World History

 

Across many mountains : a Tibetan family's epic journey from oppression to freedom / Yangzom Brauen translated by Katy Derbyshire. Details
Afgantsy : the Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89 / Rodric Braithwaite. Details
Afghanistan declassified : a guide to America's longest war / Brian Glyn Williams. Details
After empire : the conceptual transformation of the Chinese state, 1885-1924 / Peter Zarrow. Details
The age of social democracy : Norway and Sweden in the twentieth century / Francis Sejersted translated by Richard Daly with editing by Madeleine B. Adams. Details
Alexander the Great : myth, genesis and sexuality / Daniel Ogden. Details
Algeria : France's undeclared war / Martin Evans. Details
Arab France : Islam and the making of modern Europe, 1798-1831 / Ian Coller. Details
At home and under fire : air raids and culture in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz / Susan R. Grayzel. Details
Atlantic Europe in the first millenium bc : crossing the divide / edited by Tom Moore and Xosé-Lois Armada. Details
Aung San Suu Kyi : a biography / Jesper Bengtsson. Details
Australians / Thomas Keneally. Details
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom : China, the West, and the epic story of the Taiping Civil War / by Stephen R. Platt. Details
Balkan genocides : holocaust and ethnic cleansing in the twentieth century / Paul Mojzes. Details
Barbarians and brothers : Anglo-American warfare, 1500-1865 / Wayne E. Lee. Details
The Battle of Adwa : African victory in the age of empire / Raymond Jonas. Details
Being Soviet : identity, rumour, and everyday life under Stalin 1939-1953 / Timothy Johnston. Details
Belgian memories / [Catherine Labio, editor for this issue]. Details
Bessarabia : German colonists on the Black Sea / by Ute Schmidt translated from the German by James T. Gessele edited by Elvire Necker-Eberhardt, Nancy Herzog and Alexander Herzog. Details
Betting on the Africans : John F. Kennedy's courting of African nationalist leaders / Philip E. Muehlenbeck. Details
Between national socialism and Soviet communism : displaced persons in postwar Germany / Anna Holian. Details
Beyond the Tower : a history of East London / John Marriott. Details
The black hole of empire : history of a global practice of power / Partha Chatterjee. Details
Boots on the ground : the fight to liberate Afghanistan from al-Qaeda and the Taliban, 2001-2002 / Dick Camp. Details
British Jewry, Zionism, and the Jewish State, 1936-1956 / Stephan E.C. Wendehorst. Details
Brokers of empire : Japanese settler colonialism in Korea, 1876-1945 / Jun Uchida. Details
Burke + Norfolk : Photographs from the War in Afghanistan / by John Burke and Simon Norfolk with texts by David Campbell, Paul Lowe, Simon Norfolk. Details
Burned Bridge : how East and West Germans made the Iron Curtain / Edith Sheffer foreword by Peter Schneider. Details
By sword and plow : France and the conquest of Algeria / Jennifer E. Sessions. Details
Camps of the tundra : politics through reindeer among Saami pastoralists / Robert Paine. Details
Charting China's future : domestic and international challenges / edited by David Shambaugh. Details
China in revolution : the road to 1911 / Liu Heung Shing. Details
China's rise : threat or opportunity? / edited by Herbert S. Yee. Details
The church and the Namibian quest for independence. Details
Churchill, America and Vietnam, 1941-45 / T.O. Smith. Details
City of fortune : how Venice ruled the seas / Roger Crowley. Details
Classical spies : American archaeologists with the OSS in World War II Greece / Susan Heuck Allen. Details
The Cold War / John Lamberton Harper. Details
The Cold War in East Asia, 1945-1991 / edited by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa. Details
Colenso 1899 : the Boer War in Natal / Ian Knight. Details
Collected papers on Alexander the Great / Ernst Badian. Details
Colonizer or colonized : the hidden stories of early modern French culture / Sara E. Melzer. Details
Conceptualizing multilingualism in medieval England, c. 800 - c. 1250 / ed. by Elizabeth M. Tyler. Details
Contesting histories : German and Jewish Americans and the legacy of the Holocaust / Michael Schuldiner. Details
