General & World History

In A History of Diplomacy, historian Jeremy Black challenges the conventional account of the development of diplomacy, devoting more attention to n...

This book develops the challenges that history teaching must face as a curricular subject at the beginning of the 21st century. These challenges ar...

The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This sixth volume in...

When late eighteenth-century New Spanish viceregal administrators installed public lamps in the streets of central Mexico City, they illuminated th...

An epic history of money, trade and development since 1933In 1933, Keynes reflected on the crisis of the Great Depression that arose from individua...

Using Ukraine as a case-in-point, Svitlana Krasynska engages diverse bodies of literature and rich empirical data to reveal the vital role and uniq...

Whether we think of statues, plaques, street-names, practices, material or intangible forms of remembrance, the language of collective memory is ev...

Emotions were central to the ways that slaveholders perpetuated slavery, as well as to the ways that enslaved people survived and challenged bondag...

Though the overthrow and exile of Napoleon in 1815 is a familiar episode in modern history, it is not well known that just a few months later, Brit...