"An Ecotopian Lexicon" explores dozens of possible loanwords from world cultures, activists subcultures, and speculative fiction that can inform novel quotidian practices, cosmological insights, and political orientations applicable to the age of the Anthropocene...

Focusing in on the Portuguese colonies in Brazil and Angola and on the imperial capital of Lisbon, Breen deftly explores the process by which novel drugs were located, commodified, and consumed...

Fischer argues that the military buildup was actually deeply counterproductive, frightening the Soviet leadership and delaying meaningful negotiations for several years...

Vaughn offers an powerful challenge to the received view that the Asian domains were acquired by accident and formed part of an empire of liberty.,,

Lockwood shows that the war, whatever its debatable effects for the residents of the thirteen colonies, unleashed a whole host of catastrophes for people elsewhere...

Anti-Semitic incidents, ranging from vandalism through murder, are on the rise in Great Britain, and across Europe and North America...

Never have so many possessed the means to be so lethal..

Increasing levels of globalization have led to the proliferation of spaces of international exchange...

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...