Now in its fifth edition, The Historian’s Toolbox is designed to help students become skilled in the intellectual process and craft of history, offering an overview of the field and techniques for reading and writing about history.

The third edition of this best-selling textbook is thoroughly updated, with an emphasis on the global and environmental context of European developments in the early modern period. Sections on sources and methodology give students the tools needed to study the period. This acclaimed textbook offers unmatched breadth and depth of coverage.

Beevor's biggest book yet - The dramatic story of Russia's revolution and civil war, from Antony Beevor, the bestselling historian and author of the classic Stalingrad.

A definitive new history of the Persian Empire, the world's first superpower.

'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times

'A pulsating account' Peter Frankopan

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How did the People's Republic of China transform from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today? Drawing on hundreds of previously unseen archival documents, award-winning historian Frank Dikötter recasts our understanding of an era that both the regime and foreign admirers alike celebrate as an economic miracle. In a fascinating tale spanning f...

Offers an understanding of Vermeer's paintings and of the era they portray.

The untold story of how British-French rivalry drew the battle-lines of the modern Middle East

A magnet for trade and travellers from all over the world, stylish, cosmopolitan Amsterdam is a city of dreams and nightmares, of grand civic architecture and legendary beauty, but also of civil wars, bloody religious purges, and the tragedy of Anne Frank.

Vandaag is er sprake van medicalisering en zelfs overmedicalisering van de geboortezorg; wat houdt dit juist in? En hoe ging het er in het verleden aan toe? Ging men in andere tijden naar het ziekenhuis voor dezelfde redenen als vandaag? Wat is eigenlijk de positie en het belang van ziekenhuizen bij zwangerschap en geboorte? Welke kennis en praktijken vinden we terug rond de geboorte van kinderen? Wat wist de vroedvrouw? En vanaf wanneer in de geschiedenis had de vrouw overlevingskansen bij e...