The Cold War

This book investigates the architectural history of China in the Mao era (19491976), focusing on the rise of modernism in the last seven years of t...

This edited volume analyses European socialist countries strategy of engagement with the West and the European Economic Community in the long 1970s...

Counting on Computers: New Information Technologies and Curricular Change in East Germany, 1960s to 1990 is a compelling exploration of socialist a...

Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize As seen in The Times, Sunday Times, Spectator, and on Tonight with Andrew Marr (LBC) Under President Xi Jinping, ...

Until the 20th century, neither the capacity nor the means to inflict major damage upon the British Isles existed. This situation changed during th...

The Celluloid Atlantic changes the way we look at American and Italian cinema in the postwar period. In the thirty years following World War II, Am...

Soviet Literature in the Sixties (1965) examines the Soviet literary scene and its changes following the death of Stalin. Not least among these cha...

This book presents pieces of evidence, which - taken together - lead to an argument that goes against the grain of the established Cold War narrati...

A vivid history of how Cold War politics helped solve one of the twentieth centurys biggest refugee crisesWhen World War II ended, about one millio...

War of Words is a volume of essays on the role of propaganda, mass media and culture in the development of the Cold War in Europe. Exploring a dime...

Throughout American history, Christianity has shaped public opinion, guided leaders in their decision making, and stood at the center of countless ...

The outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 took the American military by surprise. Rushing to respond, the US and its allies developed a selective...

Lindsey A. ORourke is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston College. Her research focuses on regime change, international security, an...

*WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2024*A gripping reconstruction of the daring escape to freedom of hundreds of East Germans in the...

The Red Pencil (1989) examines the many ways in which Soviet censorship interfered in the creative process in the words of those who experienced i...