21st Century History: from c 2000

The best single-volume analysis of Burma, its checkered history, and its attempts to reform   Burma is one of the largest countries in Southeast As...

At the heart of Mari Luomi's salutary book is whether oil- and gas-dependent authoritarian monarchies can keep their natural resource use and the e...

Over sixty years of violence and dialogue have brought China and the Tibetans no closer to a resolution of their conflict. Tsering Topgyal argues t...

This book re-visits and re-thinks some recent defining events in Irish society. Each chapter focuses on an event that has occurred since the start ...

In 2012, Britain and the Commonwealth celebrate the 60th anniversary of Elizabeth II's accession to the throne. The royal family have overcome a nu...

By the time of his death in 2009, the Grand Ayatollah Montazeri was lauded as the spiritual leader of the Green movement in Iran. Since the 1960s, ...

Pentecostalism is one of the most rapidly expanding religious-cultural forms in the world. Its rise in popularity is often attributed to its succes...

Pentecostalism is one of the most rapidly expanding religious-cultural forms in the world. Its rise in popularity is often attributed to its succes...

The 9th volume of Inam Sehri's books on the contemporary history of Pakistan [since 1971] is in your hand. Each chapter is a different scenario but...

In this information overloaded twenty-first century, it seems impossible to fully discern or explain how we know about the past. But two things ar...

Telling a new story of modern Egypt, Mohammad Salama uses textual and cinematic sources to construct a clear and accessible narrative of the dynami...

Qu'y a-t-il de commun entre l'alcoolisme, les maladies veneriennes, la tuberculose? A priori peu de choses, en dehors de leur etiquette commune de ...

Dramatic and startling -- The GuardianWitness Barack Obama as you've never seen him before -- as feminist, communist, fashion model, Jew, Muslim te...

We Know All About You shows how bulk spying came of age in the nineteenth century, and supplies the first overarching narrative and interpretation ...

Following the Arab Spring, Syria descended into civil and sectarian conflict. It has since become a fractured warzone which operates as a breeding ...

The History of Modern Spain is a comprehensive examination of Spains history from the beginning of the 19th century to the present day. Bringing to...

Taking the Great Rift Valley - the geological fault that will eventually tear Africa in two - as his central metaphor, Alex Perry explores the spli...

Following the March 2011 tsunami and Fukushima nuclear crisis, the media remarked with surprise on how thousands of demonstrators had flocked to th...