Examines how the idea of history has evolved from the time of Herodotus to the twentieth century, and offers the author's own view of what history is. This edition provides an introduction which discusses how scholars have responded to his classic over the years.

An analysis of diverse failures in high-modernist, authoritarian state planning. It covers projects such as collectivization in Russia and the building of Brasilia, arguing that any centrally-managed social plan must recognize the importance of local customs and practical knowledge.

Examines the creation and function of the imagined communities of nationality and the way these communities were in part created by the growth of the nation-state, the interaction between capitalism and printing and the birth of vernacular languages in early modern Europe.

Hobsbawm's classic history, repackaged as an Abacus History Great

The Industrial Revolution is sometimes regarded as a catastrophe, but this text presents it as an important mark of progress. Ashton argues that the material standards of British people improved, technical innovation brought economic reward, and greater intellectual ingenuity was provoked.

Studies the beliefs of radical groups as the Diggers, the Ranters, the Levellers and others, and the social and emotional impulses that gave rise to them. This title offers a portrait of the effusion of revolutionary beliefs, including the relations between rich and poor, the part played by wandering men, and the outbursts of sexual freedom.