21st Century History: from c 2000

When the atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen and the limnologist Eugene F. Stoermer introduced the term Anthropocene in 2000, they kicked off a scient...

Narrated by dozens of activists and everyday individuals, this book documents the unprecedented events that led to the collapse of dictatorial regi...

Other countries - from Yellowstone to serengeti - had long since had their large national parks when Germany's first national park was founded in 1...

After first emerging in the 1920s, ladies Gaelic football was soon sidelined; breathless women chasing after a football was just too unladylike for...

The revolutionary wave that swept the Middle East in 2011 was marked by spectacular mobilization, spreading within and between countries with extra...

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracyIn the stirring...

In 2008, CBS Chief Foreign Correspondent, Lara Logan, candidly speculated about the human side of the war in Iraq: Tell me the last time you saw th...

American Studies has only gradually turned its attention to video games in the twenty-first century, even though the medium has grown into a cultur...

Finanz- und Eurokrise, Migration und Multikulti, Assimilation und Akkulturation, globale Vernetzung und erstarkender Nationalismus: Steckt Europa i...

In Japan the number of Special Permanent Residentsmost of whom are of Korean descent, the so-called Zainichiis declining according to government st...

In Japan the number of Special Permanent Residentsmost of whom are of Korean descent, the so-called Zainichiis declining according to government st...

An engaging guide to the various ways in which war is now wagedand how to adapt to this new reality  This brisk everymans guidestraight-talking and...

If the past is another country what happens when we revisit it, one day a year? Carlo Gébler has done just that. Here is the story of Ireland fr...

'Michael Sheridan is one of the best informed and wisest writers on China' - Chris Patten, last governor of Hong KongThe Red Emperor presents an ey...

From one of the funniest writers of our time, the award-winning author of One Two Three Four and Ma'am Darling turns his attention to ...

Western Europe is in a strangely neurotic condition of being smug and terrified at the same time. On the one hand, Europeans believe they have at l...

An inspiring collection of pithy, easy-to-recall one-liners and quotable short passages from historic and contemporary thought leaders throughout t...

In brisk and engaging prose, this comprehensive introductory textbook traverses the broad sweep of US history since 1945. Winds of Hope, Storms of ...

In brisk and engaging prose, this comprehensive introductory textbook traverses the broad sweep of US history since 1945. Winds of Hope, Storms of ...