This book, first published in 1930 and reissued in 1961, examines the Western phenomenon of the rise of the ‘mass-man’.

This book draws together social, cultural, and political history to show us how we came to have a moral, political, and social responsibility toward the hungry.

With an introductory essay on cryptography and the history of code-breaking by Simon Singh, this book reveals the workings of Colossus and the extraordinary staff at Bletchley Park through personal accounts by those who lived and worked ...

An introduction to the history of genetics and the rethinking of evolutionism.

This book is therefore a comprehensive reappraisal of the reign based, with rare understanding, on contemporary sources; it provides a coherent and persuasive revaluation of the man and the king, and is, in itself, an eloquent and ...

As the call for a new understanding of our national history gets louder, this book turns the received imperial story of Britain on its head.

Jacob's life is traced from the time he is a small boy playing on the beach, through his years inCambridge, then in artistic London, and finally making a trip to Greece, but this is no orthodox Bildungsroman.

In this comprehensive synthesis canvassing the peoples, economies, religion, languages, and political leadership of medieval Britain, Carpenter weaves together the histories of England, Scotland, and Wales.

This study of Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII and the founder of two Cambridge colleges is the first biography to explore the full range of archival sources and one of the best-documented studies of any late-medieval woman.

The fight for the "booty and beauty" of New Orleans that propelled one general to the presidency.