A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps by Jonn Elledge
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Category: Popular History
People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By ...Show more
The Achilles Trap - Saddam Hussein, the United States and the Middle East, 1979-2003 by Steve Coll
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Category: Popular History
From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Ghost Wars, the inside story of America's long and ruinous relationship with Saddam HusseinThe Achilles Trap masterfully untangles the people, ploys of power and geopolitics that led to America's disastrous war with Iraq and, for the first time, d ...Show more
Money and Promises - Seven Deals That Changed the World (HB) by Paolo Zannoni
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Category: Popular History
Where did modern banking come from--and how does this history help us understand financial crises?In the twelfth century, Pisa was a thriving metropolis, a powerhouse of global trade, and a city that stood at the center of medieval Europe. But Pisa had a problem: Money came in the form of coins, and the ...Show more
The New Cold War: How the Contest Between the US and China Will Shape Our Century by Robin Niblett
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Category: Popular History
An urgent and essential assessment of the global contest between the US and China, and how looking to history will help us to navigate it, from former Director of Chatham House
How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History by Josephine Quinn
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Category: Popular History
Based on her own sweeping research, an award-winning Oxford history professor overturns the way the West thinks about itself, tracing its innovations and traditions to societies from all over the world and making the case that we are, and always have been, a truly global culture. In How the World Made ...Show more
The Shortest History of Japan by Lesley Downer
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Category: Popular History
Everyone who has ever visited Japan says it feels 'different'. It is a small island nation with few natural resources, limited space and a history of swinging between isolation and openness to the outside world. This past has produced an extraordinary aesthetic culture that has inspired artists, archite ...Show more
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 by Katja Hoyer
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Category: Popular History
AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES * SUNDAY TIMES * TELEGRAPH * SPECTATOR * PROSPECT 'Utterly brilliant . . . Authoritative, lively and profoundly human, it is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand post-World War II Europe' Julia Boyd 'One of the be ...Show more
The Other Olympians: A True Story of Gender, Fascism and the Making of Modern Sport by Michael Waters
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Category: Popular History
The story of the early athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today's culture wars. In December 1935, Zdenek Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women's sports, declared he was now living as a man. Around the same time, the celebrated British field athlete Mark Weston, a ...Show more
Moneta: A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins by Gareth Harney
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Category: Popular History
The extraordinary story of ancient Rome, history's greatest superpower, as told through humankind's most universal object- the coin. When Gareth Harney was first handed a Roman coin by his father as a child, he became entranced by its beauty, its permanence, and its unique power to connect us with the ...Show more
The CIA: An Imperial History by Hugh Wilford
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Category: Popular History
A celebrated British historian of US intelligence explores how the CIA was born in anti-imperialist idealism but swiftly became an instrument of a new covert empire both in America and overseas.As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on the world stage. In 1947, to support i ...Show more
Borderlines: A History of Europe, Told From the Edges by Lewis Baston
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Category: Popular History
'A stunningly topical and timely book. Lewis Baston is a remarkable talent, very gifted as a writer and quite extraordinarily perceptive and original in his thinking' ANTHONY SELDON A riveting history of Europe told through twenty-nine key borders that define the past, present and future of our contine ...Show more
As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West by Guido Alfani
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Category: Popular History
How the rich and the super-rich throughout Western history accumulated their wealth, behaved (or misbehaved) and helped (or didn’t help) their communities in times of crisis.The rich have always fascinated, sometimes in problematic ways. Medieval thinkers feared that the super-rich would act 'as gods am ...Show more