United Kingdom. From Early Centuries, the History. Archaeologists working in Norfolk in the early 21st century discovered stone tools that suggest the presence of humans in Britain from about 800,000…

World-weary, distracted and more often than not the worse for wine, the author really needed to make some major changes to his life. Instead, he embarks on an attempt to…

The Danes are the happiest people in the world, and pay the highest taxes. ‘Neutral’ Sweden is one of the biggest arms manufacturers in the world. Finns have the largest…

When people get sick from their food, headlines rage. More and more, people are getting sick from food that is supposedly safe. And as the price of food continues to…

Originally published in 1981. This study concentrates on one aspect of Victorian theatre production - the spectacular, which came to dominate certain kinds of production during that period. It considers…

One of the foremost Lincoln assassination authorities takes familiar history to a deeper level, offering an unprecedented, authoritative account of the Lincoln murder conspiracy.

This book examines the careers of three performers whose professional lives spanned the period from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, from the heyday of neo-Classicism to the…

This volume considers one of the biggest questions of our time, namely, how did we arrive at this historical and institutional expression of political community? And what alternative future world…