21st Century History: from c 2000

Many hoped or feared that Antonin Scalias appointment to the Supreme Court in 1986 would guarantee a conservative counter-revolution that would rev...

Spanning the period from the cold war to the 'war on terror', examines the political economy dynamics of security and insecurity on the continent, ...

An incisive, authoritative account of the Wests failures in Afghanistan, from 9/11 to the fall of Kabul   In 1958, Richard Nixon described Afghanis...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLERIn this spectacular, newsmaking exposé that has the entertainment industry abuzz and on it...

A methodical analysis of relations of domination and subordination through media narratives of nationhood in an African context. Nation as Grand N...

An analysis of U.S. Special Operations, at the center of Americas twenty-first-century wars  Grey Wars is for anyone who wants to understand todays...

What kind of decolonial possibilities exist in today's world? Exploring the rise of Islamic activism in Lebanon and the Middle East, and drawing tr...

A new look at the drama that lay behind the end of the war in the Pacific Signed on September 2, 1945 aboard the American battleship USS Missouri ...

*Chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, History Today and the Sunday Telegraph*Wonderfully entertaining, comprehensive and astute. The TimesGen...

The Social Protests of 2020: Visceral Responses to Police Brutality, COVID-19, and Circumscribed Sexuality collects voices from various Black intel...

*The Times 100 best books to read for summer 2021*'Barack Obama had a special talent for making different kinds of people feel comfortable around h...

The greatest ideologically motivated violent threat to American democracy is a Church that has lost its soul.How did a Church that purports to foll...

What has contemporary China inherited from its revolutionary past? How do the realities and memories, aesthetics and practices of the Mao era still...

Longlisted for South Africa's 2022 Sunday Times Non-fiction Award Definitive and gripping narrative history of the Communist Party of South Afric...

On December 9, 2014, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a 576-page report that strongly condemned the CIA for its secret and brutal use of ...

In this fascinating book, Andrew Hindmoor makes sense of the tangled past we have just lived through ... sprinkling wit, insight and analytical ver...

Corporate Coup looks at the attempted overthrow of the elected government of Venezuela, an intervention which, despite open backing by the United S...

An exemplary study in comparative contemporary history, this monograph looks at rural change in six countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, P...

Illustrated with accurate artworks of military aircraft and their markings, Chinese Military Aircraft is a detailed guide to all the aircraft types...

Scholars in COVID Times documents the new and innovative forms of scholarship, community collaboration, and teaching brought about by the COVID-19 ...

This pioneering volume explores the contribution of migrants to European culture from the early modern era to today. It takes culture as an aesthet...