History: Specific Events & Topics

What does it mean to see oneself as free? And how can this freedom be attained in times of conflict and social upheaval? In this ambitious study, M...

A sweeping, original history of the Cold War, from an acclaimed historian of the USSRWhy did the Cold War erupt so soon after the Second World War?...

Examining film, literature and art produced during and after the Malayan Emergency, the guerrilla war fought between the Malayan National Liberatio...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2024Like a long winters dream, this haunting and visionary new novel from 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang...

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive history of abortion pills in the United States. Public intellectual and lawyer Carrie N. Baker sho...

This book focuses on a biographical and cultural rendering of Adlai E. Stevenson's alliance with a segment of the intellectual community, with prim...

Radio today can feel like a faithful old companion, but its early history was sensational. Between 1922 and 1939, British life was transformed by w...

Dancing on the Fault Lines of History collects essential essays by Susan Manning, one of the founders of critical dance studies, recounting her car...

AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2024'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.' Professor Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors'A real-li...

Winner of the Bloomsbury and World History Association Diversity in World History First Monograph Prize Exploring the history of prostitution in C...

This book studies the historiography of smoking in modern Britain, with a focus on the social, cultural, and emotional aspects of the practice.Cent...

Revealing Portugals counterinsurgent spying on Muslims during Mozambiques liberation struggle, this book uses archival and field work to study Musl...

This open access book uses new methodologies from the history and sociology of emotions to analyse why people select specific tokens of family inhe...