21st Century History: from c 2000

A fascinating story of the rise of individualism in the formerly German Western Territories of Poland after World War II and how this new culture p...

2014 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nonfiction Runner Up The complex histories and memories of Jewish and Palestinian Israelis today frame Israels ...

Discussions of Islam in Turkey are still heavily dominated by political considerations and the dualistic paradigms of modern v. traditional, secula...

The September 11th attacks in 2001 and the subsequent 'War on Terror' have had a profound effect on American cinema, and the contemporary Western i...

Some people will have wanted me to give my opinion in this book about Pells guilt or innocence, and on whether the courts got it right or wrong. Bu...

In To Live or to Perish Forever, Nicholas Schmidle takes readers to Pakistan's rioting streets, to Taliban camps in the North-West Frontier Provinc...

Combining impartial analysis with reliable facts and figures, this fully revised and updated 25th edition provides up-to-date commentary on these v...

This is the first scholarly work in Modern European History which elucidates consistently how border issues affect the history of nations and state...

Recent events in Ukraine and Russia and the subsequent incorporation of Crimea into the Russian state, with the support of some circles of inhabita...

Israel is not the only new state around, but it is one of the few states whose legitimacy is still questioned, and its future affects the future of...

This book picks up where its predecessor, Somalia between Jihad and Restoration, left off, examining international efforts to stabilize war-torn So...

The emerging literature on the so-called Arab Spring has largely focused on the evolution of the uprisings in cities and power centres. In order to...

Totalitarian Speech brings together a range of texts on totalitarian manipulations of language. The author analyzes various phenomena, from the hat...

The overthrow of the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende and the coming to power of a military regime led by Augusto Pinochet on ...

A New Politics of Heritage Reconstruction in Afghanistan investigates the politics of cultural heritage preservation in Afghanistan between 2008 an...

Sometimes that's all it takes to save a world, you see. A new vision. A new way of thinking, appearing at just the right time. These words were spo...

Sometimes that's all it takes to save a world, you see. A new vision. A new way of thinking, appearing at just the right time. These words were spo...

In 2004, most areas of Al Anbar province in Iraq exploded into widescale insurgencies and attacks on US and allied forces. In both Fallujah and thr...

Whats it like to travel at more than 850 MPH, riding in a supersonic T-38 twin turbojet engine airplane? What happens when the space station toilet...

On 24 October 1964, the Republic of Zambia was formed, replacing the territory which had formerly been known as Northern Rhodesia. Fifty years on, ...

In the opening decades of the twenty-first century the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership under Xi Jinping has created a worldwide Sino-centr...