Cultural hierarchy in sixteenth-century Europe : the Ottomans and Aztecs / Carina L. Johnson. Details
Cultures at war : the Cold War and cultural expression in Southeast Asia / Tony Day and Maya H.T. Liem, editors. Details
CultureShock! Thailand / Robert Cooper, Nanthapa Cooper. Details
Damascus after the Muslim conquest : text and image in early Islam / Nancy Khalek. Details
The devil's wall : the nationalist youth mission of Heinz Rutha / Mark Cornwall. Details
Edward III / W. Mark Ormrod. Details
The Elizabethans / A.N. Wilson. Details
Europe's angry Muslims : the revolt of the second generation / Robert S. Leiken. Details
Exodus Burma : the British escape through the jungles of death 1942 / Felicity Goodall. Details
The Fabii and the Gauls : studies in historical thought and historiography in Republican Rome / James H. Richardson. Details
Fog of war : the Second World War and the civil rights movement / edited by Kevin M. Kruse and Stephen Tuck. Details
Folkelesnad : essay / Agnes Ravatn. Details
Fra noaidiens verden til forskerens : misjon, kunnskap og modernisering i sameland 1715-2007 / Anton Hoëm. Details
The French fifties / [Susan Weiner, special editor]. Details
From sovereign to symbol : an age of ritual determinism in fourteenth century Japan / Thomas Donald Conlan. Details
From Viking stronghold to Christian kingdom : state formation in Norway, c. 900-1350 / Sverre Bagge. Details
The future of Kurdistan : the Iraqi dilemma / Kerim Yildiz. Details
The GDR remembered : representations of the East German state since 1989 / edited by Nick Hodgin and Caroline Pearce. Details
Ghosts of empire : Britain's legacies in the modern world / Kwasi Kwarteng. Details
The gift of Persian culture : its continuity and influence in history / edited by Peter Chelkowski. Details
Global perspectives on global history : theories and approaches in a connected world / Dominic Sachsenmaier. Details
Handbook for classical research / David M. Schaps. Details
Heinrich Himmler / Peter Longerich translated by Jeremy Noakes and Lesley Sharpe. Details
A history of modern Libya / Dirk Vandewalle. Details
History, historians and development policy : a necessary dialogue / edited by C.A. Bayly ... [et al.] Details
Hitler's hangman : the life of Heydrich / Robert Gerwarth. Details
The hour of Europe : Western powers and the breakup of Yugoslavia / Josip Glaurdić. Details
Ian Fleming's commandos : the story of the legendary 30 Assault Unit / Nicholas Rankin. Details
Imperial Germany revisited : continuing debates and new perspectives / edited by Sven Oliver Müller and Cornelius Torp. Details
Imperialism, cultural politics, and Polybius / edited by Christopher Smith and Liv Mariah Yarrow. Details
The impossibility of self : an essay on the Hmong diaspora / Nicholas Tapp. Details
In country : remembering the Vietnam War / edited by John Prados. Details
In my home there is no more sorrow : ten days in Rwanda / Rick Bass. Details
Inferno : the world at war, 1939-1945 / Max Hastings. Details
Iraq's minorities : participation in public life / by Preti Taneja. Details
Israel : an introduction / Barry Rubin. Details
Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman cities / edited by John R. Bartlett. Details
Jihad in the Arabian Sea / Camille Pecastaing. Details
Jim and Jap Crow : a cultural history of 1940s interracial America / Matthew M. Briones. Details
Kaffir boy : the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in Apartheid South Africa / Mark Mathabane. Details
Kongens nei, 10. april 1940 / Alf R. Jacobsen. Details
Lands, livelihoods and identities : inter-community conflicts in East Africa / by Laura A. Young and Korir Sing'Oei. Details
Leningrad : the epic siege of World War II, 1941-1944 / Anna Reid. Details
Let's go. Europe / Let's Go Publications. Details
A little history of the world / E.H. Gombrich translated by Caroline Mustill. Details
Living at the edge of Thai society : the Karen in the highlands of northern Thailand / edited by Claudio O. Delang. Details
London 1753 / Sheila O'Connell with contributions by Roy Porter, Celina Fox and Ralph Hyde. Details
London 1753 / Sheila O'Connell with contributions by Roy Porter, Celina Fox and Ralph Hyde. Details
