General and world history

A rich ethnographic account of young West African fisherfolk navigating a precarious social and economic environment shaped by ecological crisis, war, and secrecy.

Through the lens and experiences of civil society, Fortier demonstrates the volatility of democratization following the downfall of Tunisia''s authoritarian regime duringin the 2010–11 uprisings.

Examines the clash between political systems and political action as the Roman Republic disintegrated.

Examination of literacy and reading habits in nineteenth-century Ireland and implications for an emerging cultural nationalism.

This volume brings together scholars of Mediterranean archaeology, ancient history, and complexity science to advance the study of maritime connectivity.

Examines the entrenchment of Salafism in Lebanese society while also highlighting the movement''s transnational links to the Persian Gulf.

Explores Sino-Japanese relations through encounters that took place between each country''s people living at the margins of empire.

This study of military routines is vital for understanding why soldiers from Western democracies participating in multinational missions vary in their use of force.

Demonstrates how Venetian newsmongers played a crucial yet heretofore unrecognized role in the invention of America.

This innovative book reveals children''s experiences and how they became victims and actors during the twentieth century''s biggest conflicts.

Examines developments in the heartland of Greece after the reign of Alexander the Great, and rejects the usual pessimistic picture.

Demonstrates the crucial role that the Constitution played in the coming of the Civil War.

Zietlow explores the ideological origins of Reconstruction and the constitutional changes in this era through the life of James Mitchell Ashley.

Presents the first comprehensive study of the ''Byzantine Google'' and how it reshaped Byzantine court culture in the tenth century.

This is an innovative study of how British Colonial rule and society in Malayan towns and plantations transformed immigrants into British subjects.

Explores two thousand years of radically changing opinions on the emperor Augustus, and what they reveal about the historical individual.

Examines the environmental and technological complexity of South Carolina inland rice plantations from 1670 to 1860.

Uses a comparative analysis of case law in leading common law nations to demonstrate how religious discrimination is culturally determined.

Examines the struggle against rinderpest - a devastating cattle disease - and explores the history of international development.

A comprehensive global study of the political ideology of Christian Democracy, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.

This is a novel, transnational exploration of the major Chinese intellectual debates on radicalism in history, culture, and politics after 1989.

Drawing on archival sources and eyewitness accounts, this book explores Soviet Russians'' experience of Nazi rule in German-occupied northwest Russia.

Through a comparative study of Morocco and Tunisia, Feuer proposes a compelling theory accounting for complexities in religion-state relations across the Arab world.

A panoramic study of our Urban Planet that takes readers on a six-continent, six-millennia tour of the world''s cities.

How a distinctive approach to social policy led democracy to flourish in the Federal Republic of Germany despite its past.

Mining new sources, Klein tells the dramatic story of Italy''s Jews, from emancipation to Fascism, the Holocaust, and postwar myth-making.

Focuses on enslaved families and their social networks in the city of Puebla de los Ángeles in seventeenth-century colonial Mexico.

This book compares secularity in societies not shaped by Western Christianity, particularly in Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa.

This book situates protection at the centre of the global history of empires, thus advancing a new perspective on world history.

Sen argues that the decline of caste-based politics in twentieth-century Bengal was as much the result of coercion as consent.

This is study of the lived experience of monastic reform within the troubled and violent landscape of twelfth-century Germany.

Looks at the situation of Kurds in Turkey through the lens of multiculturalism, giving us a fresh and new comparative perspective.

Reconsiders Secretary of Defense Robert S.

Global Gifts considers the role that the circulation of material culture played in the establishment of early modern global diplomacy.

Reshapes the discourse surrounding the nature of British global power in this crucial period of transformation in international politics.

The violence of war and sacrifice were not the antithesis of civilization at Shang Anyang, but rather its foundation.

An in-depth study examining the agency and influence of indigenous Temne-speakers in the making of the Sierra Leone Colony.

Martin Luther was the subject of a religious controversy that never really came to an end.

Becoming Arab explores how a long history of inter-Asian interaction fared in the face of nineteenth-century racial categorisation and control.

This history of astronomy in Egypt reveals how modern science came to play an authoritative role in Islamic religious practice.

Examines the economic motivations and complications that drove ethnic cleansing in the post-World War II Sudetenland.

An important new analysis of Native Hawaiian efforts to construct relationships with other Oceanic peoples as missionaries, diplomats, and tourists.

Re-examines Aristophanes'' engagement with Greek religion by studying his dramatization of traditional stories of religious experiences.

This book examines the poorly understood transformations in rural landscapes and societies that formed the backbone of ancient empires.

The inspiring story of 162 US paratroopers, dropped hopelessly off target, and the French villagers who assisted and supported them.

Explores foreign seamen''s employment in the British Royal Navy of the French Wars, and deconstructs the meanings of ''foreignness'' itself.

Develops a framework to explain shifts in judicial assertiveness towards militaries, using Pakistan as an illuminating case study.

A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world'A'Ap"e;[Petropoulos] brings Lohse into sharper focus, as a personality and axis point from which to explore a network of art dealers, collectors and museum curators connected to Nazi looting.

A sweeping account of the rise and evolution of liberal internationalism in the modern era"e;The crowning achievement of [Ikenberry's] decades-long work explaining and defending the liberal international order.

The end of our high-growth world was underway well before COVID-19 arrived.