Before colonization

non-Western states and systems in the nineteenth century

Prior to European colonization, the world was thickly populated with hundreds of independent states and vibrant regional state systems. Yet these states are typically excluded from traditional international relations scholarship, which has mostly focused on the European experience. This book provides a groundbreaking comparative analysis ...

The long death of Adolf Hitler

an investigative history

A fascinating exploration of why Hitler's death was only confirmed in 2018 Adolf Hitler has taken a long time to die, despite the lethal efficiency of the gun he put to his head in April 1945. Although eagerly anticipated around the world, there were ...

Aviones de leyenda de la Segunda Guerra Mundial

De la hélice al reactor, los diez aviones que decidieron la guerra en el aire

Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el cielo dejó de ser un espacio secundario para convertirse en un escenario decisivo. Aviones de leyenda recorre la historia de las aeronaves que encarnaron ese cambio y analiza cómo la guerra aérea, más que un duelo de pilotos, fue ...

Thinking historically

a guide to statecraft and strategy

A compelling and insightful argument for historical study as a way to understand and navigate the complex, often confusing world of decision-making It seems obvious that we should use history to improve policy. If we have a good understanding of the past, it should enable ...

Far-right France

Le Pen, Bardella and the future of Europe

The story of the French far right's unstoppable rise--from the woes of a broken society to the powerful personalities upending the status quo. France's next presidential election is due by 2027 at the latest; and the far-right Rassemblement National is favoured to win ...

De la Europa deseada a la Europa compartida

Jornadas en la Universidad Valladolid: 50 años de España en la libertad

La historia de los 50 años de España en libertad atestigua el punto de inflexión fundamental que supuso la adhesión de España a las Comunidades Europeas en la construcción democrática española. Rescatar la relación simbiótica entre España y la Unión Europea resulta fundamental en el ...

American Contradiction

revolution and revenge from the 1950s to now

How did Americans come to elect Barack Obama-and then Donald Trump? Those choices capture what Paul Starr calls the American contradiction. The whole truth about America, Starr argues in this new history of the United States since the 1950s, has never been contained in one ...

The decline and fall of republican Afghanistan

A searing indictment of how Afghan elites and the Western powers pulled the rug on the Afghan people, abandoning them to their fate. The Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in 2021 was the result of declining active support for the government, and of waste and ...

Fallout

the inside story of America's failure to disarm North Korea

A behind-the-scenes look into why U.S. efforts to contain North Korea's nuclear capabilities have not worked For almost four decades, the United States has tried to stop North Korea's attempts to build nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them. Joel S ...

Surviving Rome

the economic lives of the ninety percent

A radical revision-and worker's-eye view-of everything we thought we knew about the ancient Roman economy The story of ancient Rome is predominantly one of great men with great fortunes. Surviving Rome unearths another history, one of ordinary Romans, who worked with their hands and ...

American Contradiction

revolution and revenge from the 1950s to now

How did Americans come to elect Barack Obama-and then Donald Trump? Those choices capture what Paul Starr calls the American contradiction. The whole truth about America, Starr argues in this new history of the United States since the 1950s, has never been contained in one ...

¿Qué hacemos con el pasado colonial?

Justicia, reparación y memoria

En el contexto de crecientes desigualdades, los legados coloniales se han convertido en un foco de disputa política. Fenómenos como el racismo estructural, las brechas socioeconómicas, la desposesión de tierras, las políticas de fronteras y la crisis climática se entienden hoy como consecuencias directamente ligadas ...

Historia de la guerra

Seiscientos años de enfrentamientos en Occidente (siglos XV-XXI)

Una obra imprescindible para entender cómo la guerra ha conformado el mundo en que vivimos. La guerra ha desempeñado un papel trascendental en la historia, por lo que resulta difícil identificar algún campo de la actividad humana en el que no haya dejado su impronta ...

Momentos cumbre de la humanidad

Qué podemos aprender de las grandes civilizaciones de la historia

Lo que podemos aprender del ascenso -y caída- de algunas de las civilizaciones más importantes de la historia Todas las edades de oro están marcadas por períodos de espectacular florecimiento cultural, exploración científica, logros tecnológicos y crecimiento económico. Sin embargo, no hay dos iguales: sus ...

Una revisión de la modernidad en China

Ideas y sociedad

Este libro examina las ideas, discursos y prácticas sociales que moldearon la China moderna, desde la Guerra del Opio de 1840 hasta la fundación de la República de China en 1912. Dividido en cuatro partes, el libro comienza con un estudio de los cambios fundamentales ...

En los confines del mundo

Una nueva historia de la Antigüedad

¿Cómo era vivir en los márgenes de los antiguos imperios, en los límites del mundo conocido? Muchos griegos y romanos pensaban que las fronteras de su mundo marcaban el final de la civilización. Gracias a las excavaciones arqueológicas, hoy sabemos que en las fronteras de ...

The Libyan pharaohs of Egypt

their lives and afterlives

A comprehensive account of the Libyan pharaohs of Egypt, who ruled from the tenth through the seventh centuries BC, accessibly written by renowned Egyptologist Aidan Dodson During the tenth through the seventh centuries BC, Egypt was ruled by a series of pharaohs of Libyan ancestry ...

Law, society and political culture in late medieval and Reformation Germany

This book offers a selection of edited and translated sources that shed light on law, society and political culture in Germany between the mid-fourteenth and mid-sixteenth centuries, enabling readers to discover the tumultuous late medieval and Reformation era in the Holy Roman Empire in unprecedented ...

The Old English Chronicle. Volume I: the A-Text to 1001

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)

A thousand years of English history, encapsulating invasions, the rise and fall of kings, and religious events Among the vernacular historical writings of early medieval England, the Old English Chronicle holds a prominent place, providing not only a backbone of English history from the fifth ...

The Works of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)

Hrotsvit, a canoness at the convent of Gandersheim in Saxony during the tenth century, is the first Latin dramatist since late antiquity whose work survives. While her plays are still frequently performed, her other works are not readily available in English. A desire to provide ...