On 16th August 1819 around 60,000 people gathered at St. Peter’s Fields, Manchester, to rally for parliamentary reform. Shortly after the meeting began, a troop of Hussars and local yeomanry rode into the crowd, wielding...
History and geography
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Author:BRUTON, Francis ArchibaldSummary: - Author:Silber, William L.Summary:
This is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by President Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s and by the richest man in the...
- Author:Schama, SimonSummary:
"It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds. It spans the millennia and the continents - from India to...
- Author:Swoger, GordonSummary:
The Strange Odyssey of Poland's National Treasures, 1939-1961 tells the story of the Polish national treasures -their evacuation from their homeland under perilous conditions after the German invasion of Poland in September 1939...
- Author:Fleming, Thomas J.Summary:
Historian Thomas Fleming examines the battles that created American independence, revealing how the strategy of a professional army secured victory, independence, and a lasting peace for the young nation.
- Author:Eisenberg, JohnSummary:
The fascinating story of baseball's legendary "Ironmen," two players from different eras who each achieved the coveted and sometimes confounding record of most consecutive games played When Cal Ripken Jr. began his career with the...
- Author:Kuhn, Thomas S.Summary:
When it was first published in 1962, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was a landmark event in the history and philosophy of science. Fifty years later, it still has many lessons to teach. With The Structure of Scientific...
- Author:Barber, NoelSummary:
Here is the bizarre history of the Ottoman Empire as led by its extravagant and corrupt sultans--four hundred years of tyrants who made Turkey a great empire, then allowed her to decline into ostentatious and impotent decay.
- Author:Durkin, HannahSummary:
Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston's rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil,...
- Author:Alexander, KentSummary:
A gripping insider account of the terrorist bombing at the 1996 Olympic Games that captured the world's attention, and the heroic security guard-turned-suspect at the heart of it allOn July 27, 1996, a hapless former cop turned...
- Author:Summerscale, KateSummary:
n June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying, in the process, the...
- Author:Greenblatt, StephenSummary:
Greenblatt transports listeners to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued the Roman philosophical text On the Nature of Things from certain oblivion.
- Author:Coll, SteveSummary:
A larger-than-life account of family, greed, and a courtroom showdown between Big Oil rivals from the New York Times-bestselling author of Private Empire. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll is renowned for "his ability to take...
- Author:Pearl, MatthewSummary:
In his first work of narrative nonfiction, Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of acclaimed novel The Dante Club, explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of legendary pioneer Daniel Boone's daughter and the dramatic...
- Author:Tough, DavidSummary:
What do we mean by left wing or right wing? People started using the language of a political spectrum when early twentieth-century political parties began to distinguish their platforms by offering different approaches to income...
- Author:Dyja, ThomasSummary:
Much of what defined America as it grew into a superpower was produced in Chicago. Chicago native Thomas Dyja re-creates the story of the city in its postwar prime and explains its profound impact on modern America.
- Author:Synnott, MarkSummary:
A hundred-year mystery lured veteran climber Mark Synnott into an unlikely expedition up Mount Everest during the spring 2019 season that came to be known as “the Year Everest Broke”. What he found was a gripping human story of...
- Author:Tubbs, Anna MalaikaSummary:
Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them. In her...
- Author:Feltoe, RichardSummary:
The invasion attempt on Upper Canada by a new and vastly improved American army in the first six months of 1814. Throughout 1812 and 1813, Upper Canada had been the principle target for a succession of American invasions and attacks....
- Author:Greenhous, Brereton, McWilliams, James, Steel, R. James, Shackleton, Kevin R., Cassar, George H., Cane, BruceSummary:
The giant conflagration of the First World War created the world we live in today, and its history is replete with stirring battles, mind-boggling strategies, and geopolitical manoeuvring. However, the real story was lived in the...
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