In this highly original work Jeremy Black, one of world's leading military and cartographic historians, shows how fundamental maps were to the conflict as he charts its historical sweep across each of the major theatres.

A unique re-interpretation of the city of ancient Rome and its empire, using the tools offered by the latest information technology and graphic design.

The adventurous stories of the greatest explorers in history.

Who are the Europeans? Where did they come from? This book brings together the evidence and combines it with archaeology and linguistics to produce a new history of Europe.

The first book to cover the huge span of India’s history at easily readable length, now available in paperback.

"Jarrod Hore brilliantly adds the camera, its photographs, and its photographers to our understanding of past landscapes. We see afresh just what these visions of nature enabled and curtailed, conjured and sequestered. An important book as we move into another generation's appraisal of the environmental history of settler colonialism."--Alison Bashford, Director of the New Earth Histories Program, University of New South Wales, Sydney "Visions of Nature analyzes landscape photography as an i...