General & World History

A sparkling exploration of direction, by the acclaimed author of A History of the World in 12 MapsNorth, south, east and west: almost all societies...

SURVIVOR STORIES FROM DUNKIRK, NOW THE SUBJECT OF A MAJOR FILM FROM CHRISTOPHER NOLANWhen Britain declared war against Germany in September 1939, t...

Volume I offers historiographical surveys and general overviews of central topics in the history of world sexualities. Split across twenty-two chap...

Under the slogan Merdeka! the Republic of Indonesia rushed into a battle for independence a struggle of which no one could predict the outcome. Ha...

The Struggle for the Pacific (1937) examines the rivalries and postures as various powers European, the US, Japan and China attempted to militari...

Who founded China? Are Chinese people religious? What is Chinese culture and how has it changed over time? The Understanding China Through Comics s...

Gender exists in almost every society as a way of organizing its people. Gender is used to assign certain responsibilities, obligations, and privil...

In recent years, discussion of the colonial period in Korea has centered mostly on the degree of exploitation or development that took place domest...

Mennonite German Soldiers traces the efforts of a small, pacifist, Christian religious minority in eastern Prussia-the Mennonite communities of the...