General & World History

Between 1912 and 1925, Ireland convulsed with political and revolutionary upheaval in pursuit of self-government. Canadians of Irish descent, both ...

Struggles for Recognition traces the emergence of melodrama in Latin American silent film and silent film culture. Juan Sebastián Ospina León draws...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

A sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empiresImperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, sla...

The era of liberal interventionism is over, and the prevailing international discourse is once again about defending state borders and putting up w...

The untold story of hockey's deep roots from different regions of the world, and its global, cultural impact. Played on frozen ponds in cold northe...

Europe’s great colonial empires have long been a thing of the past, but the memories they generated are still all around us. They have left deep im...

In Settler Garrison Jodi Kim theorizes how the United States extends its sovereignty across Asia and the Pacific in the post-World War II era throu...

In Settler Garrison Jodi Kim theorizes how the United States extends its sovereignty across Asia and the Pacific in the post-World War II era throu...

The essays in this volume examine the nature and extent of disease on indigenous communities and local populations located within the vast regions ...

This book examines the planned disaggregation of the global structures of the Cold War. In the final years of a decades-long era of bipolarity, the...

With a comprehensive interpretation of Hume’s scientific project to his skepticism, Hume and the Demands of Philosophy: Science, Skepticism, and Mo...

These essays explore problems with digital approaches to analog objects and offer digital methods to study networks of production, dissemination, a...

In this monumental, authoritative new history of Afghanistan, Jonathan L. Lee places the current conflict in its historical context and challenges m...

In this third edition of his widely acclaimed survey, historian Randall D. Law makes sense of the history of terrorism by examining it within its b...