Significant works reviewed by Engelsberg Ideas writers.
The French emperor was a highly skilled politician whose audacity and breadth of imagination allowed him to perceive trends of great historical significance.
In the early modern period, thinking about slavery had little interest in racial categories.
The German naturalist rejected the racial classifications of his age, and his capacity for forgiveness was almost inhuman. Andrea Wulf lets the reader bask in his sensitive apprehe..
A man in constant motion, Whistler was a painter, printmaker and provocateur who spent a lifetime reinventing both himself and his art.
On the 10th anniversary of the referendum, three recent histories explore Britain's fraught relationship with the EU.
Russell Kirk was an exceptional kind of conservative intellectual, talented and blessed with a practical bent, who revealed the poetic sensibility that inspired some of America's g..
The fate of Britain's peculiar democracy has often turned on obscure by-elections, where a local grievance could herald an earthquake in the nation's affairs.
A new collection of essays revisits the life of a séance-holding Presbyterian bachelor whom historians routinely rank as Canada's greatest prime minister, yet one largely ignored b..
With no first-person narratives surviving, Emma Southon draws skilfully on epigraphy to recover the lives of enslaved Romans. But her thin treatment of Roman comedy leaves a valuab..
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