History books

Winner, The Lionel Gelber PrizeSilver Medal, Arthur Ross Book AwardFor decades, China's rise to power was characterized...  Read More >>

Engineering Global Socialism chronicles the journey of the Bosnian global corporation Energoinvest and its workers...  Read More >>

Why were the last generation of Jews to grow up in Poland before the Holocaust so susceptible to change and new...  Read More >>

The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa's most important early twentieth-century statesman...  Read More >>

Lake Ontario has materially enabled and enriched the societies that have crowded its edges, from fertile agriculture...  Read More >>

A groundbreaking history of the ethics of war in the ancient Near East Origins of the Just War reveals the incredible...  Read More >>

Explores the transformative shift in nineteenth-century Chinese art, where artists used touch to establish a genuine...  Read More >>

This is the first book to chronicle the history of AIDS in Soviet Russia, detailing the government's denial of the...  Read More >>

Lying abroad reconstructs the tumultuous early modern career of a jobbing ambassador, Henry Wotton, the man James...  Read More >>

Engineering Global Socialism chronicles the journey of the Bosnian global corporation Energoinvest and its workers...  Read More >>

A history of Black poets in Washington, DC, reveals how they have reflected and transformed American cultural discourse...  Read More >>

The history of the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective, an archive dedicated to preserving Chicana feminist...  Read More >>

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In 1945, following the U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan surrendered and ended its brutal 50-year occupation...  Read More >>

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According to Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics, today, approximately one in six Jews in Israel is a Haredi (ultra-Orthodox)....  Read More >>

Explores Scottish and international Christian responses to social problems in urban-industrial societies since 1800...  Read More >>

A haunting, historically grounded novel of memory, resistance, and the cost of telling the truth. The water remembers....  Read More >>

Explores the concept of a category and contemporary debates on category politics, category mistakes and the imperialism...  Read More >>

Uses 'The Innocence of Muslims' controversy as a starting point for exploring ChristianMuslim relations in Egypt,...  Read More >>

In June 1943 Qantas Catalinas began flying Perth-Ceylon, a distance of 3,500 miles and at the time the longest air...  Read More >>

Edinburgh is forever bound to The Royal Scots, the oldest regiment in the British Army and now part of The Royal...  Read More >>

German Light Divisions 1938-39 Volume 1 offers a detailed examination of the creation and early operations of Germany's...  Read More >>

An incendiary, exquisitely written, sharply funny account of one woman's journey out of the collapsing systems of...  Read More >>

The watery, heavily vegetated marshlands of the Mekong Delta served as a formidable natural defense for Viet Cong...  Read More >>