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If the first volume of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle  Quicksilver  could be said to deal with the emergence of capitalism and modern m...

If I am honest, when I first picked up Ian Mortimer's book I assumed it was going to be a gimmicky work with little substance, designed...

Before a recent visit to Naples I was repeatedly warned to beware of crime and pickpockets. Online reviews of our hotel complained about the...

Despite the title, this is very much a book about the life and times of the great Renaissance thinker Galileo Galilei. That said, it is v...

Novels set in Ancient Rome are always hampered by the perceptions that people have of life there 2000 years ago. For many years Roman h...

Having really enjoyed Neal Stephenson's book Quicksilver recently, a novel set during the late 1600s which frequently focuses on some ...

Warning spoilers Many readers will be familiar with the classic film Cool Hand Luke produced in 1967 and starring Paul Newman. Few will k...

"The giant ogre Skiron used to throw victims off a rocky cliff near Megara until the hero Theseus threw Skiron over the precipice. Aft...

There are a myriad of books and articles being written about the rise of the Chinese economy and the conditions inside the country for ord...

The question that bugged me through the whole time I read Neal Stephenson's enormous Quicksilver, was how to review it. In part the p...

Given that British bookshops groan under the weight of tomes about World War Two, readers would not be mad to wonder whether or not there ...

Henry Bernstein's short book is a useful introduction to studies of contemporary agrarian questions. Using an explicitly Marxist appro...

I've seen it occasionally suggested that Christopher Hill's classic book, The World Turned Upside Down is one of the best introdu...

Over the last decade and a half or so Latin America has, along with the Arab Revolutions, been one area of hope for those of us who hope t...

For those readers outside of the UK, the phrase "Ordnance Survey" will probably mean very little. But for millions of Britons ov...