The Jews of the Pale of Settlement created a distinctive way of life little known beyond its borders. Just before World War I, a socialist revolutionary named An-sky and his…

This captivating work charts the history of Tasmania from the arrival of European maritime expeditions in the late eighteenth century, through to the modern day. By presenting the perspectives of…

Fritzsche traces twentieth-century history through the remarkable diaries of an ordinary Berliner. Franz Goell wrote of hungry winters during WWI, the Berlin bombing, rapes by Russian soldiers, shockwaves cast by…

Tells the story of the Jewish martyr Luis de Carvajal, and his sister, Leonor, who died together in Mexico City in 1596, exploring his determination never to lose heart, no…

Oil makes the world work, but it destroys many of those who produce it. This title looks at the countries where oil is extracted, and follows the journey of oil…

Although the notion of fighting for one’s faith fell into disrepute in the Enlightenment, Phillips traces the crusading impulse from the bloody conquest of Jerusalem in the First Crusade and…

Across the Revolutionary Divide: Russia, 1861-1945 presents an ambitious interpretive account of Russian history from the abolition of serfdom by Alexander II to the end of World War II.

This is the first narrative history that brings together the stories of the political prisoners sent as convicts to Australia from all parts of the British Empire.