Getting to grips with the overlapping geopolitical, economic, and political crises faced by Western democratic societies in the 2020s.The 21st century has brought a powerful tide of geopolitical, economic, and democratic shocks. Their fallout has led...

A powerful explanation of why geopolitical competition makes implementing effective climate change policies so difficult. As the Russia-Ukraine war has shown, great-power competition drives states to prioritize fossil fuel acquisition over working toward...

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This surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to define the modern world.In License to Travel, Patrick Bixby takes the reader on a captivating journey from...

“Maladies of Empire has a captivating writing style, is exhaustively researched, and is persuasive in argumentation. Jim Downs has written a game-changing book.”―Deirdre Cooper Owens, author of Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American...

As omnipresent as it is ungraspable, time has always inspired and eluded attempts to comprehend it. For the early Christians, for the twenty-first-century world, how have past and future been woven into the present? In Chronos, a leading French historian...

A Bill Gates Summer Reading Pick A "riveting and illuminating" (Yuval Noah Harari) new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of the landmark bestsellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and...

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A second installment in a three-part epic history of Britain chronicles the nearly two centuries of battles waged both home and abroad on grounds of political or religious conviction, between Republicans and Royalists, Catholics and Protestants, and...

A thoughtful analysis of how our world’s borders came to be and why we may be emerging from a lengthy period of “cartographical stasis”What is a country? While certain basic criteria—borders, a government, and recognition from other countries—seem...

The historical literature of political deviance is sparse. This unusual work, chronicling the history of Jonathan Wild, represents an effort to come to terms with one of the more amazing characters of English social history. Wild was both part of the...

John Gillis and the contributors to this volume write about the distinction between militarism and militarization. Militarism, the more conventional concept, means the dominance of warlike values in society. It is typically used to refer to and to blame...

Relates how a small English town was affected by the loss of two thousand of its men at Gallipoli

This is an essential companion to the process of decolonization – perhaps one of the most important historical processes of the twentieth century. Examining decolonization in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific, the Companion includes: thematic...

Chronicles incidents in which an army's troops have been killed and wounded by their own comrades through blunders, panic, mistakes, and errors in judgment, from ancient times to the Persian Gulf War. Original.

Here are the passenger steamers, steam tugs, cargo steamers, steam coasters and paddle passenger steamers of years long past as captured in these fascinating old photograph showing in many cases what the passengers never saw -- from the engine rooms and...