Haus Publishing imprint: 173 books

Commons and Lords

A Short Anthropology of Parliament

by Emma Crewe
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015

The British Parliament rewards close scrutiny not just for the sake of democracy, but also because the surprises it contains challenge our understanding of British politics. Commons and Lords pulls back the curtain on both the upper House of Lords and the lower House of Commons to examine their unexpected...

Reflections

Conversations with Politicians

by Peter Hennessy, Robert Shepherd
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016

“The historian,” wrote E. L. Doctorow, “will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.” This book sees Peter Hennessy and Robert Shepard combine both approaches with the art of the interviewer, a craft at once sensitive and probing. Reflections collects transcripts...

28 June

Sarajevo 1914 - Versailles 1919: The War and Peace That Made the Modern World

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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

On June 28, 1919, the Peace Treaty was signed in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, five years to the day after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo triggered Europe's precipitous descent into war. This war was the first conflict to be fought on a global scale. By its end in...

Kafka

A Life in Prague

by Klaus Wagenbach, Emma Crewe, Andrew Walker
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011

More than eight decades after his death, the works of Franz Kafka continue to intrigue and haunt us. Even for those with only a fleeting acquaintance with his unfinished novels, or his stories, diaries and letters, "Kafkaesque" has become a byword for the menacing, unfathomable absurdity...
by Sean Sheehan
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007

The ancient world of fifth century Greece, an astonishing period of cultural development that helps situate the originality of Socrates, and to the city-state of Athens in particular. The social, political and cultural currents flowing through Athens are inseparable from an understanding of the events and attitudes that Socrates examined and intellectually dissected.

A Woman in the Crossfire

Diaries of the Syrian Revolution

by Samar Yazbek
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012

A well-known novelist and journalist from the coastal city of Jableh, Samar Yazbek witnessed the beginning four months of the uprising first-hand and actively participated in a variety of public actions and budding social movements. Throughout this period she kept a diary of personal reflections on,...

King of Kings

The Triumph and Tragedy of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia

by Asfa-Wossen Asserate
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015

Haile Selassie I, the last emperor of Ethiopia, was as brilliant as he was formidable. An early proponent of African unity and independence, Haile Selassie, who claimed to be a descendant of King Solomon, fought with the Allies against the Axis powers during World War II and was a messianic figure...

Britten

Centenary Edition

by David Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013

Benjamin Britten was one of the outstanding British composers of the 20th century. He shot to international fame with his operas, performed by his own English Opera Group, and a series of extraordinary instrumental works. His music won a central place in the repertoire and the affection of successive...

The Kingdom to Come

Thoughts on the Union before and after the Scottish Independence Referendum

by Peter Hennessy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015

Despite the “No” vote in the Scottish Independence Referendum of September 2014, the issue of potential Scottish secession from the United Kingdom has likely only just begun. The Kingdom to Come is the first book-length look at the consequences and implications of this momentous event. Peter...
by Jad Adams
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was the greatest writer in a Britain that ruled the largest empire the world has known, yet he was always a controversial figure, as deeply hated as he was loved. This accessible biography aims at an understanding of the man behind the image and gives an explanation of his enduring popularity
by Peter Boerner
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) was one of the greatest thinkers of the modern age: a world-famous writer, scientist, and statesman, his influence was already far-reaching during his lifetime, and his literary and intellectual legacy continues to reverberate throughout contemporary culture....
by Desmond Seward
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013

An Armchair Traveller's History of Apulia is the story of the heel of Italy - Puglia - as told by past and present day travellers. It has beautiful landscapes, cave towns and frescoed grotto churches, wonderful old cities with Romanesque cathedrals, Gothic castles and a wealth of Baroque architecture....
by Francis Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015

In the 1930s he established himself as a wide-ranging Shakespearean actor. His marriage in 1940 to Vivien Leigh (his second wife) seemed to complete the image of the romantic star. From the mid-40s he excelled in directing himself in Shakespeare on film, such as his dramatically-shot Henry V (1944),...

Budapest

City of Music

by Nicholas Clapton
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017

Singer Nicholas Clapton first visited Budapest to record a recently discovered mass by an almost unknown eighteenth-century Hungarian composer. There, he discovered a striking sense of otherness in spite of Hungary’s central geographical and cultural position within Europe. And with that, a deep...
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