20th Century 8

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

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

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

光鮮亮麗的韓流背後，藏著多少前人的血和淚？！ 姚嘉文（考試院前院長） 蕭新煌（總統府資政） 柳照遠（二二八基金會副執行長） 郭秋雯（政大韓文系教授） 阿潑（轉角國際專欄作者） 簡義明（成大臺文系教授） 正……続きを見る

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

Head Start, Job Corps, Foster Grandparents, College Work-Study, VISTA, Community Action, and the Legal Services Corporation are familiar programs, but their tumultuous beginning has been largely for……続きを見る

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

**Winner of the Society of Presidential Descendants Book Award and the Age of Reagan Conference Book Prize One of the Wall Street Journal’sbest political books of 2022 A masterful account of how Ron……続きを見る

During the early years of the Cold War, racial segregation in the American South became an embarrassing liability to the international reputation of the United States. For America to present itself ……続きを見る

In the late nineteenth century, Chinese reformers and revolutionaries believed that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Chinese writing system. The Chinese characters, they argued, were……続きを見る

The period spanning the two World Wars was unquestionably the most catastrophic in Europe's history. Despite such undeniably progressive developments as the radical expansion of women's suffrage and……続きを見る

The book John Kelly reads every time he gets a promotion to remind him of ‘the perils of hubris, the pitfalls of patriotism and duty unaccompanied by critical thinking’ The most vivid, moving – and ……続きを見る

A history of capitalism in nineteenth†‘ and twentieth†‘century China and India exploring the competition between their tea industries Tea remains the world’s most popular commercial drink today, and……続きを見る

*WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2023* ***A NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEAR* 'The best book about the subject I have ever read' Max Hastings, Sunday Times** A sweeping history of occupation and resi……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

War is often described as an extension of politics by violent means. With contributions from twenty-eight eminent historians, Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the Second World War examines the r……続きを見る

A robust trade in human lives thrived throughout North China during the late Qing and Republican periods. Whether to acquire servants, slaves, concubines, or childrenーor dispose of unwanted househo……続きを見る

This is the first full account of how an influential form of commercial organization - the multinational enterprise - drove globalization and contributed to the making of the modern world. Robert Fi……続きを見る

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

In the hundreds of books written about battleships, the authors tend to draw down the curtain on the careers of these great vessels in September 1945, with the surrender of Japan. Yet, on that day s……続きを見る

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the e……続きを見る

There was no representative fascist movement during interwar Europe and there is much to be learned from where fascism 'failed', relatively speaking. So Nathaniël D. B. Kunkeler skilfully argues in ……続きを見る

Few years in baseball history matched the drama of 1978 and few player diaries tore the cover off a season like Sparky Lyle’s THE BRONX ZOO. Now available for the first time in eBook is the best-sel……続きを見る

A synthetic account of how science became a central weapon in the ideological Cold War. Honorable Mention for the Forum for the History of Science in America Book Prize of the Forum for the History ……続きを見る

This historical study dismantles the myth of Reagan’s hardline victory and sheds light on his true diplomatic success in cooperation with Gorbachev. Did President Reagan’s hawkish policies destroy t……続きを見る

An award-winning journalist investigates a story largely ignored by mainstream media but right there, in front of our eyes ... Are we not alone? The moment we have an answer might have arrived. Awar……続きを見る

A masterful history of the LGBT workforce in America Workplaces have traditionally been viewed as “straight spaces” in which queer people passed. As a result, historians have directed limited attent……続きを見る

This is the first global examination of the historical relationship between Christianity and human rights in the twentieth century. Leading historians, anthropologists, political theorists, legal sc……続きを見る

Michael Napier details the critical role of air power in the skies over Afghanistan, from the ten-year occupation by the USSR in the 1980s through to the US and NATO campaign from 2001 to 2021. US a……続きを見る

An illustrated history of the long Cold War careers of the US Navy's last gun destroyers, from the modernized World War II-era Fletcher-class to the Forrest Sherman-class. The finest American destro……続きを見る