Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750
by Odd Arne Westad

Over the past 250 years of momentous change and dramatic upheaval, China has proved itself to be a Restless Empire.Tracing China’s course from the eig...

Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750
by Odd Arne Westad

* Restless Empire examines the past 250 years of Chinese history - in particular China's foreign relations - to consider the issues and preoccupations...

Nelson: The Sword of Albion
by John Sugden

Sugden brilliantly interweaves graphic accounts of Nelson's famous victories at the battles of the Nile, Copenhagen and Trafalgar with his lesser-know...

Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England
by Sarah Wise

Gaslight tales of rooftop escapes, men and women snatched in broad daylight, patients shut in coffins, a fanatical cult known as the Abode of Love… Th...

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
by David Quammen

First, a horse in Brisbane falls ill: fever, swelling, bloody froth. Then thirteen others perish. The foreman at the stables becomes ill and the train...

Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini's Italy
by Christopher Duggan

Christopher Duggan’s new history of fascist Italy explores how the movement became embodied in the person of Benito Mussolini who occupied for many an...

The Last Days of Detroit: Motor Cars, Motown and the Collapse of an Industrial Giant
by Mark Binelli

By the end of the nineteenth century, Detroit, founded by the French as a fur-trading post, was thriving. In 1913 Henry Ford began mass-producing cars...

The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead
by Carl Watkins

We know what happens to the body when we die, but what happens to the soul? The answer may remain a great unknown, but the question has shaped centuri...

A Good African Story: How a Small Company Built a Global Coffee Brand
by Andrew Rugasira

Since it was founded in 2003, Good African Coffee has helped thousands of farmers earn a decent living, send their children to school and escape a spi...

MOD: A Very British Style
by Richard Weight

Welcome to the world of the sharp-suited ‘faces’. The Italianistas. The scooter-riding, all-night-dancing instigators of what became, from its myriad ...