books by subject
History of Civilisation & Culture

80s Chart-Toppers: Every Chart-Topper Tells a Story

The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe (Compass)

From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life

The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

Bibles: An Illustrated History from Papyrus to Print

Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World

The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the Modern World - 1300 to the Twenty-first Century

Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain

The Enemy: What Every American Should Know about Imperialism

Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization

Battle: A History Of Combat And Culture

Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership

Notes Towards the Definition of Culture

Democracy: A Life

Byzantium and the Crusades (Crusader Worlds)

The Eurasian Steppe: People, Movement, Ideas

The Life and Times of Call the Midwife: The Official Companion to Series One and Two

Eden In The East

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

The Discerning Barbarian's Guidebook to Roman Britain: People to Meet and Places to Plunder

The Celts: A History from Earliest Times to the Present (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism)

Greek Perspectives on the Achaemenid Empire: Persia Through the Looking Glass (Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia)

The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007

The Vikings

The Persian Expedition

Liberty Against the Law: Some Seventeenth-Century Controversies

The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man who Measured London

Practicing History: Selected Essays
