Bring the history of Western society to life

Praised for its easy-to-read narrative and attention to the lives of ordinary people, A History of Western Society, Fourteenth Edition, includes even more tools to engage students and save instructors time. A signature focus on social and cultural history helps students engage with and think critically about the past. Achieve, a powerful course platform, combines the full e-textbook with a wealth of additional primary sources, tutorials, activities...

In this origin story of humanity, scientific expert Madeleine Beekman makes the case that human language evolved to solve an existential problem for our ancestors: caring for extremely premature infants.

Complete quests to win the favour of King Arthur and re-create the legends of the Holy Grail and the Knights of the Round Table in this new card game

An accessible, definitive student introduction to geographical thought, this book takes a unique approach that encompasses environmental, historical and social perspectives.

A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century.

'A triumph of writing and scholarship. It is hard to imagine anyone ever bettering Das's account of this part of the story' - William Dalrymple, Financial Times

'A fascinating glimpse of the origins of the British Empire . . . drawn in dazzling technicolour' - Spectator

'Beautifully written and masterfully researched,...

The Financial Times - Best books of 2022: Politics

'The prolific military chronicler and analyst Mark Galeotti has produced exactly the right book at the right time.' The Times

A new history of how Putin and his conflicts have inexorably reshaped Russia, including his devastating invasion of Ukraine.

Putin's Wars is a timely overview of the conflicts in which Russia has been involved since Vladimir Putin became prime minister and then president of Russia, from the First Chechen War to the...

The remarkable story of the American volunteers who fought in the Spanish Civil War.

The first global history of the Normans, who came to dominate Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East.

From the bestselling author of the Ibis trilogy and The Great Derangement, The Nutmeg's Curse is an enthralling, panoramic history of the influence of colonialism on the world today, told through the surprising story of the nutmeg.

A compendium of the defining events of world history, fully revised and updated with two additional days imperative to understanding the world that we live in today.