21st Century History: from c 2000

The companion book to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s PBS series, And Still I Rise-a timeline and chronicle of the past fifty years of black history in th...

A magisterial and sweeping history of modern Africa.The end of the Second World War signalled the rapid end of the European African empires. In 194...

Newly revised histories of photography as recorded via the photobook have added enormously to our understanding of the mediums culture, particularl...

America is in crisis. In the space of a generation, it has become more than ever a country of winners and losers, as industries have failed, instit...

Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York.'With its co...

A witty memoir about the trials of adolescence, the tribulations of family life and the embarrassment that ensues from having larger-than-life pare...

A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE WORK OF 2018 From two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post national security reporter Greg Miller, the truth ab...

What were the causes of the Iraq War? Who were the main players? How was the war sold to the decision makers? Despite all that has been written on ...

They make an odd gang: football thugs, gay activists, French celebrities, Jewish academics, uneasy alliances of feminists and conservatives, politi...

In 1991, Vladimir Yakunin, a Soviet diplomat and KGB officer, returned from his posting in New York to a country that no longer existed. The state...

The definitive history of the modern climate change era, from an award-winning writer who has been at the centre of the fight for more than thirty ...

At the time of Elizabeth IIs accession, Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Harry S. Truman was President of the United...

'excellent' LSE Review of Books China is the world's most populous country and newest superpower, whose place on the international stage can only ...

A commemoration of the 20th anniversary of 9/11 as told through stories and photographs from The Associated Presscovering everything from the event...

A Brief Life of the Queen is a succinct, personal and beautifully illustrated biography of Elizabeth II, who has managed to remain an enigma, despi...

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...

With the Eurozone engulfed in an unprecedented crisis, one political figure looms largest of all, Angela Merkel, the leader of its most powerful ec...

The Saudi royal family has survived the events of the Arab Spring intact and unscathed. Any major upheavals were ostensibly averted with the help o...