The perfect introduction to the discipline of history. It guides the reader through the controversies and debates that surround historical thinking and offers readers the means to make their own discoveries.

Written at a time when China was largely regarded by the West as backward, The Problem of China sees Russell rise above the prejudices of his era and assess China's past, present and future. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new introduction by Bernard Linsky.

England Under the Stuarts is an outstanding and highly engaging account of English history in the years between 1603 and 1714. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Peter Gaunt.

A groundbreaking new textbook that brings a highly topical, environmental perspective to the story of how humans have shaped the world.

Outside Asia precious little is known of their rich history, but new evidence reframes our understanding of the indelible mark they left on a vast region stretching from Europe and sweeping right across Central Asia deep into China.

The extraordinary true story of the Stasi's poetry club: Stasiland and The Lives of Others crossed with Dead Poets Society

This volume provides a collection of ‘imagined lives’—individuals who, no matter their position on the social hierarchy, were crucial to the development of medieval Europe and the modern period that followed.