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Nickie Roberts · 380 pages
'If prostitution is the world's oldest profession, then men writing about it is certainly the second oldest.' It was to retrieve an important part of women's history from the hands of male writers - who have defined prostitution from their own point of view as the client sex - that Nickie Roberts undertook this invigorating blend of social history and sexual politics. In her far-reaching narrative
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
Francis Fukuyama · 608 pages
Francis Fukuyama examines the paths that different societies have taken to reach their current forms of political order.
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond · 592 pages
"In his Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now, Diamond probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates?" "As in Guns, G
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
Silvia Federici · 285 pages
Revelations of the Medieval World
Georges Duby, Philippe Aries · 672 pages
The second volume of "A History of Private Life" is a treasure trove of rich and colorful detail culled from an astounding variety of sources. This absorbing "secret epic" constructs a vivid picture of peasant and patrician life in the eleventh to fifteenth centuries.
The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England
Barbara A. Hanawalt · 364 pages
Life in a Medieval Village
Frances Gies, Joseph Gies · 257 pages
Looks at the medieval English village, Elton, and through it how medieval people lived their lives, births, marriages, deaths, loves, work, etc.
The League of Lady Poisoners: Illustrated True Stories of Dangerous Women
Lisa Perrin · 208 pages
Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen
Anna Whitelock · 385 pages
Mary Tudor was the first woman to be crowned queen of England. Her accession, in the summer of 1553, took place against the odds and it was, in many ways, emblematic of her life. Anna Whitelock's assured, impassioned and absorbing debut tells the remarkable story of a woman who was a princess one minute, feted by the courts of Europe, and a disinherited bastard the next.
The Devils of Loudun
Aldous Huxley · 374 pages
In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an entire convent of nuns in what was the most sensational case of mass possession and sexual hysteria in history. Grandier maintained his innocence to the end and four years after his death the nuns were still
The Middle East
Bernard Lewis · 448 pages
"As the Birthplace of three religions and many civilizations, the Middle East has for centuries been a center of knowledge and ideas, of techniques and commodities, and, at times, of military and political power. With the historical - and still growing - importance of the Middle East in modern politics, historian Bernard Lewis's cogent and scholary writing brings a wider understanding of the cultu
Holy War: How Vasco da Gama's Epic Voyages Turned the Tide in a Centuries-Old Clash of Civilizations
Nigel Cliff · 547 pages
A new interpretation of Vasco da Gama's revolutionary voyages, which were seen as a turning point in the struggle between Christianity and Islam, explores the tragic collision of cultures resulting from his journeys to the Indies.
Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
Charles Spencer · 352 pages
After seven years of fighting in the bloodiest war in Britain's history, Parliament had overpowered King Charles I and now faced a problem: What to do with a defeated king who refused to surrender? Parliamentarians resolved to do the unthinkable, to disregard the Divine Right of Kings and hold Charles I accountable for the appalling suffering and slaughter endured by his people. A tribunal of 135
A Brief History of the Samurai (Brief History
Jonathan Clements · 356 pages
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
Victoria Finlay · 448 pages
Crown and Country: A History of England Through the Monarchy
David Starkey · 488 pages
The Steel Bonnets: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers
George MacDonald Fraser · 404 pages
A History of India, vol. 1: From Origins to 1300
Romila Thapar · 384 pages
The first volume traces the evolution of India before contact with modern Europe was established in the sixteenth century, highlighting the many manifestations of Indian culture as seen in religion, art and literature, in ideas and institutions. In volume two, emphasis is placed on the unity of texture in the development of Indian society.
The Penguin Book of Witches
Katherine Howe · 294 pages
"Chilling real-life accounts of witches, from medieval Europe through colonial America from a manual for witch hunters written by King James himself in 1597, to court documents from the Salem witch trials of 1692, to newspaper coverage of a woman stoned to death on the streets of Philadelphia while the Continental Congress met, The Penguin Book of Witches is a treasury of historical accounts of ac
Tower: An Epic History of the Tower of London
Nigel Jones · 472 pages