A provocative look at how today’s trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers
An enthralling account of paganism in Britain, from the Paleolithic Age to the arrival of Christianity
Thirty years after the Soviet Union’s collapse, this book reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics between the Cold War and COVID
A groundbreaking examination of a central question in international relations: Do states act rationally?
An evocative voyage through the Carpathian mountain range and its threatened landscape, peoples, and history
A history of wars through the ages and across the world, and the irrational calculations that so often lie behind them
An engrossing history of the music of twilight and sleep, from the nocturnes of Field and Chopin to Max Richter
An authoritative biography of Offa of Mercia, revealing his importance as the king who stood at the turning point of Anglo-Saxon history
"I never conformed to any sort of fashion ideal. My idea was always to show reality, even though I started at Savile Row and ended up at Givenchy in Paris; to depict the times I live in." -Alexander McQueen, Harper's Bazaar, September 2008
A major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day