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In Search of the Romanovs: A Family's Quest to Solve One of History's Most Brutal Crimes (University
A colourful account of women's health, beauty, and cosmetic aids, from stays and corsets to today's
Critical Insights on Colonial Modes of Seeing Cattle in India: Tracing the Pre-history of Green and
In Win or Else: Soviet Football in Moscow and Beyond, 1921-1985 (Indiana University Press, 2024), La
Why should we focus on Taiwan to understand the future risks facing the world? Professor Kerry Brown
A radical new reading of eighteenth-century British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus, which recovers d
In the tense years of the early Cold War, American and Soviet women conducted a remarkable pen-pal c
In 1955, the leaders of 29 Asian and African countries flock to the small city of Bandung, Indonesia
In The Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain (U Chicago Press, 2024) Seth
In our latest podcast episode, we sat down with historian Miles Smith, who teaches at Hillsdale Coll
A funny thing happened to historian Michael Vann* on the way to his PhD thesis. While he was doing h
The Holocaust and New World Slavery: Volume 2 (Cambridge UP, 2019) second volume of the first, in-de
For all of his importance as a medieval ruler, there are surprisingly few biographies in English of
After twenty-six years of unprecedented revolutionary upheavals and endless fighting, the victorious
Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development (U Wisconsin Press, 20
News reports warn of rising sea levels spurred by climate change. Waters inch ever higher, disruptin
A “wonderful…highly comprehensive” (John Barton, author of A History of the Bible) global history of
In Soviet Nightingales: Care under Communism (Cornell UP, 2022), Susan Grant examines the history of
Fitter, Happier: The Eugenic Strain in Twentieth-Century Cancer Rhetoric (U Alabama Press, 2024) is
Folk music of the 1960s and 1970s was a genre that was always shifting and expanding, yet somehow ne
