Chamberlain delineates Uvarov's career and shows how one of the most cosmopolitan of men, became in the course of his official career the inventor of much that can be seen in to-day's xenophobic and nationalistic Russia of Vladimir Putin...

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

The British Empire at its greatest extent covered approximately twenty-five percent of the surface of the globe...

Waste is one of the planet’s last great resource frontiers..

Bernstein provides an overview of feminist discourse on sex trafficking from its earliest incarnations,

Khodarkovsky has taken a novel approach to charting the century by crafting one hundred vignettes, one for each year of the century...

What was "Appeasement," and What Is It Today?

"Vietnam’s American War" is an iconoclastic revision of the history of the war...

Rozwadowski talks about the history of the oceans and how these oceans have shaped human history in profound ways...

You hear a lot about "empires," but what are they?

Schotte charts more than two hundred years of navigational history as she investigates how mariners solved the challenges of navigating beyond sight of land...

Standards are crucial to the way we live—just look around you. A no. 2 pencil, perhaps?

Why don’t governments do more to prevent genocide?

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...

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

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

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

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