Karl argues that China’s contemporary emergence is best seen not as a “return,” but rather as the product of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary activity and imaginings...

Wood recasts our view of France’s empire by evaluating the interwoven trajectories of the people, like itinerant ship-workers and colonial magistrates,..

The Cold War was an event that has divided historians since the beginnings of serious historiography on the subject began in the mid-1960s...

How should we understand and combat injustice? Is it only the responsibility of those who suffer the consequences or perpetrate the harm?

Grimmer-Solem examines the process of German globalization that began in the 1870s, well before Germany acquired a colonial empire or extensive overseas commercial interests...

An interview with Sam De Schutter

Black offers a masterful overview of war and military development in Europe since 1450, bringing together the work of a renowned historian of modern European and military history in a single authoritative volume...

Jeremy Black presents a learned and yet entertaining exploration of the history: political, cultural and social of Europe from its prehistory to the 21st century.

Delap takes a thematic approach to the topic of global feminist history to provide a unified vision that maintains appropriate nuance...

Holthaus offers a radical vision of our future, specifically how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades...

The biggest question of the twenty-first century is: What does China want?

In the summer of 1960, the Republic of the Congo won its independence from Belgium...

What if the Soviets had not shot down the American U-2 spy plane and President Dwight D. Eisenhower had visited the Soviet Union in 1960 as planned?

Taylor explores the second wave of African American exiles or repatriates to Ghana in post-1980s...

The Russian state is back.

What causes revolutions?

Recent calls for the defunding or abolition of police raise important questions about the legitimacy of state violence and the functions that police are supposed to serve...

The Cold War is not exactly over in Latin America...

Siegel explores the previously neglected history of a diverse group of women from around the world who fought for women’s rights as male politicians forged a new world order...

Perhaps nothing was as unexpected in this conflict as the sudden termination of the same in November 1918...

Turek examines the growth and influence of Christian foreign policy lobbying groups in the United States beginning in the 1970s...

Turkey was both a model case of elite-led modernization and a laboratory for development projects that could then be exported to other societies....

Among the many books that were published in the past year about the Rwandan Genocide, Joyce E. Leader's new book stands out...

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Somin defends the idea that foot voting is an essential element of political freedom and democratic governance...