For two decades, the Burmese warlord Khun Sa controlled nearly 70 percent of the world’s heroin supply, yet there has been little written about the legend the U.S. State Department branded the “most……続きを見る
Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular bestseller which has sold more than 13 million copies and a critically acclaimed history of China; a tragic tale of nightmarish cruelty and……続きを見る
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary North Korea presents a comprehensive picture of contemporary North Korea, placed in historical context and set against the overlapping fields of politics, econ……続きを見る
Martin Luther King's 1965 address from Montgomery, Alabama, the center of much racial conflict at the time and the location of the well-publicized bus boycott a decade earlier, is often considered b……続きを見る
The third volume of The Cambridge History of Communism spans the period from the 1960s to the present, documenting the last two decades of the global Cold War and the collapse of Soviet socialism. A……続きを見る
Die Mauer war das zentrale Monument des Kalten Krieges und ein Symbol für die Zweiteilung der Welt. Edgar Wolfrum schildert die Hintergründe ihrer Entstehung, zeigt, was es hieß, in ihrem Schatten z……続きを見る
John Stuart Mill described the Conservatives as 'the stupidest party', yet they governed the UK for nearly three-quarters of the twentieth century. Conservative leaders typically have been and are e……続きを見る
An engrossing history of the desperate battles for the Rzhev Salient, a forgotten story brought to life by the harrowing memoirs of German and Russian soldiers.
The fighting between the German and R……続きを見る
The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
Oscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay
Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NAS……続きを見る
著者:Teresa Anne Murphy
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2013年06月07日
Women's history emerged as a genre in the waning years of the eighteenth century, a period during which concepts of nationhood and a sense of belonging expanded throughout European nations and the y……続きを見る
著者:Angus Deaton
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2023年10月03日
From the Nobel Prize–winning economist and New York Times bestselling coauthor of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, candid reflections on the economist’s craft
When economist Angus Dea……続きを見る
著者:Sally Rohan
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2014年07月17日
This full-term study of the Western European Union (WEU) brings to life the history of Europe’s search for a co-operative security and defence order, from its post World War II origins to the presen……続きを見る
著者:Tyler T. Schmidt
出版社: University Press of Mississippi
発売日: 2013年09月11日
A study of race and sexuality and their interdependencies in American literature from 1945 to 1955, Desegregating Desire examines the varied strategies used by eight American poets and novelists to ……続きを見る
著者:Linda Kelly
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2019年03月06日
Situated in the heart of London's Holland Park are the remains of Holland House – the site of what was once England's most celebrated political salon. In the first thirty years of the nineteenth cen……続きを見る
著者:Luke Griffith
出版社: Cornell University Press
発売日: 2023年12月15日
In Unraveling the Gray Area Problem**, Luke Griffith examines the US role in why the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty took almost a decade to negotiate and then failed in just thirty y……続きを見る
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[Timothy] Snyder identifies the conditions that allowed the Holocaustーconditions our society today shares. . . . He certainly couldn’t be more right about our world.”ー……続きを見る
This foray into the often violent subcultures of Japan dramatically debunks the Western perception of a seemingly controlled and orderly society.
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The twin crises of immigration and mass migration brought new urgency to the balance of power between progressive, humanitarian groups and their populist opponents. In the United States and many Eur……続きを見る
A fast-paced, character-filled history that brings the unique American saga to life for readers of all ages
How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedo……続きを見る
A new edition of the classic Falklands War memoir “which many regard as the most perceptive description of the momentous events of April to June 1982” (Maritime Adviser).
Major General Julian Thomps……続きを見る
Written by a leading expert on modern Russia, this is an illustrated introduction to the bitter campaigns in Chechnya.
In this new edition of his popular 2014 work, Mark Galeotti traces the progress……続きを見る
This book charts the history of armoured warfare from the first use of the tank in 1916 right through to the 21st century, adopting military, political and global perspectives. Alaric Searle explore……続きを見る
著者:Mary Brennan
出版社: University Press of Colorado
発売日: 2008年03月30日
In Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace, Mary Brennan examines conservative women's anti-communist activism in the years immediately after World War II.
Brennan details the actions and experiences of ……続きを見る
Provides a forceful corrective to the idea that Britain 'stood alone' until the invasion of the Soviet Union and the attack on Pearl Harbor brought about 'the Grand Alliance'.
Based on extensive arc……続きを見る
著者:Charles Murray
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2012年01月31日
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A fascinating explanation for why white America has become fractured and divided in education and class, from the acclaimed author of Human Diversity.
“I’ll be shocked ……続きを見る
著者:Mark Bowden
出版社: Grove Atlantic
発売日: 2023年04月11日
#1 New York Times Bestseller: The “riveting” account of the 1993 operation in Mogadishuーthe longest sustained firefight involving US troops since Vietnam (The Wall Street Journal).
On October 3, 19……続きを見る
著者:James Longhurst
出版社: University of Washington Press
発売日: 2015年06月08日
Americans have been riding bikes for more than a century now. So why are most American cities still so ill-prepared to handle cyclists? James Longhurst, a historian and avid cyclist, tackles that qu……続きを見る
As a vigorous interpretation of political and social developments in Britain since the late-Victorian era, State and Society is one of the most respected and widely-read introductions to modern Brit……続きを見る
著者:Boris Johnson
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2014年11月13日
From London’s inimitable mayor, Boris Johnson, the story of how Churchill’s eccentric genius shaped not only his world but our own.
On the fiftieth anniversary of Churchill’s death, Boris Johnson ce……続きを見る