Victor Kiernan: 6 books

While there have been many analyses of American imperialism, few have equalled the breadth or insight of this seminal text, one of the first to provide a historical perspective on the origins of the American empire. Victor Kiernan, one of the world's most respected historians, employs a nuanced knowledge...

New edition, featuring a new foreword by Michael Wood  'Victor Kiernan is one of the best historians of seventeenth-century England.' - Christopher Hill  'Unlike so many other books on Shakespeare … it will not scare off the non-academic reader.' - Guardian Published...

'This book rests on a lifetime’s thinking about history. It helps us see Shakespeare in “a more realistic light”.’ Times Literary Supplement The seventeenth century saw the brief flowering of tragic drama across Western Europe. And in the plays of William Shakespeare, this form of drama...

When European explorers went out into the world to open up trade routes and establish colonies, they brought back much more than silks and spices, cotton and tea. Inevitably, they came into contact with the peoples of other parts of the world and formed views of them occasionally admiring, more often...

Kiernan is a highly distinguished Marxist historian whose work attracted praise from the likes of Edward Said  A fascinating, in-depth and superbly written account of a subject that continues to hold much historical fascination  Features a new introduction from renowned historian...

Four new Lovecraftian tales told by four amazing talents. Government agents, monstrous P.I.s, walkers of dreams and magical hustlers meet in the pages of this astonishing anthology of four novellas. The Ballad of Black Tom — the Nebula Award-nominated novella from Victor LaValle. The...