The eighteenth century witnessed the rise of the China market and the changes that resulted in global consumption patterns, from opium smoking to tea drinking. In a valuable transnational perspecti…
Robespierre’s justification of the Terror in the French Revolution Robespierre’s defence of the French Revolution remains one of the most powerful and unnerving justifications for political vi…
The second edition of this lively and comprehensive book provides a forceful reassessment of the role of the Vikings in history. Drawing on archaeological, literary, as well as historical evidence,…
In spite of the steadily expanding concept of art in the Western world, art made in twentieth-century totalitarian regimes - notably nazi Germany, fascist Italy and the communist East Bloc countrie…