21st Century History: from c 2000

The earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010 thrust the nation into the public consciousness as never before. That terrible event piqued in...

This book, continuing the narrative begun by the author in two preceding volumes, provides a clear description of military combat occurring in L...

The FOUR VOLUMES of 'JUDGES & GENERALS IN PAKISTAN' not only include the historical facts about the honourable judges and respectable military ...

Two years before the action in Lone Survivor, a Green Berets A Team conducted a very different, successful mission in Afghanistan's notorious Pech ...

Bollywood's India explores the nature of mainstream Hindi cinema, now best known as Bollywood, and its non-realistic depictions of everyday life in...

In the middle of the 1970s, America entered a new era of doubt and division. Major political, economic and social crisesWatergate, Vietnam, the rig...

Karachi, a mega city of about 25 million now, has been burning since two decades in spreading blaze of target killings, extortion, organised robber...

Karachi, a mega city of about 25 million now, has been burning for two decades in a spreading blaze of target killings, extortion, organised robber...

Winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize 2014The book opens and we are inside the wave: thirty feet high, moving at twenty-five mph, racing two miles inlan...

None of Us Were Like This Before recounts the dark journey of a tank battalion as its focus switched from conventional military duties to guerilla ...

In the late 1950s, like tens of thousands of young men of his generation, Pierre Bourdieu, having recently passed the agrégation in philosophy, fou...

On 13 November 2015, Paris suffered the second wave of brutal terrorist attacks in a year, leaving 130 dead and many more seriously injured. How ar...

Drawing on interviews and examples from across the globe, this book tackles the shifting narratives surrounding Muslim women Once regarded as passi...

The history of Europe as a continent of refugeesEuropean history has been permeated with refugees. The Outsiders chronicles every major refugee mov...

Sparked by the protest of a single vegetable seller in Tunisia, the flame of revolutionary passion swept across the Arab world in what has come to ...

This selection of Times obituaries from 1872 to 2014 revisits the lives of 125 women who have all, in their own way, played an important part in wo...

In A Colony in a Nation, New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Awardwinning news anchor Chris Hayes upends the national conversation on polic...

America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measurewealth, unemployment, incarceration, school seg...

Extending back to the first demonstrations of 2011, No Turning Back dissects the tangle of ideologies and allegiances that make up the Syrian confl...

In an era of commemoration, France's Colonial Legacies contributes to the debates taking place in France about the place of empire in the contempor...

Inderjeet Parmar reveals the complex interrelations, shared mindsets, and collaborative efforts of influential public and private organizations in ...

During his 2009-2010 combat tour in Afghanistan, battalion commander Lt. Col. Michael J. Forsyth kept a daily journal. In it he candidly wrote a...

After living in San Francisco for 15 years, journalist Gordon Young found himself yearning for his Rust Belt hometown: Flint, Michigan, the birthpl...

Once you accept that the impossible is really possible, what happens in Russia makes perfect sense   A few pages into David Satters truly terrifyin...

A penetrating look into the unrecognized and unregulated links between autocratic regimes in Central Asia and centers of power and wealth throughou...

A renowned historian eludes the pitfalls of partisanship and tackles one of the worlds most perplexing and divisive issues What is so striking abou...

Fragile, gritty, and vital to an extraordinary degree, St. Petersburg is one of the worlds most alluring citiesa place in which the past is at once...

Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America's 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offe...

Learning to Forget analyzes the evolution of US counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine over the last five decades. Beginning with an extensive section o...

Since independence from Great Britain in 1963, Kenya has survived five decades as a functioning nation-state, holding regular elections; its border...

In his disturbing and timely book Jean-Pierre Filiu lays bare the strategies and tactics employed by the Middle Eastern autocracies, above all thos...

In just four months in 2009, Sri Lanka's 26 year-old desperate civil war came to a brutal and bloody end on a desolate stretch of beach in the isla...

China is in the midst of the fastest and most intense process of urbanisation the world has ever known, and Shanghai - its biggest, richest and mos...