Lost colony : the untold story of China's first great victory over the West / Tonio Andrade. Details
The making of the Raj : India under the East India Company / Ian St. John. Details
Mao cult : rhetoric and ritual in China's Cultural Revolution / Daniel Leese. Details
Mao's China and the Sino-Soviet split : ideological dilemma / Mingjiang Li. Details
Maple leaf empire : Canada, Britain, and two world wars / Jonathan F. Vance. Details
Maritime archaeology and ancient trade in the Mediterranean / edited by Damian Robinson and Andrew Wilson. Details
The meaning of white : race, class, and the 'domiciled community' in British India 1858-1930 / Satoshi Mizutani. Details
Med penn og pistol : om politiminister Jonas Lie / Bernt Rougthvedt. Details
Media, memory, and the First World War / David Williams. Details
Ming China, 1368-1644 : a concise history of a resilient empire / John W. Dardess. Details
Monumenta serica / cura Universitatis Catholicae Pekini edita. Details
Moscow, the fourth Rome : Stalinism, cosmopolitanism, and the evolution of Soviet culture, 1931-1941 / Katerina Clark. Details
Nationalist in the Viet Nam wars : memoirs of a victim turned soldier / Nguỹên Công Lụân. Details
Noeuds de mémoire : multidirectional memory in postwar French and francophone culture / Michael Rothberg, Deberati Sanyal and Max Silverman, [special editors for this issue]. Details
The North Korean revolution, 1945-1950 / Charles K. Armstrong. Details
Olaf Otto Becker : under the Nordic light : a journey through time, Iceland 1999-2011 / Olaf Otto Becker text by Petra Gilroy-Hirtz = eine Zeitreise, Island 1999-2011 / Olaf Otto Becker Text von Petra Gilroy-Hirtz. Details
Ostkrieg : Hitler's war of extermination in the East / Stephen G. Fritz. Details
Our supreme task : how Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain speech defined the Cold War alliance / Philip White. Details
The Oxford handbook of modern German history / edited by Helmut Walser Smith. Details
Peoples of the Roman world / Mary T. Boatwright. Details
Picture this : World War I posters and visual culture / edited and with an introduction by Pearl James. Details
Plutarch Caesar / translated with an introduction and commentary by Christopher Pelling. Details
Poland's foreign policy after 1989 / Roman Kuźniar. Details
Policing the Roman Empire : soldiers, administration, and public order / Christopher J. Fuhrmann. Details
Political authority and provincial identity in Thailand : the making of Banharn-buri / Yoshinori Nishizaki. Details
Pompeii in the public imagination from its rediscovery to today / edited by Shelley Hales and Joanna Paul. Details
Popular culture and the state in East and Southeast Asia / edited by Nissim Otmazgin and Eyal Ben-Ari. Details
Post-wall Berlin : borders, space and identity / Janet Ward. Details
Prague winter : a personal story of remembrance and war, 1937-1948 / Madeleine Albright with Bill Woodward. Details
The quest for statehood : Korean immigrant nationalism and U.S. sovereignty, 1905-1945 / Richard S. Kim. Details
Race : antiquity and its legacy / Denise Eileen McCoskey. Details
Red phoenix rising : the Soviet Air Force in World War II / Von Hardesty and Ilya Grinberg. Details
Remote homeland, recovered borderland : Manchus, Manchoukuo, and Manchuria, 1907-1985 / Shao Dan. Details
Rethinking cultural resource management in Southeast Asia : preservation, development, and neglect / edited by John N. Miksic, Geok Yian Goh and Sue O'Connor. Details
Rethinking Japanese history / Amino Yoshihiko translated and with an introduction by Alan S. Christy preface and afterword by Hitomi Tonomura. Details
Rethinking Japanese modernism / edited by Roy Starrs. Details
Rethinking the American anti-war movement / Simon Hall. Details
Robespierre : a revolutionary life / Peter McPhee. Details
The Romans and their world / Brian Campbell. Details
Rorke's Drift, 1879 : 'pinned like rats in a hole' / Ian Knight. Details
Russia's people of empire : life stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the present / edited by Stephen M. Norris and Willard Sunderland. Details
Russo-Japanese relations, 1905-1917 : from enemies to allies / Peter Berton. Details
