History of Other Lands

A luminous exploration of exile - the people who have experienced it, and the places they inhabit - from the award-winning travel writer and author...

For the last century, the Western world has regarded Turkey as a pivotal case of the 'clash of civilisations' between Islam and the West. Why Turke...

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

Indigenous sociology makes visible what is meaningful in the Indigenous social world. This core premise is demonstrated here via the use of the con...

After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, international aid organizations sought to help the victims but were stymied by post-Soviet political ...

In The Greening of Antarctica Alessandro Antonello investigates the development of an international regime of environmental protection and manageme...

Perpetually covered in ice and snow, the mountainous Antarctic Peninsula stretches southwardd towards the South Pole where it merges with the large...

In 1906, from the ice fields northwest of Greenland, Commander Robert E. Peary spotted an unknown land in the distance. He called it Crocker Land. ...

After the murder of senior generals in the Indonesian army by elements of the country's communist party in 1965, General Suharto orchestrated the m...

How have we come to depend so greatly on the words terror and terrorism to describe broad categories of violence? David Simpson offers here a philo...

An NPR Best Book of the YearWinner of the CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative NonfictionThe Quickening is a book of hope.Elizabeth Kolbert, author o...

'A lyrical and penetrating examination of what happened to one family and the Ugandan Asians more broadly' GILES FODEN'Fulford has put in the legwo...