In creating a detailed impression of the medieval race-making that would be reconfigured into the biological racism of the modern era, Heng reaches beyond medievalists and race-studies scholars to anyone interested in the long history of race.

Alfredo Toro Hardy analyzes the leadership of China and the economic strength of Asia...

One of the enduring questions in American historiography is: just where exactly is the West?

In the aftermath of the Second World War, Great Britain was forced to give up the bulk of its vast, globe-spanning empire...

The focus of the volume is contextualizing and “de-exceptionalizing” Russia and the USSR by placing Russian and Soviet environmental history in a global context...

Alexander’s religious practices were a vital part of his legitimacy as a ruler of his people, and were interwoven into his daily activities...

In Success and Failure, Reiche provides a playbook for National Committees that want to win more medals...

The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11 (Cambridge University Press, 2017) is not simply about the border because, as the book makes clear, borders are in no way simple...

The Super Bowl is a singular spectacle in American culture. More than just a championship football game...

Through careful analysis of historical textual discourses, Ingram carefully guides his readers through important polemics that manifested amongst the Deoband ‘ulama...

In his new book The Stalinist Era (Cambridge University Press, 2018), David L. Hoffmann focuses on the myriad ways in which Stalinist practices had their origins in World War I (1914-1918) and Russian Civil War era (1918-1920)...

Noah Coburn's book is about the hidden workers of American’s foreign wars: third country nationals who while not serving in their country’s militaries, still work to support the American war effort...

Professor Lambert examines how each of these polities identities as “seapowers” informed and determined their individual histories and enabled them to achieve success disproportionate to their size...

Tumbe analyses the interlinked histories of migrations of different communities in and out of India and the world...

If you are looking for something accessible that covers also the most contemporary topics (inequality, climate change, migration, sustainability, austerity, financial crisis…), go and buy it.

Fulton’s book is a timely contribution to discussion of the changing global balance of power as Gulf states

Jackson argues that the 2017 nuclear crisis was a product of a gradual hardening of U.S. policy towards North Korea...

What transformed a humble city into the preeminent power of the region?

China’s global rise has been analysed from many perspectives in recent years...

Dr. Gelfand examines how the threat environment shapes a nation’s culture, as well as how organizations, such as the military, are shaped by cultural forces...

This text brings together a number of lenses through which to consider the writings and ideas of British liberal thinkers, especially John Locke, Edmund Burke, and Edward Gibbon Wakefield...

Costa Rica is the only full-fledged and totally independent country to be entirely demilitarized...

The world that Alexander remade in his lifetime was transformed once more by his death in 323 BCE...

At a time when trade between China and the outside world is rarely out of the news, it remains important to remember that in centuries past global commerce moved in directions very different from those which dominate the present...