John Newton 
Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade 

Award-winning New York Times reporter Donald G. Mc Neil, Jr. reflects on twenty-five years of covering pandemics—how governments react to them, how the media covers them, how they are exploited, and …

Through the early twentieth century, the British Government locked away over 50, 000 innocent people. Their ‘crimes’? Being poor and unyielding. This is their story . ”Staggering… Wise”s book …

”Terrific . . . a tour de force” Sir Richard Evans ”Military history at its very best” Keith Lowe A gripping and authoritative account of the year that sealed the fate of the Nazis, from the best …

This book explores the philosophical and political roots of the United Bengal movement of 1947 that emerged as a final bid to keep the province united against Partition. Through Abul Hashim, one of i …

This book explores the long-term origins of populist Euroscepticism. Taking a historical perspective to move beyond explaining present-day expressions of opposition to the European Union in isolati …

Conscience as a Historical Force is the first true analysis of the life and thought of the radically democratic eighteenth-century backcountry figure of Herman Husband (1724–1795) and his heavily met …

”This is an essential and fascinating book because it brings to light, through conversations and nature walks, some of the buried connections between Britain’s landscape and historic buildings and i …

By drawing upon recent scholarship, original manuscript materials, and previously unpublished sources, this new biography presents an analytical narrative of King James VI & I’s life from his birth i …

This book comprises the biographies of the North Korean politicians whose actions played a pivotal role in shaping the formation of the country during the late 1940s, the Korean War of 1950-53 and …

This illustrated study pits the Kaiser”s troops against their British opponents during the climactic year of 1918 on the Western Front. Launched on 21 March 1918, the Spring Offensive saw German …