Military History

In tracing the rise of the modern idea of the American new woman, Lynn Dumenil examines World War I's surprising impact on women and, in turn, wome...

Though its most famous battles were waged in the East at Antietam, Gettysburg, and throughout Virginia, the Civil War was clearly a conflict that r...

As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and wh...

Civil War soldiers enjoyed unprecedented access to obscene materials of all sorts, including mass-produced erotic fiction, cartes de visite, playin...

This book builds a bridge between current research in space policy and contemporary European political studies by addressing developments in Europe...

This book shows how one of the most powerful tools of security studiesstrategic cultureilluminates the origins and implications of the Asia-Pacific...

The reigns of Edward VI and Mary I remain largely by-passed in naval history, yet it was a vital time for the administration of the navy and it saw...

At no time since the end of the Cold War has interest been higher in Russian security issues and the role played in this by the modernization of Ru...

As the most populous country in Eastern Europe as well as the birthplace of the largest anticommunist dissident movement, Poland is crucial in unde...

How do former enemies reconcile after civil wars? Do they ever really reconcile in any complete sense? How is political reunification related to lo...

How to persuade citizens to enlist? How to convince them to fight in a war which was, for many, distant in terms of kilometres as well as interest?...

An analysis of U.S. Special Operations, at the center of Americas twenty-first-century wars  Grey Wars is for anyone who wants to understand todays...

An immediate sensation when it was published in 1929, Erich Maria Remarques All Quiet on the Western Front has sold more than twenty million copies...

The Staffordshire Hoard: An Anglo-Saxon Treasure tells the story of the Staffordshire Hoards discovery and acquisition, and the six-year research ...