall of the Aksumite Empire For more than a thousand years, the Kingdom of Aksum was one of the most powerful civilisations on earth.
The Thirteen Colonies traces the dramatic, often brutal, story of how a scattering of fragile English outposts along the Atlantic coast evolved into a complex and dynamic American society.
In this book, I am explaining about how, during ancient times, Time was flowing very quickly in the lowest world/universe (which is the world/universe that we are living in now) while time was flowing very slowly in the highest world/universe where Mankind was originally living in.
A new global history of the slave trade, the lives of enslaved people, and the role of slavery in the formation of Jewish and Arab-Islamic culture in the medieval Middle EastIn this book, Craig Perry mines a remarkable cache of fragmentary documents preserved in an Egyptian synagogue to write a new history of slavery and the slave trade in the medieval Middle East.
A lively and entertaining cultural history of a supremely annoying intellectual viceIntellectuals have long provoked scorn and irritation, even downright aggression.
A lively and entertaining cultural history of a supremely annoying intellectual viceIntellectuals have long provoked scorn and irritation, even downright aggression.
Deep in the mist-shrouded hollows and ancient limestone bluffs of the Ozarks lies a hidden corridor — a fault-aligned seam where the Night Dwellers walk between worlds.
A panoramic history of Japan's iconic mountain from the Ice Age to the presentMount Fuji is everywhere recognized as a wonder of nature and enduring symbol of Japan.
A panoramic history of Japan's iconic mountain from the Ice Age to the presentMount Fuji is everywhere recognized as a wonder of nature and enduring symbol of Japan.
Three-time Pulitzer Prizewinning writer Mike McIntire delivers the definitive story of the forces that shape gun culture and the American way of violence.
A comprehensive study of the New Christian elite of Jewish originprominent traders, merchants, bankers and men of lettersbetween the fifteenth and eighteenth centuriesIn Strangers Within, Francisco Bethencourt provides the first comprehensive history of New Christians, the descendants of Jews forced to convert to Catholicism in late medieval Spain and Portugal.
A riveting history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millenniaand why killing the dead is better than killing the livingKilling the Dead provides the first in-depth, global account of one of the world's most widespread yet misunderstood forms of mass hysteriathe vampire epidemic.
A riveting history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millenniaand why killing the dead is better than killing the livingKilling the Dead provides the first in-depth, global account of one of the world's most widespread yet misunderstood forms of mass hysteriathe vampire epidemic.
How the creation of a new banking infrastructure in the early twentieth century established the United States as a global financial powerThe dominance of US multinational businesses today can seem at first like an inevitable byproduct of the nation's superpower status.
A global perspective on the nature and evolution of nationalism, from the early modern era to the presentThe current rise of nationalism across the globe is a reminder that we are not, after all, living in a borderless world of virtual connectivity.
The Constitution and the Early Republic delivers a sweeping, deeply granular narrative of the volatile decade that transformed a fractured alliance of thirteen colonies into a cohesive, continent-spanning superpower.
An entertaining introduction to ancient Chinese thinkersand what they can teach us about today's most pressing political questions in China and beyondChina's most original, diverse, and fascinating political debates took place more than two millennia ago, but they have profoundly shaped Chinese political thinking and practice ever since and, remarkably, their influence on the country's leaders is only growing today.
An entertaining introduction to ancient Chinese thinkersand what they can teach us about today's most pressing political questions in China and beyondChina's most original, diverse, and fascinating political debates took place more than two millennia ago, but they have profoundly shaped Chinese political thinking and practice ever since and, remarkably, their influence on the country's leaders is only growing today.
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our presentBeginning in the 1970s, women of the decolonizing world offered new visions of liberation that centered the ideas and lives of women.
How an event once considered the greatest of all political dangers came to be seen as a solution to all social problemsPolitical thinkers from Plato to John Adams saw revolutions as a grave threat to society and advocated for a constitution that prevented them by balancing social interests and forms of government.
How an event once considered the greatest of all political dangers came to be seen as a solution to all social problemsPolitical thinkers from Plato to John Adams saw revolutions as a grave threat to society and advocated for a constitution that prevented them by balancing social interests and forms of government.
Could you stand as the final, unyielding line of defense for a civilization you neither understood nor truly respected, driven solely by the cold weight of gold and an unshakeable oath of iron?
What if the apocalypse didn't arrive with the sounding of heavenly trumpets, but with the rhythmic, low creak of foreign oars slicing through a morning fog?
A radical revisionand worker's-eye viewof everything we thought we knew about the ancient Roman economyThe story of ancient Rome is predominantly one of great men with great fortunes.
A sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empiresImperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder.
A sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empiresImperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder.
How climate change ushered in the collapse of one of history's mighty empiresIn 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty collapsed.
How climate change ushered in the collapse of one of history's mighty empiresIn 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty collapsed.
A comprehensive study of the New Christian elite of Jewish originprominent traders, merchants, bankers and men of lettersbetween the fifteenth and eighteenth centuriesIn Strangers Within, Francisco Bethencourt provides the first comprehensive history of New Christians, the descendants of Jews forced to convert to Catholicism in late medieval Spain and Portugal.
