There is perhaps no more iconic symbol of the Cold War than the Berlin Wall...

The idea of economic development was a relatively novel one even as late as the 1940s...

Stuart Schrader makes the compelling case that the growth of carceral state is just one front of a “discretionary empire” that persists today...

Daggett suggests that reassessing our relationships with fossil fuels in the face of climate change also requires that we rethink the concept of energy itself...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

NIcholls offers the first comprehensive account of French revolutionary thought in the years between the crushing of France's last nineteenth-century revolution and the re-emergence of socialism as a meaningful electoral force,..

Black covers the history of the mapping of land wars, and shows the way in which maps provide a guide to the history of war...

While concentration camps may not seem to have much to do with travel and exploration, travel and forced detention are joined in strange and important ways...

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

In the twenty-five years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history...

In her book she describes the development and decline of cuisines throughout world history over 20,000 years...

Law examines the cultural context of Tokyo and Berlin’s political rapprochement in 1936...

Dag Hammarskjold was such a dynamic secretary-general that for years, the motto about him was simply “Leave it to Dag.”

Larry Diamond joins us this week to talk about the threat China’s model of authoritarian capitalism...

Who has the right to have rights?

A leitmotif running from Columbus's first voyage in 1492 was Spain's trans-oceanic empire which was central to the country's global impact and to a degree self-understanding...

Behind every landmark drug is a story...

Neoliberalism is one of those fuzzy words that can mean something different to everyone...

"Why Don′t Women Rule the World?" is a comprehensive and useful addition to the established literature on women and politics...

"No Path Home" is the engaging result of more than sixteen years of fieldwork in Georgian IDP camps.

How did a Danish historian wind up with a human skull from colonial India in his University of London office

LeCain presents a path-breaking approach to the study of the environment and history...

Frantzman spent months traveling throughout the Middle East to get a first-hand view of the region, its people and politics in war’s aftermath...

McCann discusses the great circumpolar ocean that surrounds Antarctica...

From Moscow, the world looks different...