Cost of Colonialism
India's Economic Decline Under British Rule
ISBN: HB: 9781805264170,
Hurst Publishers,
August 2026
256 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 75 black&white illus.
256 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 75 black&white illus.
A shrewd, unsentimental inspection of the archives, laying bare the charge-sheet against the British and their economic policy in India: the numbers don't lie.
With colonialism debates raging worldwide, when it comes to India, a whole spectrum of Em...
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Terra Nova
Food, Water, and Work in an Early Atlantic World
ISBN: HB: 9780300264357,
Yale University Press,
January 2026
344 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 20 black&white illus.
344 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 20 black&white illus.
A bottom-up story of the fishworkers, whalers, First Nations, merchantwomen, oceans, and animals who together made a new colonial world in the early Atlantic.
In the early decades of the sixteenth century, mariners from across Europe forged a vast...
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Ever-Changing Past
Why All History Is Revisionist History
ISBN: PB: 9780300283273,
ISBN: HB: 9780300238457,
Yale University Press,
September 2025
304 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
304 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
An experienced, multi-faceted historian shows how revisionist history is at the heart of creating historical knowledge.
History is not, and has never been, inert, certain, merely factual, and beyond reinterpretation. Taking readers from Thucydides t...
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Death to Order
A History of Modern Assassination
ISBN: HB: 9780300258042,
Yale University Press,
July 2025
384 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 20 black&white illus.
384 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 20 black&white illus.
A deeply researched history of assassination in the modern world, from Franz Ferdinand to Osama bin Laden.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Leon Trotsky, Reinhard Heydrich, Mahatma Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Indira Gandhi, Benazir Bhutto...
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Spice
The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
ISBN: PB: 9780300281125,
Yale University Press,
July 2025
320 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 37 black&white illus., 16 colour illus., 7 maps
320 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 37 black&white illus., 16 colour illus., 7 maps
The story of the sixteenth-century's epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific.
Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on...
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11.99 GBP
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Little History of the World
New Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780300283259,
Yale University Press,
April 2025
304 pp., 19,8x12,8 cm, 40 black&white illus.
304 pp., 19,8x12,8 cm, 40 black&white illus.
The internationally bestselling guide to the extraordinary human story, for the curious of all ages.
The World has existed for over 4 billion years, but humanity arrived much more recently. Here E. H. Gombrich brings to life the full story of human...
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10.99 GBP
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Fugitives
A History of Nazi Mercenaries During the Cold War
ISBN: PB: 9781911723868,
ISBN: HB: 9781787385900,
Hurst Publishers,
November 2024
448 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 19 illus.
448 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 19 illus.
From Spain to Syria, the thrilling, untold history of Nazi fugitives turned postwar agents - for America, the Soviets, the Third World, or themselves.
After the Second World War, the Allies vowed to hunt Nazi war criminals "to the ends of the earth"...
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Archive of Empire
Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World
ISBN: HB: 9780300267716,
Yale University Press,
October 2024
256 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
256 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
How modern data-driven government originated in the creation and use of administrative archives in the British Empire.
Over the span of two hundred years, Great Britain established, governed, lost, and reconstructed an empire that embraced three co...
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35.00 GBP
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Contest for the Indian Ocean
And the Return of Great Power Politics
ISBN: HB: 9780300270914,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
240 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 25 colour illus., 4 maps
240 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 25 colour illus., 4 maps
A major new examination of the Indian Ocean, revealing how the region has become a hotly contested geopolitical flashpoint.
Throughout history, the Indian Ocean has been an essential space for trade, commerce, and culture. Every European power has...
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20.00 GBP
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Adventurers
The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650
ISBN: PB: 9780300276497,
Yale University Press,
January 2024
400 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 16 colour illus.
400 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 16 colour illus.
The East India Company was the most powerful commercial enterprise in British history. Yet its speculative, highly risky origins are now all but forgotten. A revolution in commerce during the Tudor period led to a bold search for new forms of investm...
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12.99 GBP
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