History of Other Lands

Celebrated food scholar Darra Goldstein takes readers on a vivid tour of history and culture through Russian cuisine.  The Kingdom of Rye unearths ...

How succession in authoritarian regimes was less a competition of visions for the future and more a settling of scores  Joseph Torigians stellar re...

After the fall of the Iron Curtain, people across the former socialist world saw their lives transformed. In just a few years, labor markets were c...

After the fall of the Iron Curtain, people across the former socialist world saw their lives transformed. In just a few years, labor markets were c...

The study of Islam and of Islamic history is enjoying something of a revival with an emphasis on intellectual history and a greater concern with th...

This fascinating volume is a major contribution to our understanding of the Russian Revolution, from World War I to consolidation of the Bolshevik ...

In the past, the appearance of false members of the dynasty (Russian: samozvanstvo) in the Moscow and Russian empires was mostly interpreted as a f...

The book examines the wide panorama of Russian theological reflection found in a variety of sourcesecclesiastical books, sermons, literature, poetr...

The book presents the biography of Maria, daughter of Christopher Lekapenos (the eldest son of emperor Romanos I). For about 35 years, she was the ...

A powerful case that the economic shocks of the 1970s hastened both the end of the Cold War and the rise of neoliberalism by forcing governments to...

As perceived icons of indifferent marginality, disorder, indolence, and parasitism, Gypsies threatened the Bolsheviks ideal of New Soviet Men and W...

The forgotten story of a surprising anti-imperial, nationalist project at the turn of the twentieth century: a grassroots movement of Russian Jews ...

A landmark history of the world economic order, exploring how developing countries have fought to escape impoverishment   Over the past two decades...

Of the thirty volumes in the authoritative Academy edition of Chekhov's collected works, fully twelve are devoted to the writer's letters. This is ...

Hong Kong has been a unique society from its establishment as a political region separate from mainland China in the nineteenth century under Briti...

Based on a broad array of sources from Russian and Austrian archives, this collection provides a comprehensive analysis of the Soviet occupation of...

This book engages a complex subject that mainline theologies avoid, Indigenous Australia. The heritages, wisdoms and dreams of Indigenous Australia...

Russian Liberalism charts the development of liberal ideas and political organizations in Russia as well as the implementation of liberal reforms b...

A fascinating life of Sergei Shchukin, the great collector who changed the face of Russias art world Sergei Shchukin was a highly successful textil...

How did Russia manage to emerge resurgent on the world stage and play a weak hand so effectively? Is it because Putin is a brilliant strategist? Or...

In the first few years after the Russian Revolution, an ideological project coalesced to link the development of what Stalin demarcated as the inte...