21st Century History: from c 2000

AFRICA IS FAILING. AFRICA IS SUCCEEDING. Africa is betraying its citizens. Africa is a place of starvation, corruption, disease. African economies ...

An authority on Asia and globalization identifies the challenges Chinas growing power poses and how it must be confrontedTimely and thought-provoki...

'Barack Obama had a special talent for making different kinds of people feel comfortable around him because of his biracial life experience, says A...

New York Times Notable Books of 2018 Financial Times Book of the Year Award-winning journalist Rania Abouzeid presents reportage of unprecedented...

In this fully illustrated introduction, acclaimed historian Dr Aaron Edwards provides a concise overview of one of the most difficult and controver...

Michael Napier details the critical role of air power in the skies over Afghanistan, from the ten-year occupation by the USSR in the 1980s through ...

The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of T...

An alphabet developed by Germanic and Nordic peoples during ancient times, runes were used to represent both simple things and more complex concept...

The New Yorker's award-winning war correspondent returns to his own country to chronicle a story of mounting civic breakdown and violent disorder, ...

A Times Political Book of the Year 2022 A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in ...

Imperial Island shows how empire and its ever-present aftermath have divided and defined Britain over the last seventy years.'Masterful ... you won...

An account of two lives during the war in Ukraine: one Ukrainian, one Russian, by the internationally bestselling author of Heimat Diaries of War ...

The aftermath of the 2003 Iraq invasion is a story that has yet to be told by those who fought their own war against a brutal insurgency: the priva...

This volume allows a new generation of scholars, from the Balkans and beyond, to shed light on some of the struggles the region faces. The combinat...

Peter C. Caldwell and Karrin Hanshews Germany Since 1945 traces the social, political and cultural history of Germany from the end of the Second Wo...

The Bullet and the Ballot Box offers a rich and sweeping account of a decade of revolutionary upheaval. When Nepal's Maoists launched their armed r...

*Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2017* In 2011, many Syrians took to the streets of Damascus to demand the overthrow of the government o...

Finalist, 2020 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Awards   Selected in 2005 by the Army to be the first airborne reconnaissance squ...

The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackElizabeth II is the longest-serving mona...