21st Century History: from c 2000

How has Japan become a global superpower and what does the future look like for it? There was a time in the 1980s when, if the media were to be bel...

In our wars since 2001 the term front line has long since lost its meaning, and the true combats have waged throughout the countries we''ve invad...

Slavery remains rampant worldwide. At least 27 million men, women, and children are enslaved today, ranging from prostitutes in London to indenture...

It is often assumed that the national identity must be a matter of values and ideas. But in Robert Winder's brilliantly-written account it is a lan...

As read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.This is the generation that will change China. The youth, over 320 million of them in their teens and twent...

Global Events: 2011 is a new publication from Gale that summarizes major, current global issues. It provides clear, impartial summaries of the sub...

The ten years from 2010 have been devastating. A decade of austerity and paralysis nurtured contempt for leaders, institutions and fellow citizens ...

A brilliant (The Washington Post), clear-eyed and incisive (The New Republic) analysis of how the wealthiest group in American society is making li...

There are few writers about whom opinions diverge so widely as Anthony Powell, whose Dance to the Music of Time sequence is one of the most ambitio...

Italy began work on a new fighter-bomber in the late 1970s, aiming to field an aircraft capable of surviving in heavily defended Cold War airspace,...

This book examines the distinctive aspects that insiders and outsiders perceived as characteristic of Irish and Scottish ethnic identities in New Z...