The Routledge Handbook of Early Modern Korea presents an interdisciplinary survey of Koreas politics, society, economy, and culture from the founding of the Chosn state (13921897) to 1873....More info...
This book examines the radicalization of beliefs, tactics and oppression by a dominant governing group when faced with a subordinate groups historic quest for basic human rights dating back for five centuries....More info...
Emphasizing the emergence of new institutional realities from the encounter between colonizers and colonized people, this book highlights the capacity of indigenous communities, as well as settlers themselves, to shape and transform laws and legal f...More info...
Exploring the movement of peoples, perfumes and spices across vast distances in this period of medieval history across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, this book examines the role of Arab merchants in trade between and among the Caliphal and Carol...More info...
This study emphasizes the legacies of British internationalism in the international organizations of the twentieth century while examining British responses to the end of the British Empire....More info...
This book analyses the atypical history and conditions of the Mediterranean region in contradistinction with other regions as an explanation for how and why free ports arose there....More info...
The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne marked a decisive moment in international diplomacy, laying the foundations for stability and peaceful coexistence in Southeast Europe and the Middle East. By completing the transition from empire to nation-state, the tre...More info...
Discover the 50 key developments and events that form the backbone of the story of humanity. People often complain that in history lessons at school they were taught just a few topics - the Romans, the Tudors, the Nazis - and how t...More info...
This book examines dominant discourses of globalisation and history education in schools and their impact on democracy, equality, social justice, and human rights. It explores how historical narratives shape societies political and cultural evolutio...More info...
This book provides a cultural analysis of the Israeli defense and intelligence establishments before and after the Hamas surprise attack on October 7, 2023. This book provides a cultural analysis of the Israeli defense and intellige...More info...
This book provides a cultural analysis of the Israeli defense and intelligence establishments before and after the Hamas surprise attack on October 7, 2023. This book provides a cultural analysis of the Israeli defense and intellige...More info...
Drawing on multilingual and cross-regional historical and archaeological materials, this book uses an interdisciplinary approach to reconstruct the historical landscape of the Western Uighur Kingdom along the eastern Silk Road from the 9th to 13th...More info...
(Pub. Date: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503645301)
The opening of Iraqs Bath Party archives revolutionized the study of Iraqi politics and history, offering scholars unprecedented access to the inner workings of one of the worlds most impenetrable autocracies. This volume brings together leading...More info...
This book explores the history of the Flat Earth idea and its advocates to determine what the political dimensions inherent to the idea of a Flat Earth are. For thousands of years, the belief that the Earth is flat has been a minority view expressed...More info...
This book explores the interaction of European Enlightenment thinkers with Chinese theory and shows how ideas from China and ideas about China had a profound impact on Enlightenment thought....More info...
This book explores how the Cold Wars ideological conflict was played out through competition over human rights values. As the West feared that the Soviet Union might win the Cold war, it shows how they sought to aggressively outf...More info...
A history of US-European relations through the long 20th century, focusing on the development of the EU and the economic, political, security and cultural implications for the Atlantic Alliance....More info...
A history of US-European relations through the long 20th century, focusing on the development of the EU and the economic, political, security and cultural implications for the Atlantic Alliance....More info...
A vivid account of one of historys most significant events: the approval, construction, and fateful decision to drop the atomic bomb - based on new research and interviews, timed to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima attack....More info...
This book charts the accelerating dynamics and disruptions of transformative change between 1960 and 2011, focusing on themes of political economy and terrorism, culture and identity, and environment....More info...
(Pub. Date: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009513319)
Catholicism played a critical role in the Spanish colonization campaign. In this study, Jonathan Greenwood offers an interdisciplinary study of the recognition and veneration of sainthood through the case study of the canonization of Ignatius of Loy...More info...
Catholicism played a critical role in the Spanish colonization campaign. In this study, Jonathan Greenwood offers an interdisciplinary study of the recognition and veneration of sainthood through the case study of the canonization of Ignatius of Loy...More info...
The Routledge Handbook of Early Modern Korea presents an interdisciplinary survey of Koreas politics, society, economy, and culture from the founding of the Chosn state (13921897) to 1873....More info...
This book examines the radicalization of beliefs, tactics and oppression by a dominant governing group when faced with a subordinate groups historic quest for basic human rights dating back for five centuries....More info...
Emphasizing the emergence of new institutional realities from the encounter between colonizers and colonized people, this book highlights the capacity of indigenous communities, as well as settlers themselves, to shape and transform laws and legal f...More info...
Exploring the movement of peoples, perfumes and spices across vast distances in this period of medieval history across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, this book examines the role of Arab merchants in trade between and among the Caliphal and Carol...More info...
This study emphasizes the legacies of British internationalism in the international organizations of the twentieth century while examining British responses to the end of the British Empire....More info...
This book analyses the atypical history and conditions of the Mediterranean region in contradistinction with other regions as an explanation for how and why free ports arose there....More info...
The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne marked a decisive moment in international diplomacy, laying the foundations for stability and peaceful coexistence in Southeast Europe and the Middle East. By completing the transition from empire to nation-state, the tre...More info...
Discover the 50 key developments and events that form the backbone of the story of humanity. People often complain that in history lessons at school they were taught just a few topics - the Romans, the Tudors, the Nazis - and how t...More info...
