21st Century History: from c 2000

In 2016, Britain stunned itself and the world by voting to pull out of the European Union, leaving financial markets reeling and global politicians...

Ciudad Juárez has recently become infamous for its murder rate, which topped 3,000 in 2010 as competing drug cartels grew increasingly violent and ...

From the author of Hirohitos War comes the second edition of his magisterial modern history of Asia, Empires at War. With 13 new and 2 updated chap...

This surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to...

Some argued it would save the U.S. after 9/11. Instead, the CIAs enhanced interrogation program came to be defined as American torture. The Forever...

Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the Major Problems in American History series introduces students to both primary sources an...

On 19 August 2014, a member of the jihadist rebel group known as ISIS uploaded a video to YouTube. Entitled 'Message to America', the clip depicted...

Since 1750, the world has become ever more connected, with processes of production and destruction no longer limited by land- or water-based modes ...

No Church is monolithicthis is the preliminary premise of this volume on the public place of religion in a representative number of post-communist ...

The first authoritative history of American's longest war by one of the world's leading scholar-practitioners, this New York Times notable book of ...

Nearly thirty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, debates over paths to market liberalization have produced numerous studies across the socia...

This book re-examines fundamental assumptions about the American legal profession and the boundaries between 'professional' lawyers, 'lay' lawyers,...

Necessary Trouble is the definitive book on the movements that are poised to permanently remake American politics. We are witnessing a moment of un...

This book offers a bold re-interpretation of the prevailing narrative that US foreign policy after the Cold War was a failure. In chapters that ret...

Personal, provocative and powerfully persuasive - an essential guide to what white feminism is, why it matters, and how we can put an end to it'Tho...

As the rivalry between the US and China enters a dangerous new phase, reaffirming the politics of anti-imperialism is a task more important than ev...

Why do some individuals participate in risky, anti-regime resistance whereas others abstain? The Revolution Within answers this question through an...

Why do some individuals participate in risky, anti-regime resistance whereas others abstain? The Revolution Within answers this question through an...

As the rivalry between the US and China enters a dangerous new phase, reaffirming the politics of anti-imperialism is a task more important than ev...

For some, the Great Recession that began in 2007 was a traumatic setback; for others, it was just another dip in a long descent from comfort and se...

Negin Nabavi brings together essays written by experts and scholars that shed light on the many transformations that Iran has experienced in the th...

On August 7, 1998, at approximately 10:30 a.m. local time, the first truck bomb exploded outside the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. Minutes later,...

Getting Out is the story of how Ukraine's cricketers helped the people around them to escape from Russia's invasion in 2022, including first-hand a...

On 15 August 2021, the world watched in horror as Kabul fell to the Taliban, almost exactly 20 years after western-backed Afghan forces overthrew t...

A social history of West Germany's Bundesgrenzschutz (BGS, Federal Border Police) that complicates the telling of the country's history as a straig...

The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature presents a comprehensive history of the field, from its origins in the nineteenth century to the...

Written with Burleighs characteristic brio, with pithy summaries of historical moments (he is brilliant on the Americans in Vietnam, for example) a...

Traces the dynamics of state-building in Juba, Southern Sudan 2005-2011, revealing how underlying ties of ethnicity and land dominated the actions ...