History of Other Lands

'A thrilling and beautiful book' Philip Marsden'Tom Parfitt has re-invented travel writing for the 21st century' Oliver BulloughOn 1 September 2004...

The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncha...

Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union is the first history of Mennonite life from its origins in the Dutch Reformation of the sixte...

Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union is the first history of Mennonite life from its origins in the Dutch Reformation of the sixte...

In the middle of the twentieth century, transnational networks sparked a range of cultural projects focused on collecting Indigenous music and folk...

Finalist, 2024 PEN Translation PrizeIn The Torture Camp on Paradise Street, Ukrainian journalist and writer Stanislav Aseyev details his experience...

A noted literary scholar traverses the Russian canon, exploring how realists, idealists, and revolutionaries debated good and evil, moral responsib...

Nikolai Charushin's memoirs of his experience as a member of the revolutionary populist movement in Russia are familiar to historians, but A Genera...

This collection of studies examines different aspects of Romanian diplomacy in the 20th century, thus highlighting the activity of various diplomat...

Macedonia and its Questions: Origins, Margins, Ruptures and Continuity is a multi-disciplinary book of 11 chapters, containing contributions that s...

A groundbreaking history of Russia, from empire to the Soviet era, viewed through the lens of its money. Money seems passive, a silent witness to ...

National Jewish Book Awards FinalistA close reading of postrevolutionary Russian and Yiddish literature and film recasts the Soviet Jew as a novel ...

A vivid narrative of an ill-fated Pan American flight during World War II that captures the dramatic backstories of its passengers and, through the...