Telling Trabbies from Junkers
Though fast-faced and refreshingly different, this short study of Germany is more political manifesto than historical analysis.
Though fast-faced and refreshingly different, this short study of Germany is more political manifesto than historical analysis.
A rich and complex portrait of the author of The Prince manages to combine scholarly analysis with the imagination of the historical novelist.
The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin robbed Israel of a rare politician able to make peace with the Palestinians.
Steering clear of Orientalist fantasy and patriotic British myth, this innovative analysis brings clarity to the complexities of the Middle East in the early 20th century.
Mesmerism was a short-lived phenomenon, but its most celebrated British exponent, John Elliotson, attracted large crowds, which incensed his rivals.
Since its surprising discovery on the Aegean seabed over a century ago, the Antikythera mechanism has intrigued astrologers, classicists and historians of science.
An examination of the ‘fleeting, fine-grained intimacies’ of letters, diaries and memoirs produces a witty and scholarly account of Victorian attitudes to the body.
Microhistories, examining a range of notorious and mundane crimes, can help recover marginalised figures and forge links to wider cultural histories.
A vivid account of groundbreaking archaeological excavations at a Scottish site of crucial importance to the North Sea world.
A magisterial translation of a work that forms the basis of the European civil law tradition.