Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost.

An acclaimed book and widely acknowledged classic, The Middle Ground steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations - stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence.

The story of Spain's rise to greatness from its humble beginnings as one of the poorest and most marginal of European countries is a remarkable and dramatic one.

In this novel interpretation of the Radical Enlightenment down to La Mettie and Diderot, two of its key exponents, particular stress is placed on the pivotal role of Spinoza and the widespread underground international philosophical ...

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy remains the single most important and influential account of this crucial moment in the history of the West.

The now-classic tale of a sixteenth-century miller facing the Roman Inquisition.

The life of Emperor Charles V (1500–1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued biographers.

As such the book recovers the Ottoman-era history of a group which has always been neglected in chronicle-based works, and in doing so, fundamentally calls into question the historic place within 'Lebanon' of what has today become the ...

Both the text and the accompanying notes and commentaries help to accomplish this purpose.

The Reformation is where the modern world painfully and dramatically began, and MacCulloch's great history of it is recognised as the best modern account.