'THE history book for now. This is why and how historians do what they do. And why they need to' Dan Snow 'What is History, Now? demonstrates how our constructs
American History Now collects eighteen original historiographic essays that survey recent scholarship in American history and trace the shifting lines of interp
The present boom in popular history is not unprecedented. The contributions to this volume investigate peaks of historical interest which favour popular approac
In the New England village of Grandville, Wendell deVries, the 65-year-old projectionist at the local movie theater, meets an attractive divorcee and an unexpec
Why does the West rule? In this magnum opus, eminent Stanford polymath Ian Morris answers this provocative question, drawing on 50,000 years of history, archeol