The Book Company: New Products - World

The Spanish Empire (A Global History 1478-1975)

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 16:17:04 +0000

This book brings together the history of the Spanish Empire and its entire imperial geography across four continents, from its inception at the end of the 15th century to its end in the 20th century.

Price: $200.00

The Shortest History of Soccer (From Ancient Kicking Games to the World's Most Popular Sport)

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 04:22:57 +0000

How did a simple kicking game conquer the world? In this concise yet comprehensive history, sports historian Brian D. Bunk traces soccer’s unlikely, meteoric rise, showing how a pastime humbly rooted in English schoolyard contests grew to become the ..

Price: $16.95

Transatlantic Tensions: Europe and America's Cultural Divide Through History

Sat, 19 Sep 2026 17:54:31 +0000

Explore the historical tensions shaping Europe and America's cultural divide.

This comprehensive study examines the complex relationship between Europe and the United States, tracing the origins of European views on America from the Enlightenment to the p..

Price: $130.00

Philhellenism and the Greek Revolution of 1821 (Towards a Global History)

Sat, 19 Sep 2026 16:26:49 +0000

Philhellenism and the Greek Revolution of 1821: Towards a Global History reassesses one of the most important, yet still contested, dimensions of the Greek Revolution: the international mobilisation in support of the Greek cause.

Price: $233.99

Rise and Decline of Civilizations (Lessons for the Jewish People)

Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:10:13 +0000

Rise and Decline of Civilizations: Lessons for the Jewish People is a thought experiment in which the author examines the work of 23 historians of the last 2,400 years, from Thucydides to Jared Diamond, who describe the rise and decline of nations and civilizations. None of these is a historian of..

Price: $150.00

Khartoum, 1884-1885 (The Failed Mission of Charles Gordon and the Nile Relief Expedition)

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:42:34 +0000

Khartoum, 1884-1885: The Failed Mission of Charles Gordon and the Nile Relief Expedition examines the final phase of Charles Gordon’s career in the Sudan during the Mahdi’s revolution.

Price: $233.99

From Popular Goethe to Global Pop (The Idea of the West between Memory and (Dis)Empowerment. With a Foreword by Aleida Assmann)

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 07:09:07 +0000

This essay collection embarks on a historical voyage into the idea of the West, while contextualising its relevance to the contemporary discourses on cultural difference. Although the idea of the West predates both colonial and Orientalist projects, it has been radically reshaped by the fall of th..

Price: $114.00

Cold War in Psychiatry (Human Factors, Secret Actors)

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 06:30:58 +0000

For 20 years Soviet psychiatric abuse dominated the agenda of the World Psychiatric Association. It ended only after the Soviet Foreign Ministry intervened. Cold War in Psychiatry tells the full story for the first time and from inside, among others on basis of extensive reports by Stasi an..

Price: $219.00

Beyond Indigenization: Christianity and Chinese History in a Global Context

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 01:09:50 +0000

The volume, edited by Tao Feiya and featuring recent Chinese scholarly articles translated into English for the first time by Max L. Bohnenkamp, traces the history of Christianity in China and explores the dynamics of Christian practices in Chinese society. Its twenty chapters, written by Chinese ..

Price: $229.00

New Developments in the Theory of the Historical Process (Polish Contributions to Non-Marxian Historical Materialism)

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:26:58 +0000

The first part of this book contains a selection of Leszek Nowak’s (1943-2009) works on non-Marxian historical materialism, which are published here in English for the first time. In these papers, Nowak constructs a dynamic model of religious community, reconstructs historiosophical assumptions of..

Price: $211.00