21st Century History: from c 2000

No war in living memory has stirred up such anger, fear and loathing as the long-running IsraelPalestine conflict, and peace in the region has neve...

The Fuerza Aérea Revolucionaria (FAR), one of the most powerful and little-publicised air forces in the Americas, had Mikoyan-Gurevich (MiG) fighte...

Evolving Iran presents an overview of how the politics and policy decisions in the Islamic Republic of Iran have developed since the 1979 revolutio...

The Second Nagorno-Karabakh war fought between Armenia and Azerbaijan between September 24 and November 10, 2020 was the first war in history won...

The worlds oldest still-active war correspondent, Al J. Venter has reported from the front lines for well over half a century, witnessing the horro...

As the American government began a disastrous mass evacuation of its Afghan allies, a group of American veterans saw the writing on the wallthe peo...

The decision to not deploy reoriented, trained Iraqi divisions and other allied forces in numbers significant enough to adequately stabilize the si...

When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world. A stunning book on the i...

When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world. A stunning book on the i...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLERAn NPR Best Book of the YearIn this spectacular, newsmaking exposé that has the entertainme...

WINNER, 2024 Pauli Murray Book Prize, given by the African American Intellectual History Society A history of Black urban placemaking and politics ...

Poland in the Modern World presents a history of the country from the late nineteenth century to the present, incorporating new perspectives from s...

Britain is at a cross-roads; from the economy, to the education system, to social mobility, Britain must learn the rules of the 21st century, or fa...

'Important, compelling, and detailed . . . a superb analysis of the Wests policy missteps and the tragic consequences of them.' - General David Pet...

Offers a radical political interpretation of history that generates fresh insights into the emancipatory potential of ordinary Nigerians and their ...

Seen through the lens of the outsider, Pakistan has often been reduced to a caricature. Its diversity and resilience have rarely figured in the sin...

The efficiency of the Hutu killers in the Rwandan genocide of 1994 exceeded that of even the Nazi Holocaust. It happened in front of the world's ey...

A Spectator Book of the Year 2020 A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 A Mail on Sunday Book ...

A Spectator Book of the Year 2020 A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 A Mail on Sunday Book ...

Twenty-five years after Gorbachev came to power and two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the questions that were behind the reform e...

Azad (Free) Jammu and Kashmir (J&K)) is that part of Kashmir within Pakistan, separated by a Line of Control from Indian territory. This book i...

Since independence in 1990, Namibia has witnessed only one generation with no memory of colonialism - the 'born frees', who voted in the 2009 elect...

Since independence in 1990, Namibia has witnessed only one generation with no memory of colonialism - the 'born frees', who voted in the 2009 ele...

The Arab Spring occurred within the context of the unraveling of the dominant 'ruling bargain' that emerged across the Middle East in the 1950s. Th...

At the outset of the twenty-first century and in the midst of the Arab Spring, tribe-state relations are a useful frame of reference through which ...