General & World History

This wide-ranging introduction to the history of modern Britain extends from the eighteenth century to the present day. Vernon structures his compe...

In this essential new work, Christopher D. Bahl departs from the established historiography on trade, shipping and pilgrimage to argue for the emer...

In this compelling work, Sascha Auerbach offers a bold new historical interpretation of late-stage slavery, its long-term legacies, and its entangl...

History, completed.'Excellent . . . bursting with extraordinary women' Anita Anand, broadcaster and author of The Patient AssassinMoving, illumina...

Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of cre...

From true-crime legend T. J. English, the epic, behind-the-scenes saga of Los Muchachos, one of the most successful cocaine trafficking organizatio...

How did the temple-scape of Suzhou transform into garden-scape during the 13th to 16th centuries? This book investigates the landscape evolution of...

A panoramic global history of Africa in the age of imperialismAfricas long nineteenth century was a time of revolutionary ferment and cultural inno...

Drawing on archival and ethnographic work, this book analyzes how indigeneity, Christianity and state-making became intertwined in the Colombian Am...

The book is concerned with the history of football and its role in Balkan society. The aim is to analyse and discuss various aspects of football as...

Historiography is one of the most systematic accounts of the fate of culture. It is also a record of the humanreflexive and reflective metaphors of...

Drawing on historiography of the Japanese occupation in the Chinese, Japanese, and English languages, this book examines the politics of the Manchu...

This volume explores how the Cultural Cold War played out in Africa and Asia in the context of decolonization. Both the United States and the Sovie...

Contributors to this book provide an Asian womens history from the perspective of gender analysis, assessing Japanese imperial policy and propagand...

This book examines the history of antisemitism in the United States and Germany in a novel way by placing the two countries side by side for a sust...

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Japan, China, and both Tsarist Russia and later the USSR, vied for imperial dominance in Nort...

The Routledge History of Loneliness takes a multidisciplinary approach to the history of a modern emotion, exploring its form and development acros...

This book focuses on the Russian Revolution of 1917, the legacy of the First World War, and Mussolini and Italian fascism offering an important ov...

This book explores SovietNorth Korean relations during the Cold War (19451991). Based on many primary documents and sources (including Russian and ...

This book focuses on food and meals consumed during travel since the transport revolution and examines the ways in which the introduction of new fo...

This book analyzes the roots of one of the main human activities that can be developed in natural and agricultural ecosystems: tourism. Attention t...

This book shows how international trade was a key part of the classic Western policy of containment towards the Soviet Union in the Cold War in the...

This book explores the influence of right-wing political cultures (including conservatism, political Catholicism, reactionary nationalism and fasci...

Conventional wisdom dictates that Ukraine's political crises can be traced to the linguistic differences and divided political loyalties that have ...

Few filmmakers, if any, make the kind of impact that Martin Scorsese has made on American cinema. The winner of every prestigious film award, inclu...

This open access book provides a thought-provoking new perspective on European imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. It does so by inquiring ...

James Bond, Ian Flemings irrepressible and ubiquitous spy, is often understood as a Cold Warrior, but James Bonds Cold War diverged from the actual...

*Winner of the 2022 Cherasco International Prize*'Thoroughly engrossing' Michael Pollan, The Atlantic'Wonderful, energising' Kathryn Hughes, The Gu...

For decades now, America's national security state has grown ever bigger, ever more secretive and powerful, and ever more abusive. Only once did so...

The new millennium. The Year 2000. Beyond Mayan prophecies, a more immediate danger loomed: Two-digit year date fields had been used by software pr...

In the bestselling tradition of The Swerve and A Distant Mirror, The Verge tells the story of a period that marked a decisive turning point for bot...

In 1942, America's deadliest fighter pilot, or ace of aces -- the legendary Eddie Rickenbacker -- offered a bottle of bourbon to the first U.S. fig...

In the shadow of the Cold War, whispers from the cosmos fueled an unlikely alliance between the US and USSR. The search for extraterrestrial intell...

The Early Modern World, 1450-1750: Seeds of Modernity takes a distinctive approach to global history and enables a holistic view of the world durin...

In The Book of Fun, Polygon co-founder Russ Frushtick divulges the hidden backstories and fascinating facts about your favorite video games, theme ...