General and world history

The growing field of Holocaust studies confronts a world wracked by antisemitism, immigration and refugee crises, human rights abuses, mass atrocity crimes, threats of nuclear war, the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic, and environmental degradation.

The Byzantine Empire was the Islamic commonwealth's first and most stubborn adversary.

Now in its second edition, The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History has been updated to include recent scholarship, and an analysis of how debates have changed in light of recent key events such as the Black Lives Matter movement.

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.

Bringing together a diverse collection of primary source documents, this book illuminates the events and experiences of World War I from a variety of perspectives, from soldiers on the front lines to civilians supporting the war effort at home.

In How Nuclear Weapons Spread, Frank Barnaby examines the far-reaching effects - both beneficial and detrimental - of nuclear weapons.

Reveals Ann Tizia Leitich, American correspondent for Austrian newspapers in the 1920s and 1930s, as an important cultural mediator between the two countries.

Trade, shipping, military conquest, migration and settlement in the eastern Mediterranean of the 10th-15th centuries generated multiple encounters between states, social and 'national' groups, and individuals belonging to Latin Christianity, Byzantium and the Islamic world.

The Devil in History is a provocative analysis of the relationship between communism and fascism.

A comprehensive account of the political, social and economic developments of the Ch''ing Empire during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

What essential leadership lessons do we learn by distilling the actions and ideas of great military commanders such as George Washington, Dwight D.

In this groundbreaking book, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi establishes the existence of a special radical trajectory spanning four continents and linking Beirut, Cairo, and Alexandria between 1860 and 1914.

In recent years historians and political observers have vilified Mao Tse-tung and placed him in a class with tyrants like Hitler and Stalin.

This book uses food to explore the uneven and multifaceted encounters between European imperial societies and their colonies, examining the cultural, social, political and economic forces behind European empires.

Ernest Coleman has led or participated in four expeditions to find out the fate of the Franklin expedition.

Contested Images: Women of Color in Popular Culture is a collection of 17 essays that analyze representations in popular culture of African American, Asian American, Latina, and Native American women.

In India, in the second half of the twentieth century, there was a vastly increased concern for the welfare of children.

Producto de una profunda investigación en archivos especializados, Visión periférica desafía las fronteras —lingüísticas, geográficas y temporales— para proponer un estudio de las crónicas coloniales y contemporáneas sobre las regiones marginales de América Latina.

How much does the Thomas Cromwell of popular novels and television series resemble the real Cromwell?

Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) encompasses the various disciplines of wireless interception, cryptanalysis, communications intelligence, electronic intelligence, direction-finding, and traffic analysis.

In Music in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, John Arthur Smith presents the first full-length study of music among the ancient Israelites, the ancient Jews and the early Christians in the Mediterranean lands during the period from 1000 BCE to 400 CE.

This book presents a novel and innovative approach to the study of social evolution using case studies from the Old and the New World, from prehistory to the present.

In this innovative book, Keith Watenpaugh connects the question of modernity to the formation of the Arab middle class.

This volume focuses on nature, religion and politics - three "environments" of early modernity.

A concise narrative of Greek history and an analysis of the literature, art, and thought of the ancient Greeks.

Military Thought of Asia challenges the assertion that the generation of rational secular ideas about the conduct of warfare is the preserve of the West, by analysing the history of ideas of warfare in Asia from the ancient period to the present.

From early human civilisation to today, this book illuminates the history of southern Africa.

This textbook provides a dynamic and concise overview of the Cold War.

A concise and accessible survey of this topical and complex subject, this is the first book of its type to focus on the terrorists, and their psychology, in an historical context.

In this remarkable book, now reissued in paperback, Brian Lavery examines every aspect of the Royal Navy, both ashore and at sea, during the Second World War, and casts a lucid eye over the strengths and weaknesses of an organisation that was put under acute strain during the period, yet rose to the challenge with initiative and determination.

Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world's great cuisines-from the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years ago, to the present-in this superbly researched book.

John Calvin (1509-64) influence reaches from the Reformation to Karl Barth and beyond.

Unraveling the many mysteries surrounding the murder of Julius CaesarThe assassination of Julius Caesar is one of the most notorious murders in history.

An imaginative reassessment of Æthelred "the Unready," one of medieval England’s most maligned kings and a major Anglo-Saxon figure The Anglo-Saxon king Æthelred "the Unready" (978–1016) has long been considered to be inscrutable, irrational, and poorly advised.

Is it true that the trans-Atlantic slave trade, about which so much has been heard in recent years, would have been impossible without the willing and enthusiastic cooperation of African leaders?

'Translated and Edited with a Preliminary Essay on the Intercourse between China and the Western Nations previous to the Discovery of the Cape Route'.

This book critically examines the origins of American diplomacy in the greater Persian Gulf region, arguing that it was the inability of the United States to contend effectively with the disintegration of British imperial authority in the Gulf that eventually led it to assume its current role in the region.

A fascinating history of the international human rights movement as seen by one of its foundersDuring the past several decades, the international human rights movement has had a crucial hand in struggles against totalitarian regimes and crimes against humanity.

As health care concerns grow in the U.