General & World History

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 ...

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 ...