General & World History

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...

A groundbreaking new history of global health from one of the greatest leaders in the field.In Change Is Possible, public health legend William H. ...

Volume I of The Cambridge History of Strategy offers a history of the practice of strategy from the beginning of recorded history, to the late eigh...

Volume II of The Cambridge History of Strategy focuses on the practice of strategy from 1800 to the present day. A team of leading scholars examine...

This anthology honors Lawrence Nees expansive contributions to medieval art historical inquiry and teaching on the occasion of his retirement from ...

In the early twentieth century, Chinese intellectuals came to realize that Westerners surpassed them not only in knowledge of the world, but also i...

Altera Roma explores the confrontation of two cultures, European and Amerindian, and two empires, Spanish and Aztec. In an age of exploration and c...

In the past, most studies on Pre-Roman societies in Italy (1st millennium BCE) focused on the elites, their representation and cultural contacts. T...

In this novelistic account of his childhood in the late nineteenth-century Romanian countryside, Yiddish writer Yitskhok Horowitz charts his episod...

A history of the successes of the human rights movement and a case for why human rights workEvidence for Hope makes the case that yes, human rights...

Drawing inspiration from the work of Maria Todorova, Re-Imagining the Balkans displays the breadth of Balkan Studies today in twenty-nine chapters...

Forged in Genocide traces the early history of colonial capitalism in Namibia with a central focus on migrants who came to be key to the economy du...