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How did a Gulf backwater become a global powerbroker? Saudi Arabia: A Modern History by David Commins explores the uneasy ...
Long overshadowed by Lindbergh, The Big Hop: The First Non-Stop Flight Across the Atlantic and Into the Future by David ...
In Language and Social Relations in Early Modern England Hillary Taylor listens in the archives for the voices of ordinary ...
Britain’s first book-of-the-month club – the Book Society – brought reading to a vast new audience. But not without some ...
Early 17th-century machines were intricate, impressive, responsive, and lively in equal measure. Even so, for Descartes just ...
Clifford got within ten yards of him, but it was too late. A lifeboat fished them both out of the water. The man, floating ...
How did Swahili become an East African lingua franca? It was not by accident.
There can be no doubt that monarchs bulk inordinately large in British history. Whether the subject be Georgian architecture, Victorian literature, or Tudor religious culture, we find ourselves ...
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The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France by Robert Darnton discovers a literary flowering in the shadow of the guillotine.
How did a Gulf backwater become a global powerbroker? Saudi Arabia: A Modern History by David Commins explores the uneasy alliance between oil, autocracy, and Wahhabism. The Battle for Britain’s First ...
A huge bestseller and undisputed guide to the Nazi worldview, did Germans actually read Mein Kampf?