‘Lucid and damning … an absorbing – and infuriating – tale of complicity, coverup and denial’ PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of EMPIRE OF PAIN

A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions from the horrors of the Third Reich and World War II – and how the world allowed them to get away with it.

In 1946, Günther Quandt – patriarch of Germany’s most iconic industrial empire, a dynasty that today controls BMW – was arrested for suspected Naz...

The author describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. This title is about his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us.

Israel: An Anti-Textbook to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth is The Case for Israel for fans of Drunk History and the Skimm: a personal, accessible, conversational “anti-textbook” moving chronologically from Biblical times to today, from one of Israel's most prominent activists and celebrities—now in trade paperback!

Op 19 juni 1867 wordt keizer Ferdinand Maximiliaan

door een vuurpeloton ter dood gebracht. Zijn laatste

woorden luiden: ‘Lang leve Mexico, lang leve de onafhankelijkheid.’

De executie is de climax van een buitengewoon

machtsspel. De Oostenrijkse aartshertog,

telg uit het illustere geslacht Habsburg en broer van de

Oostenrijkse keizer Frans Jozef, was door Napoleon iii

in Mexico op de troon gezet. In plaats van de hem

voorgespiegelde heldenontvangst wachtte hem een

burgeroorlog waar hij ni...

In Witte onschuld onderzoekt Gloria Wekker een centrale paradox in de Nederlandse samenleving: de passie en agressie die ras oproept, terwijl het bestaan van ras en racisme tegelijkertijd in alle toonaarden wordt ontkend. In haar verkenning van het dominante zelfbeeld van de witte Nederlander is het ‘culturele archief’ een leidend concept: de diep ingesleten attitudes en emoties die racisme in stand houden en hun oorsprong kennen in het koloniale verleden. Deze herziene editie bevat een n...

Here is an intellectual extravaganza, a dazzling history of the key institutions that have shaped and channeled knowledge in the West from the classical period to the present. Fashioned with elegance and wit, this exhilarating survey carries us through the pivotal points of institutional change and cultural transformation. It is full of memorable characters, from the flamboyant founder of the great library at Alexandria and the arrogant medieval logician Peter Abelard to the dashing global ad...

In this new edition of A Short History of the Middle Ages, Barbara H. Rosenwein offers a panoramic view of the medieval world from Iceland to China and from Sweden to West Africa. Yet the book never loses sight of the main contours of the period (c.300 to c.1500) or of the fate of the heirs of the Roman Empire.

Its lively and informative narrative covers the major events, political and religious movements, men and women, saints and sinners, economic and cultural changes, ideals, fears, and fa...

'Wry, readable and often astonishing... A provocative and absorbing history of the United States' New York TimesThe United States denies having dreams of empire. We know America has spread its money, language and culture across the world, but we still think of it as a contained territory, framed by Canada above, Mexico below, and oceans either side.

Nothing could be further from the truth. This is the story of the United States outside the United States – from nineteenth-century conquests l...

There are many stories we can tell about the past, and we are not, perhaps, as free as we might imagine in our choice of which stories to tell, or where those stories end. John Arnold's Very Short Introduction is a stimulating essay about how we study and understand history. The book begins by inviting us to think about various questions provoked by our investigation of history, and explores the ways these questions have been answered in the past.

Concepts such as causation, interpretation, a...