21st century history: from c 2000 - books

In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing ‘an art without a history’. ‘No-one’, it went on, ‘has...  Read More >>

A clear-eyed analysis of the role the United States should play in the world as it exists today  Read More >>

Traditional Chinese edition of LICENSE TO TRAVEL: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE PASSPORT  Read More >>

A follow-up to John Richardson's 2019 bestselling book, Making Movie Magic  Read More >>

Arguing for the renewal of emancipatory universalism, Léger makes an unsparing critique of woke aesthetics and black...  Read More >>

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How hundreds of lawyers mobilized to challenge the illegal treatment of prisoners captured in the war on terror...  Read More >>

The Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal, presented by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State,...  Read More >>

Poet and psychogeographer Peter Finch undertakes 15 walks around the south Wales Valleys, picking out features en...  Read More >>

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POSTCARDS THROUGH HELL IS A TRUE TALE OF HEROISM AND SACRIFICE THAT TAKES READERS ONTO THE DEADLY ROADS OF AFGHANISTAN...  Read More >>

The history of football is littered with legendary names: Greatest ever lists usually include the likes of Pele,...  Read More >>

An informed modern plan for post-2020 American foreign policy that avoids the opposing dangers of retrenchment and...  Read More >>

An examination of what algorithmic polarization means for society and how conservative elites use media literacy...  Read More >>

This book analyses Britain's most recent nuclear project launched in the mid-2000s against a backdrop of rising...  Read More >>

A Washington Post style editor’s fascinating and irresistible look back on the Miss America pageant as it approaches...  Read More >>

The Taste of St. Louis Coffee is an elixir many live by, but few of us know the history of what's in our mug. Follow...  Read More >>

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"""New York Magazine national correspondent Gabriel Debenedetti reveals an inside look at the historically close,...  Read More >>

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‘Impressive … Fascinating’ Sunday Times ‘An authoritative history’ Financial Times ‘Gripping and richly researched’...  Read More >>

This innovative study of memorial architecture investigates how design can translate memories of human loss into...  Read More >>

An extraordinary re-envisioning of the scope and ambitions of the contemporary military memoir: the Iraq War's only...  Read More >>

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