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Bringing the histories of British anti-slavery and Australian colonization together changes our view
Perceptions of the United States as a nation of immigrants are so commonplace that its history as a
The Shawnee leader Tecumseh came to prominence in a war against the United States waged from 1811 to
Theo Williams’ Making the Revolution Global: Black Radicalism and the British Socialist Movement bef
Is there such a thing as a timeless classic? More than a decade ago, Dr. Rochelle Gurstein set out t
Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France (Oxford UP, 2024) recounts women
In The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property (Duke University Press, 202
In 1924, the crown prince and future emperor of Ethiopia, Ras Täfäri, on a visit to Jerusalem, calle
James Dunnigan’s memorable phrase serves as the first part of a title for this book, where it seeks
In All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960 (Pegasus Book
The South China enclave of Macau was the first and last European colonial settlement in East Asia an
In Coalitions of the Weak (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Victor C. Shih investigates how leader
Absolutely no one doubts that Stalin murdered millions of people in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. His
Perhaps no American landscape is as iconic as the rainbow rocks of Arizona's Grand Canyon. Yet, as t
The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–1949 (UNC Press, 2022)
For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. T
Few history books sell better than biographies of Nazi leaders. They attract anyone even tangentiall
Over the course of World War II, guerrillas from across the Philippines opposed Imperial Japan's occ
A History of Fireworks from: Their Origins to the Present Day (Reaktion, 2024) by John Withington il
Economic history has always emphasized the importance of long-distance trade in the emergence of mod
