*A History of Australia* is a seminal multi-volume work by the Australian historian Charles Manning Hope Clark, dedicated to a comprehensive study of Australian history from the period of the first European explorations and colonisation to the...
While many excellent works deal at length with special periods or topics of geographical discovery, no single book covers the whole ground in a manner quite suited to the needs of the increasing number of students now reading honours courses in...
Widely acclaimed as the best one-volume survey text available, A History of Russia presents the whole span of Russia's history, from the origins of the Kievan state and the building of an empire, to Soviet Russia, the successor states, and...
The definitive history of the Middle East, now updated in its fifth edition
'The best overall survey of the politics, regional rivalries and economics of the contemporary Arab world' Washington Post
Over the centuries the Middle East has confounded...
The book *A History of the People of the United States During Lincoln’s Administration* by the American historian John Bach McMaster is a seminal study of the history of the United States during the presidency of Abraham Lincoln—one of the most...
"A History of the People of the United States, from the Revolution to the Civil War" is a seminal multi-volume work by the American historian John Bach McMaster, devoted to the history of the United States of America from the era of the War of...
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2013
Synthesizing several decades of scholarship by historians East and West, Barbara Evans Clements traces the major developments in the history of women in Russia and their impact on the history of the...
THE STORY OF A GREAT AMERICAN BUILDER
At the peak of his power, in the 1940s and 1950s, William Francis Gibbs was considered America’s best naval architect. His quest to build the finest, fastest, most beautiful ocean liner of his time,...