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Global Histories of the Portuguese Revolution

The Portuguese revolution marked the closure of the country's five-centuries of imperial history as well as its 48-year authoritarian period, a dramatic moment of political radicalization and social confl…

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The 1930s

With austerity biting hard and fascism on the march at home and abroad, the Britain of the 1930s grappled with many problems familiar to us today. Moving beyond the traditional focus on 'the Auden generat…

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Maria Farland
Degraded Heartland

How did rural America come to be viewed as backward and inferior, and how did literary modernism respond to and critique this perception?What happens when rural America--long romanticized in pastoral lite…

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Dan Steinbock
The End of Modern Economic Growth

What's the common denominator underpinning ongoing global turmoil: affordability crises, youth protests, proxy conflicts, trade protectionism, populism, migration crises, and extreme weather? Simply put: …

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Steven Zdatny
A History of Hygiene in Modern France

This book tells the story of an epochal change in the human condition that was part of what is often thought of as 'modernization' -a process that remade culture and society in France in the 19th and 20th…

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Jassim Buallay
The United Nations in the Balance

Going beyond unimaginative calls for UN Security Council reform and demands for defunding and "detoothing" the UN entirely, veteran diplomat, Jassim Buallay, offers a practical road map for the …

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Sung Hong Kim
Seoul Urban Architecture

Seoul Urban Architecture is a powerful and original study of Seoul's urban and architectural evolution, told through the lens of an architect and educator who has lived and worked in the city for over fou…

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Michael J. Seth
North Korea

North Korea is perhaps the most intriguing, infamous and enigmatic nation of our modern world.Yet how many of us know its full history, and how it came to be? How can we understand such a strange, isolate…

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Edward Welch
Making Space in Post-War France

Winner of the 2024 Gapper Prize, awarded annually by the Society for French Studies for the best book of its year by a scholar working in French studies in Britain or Ireland. The decades after World War …

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Perin E. Gürel
Türkiye, Iran, and the Politics of Comparison

In a 1962 meeting at the White House, Iran's last monarch, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, complained to US President John F. Kennedy 'America treats Turkey as a wife, and Iran as a concubine.' Taking this protest…

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Minxin Pei
The Broken China Dream

A provocative book that demystifies China's great democratic leap backward under Xi Jinping, revealing why the country's embrace of capitalism has given rise to hard authoritarianism, mass surveillance, a…

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Isabel Heger-Laube
China's landless peasants and the role of state-led rural urbanization

As part and parcel of China's compressed modernization, processes of state-led rural urbanization through land expropriation and rural-to-urban relocation have been transforming rural Chinese people's liv…

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Dona Brown
Hill Farms

Environmental History of the Northeast

There is a stubborn myth that has persisted for almost two centuries: the narrative of the abandoned farm in the rural American northeast. In Hill Farms , historian Dona Brown confronts this myth of rural…

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Territories of Life

Territories of Life highlights the multiplicity and heterogeneity of worlds and collectives, some labelled Indigenous, as they struggle to sustain their territories of life. "Territories of life"…

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Dona Brown
Hill Farms

There is a stubborn myth that has persisted for almost two centuries: the narrative of the abandoned farm in the rural American northeast. In Hill Farms , historian Dona Brown confronts this myth of rural…

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Perin E. Gürel
Türkiye, Iran, and the Politics of Comparison

In a 1962 meeting at the White House, Iran's last monarch, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, complained to US President John F. Kennedy 'America treats Turkey as a wife, and Iran as a concubine.' Taking this protest…

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Auke de Haan, Jennifer Joseph
The History of Japan

History Books

Japan has one of the longest and most distinct national histories in the world. From the earliest imperial courts and the age of the samurai, through the country's self-imposed isolation during the Edo pe…

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David Doyle
USS California (Bb-44)

USS California (BB-44) was commissioned by the US Navy in 1921, a year after her sister ship, USS Tennessee . The ship was sunk during the surprise attack on the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor in 1941. Cal…

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Evelyn Waugh
Black Mischief

"A hilarious and still timely tale of emerging Africa and declining England" (Time), Evelyn Waugh's third novel helped to establish his reputation as a mater satirist."We are Progress and t…

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