General and world history

The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history.

What happens when an empire is too proud to collapse - and too weak to survive?

Student-Centered Oral History explores the overlaps of culturally relevant teaching, student-centered teaching, and oral history to demonstrate how this method empowers students, especially those from historically underrepresented communities.

In what has become the era of the mass shooting, we are routinely taken to scenes of terrible violence.

In what has become the era of the mass shooting, we are routinely taken to scenes of terrible violence.

The days of choosing between a handful of imports and a convenience store six-pack are long gone.

In Beyond 1776, ten humanities scholars consider the American Revolution within a global framework.

While Jamestown and colonial settlements dominate narratives of Virginia's earliest days, the land's oldest history belongs to its native people.

George Bronson Rea, Propagandist brings to life the extraordinary story of a journalist, publisher, engineer, spy, lobbyist, blackmailer and fortune hunter, who represents twentieth century journalism gone awry.

The Enlightenment, an eighteenth-century philosophical and cultural movement that swept through Western Europe, has often been characterized as a mostly secular phenomenon that ultimately undermined religious authority and belief, and eventually gave way to the secularization of Western society and to modernity.

In Beyond 1776, ten humanities scholars consider the American Revolution within a global framework.

The first account of the dissolution of the monasteries for fifty years—exploring its profound impact on the people of Tudor England  “This is a book about people, though, not ideas, and as a detailed account of an extraordinary human drama with a cast of thousands, it is an exceptional piece of historical writing.

Conversion to Islam is a phenomenon of immense significance in human history.

From the late seventeenth century to the late eighteenth century, the Sikh community transformed from a relatively insignificant religious minority to an elevated position of kingship and empire.

To Make America: European Emigration in the Early Modern Period brings together leading scholars to examine one of the most consequential yet understudied forces in Atlantic history: the mass movement of Europeans across the ocean between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.

To Make America: European Emigration in the Early Modern Period brings together leading scholars to examine one of the most consequential yet understudied forces in Atlantic history: the mass movement of Europeans across the ocean between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.

The Sea in the Middle presents an original and revisionist narrative of the development of the medieval west from late antiquity to the dawn of modernity.

At heart, suicide is a subversive act: the assertion of individual will against public authority.

The untold story of film as a chemical cousin to poison gas and nuclear weapons, shaped by centuries of violent extraction.

Brings the nineteenth century to life, with its attendant disease, violence, and colonial machinations.

From supply chains to surveillance, how logistics drives modern powerand its consequences.

How was poverty measured and defined, and how has this influenced our judgement of the change in poverty in Britain during the first sixty years of the twentieth century?

The Falklands War of 1982 was a small war, but one with large resonances.

The Sea in the Middle presents an original and revisionist narrative of the development of the medieval west from late antiquity to the dawn of modernity.

The untold story of film as a chemical cousin to poison gas and nuclear weapons, shaped by centuries of violent extraction.

In February 1989, the CIA's chief in Islamabad famously cabled headquarters a simple message: "e;We Won.

"e;"e;If a historian were allowed but one book on the American involvement in Vietnam, this would be it.

Novel Histories: British Women Writing History, 1760-1830 argues that British women's history and historical fiction in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries changed not only the shape but also the political significance of women's writing.

The fall of communism and the break-up of the Soviet Union into 15 independent states in December 1991 was one of the most significant events of the 20th century.

The Vietnam War endured for thirty years, cost billions of dollars, and resulted in thousands of Vietnamese, French, and American deaths.

The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history.

The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history.

George Bronson Rea, Propagandist brings to life the extraordinary story of a journalist, publisher, engineer, spy, lobbyist, blackmailer and fortune hunter, who represents twentieth century journalism gone awry.

A thought-provoking, authoritative biography of one of history’s most maligned rulers: France’s Louis XVI  “The definitive contribution to our understanding of Louis XVI as a man and a monarch.

The Enlightenment, an eighteenth-century philosophical and cultural movement that swept through Western Europe, has often been characterized as a mostly secular phenomenon that ultimately undermined religious authority and belief, and eventually gave way to the secularization of Western society and to modernity.

From the late seventeenth century to the late eighteenth century, the Sikh community transformed from a relatively insignificant religious minority to an elevated position of kingship and empire.

Body of State offers a translation of Marco Baliani's acclaimed dramatic monologue, Corpo di stato, concerning the 1978 kidnapping and assassination of Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by the terrorist Red Brigades.

This biography covers both the literary and political career of John Morley, later Lord Morley of Blackburn (1838-1923).

Imperial Designs is the first text in English to deal comprehensively with the subject of the Italian colonial experience in China in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The city of Acre, powerfully fortified and richly provisioned, was the last crusader stronghold.

Brings the nineteenth century to life, with its attendant disease, violence, and colonial machinations.

As recently as the 1970s, gay and lesbian history was a relatively unexplored field for serious scholars.

Conversion to Islam is a phenomenon of immense significance in human history.

From Pearl Harbor to D-Day and beyond and all-star examination of the conflict that shaped the modern world from World War II Magazine.

Studies of the pivotal historic place of the Mediterranean have long been dominated by specialists of its northern shores, that is, by European historians.

Studies of the pivotal historic place of the Mediterranean have long been dominated by specialists of its northern shores, that is, by European historians.

As recently as the 1970s, gay and lesbian history was a relatively unexplored field for serious scholars.

This biography covers both the literary and political career of John Morley, later Lord Morley of Blackburn (1838-1923).

Imperial Designs is the first text in English to deal comprehensively with the subject of the Italian colonial experience in China in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Novel Histories: British Women Writing History, 1760-1830 argues that British women's history and historical fiction in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries changed not only the shape but also the political significance of women's writing.