21st Century History: from c 2000

Ramzan Kadyrov has ruled Chechnya with an iron fist and little regard for human rights since 2007. Yet repression is not the only means he uses to ...

England has more ancient native oak trees than the rest of Europe combined. How did that come about? The reasons are all historical, and nothing to...

This book sets out to explain how Shanghai emerged from relative obscurity in 1842 to become one of the world's best-known finance and industry hub...

A Uyghur poet's piercing memoir of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in history'Essential reading'AI WEIWEI, author of 1000 Years of...

This is the first book-length account of the women's liberation movement in Scotland, which, using documentary evidence and oral testimony, charts ...

The toppling of Hosni Mubarak marked the beginning of a revolutionary restructuring of Egypt's political and social order. Jeannie Sowers and Chris...

Beyond Borders: A History of Mexican Migration to the United States details the origins and evolution of the movement of people from Mexico into th...

Beyond Borders: A History of Mexican Migration to the United States details the origins and evolution of the movement of people from Mexico into th...

A rare insiders account of the inner workings of the Japanese economy, and the Bank of Japans monetary policy, by a career central banker   The Jap...

An estimated 2 billion people around the world watched the catastrophic destruction of the World Trade Center. The enormity of the moment was immed...

A powerful and counterintuitive argument that we should welcome the current slowdownof population growth, economies, and technological innovation T...

An examination of what algorithmic polarization means for society and how conservative elites use media literacy tactics to spread propagandaThe Pr...

In 1960, consensual sodomy was a crime in every state in America. Fifty-five years later, the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples had the fun...

More so than other ecosystems, urban rivers typify our evolving relationship with nature. Once a necessity for the development of civilization, by ...

Lebanese journalist Dalal Mawad investigates the modern history of Lebanon from the port explosion and civil war to the role of Hezbollah and Israe...

How did the intellectually intimidating, industrious architect of the New Labour project become its maligned and feckless undertaker? In this scath...