21st Century History: from c 2000

Shortlisted for International Affairs Book of the Year in the Paddy Power Political Book Awards 2014 Angela Merkel was already unique when she beca...

For three decades, Sri Lanka's civil war tore communities apart. In 2009, the Sri Lankan army finally defeated the separatist Tamil Tigers guerrill...

Most of what is written about Africa is framed in terms that have been out of date for years. Too often, it is seen as heading for either disaster ...

For over sixty years the state of Israel has proved adept at practising clandestine diplomacy - - about which little is known, as one might expect....

Afghanistan's people have contended with an almost continuous series of foreign interventions in their local affairs in the nineteenth and twentiet...

On December 27, 2007, a suicide bomber killed Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister of Pakistan. Brilliant and charismatic, the head of a polit...

The sequel and companion volume to C.A. Bayly's ground-breaking The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914, this wide-ranging and sophisticated study...

A decade into its hard-won democracy, South Africa and its ruling party, the ANC, have been through turbulent times. Confrontation between Thabo Mb...

The 4th Infantry Division has always been there in Americas modern wars. On 14 September 1918 the men of the Ivy Division stood up in their trenche...

Europe', 'Europeanness' and 'European' have been important themes in the history of modern Greece, from the establishment of the new state in 1832 ...

As Alastair Campbell said in the introduction to The Blair Years, it was always his intention to publish the full version, covering his time as spo...

Some 250,000 people died in the southern Somalia famine of 2011-12, which also displaced and destroyed the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands mor...

This The Making of Modern Britain 1951-2007 Revision Guide is part of the bestselling Oxford AQA History for A Level series. Written to match the n...

From the award-winning co-author of I Am Malala, this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on t...

The post-Khomeini era has profoundly changed the socio-political landscape of Iran. Since 1989, the internal dynamics of change in Iran, rooted in ...

The Twentieth-Century World, 1914 to the Present introduces students to five distinct historical themes in 20th century history - politics, economi...

Tony Blair was the political colossus in Britain for thirteen years, winning three elections in a row for New Labour, two of them by huge majoritie...

Lebanon is the prisoner of its geography and its history, a prize for invaders since ancient times, a small multi-denominational state still recove...

The Afghan war will be remembered for its politics more than its combat. There were few, if any, major battles. The longest war in American history...

Based on extended interviews conducted from the Pakistani countryside to Washington, AP Foreign Correspondents in Action: World War II to the Prese...

Reinventing Indonesia presents an insider's view of the tumultuous transition that took place in Indonesia from 1997 to 2004. This was a period of ...