Sacred space in Israel and Palestine : religion and politics / edited by Marshall J. Breger, Yitzhak Reiter and Leonard Hammer. Details
Sailor diplomat : Nomura Kichisaburō and the Japanese-American War / Peter Mauch. Details
Sandsværs historie / Aage Lunde. Details
Scotland and the British Empire / edited by John M. MacKenzie and T.M. Devine. Details
The Shi'a of Samarra : the heritage and politics of a community in Iraq / edited by Imranali Panjwani with a foreword by Charles R.H. Tripp. Details
Side by side : parallel histories of Israel-Palestine / edited by Sami Adwan, Dan Bar-On, Eyal Naveh, PRIME (Peace Research Institute in the Middle East). Details
Solar dance : Van Gogh, forgery, and the eclipse of certainty / Modris Eksteins. Details
Sources of Vietnamese tradition / edited by George E. Dutton, Jayne S. Werner, and John K. Whitmore. Details
The Spanish holocaust : inquisition and extermination in twentieth-century Spain / Paul Preston. Details
The Stalin cult : a study in the alchemy of power / Jan Plamper. Details
State and minorities in communist East Germany / Mike Dennis and Norman LaPorte. Details
Stonehenge complete / Christopher Chippindale. Details
Strangers at home : history and subjectivity among the Chinese communities of West Kalimantan, Indonesia / by Hui Yew-Foong. Details
Strong society, smart state : the rise of public opinion in China's Japan policy / James Reilly. Details
The struggle for Egypt : from Nasser to Tahrir Square / Steven A. Cook. Details
Subhas Chandra Bose in Nazi Germany : politics, intelligence and propaganda, 1941-43 / Romain Hayes. Details
Sudan, South Sudan, and Darfur : what everyone needs to know / Andrew S. Natsios. Details
Surviving the Bosnian genocide : the women of Srebrenica speak / Selma Leydesdorff translated by Kay Richardson. Details
Tausret : forgotten queen and pharaoh of Egypt / edited by Richard H. Wilkinson. Details
Three Germanies : West Germany, East Germany and the Berlin Republic / Michael Gehler translated by Anthony Mathews. Details
Together they fought : Gandhi-Nehru correspondence 1921-1948 / edited by Uma Iyengar, Lalitha Zackariah. Details
Trans-colonial modernities in South Asia / edited by Michael S. Dodson and Brian A. Hatcher. Details
Trial of the major war criminals before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946. Details
Trouble in the west : Egypt and the Persian Empire, 525-332 BCE / Stephen Ruzicka. Details
Tudorism : historical imagination and the appropriation of the sixteenth century / edited by Tatiana C. String & Marcus Bull. Details
Turkey : what everyone needs to know / Andrew Finkel. Details
The two unions : Ireland, Scotland, and the survival of the United Kingdom, 1707-2007 / Alvin Jackson. Details
Tōyōgaku bunken ruimoku. Details
Understanding the Victorians : politics, culture, and society in nineteenth-century Britain / Susie L. Steinbach. Details
Urban legends : civic identity and the classical past in northern Italy, 1250-1350 / Carrie E. Beneš. Details
Vanished kingdoms : the rise and fall of states and nations / Norman Davies. Details
Viewed sideways : writings on culture and style in contemporary Japan / Donald Richie. Details
A visitor's guide to the ancient Olympics / Neil Faulkner. Details
Walther Rathenau : the life of Weimar's fallen statesman / Shulamit Volkov. Details
The war machines : young men and violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia / Danny Hoffman. Details
The wartime journals / Hugh Trevor-Roper edited by Richard Davenport-Hines. Details
What does a Jew want? : on binationalism and other specters / Udi Aloni edited by Slavoj Zizek conversations and comments by Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, and Slavoj Zizek. Details
When China ruled the seas : the treasure fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433 / Louise Levathes. Details
Where China meets India : Burma and the new crossroads of Asia / Thant Myint-U. Details
The Young Turks' crime against humanity : the Armenian genocide and ethnic cleansing in the Ottoman Empire / Taner Akçam. Details
The Zulu War / text and colour plates by Angus McBride. Details
Zulu War 1879 : twilight of a warrior nation / Ian Knight, Ian Castle. Details