This luxurious gift edition presents Inazo Nitobe's classic work, The Way of the Samurai, featuring stencilled page edges and full-colour illustrat...

This is Gaza - a place of humanity and creativity, rich in culture and industry. A place now utterly devastated, its entire population displaced by...

A key study on writer and activist Keorapetse Kgositsile that presents a new approach to studying the radicalism of Africa and its diaspora, and ma...

In the 1800s, as Britain became the world's most powerful industrial empire, Ireland starved. The Great Famine fractured long-held assumptions a...

Journey across epic China – through millennia of early innovation to modern dominance in one riveting, fast-paced read. From ancient times to Xi Ji...

How the most powerful country in the UK was forged by invasion and conquest, and is fractured by its north-south divide.England – begetter of parli...

The incredible true story about a Galilean stonemason who changed the course of the world forever.Beautifully told through the eyewitness accounts ...

In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration of the or...

NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THE TABLET AND THE LADY 'This book is a terrific read ... I could ...

The University of the Witwatersrand occupies a special place in the hearts and minds of South Africans. It is a leading university renowned for its...

'A bracing new history of the global opium trade . . . Ghosh's tentacular history embraces opium's entanglement with furniture, architecture, garde...

An urgent, indispensable guide to why Taiwan matters - for China, the West and everyone's future'An authoritative primer to all things Taiwan' BARB...

A lively and easy-to-read guide to Southeast Asian history written by one of the world's pre-eminent historians of the area.Southeast Asia: An intr...

Wood, Iron and Steel is the first of its kind in South Africa, combining state-of-the-art, high-resolution sonar images of shipwrecks, diving photo...

Napoleon warned 'Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world'. Lawrence James's magisterial history analyses the relationship between...

'Exquisitely written and lavishly illustrated, this delightful book brings five centuries of Ottoman culture to life. Diana Darke constantly amazes...

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South Africa has produced two leaders who achieved global recognition and renown in their respective eras: Jan Christiaan Smuts (Prime Minister, 19...

This much needed new edition provides a complete and essential guide to this fast developing, ever changing and often tense region. This book, full...

A panoramic narrative that places ancient Africa on the stage of world historyThis book brings together archaeological and linguistic evidence to p...

Eight kings of England were named Henry. Of these, only two, the third and the sixth, were born as heirs to the throne, and these proved to be the ...

Spend 24 hours immersed in the rich and fascinating everyday lives of the Vikings.Between the infamous Lindisfarne raid in 793 CE and the Norman co...

A fascinating and revealing new biography of Mary Queen of Scots, drawing on dozens of newly decoded letters.For almost two decades before her exec...

When the UN's Australian troops arrived in Windhoek to help secure the peace process in the build-up to Namibia's Independence on March 21, 1990, t...

When writer Harriet Perlman and photographer Mark Lewis set about documenting the lives of the families whose loved ones had been so horribly kille...

Morris Isaacson High School (MIHS) in Jabavu is widely known as the epicentre of the 1976 Soweto uprising. However, its legacy extends far beyond t...

All Rise: Resistance, Rebellion, and Revolt in South Africa is an imaginative four-part graphic history series, based on little-known court records...

For six centuries the Republic of Venice was a maritime empire, its sovereign power extending throughout much of the eastern Mediterranean - an emp...

America's most acclaimed historian presents the intricate story of the year of the birth of the United States of America. 1776 tells two gripping s...

2023 PROSE Award in European History"An invaluable historical example of the creation of a scientific conception of race that is unlikely to disapp...

The essential guide to the complex, fascinating world of Chinese myths: retelling the stories and exploring their significance in Chinese culture. ...

Never have seven people been so hunted. By assassins. By journalists and lawyers in search of the truth and then TRC investigators wanting justice ...

Rhodes and his Banker tells the story of the remarkable friendship between Cecil John Rhodes, a larger-than-life historical figure, and Sir Lewis M...

This timely book examines how the South African National Defence Force has adapted to the new security, political and social environment since 1994...

Nelson Mandela: By Himself is the definitive book of quotations from one of the great leaders of our time. This collection - gathered from privileg...