Jeremy Black

Black focuses on the role of counterfactualism in demonstrating the part of contingency, and thus human agency, in history....

This timely book offers a world history of insurgencies and of counterinsurgency warfare....

In 2016, Britain stunned itself and the world by voting to pull out of the European Union, leaving financial markets reeling and global politicians and citizens in shock. But was Brexit really a surprise, or are there clues in Britain’s history that pointed to this moment? Find out....

Brilliant and wrenching, The Holocaust: History and Memory tells the story of the brutal mass slaughter of Jews during World War II....

History and geography delineate the operation of power, not only its range but also the capacity to plan and the ability to implement. Approaching state strategy and policy....

Despite the Roman Empire's famous 500-year reign over Europe, parts of Africa and the Middle East, Italy does not have the same long national history as states such as France or England....

In this engaging audiobook, Jeremy Black argues that technology neither acts as an independent variable nor operates without major limitations....

Prize-winning author Jeremy Black traces the competition for control of North America from the landing of Spanish troops under Hernán Cortés in modern Mexico in 1519 to 1871....

Despite being relatively brief, this very listenable history covers environmental, political, social, economic, cultural and artistic elements....

Clio's Battles is an ambitious account of the engagement with the past across world history and of the clash over the content and interpretation of history....