History of Other Lands

This edited volume traces the tragic history of state collapse and statebuilding, radicalisation and conflict in Chechnya, focusing on the conteste...

This book considers the position and historiography of the western Balkans in modern Europe. It challenges the linear narrative that the region was...

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This book explores the seemingly unstoppable turn away from Europe and towards Asian powers, notably China, on the part of the Russian state in the...

The contributions of this volume discuss the broad field of transformation processes in Muslim societies from different perspectives with various d...

Throughout history, many states have attempted to harness the attention of their populations for their own ends. This study argues that the Assyri...

How and why did students at Kabul University engage in political activism or refrained from it between 1964 and 1992? Based on oral history intervi...

This volume brings together a series of discussions by scholars from a range of disciplinary, (trans)regional and epistemic perspectives that came ...

The documents from the aram al-sharf in Jerusalem constitute one of the most important corpora from the pre-Ottoman Middle East covering broad area...

This volume centres upon the era conventionally labelled the 'Making of the kingdom', or the 'Anglo-Norman' era in Scottish history. It seeks a bal...

This edited volume examines deterrence and the defense efforts of European states neighboring Russia, following the Crimean intervention.Deterrence...

This book examines ethnic conflicts of the former Soviet Union to indicate how turbulent the world has become in the post-Cold War era-and how diff...

The overthrow of the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende and the coming to power of a military regime led by Augusto Pinochet on ...

Arbitrating Empire offers a new history of the emergence of the United States as a global powerone shaped as much by attempts to insulate the US ju...

The first book published by an Indigenous author in Canada is George Copway's Life, History, and Travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh (1847), in which he ...

Since the defeat of the pro-sovereigntists in the 1995 Quebec referendum, the loss of a cohesive nationalistic vision in the province has led many ...

By 1943, after the catastrophic German defeat at Stalingrad, the Wehmacht's panzer armies gradually lost the initiative on the Eastern Front. The t...

This book is an acknowledgement and celebration of Professor Carl Bridges key contributions to the British World approach to history. His pioneerin...

This book is the first major study exploring archival and memorial practices of the Soviet unofficial culture. The creation of counter-archives was...

Iran is More than Persia: Ethnic Politics in Iran analyses Iranian politics from a unique perspective, one that focuses on the relations between th...

The Byzantine icon has long remained marginal to the study of art's history, only emerging from Giorgio Vasari's condemnation of the gilded, unnatu...