Significant works reviewed by Engelsberg Ideas writers.
The nomadic peoples of the Eurasian steppe left uneven marks on neighbouring empires. Russia’s autocratic traditions owe more to Byzantium and Orthodox Christianity than to the Mon..
Teresa Bejan’s history of equality before egalitarianism locates the origins of a modern conviction in the England of the 1640s. It is an exceptional work that marks a new beginnin..
Bojan Pancevski’s account of the Nord Stream sabotage reveals an operation that foreshadowed how Ukraine would take the war to Russia.
The reissue of Hamilton and Cairns’s celebrated edition of Plato’s dialogues shows how every translation bears the marks of its era and of its translator’s taste.
Though the Vikings are famous for their long sea journeys, most of them lived settled lives as farmers. The archaeologist Neil Price believes their stories are just as interesting...
No painter took the passing pleasures of Parisian life more seriously than Renoir.
Jan Rüger’s erudite study makes a compelling case for seeing the bond between Britain and Germany as a driving force in European history.
From the crude wines of the ancient world to the refined commercial product of the 21st century, the story of wine has always been intimately bound with that of human civilisation.
Historian James M. Scott describes America’s bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in harrowing detail, while highlighting Japan’s obduracy, even when faced with the prospect of total ..
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