A survey of recent economic history looks at war recovery, government policy, stagflation, world food sources, labor flexibility, industrial research, trade deficits, and the Oil Crisis
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...
An incisive account of the turbulent years of Nixon's second administration focuses on such events as the Watergate scandal, the October war of 1973 in the Middle East, shuttle diplomacy, and the...
It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution. But in...
A revealing exploration of political disruption and violence in a rural Chinese county during the Cultural RevolutionA Decade of Upheaval chronicles the surprising and dramatic political conflicts of...