Over 100,000 Jews were killed in the Ukraine during the pogroms of 1918-1921. JV draws on trial records and witness testimony to argue that this chilling violence was a harbinger of the Holo... read more
A patchwork of oral history, capturing the voices of longshore fishermen and their windswept voyages to Cornwall and the Shetlands. Jellicoe lived in Southwold and recorded conversations wit... read more
How Mohammed-Reza Shah's close relationship with the US and his desire for autocratic rule sowed the seeds for the collapse of the Pahlavi dynasty and helped foment the Iranian revolution of... read more
Kapla, the former creative director of the Gothenburg Festival, has gathered the thoughts and experiences of the last remaining inhabitants of a village in a densely forested part of Sweden ... 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
Mazower has written extensively on Eastern European history and the Balkans; it should come as no surprise that his new book is an impressive and thorough account of this first 'romantic' Eu... read more
MG's absorbing new micro-history focuses on a Crucible-esque event in Springfield, Mass. in 1651, when a young couple were condemned by their peers as witches. Drawing on detailed primary so... read more
Following his much-praised Greece: The Biography of a Modern Nation, RB turns towards the global influence of Greek history and culture, from the Mycenaeans to the modern-day Greek diaspora.
Based on over 350,000 letters and hundreds of interviews, this extraordinary work of historical scholarship brings together the harrowing personal testimonies of the ostarbeiter ('eastern wo... read more
While some parish churches still form the centre of their communities, many others are in terminal decline. RM, who grew up in a parsonage before becoming an archeologist, combines personal ... read more
Following on from his The Prime Ministers, here is a series of essays on all 46 presidents of the USA by various academics, journalists, politicians and historians.
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
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
Looks at the dwindling communities of Christians still living in the birthplace of the early church. From Lebanon to Iraq, JdiG records the rituals and customs of these dispersed but endurin... read more