General & World History

In this masterful history, Eli Zaretsky reveals the power of Freudian thought to illuminate the great political conflicts of the twentieth century....

This book examines sexuality in the past, and explores how it helps explain sexuality in the present. The subject of sexuality is often a controver...

Since its first publication in 2007, John H. Arnolds What is Medieval History? has established itself as the leading introduction to the craft of t...

It is not an easy roadbut hope is the oxygen of my life.  These insightful words of Meron Semedar, a refugee from Eritrea, reflect the feelings of ...

Business leaders, conservative ideologues, and even some radicals of the early twentieth century dismissed working people's intellect as stunted, t...

The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative media have led large numbers of A...

Nine types of graphic organizers help students hone the skills essential for success in the course, including cause and effect, chronological reaso...

The impressive collection of 18th-century French paintings at the National Gallery, London, includes important works by Boucher, Chardin, David, Fr...

A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture explores the cultural and creative lives of the largely young undocumente...

A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture explores the cultural and creative lives of the largely young undocumente...

Over the last few decades, as the United States has become embroiled in foreign war after foreign war, some of the most vocal activists for peace h...

The consecration of the city of Constantinople in 330 CE on the emplacement of the Greek city of Byzantium was one of the most important moments in...

By the end of the nineteenth century, Europeans had come to see the Alps as the ideal place to fashion an alternative to the era's dominant energy ...

By the end of the nineteenth century, Europeans had come to see the Alps as the ideal place to fashion an alternative to the era's dominant energy ...

Oops. Reeling from the Black Death, Europe's peasants decide it is cats that are carrying the plague, and start killing them off...leading the rat ...

Budapest, September 1944. The Hungarian capital lies in the eye of the storm. Three months after D-Day, the Allies are making significant strides t...

Michael Calveys story starts with a dawn raid on his Moscow apartment by armed FSB agents, following accusations of embezzlement relating to a comm...

An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over todays world from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New York Times bestselling...