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Showing 1 - 15 results of 62 for "Matthew Price"
From the inevitability of the tsar’s overthrow to Lenin’s role in changing the course of history, a look at books that serve as an ideal introduction to the deep roots of the revolution, its unfolding and long aftermath.
March 22, 2017
Thought that the First World War ended on Armistice Day? As Robert Gerwarth proves in his vivid history, Europe found violence, not respite, after 1918.
August 25, 2016
Mark Kurlansky lays an engaging paper trail, following 3,000 years of civilisation in his microhistory, Paper: Paging Through History.
June 30, 2016
Renowned biologist Edward O Wilson believes the only way to safeguard Earth’s future is to turn half of its natural resources into protected reserves. We follow his argument, in Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life.
May 10, 2016
The Romanovs: 1613-1918 is an enthralling account of the rise and fall of the Romanov empire, with lurid tales of lust, war, power and murder.
January 28, 2016
The book is short and beautifully produced and tells a fascinating, but cautionary scientific tale.
December 10, 2015
A new biography of the 18th-century German naturalist, botanist and traveller positions him as the brains behind the modern environmental movement.
October 22, 2015
This action-packed book traces the unlikely rise of the Portuguese empire – propelled by religious zeal and a brand of naked aggression that would form the prototype for European expansion.
October 1, 2015
The Silk Road that stretched across the vastness of Central Asia fizzed with culture and commerce - an impressive new book refocuses our attention on the glories of these lands.
September 3, 2015
Ferdinand Mount's book lays bare the human cost of colonialism, which he calls war crimes, through the lives of one family in India.
April 30, 2015
A new biography of John Maynard Keynes is right to look beyond the economics he’s chiefly remembered for.
March 26, 2015
A discursive account of the Battle of Waterloo and the broken Britain of the time gets rather mired in its author’s anger.
February 19, 2015
A collection of essays by the acclaimed author mixes the political and the personal – and is especially insightful when considering his Pakistani homeland.
December 4, 2014
It’s an interesting idea: to relate one place to a city's wider history, even if the realisation in this instance doesn’t quite live up to the promise.
October 9, 2014
Tantrums and tiaras: How Meghan Markle and Britain's royal family fell out
Oil prices rally to highest since 2019 after Opec+ rolls over output curbs
Arab Americans hit 'disproportionately' hard by Covid-19
How one man continued to fly around the world during the pandemic
Saudi Arabia's Al Ula airport will welcome international flights
