Geopolitics and globalization in the Twentieth Century

Now in a revised and expanded Second Edition, Geopolitics and Globalization in the Twentieth Century examines the struggle between the processes of globalization and geopolitical forces over the last 150 years. The twentieth century witnessed a struggle between geopolitical states who wanted to close off ...

Pakistan

terrorism ground zero

After the US-led coalition targeted terrorist groups operating in Afghanistan, al Qaeda, the Taliban and two dozen other such organizations relocated to the Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) of Pakistan. This remote, inhospitable region has become the sanctuary for, and headquarters of, the al Qaeda-led ...

The triumph of modernism

India's artist and the avant-garde 1922-1947

This richly illustrated book explores the contested history of art and nationalism in the tumultuous last decades of British rule in India. Western avant-garde art inspired a powerful weapon of resistance among India's artists in their struggle against colonial repression, and it is this ...

The Abu Ghraib Effect

The line between punishment and torture can be razor-thin#yet the entire world agreed that it was definitively crossed at Abu Ghraib. Or perhaps not. George W. Bush won a second term in office only months after the Abu Ghraib scandal was uncovered, and only ...

Everlasting flower

a history of Korea

South Korea # a democratic high-tech Asian Tiger and flamboyant host of the 2002 World Cup; North Korea # a secretive dictatorship on Bush#s notorious #axis of evil#, with a controversial nuclear program and a poverty-stricken population. These two Koreas seem worlds apart, separated along the ...

Pablo Picaso

First peoples

indegenous cultures and their futures

The weather in the imagination

The global economic system since 1945

Economic theory in modern times imagines a giant clockwork of events, with economists attempting to find the perfect mathematical model of a mechanical movement. The real world is manifestly more complex and unpredictable than the internal workings of a machine, and this may be why ...

Food in painting

from the Renaissance to the present

War since 1945

For conflicts since 1945, the Cold War thesis has been dominant, subordinating other events, especially in the developing world to the confrontation between East and West. Now, however, it appears less convincing to analyse the second half of the twentieth century in these terms, and ...

Sovereign city

the city-state through history

The city has had a rich and tumultuous history, evolving from a powerful political entity in ancient times to its modern role as a local hub of tourism and commerce. Sovereign City examines the nature of the city's ever-changing status, as Geoffrey Parker investigates ...

Intercities

In this title, the author thinks about what constitutes identity in present-day Europe. Looking at people and cities from the periphery, he tries to discover an "archaeology of streets and faces" which could bring him closer to himself. Set in peripheral cities such as Trieste ...