"Capitalisms" aims to decenter work on the history of capitalism by looking at the longue durée from the tenth century; at regions as diverse as Song China, South and South East Asia, Latin America and the Ottoman and Safavid Empires; and exploring the plurality of developments over this extended time and space...

Foster analyzes increasingly urgent questions regarding crises of global immigration by redefining migration in terms of conscription and by studying contemporary literature...

Liu’s book offers a fascinating new history of this ubiquitous beverage, leveraging its production, consumption, and global circulation to offer a fresh and compelling account of capitalist accumulation....

Lieber and Press tackle the central puzzle of the nuclear age: the persistence of intense geopolitical competition in the shadow of nuclear weapons...

A startling look at the unexpected places where violent hate groups recruit young people.

Buruma offers a brilliant, witty journey through the "Special Relationship" between Britain and America that has done so much to shape the world, from World War II to Brexit...

Both a sweeping work of history and an insightful guide to U.S. diplomacy past and present, America in the World serves as an informative companion and practical adviser to readers seeking to understand the strategic and immediate challenges of U.S. foreign policy during an era of transformation and change...

Bellenoit digs beneath imperial formation on a macro level and looks at the fiscal management of empire....

Jenkins maps the demographic revolution that has taken hold of many countries around the globe in recent decades and explores the implications for the future development of the world’s religions...

The EU-US partnership has its frustrations and failings, writes Tony Gardner...

Why Give a Damn About Strangers?

At the end of the 20th century, the liberal international order appeared unassailable after its triumph over the authoritarian challenges of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Twenty years later, however, the assumptions underlying the system appear discredited as international relations devolve into confrontation and conflict...

Nurhussein explores late nineteenth and twentieth century African American cultural engagement with and literary depictions of imperial Ethiopia...

Thelwell offers a rich, well-researched, and sobering investigation of blackface minstrelsy as the “visual bedrock of a transcolonial cultural imaginary.”

In our conversation, we discussed the origins of Olympism’s moral claims, the nexus between sport and human rights, and why it can be hard to understand the human costs of contemporary mega-events....

The book is about much more than the material aspects of China’s Belt and Road Initiative....

Scott challenges us to question the persistence of structures of power and the very idea of the nation-state, while encouraging us to rethink whether there truly is such a thing as the judgment of history...

Siegelberg traces the history of the concept of statelessness in the years following the First and Second World Wars...

Christopher Capozzola reveals this forgotten history, showing how war and military service forged an enduring, yet fraught, alliance between Americans and Filipinos...

It is 21st century commonsense that India is an “emerging” economy. But how did this common sense itself emerge?

Rarely does the discourse consider the role of wealthy Western countries in creating the conditions under which a refugee crisis emerges....

Smith discusses connection between our understanding of peoplehood and community, and the contemporary growth of populism around the world...

Plank uses war as a lens to examine the interactions of peoples who forged shared experiences amid endemic conflict...

What was the Cold War that shook world politics for the second half of the twentieth century?