This book examines dominant discourses of globalisation and history education in schools and their impact on democracy, equality, social justice, and human rights. It explores how historical narratives shape societies political and cultural evolutio...More info...
This book provides a cultural analysis of the Israeli defense and intelligence establishments before and after the Hamas surprise attack on October 7, 2023. This book provides a cultural analysis of the Israeli defense and intellige...More info...
This book provides a cultural analysis of the Israeli defense and intelligence establishments before and after the Hamas surprise attack on October 7, 2023. This book provides a cultural analysis of the Israeli defense and intellige...More info...
Drawing on multilingual and cross-regional historical and archaeological materials, this book uses an interdisciplinary approach to reconstruct the historical landscape of the Western Uighur Kingdom along the eastern Silk Road from the 9th to 13th...More info...
From the internationally bestselling authors of A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders (Jonn Elledge) and Truth and Humans (Tom Phillips), a fascinating, insightful, often hilarious, and extremely timely journey through...More info...
(Pub. Date: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503645301)
The opening of Iraqs Bath Party archives revolutionized the study of Iraqi politics and history, offering scholars unprecedented access to the inner workings of one of the worlds most impenetrable autocracies. This volume brings together leading...More info...
This book explores the history of the Flat Earth idea and its advocates to determine what the political dimensions inherent to the idea of a Flat Earth are. For thousands of years, the belief that the Earth is flat has been a minority view expressed...More info...
This is history as you long to read it, charismatic, concise and unputdownable. – HORATIO CLARELike Sir Francis Drake and Lord Horatio Nelson in Kevin Jackson’s acclaimed maritime history series, Captain James Cook was also born of h...More info...
Series: Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development
(Pub. Date: 15-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press, ISBN-13: 9780268208080)
In the context of the global decline of democracy, The Authoritarian Divide analyzes the tactics that populist leaders in Turkey, Venezuela, and Ecuador have used to polarize their countries. Political polarization is traditionally viewed...More info...
This book explores the interaction of European Enlightenment thinkers with Chinese theory and shows how ideas from China and ideas about China had a profound impact on Enlightenment thought....More info...
This book explores how the Cold Wars ideological conflict was played out through competition over human rights values. As the West feared that the Soviet Union might win the Cold war, it shows how they sought to aggressively outf...More info...
A history of US-European relations through the long 20th century, focusing on the development of the EU and the economic, political, security and cultural implications for the Atlantic Alliance....More info...
A history of US-European relations through the long 20th century, focusing on the development of the EU and the economic, political, security and cultural implications for the Atlantic Alliance....More info...
A thrilling and unprecedented account of the radicalism and political extremism that gripped the 1970s a seismic decade that transformed the modern world. Dazzling . . . a fabulously gripping read DOMINIC SANDBROOK, The Times Books of th...More info...
A vivid account of one of historys most significant events: the approval, construction, and fateful decision to drop the atomic bomb - based on new research and interviews, timed to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima attack....More info...
This book charts the accelerating dynamics and disruptions of transformative change between 1960 and 2011, focusing on themes of political economy and terrorism, culture and identity, and environment....More info...
(Pub. Date: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009513319)
Catholicism played a critical role in the Spanish colonization campaign. In this study, Jonathan Greenwood offers an interdisciplinary study of the recognition and veneration of sainthood through the case study of the canonization of Ignatius of Loy...More info...
Catholicism played a critical role in the Spanish colonization campaign. In this study, Jonathan Greenwood offers an interdisciplinary study of the recognition and veneration of sainthood through the case study of the canonization of Ignatius of Loy...More info...
This volume provides important insights it draws the outlines of a new field of scholarship at the crossroads of the social histories of punishment and labour and on the ways through which they can be studied. This volume draws the outlines o...More info...
Under the slogan Merdeka! the Republic of Indonesia rushed into a battle for independence, a struggle of which no one could predict the outcome. Harry Poeze and Henk Schulte Nordholt provide a new narrative about the revolution, one that focuses no...More info...
This book offers the first comprehensive study of how Jesuit libraries were created, organised, and used across early modern Europe and throughout the overseas missions. Drawing on a broad range of archival and printed sources, including administrat...More info...
This volume traces the experiences of seven African American abolitionists who travelled to Ireland during the tumultuous years after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: Eli Stokes, William Allen, Isaac Davison, William Mitchell, William Troy, James C...More info...
(Pub. Date: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503638730)
At the turn of the twentieth century, life in Ottoman Syria was upended by European and US colonial and capital expansion. Many people responded by migrating to the United States. In doing so, they stepped into the world of international migration...More info...
(Pub. Date: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Sona Books, ISBN-13: 9781917259545)
Featuring an exceptional selection of historic photographs, detailed battle maps, personal accounts, and expert analysis of the tactics and strategy employed, The Greatest Battles: The Somme and Ypres provides a comprehensive and moving account of t...More info...
At the turn of the twentieth century, life in Ottoman Syria was upended by European and US colonial and capital expansion. Many people responded by migrating to the United States. In doing so, they stepped into the world of international migration...More info...
Series: Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
(Pub. Date: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503646001)
This book explores the social costs of urban change and the limits of modernity through a comparative study of two Balkan cities, Belgrade and Sofia. Between 1820 and 1920, both cities grew from small Ottoman towns into large national capitals, as t...More info...
