Marks a significant reorientation in our understanding of the C16th dissolution of the monasteries in England by showing that the 'dissolution' was, in fact, often a very gradual process of ... read more
A history of global Britain told through its development as a mercantile power. ES shows how these commercial men, originally dismissed in the C16th as 'mere merchants', rose to become argua... read more
The Dutch historian and journalist on the first two decades of the C21st and the forces that have rocked the European project. How could the dream of unity, peace, prosperity and co-operatio... read more
Explores the tension between opposing views of the 1960s - as a period of joyful, necessary liberation and experiment or a time when authority was undermined and gave way to a pernicious, pe... read more
The Sherwood Rangers - from their landing on Gold Beach on D-Day to their pivotal role in Operation Market Garden and their status as one of the first British armoured units to enter Nazi Ge... read more
This book, which grew out of Lister's online research project Whores of Yore, presents a global history of the oldest profession from the viewpoint of the sex workers themselves. From Mesopo... read more
A global history of jurisprudence by an Oxford anthropologist. FP shows how European legal ideas came to dominate other ancient legal traditions, whether Mayan, Indian or Chinese, with the r... read more
Explores the competing psychologies that underlay the political and cultural struggle between the US and the USSR, in particular the fear and paranoia that all parties - from JFK to the Russ... read more
An exemplary work of historical scholarship which reconstructs the five days separating the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Hitler's declaration of war against the US.