books by author
Professor of History
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability
Dignified Retreat: Writers and Intellectuals in the Age of Richelieu
The End of Outrage: Post-Famine Adjustment in Rural Ireland
The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers
Worlds of Arthur: Facts and Fictions of the Dark Ages
Worlds of Arthur: Facts and Fictions of the Dark Ages
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
The Oxford History of Mexico
Herbert Samuel: A Political Life
Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts
The French Revolution, 1789-1799
A Supernatural War: Magic, Divination, and Faith during the First World War
How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
The Battle of Midway
Puritanism: A Very Short Introduction
Eighteenth-Century English Society: Shuttles and Swords
Raising Churchill's Army: The British Army and the War against Germany 1919-1945
Tudor Frontiers and Noble Power: The Making of the British State
Heligoland: Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea
Diaspora: A Very Short Introduction
The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family and Identity in Imperial Germany
Charles the Second: King of England, Scotland, and Ireland
The Waters of the Nile: Hydropolitics and the Jonglei Canal, 1900-1988
British Slave Emancipation: The Sugar Colonies and the Great Experiment 1830-1865
A Historical Guide to World Slavery
Saint Francis and the Sultan: The Curious History of a Christian-Muslim Encounter
The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain
The Sufi Orders in Islam