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Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence Freedom and Urgent Means

By William T Vollmann

The Stoning of Soraya M.: A True Story

By Freidoune Sahebjam, Richard Seaver

The History of England (English Library)

By Thomas Macaulay

Dreams and Delusions: the Drama of German History

By Fritz Richard Stern

Ancient Rome on 5 Denarii a Day

By Philip Matyszak (University of Swansea)

The History of Government from the Earliest Times: Volume III: Empires, Monarchies, and the Modern State

By S. E. Finer (late Emeritus Professor of Government and Public Administration, late Emeritus Professor of Government and Public Administration, University of Oxford)

The History of Government from the Earliest Times

By S. E. Finer

The History of Government from the Earliest Times: Volume I: Ancient Monarchies and Empires

By S. E. Finer (late Emeritus Professor of Government and Public Administration, late Emeritus Professor of Government and Public Administration, University of Oxford)

The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean

By David Abulafia

How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower

By Research Fellow Adrian Goldsworthy (University of Wales, Cardiff)

The End of Empire: Attila the Hun and the Fall of Rome

By Christopher Kelly

Freedom and Confinement in Modernity: Kafka's Cages

By A. Kordela, D. Vardoulakis

1968: The Year that Rocked the World

By Mark Kurlansky

Books between Europe and the Americas: Connections and Communities, 1620-1860

By L. Howsam, J. Raven

The Emergence of Russian Liberalism: Alexander Kunitsyn in Context, 1783-1840

By J. Berest

After The Bomb: Civil Defence and Nuclear War in Britain, 1945-68

By M. Grant

Refugees and the End of Empire: Imperial Collapse and Forced Migration in the Twentieth Century

By P. Panayi, P. Virdee

A History of Craft Freemasonry in Sheffield 1761-2017

By John Wade

The Decision to use the Atomic Bomb

By Gar Alperovitz

The Changing Agenda: World Politics Since 1945

By Sylvia Babus Woodby, Martha Cottam

The Spirit of London

By Johnson, Boris

The Times Millennium Quiz Book

By Howard Robin

The Madman's Library: The Greatest Curiosities of Literature

By Edward Brooke-Hitching

What on Earth Happened?: The Complete Story of the Planet, Life and People from the Big Bang to the Present Day

By Christopher Lloyd

A Savage War Of Peace

By Alistair Horne

Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376-568

By Guy Halsall (University of York)

On Living in an Old Country: The National Past in Contemporary Britain

By Patrick Wright

A Companion to the Hellenistic World

By Andrew Erskine (University of Edinburgh)

Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain

By Padraic X. Scanlan

Vandals, Romans and Berbers: New Perspectives on Late Antique North Africa

By Andrew Merrills