A unique illustrated exploration of the development of finance that combines data from every part of the world and covers five thousand years of history. From the emergence of money in the ancient world to today's interconnected landscape of high-f...

From an esteemed military historian, a sweeping history of the revolutions in war-fighting that have shaped the modern world. Heraclitus wrote that "war is the father of all", and it has formed much of the modern world. Although the fundamental nat...

The surprising history of how Americans have fought over the meaning and legacy of the Revolution for nearly two and a half centuries. Americans agree that their nation's origins lie in the Revolution, but they have never agreed on what the Revolut...

For sale in CIS only! A disturbing account of how Russia is seeking to remake occupied Ukraine in its own image, once and for all. In September 2022, at a grandiose ceremony in the Kremlin, President Putin announced the incorporation into the Russ...

For sale in CIS only! An in-depth study of this Central Asian nation's evolution since 1991, exploring how ethnicity, war and internal unrest are shaping and reshaping Kazakh identity. In early 2022, protests rocked Kazakhstan. Initially peaceful...

Costa Poetry Award 2020 Irish PEN Award for Literature 2019 Bob Hughes Lifetime Award 2017 Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 1994 Lannan Foundation Award in Poetry 1994 At her death in 2020, Eavan Boland left a formidable body of work – poems an...

The first major English-language history of Ukraine from its emergence after the demise of the Soviet Union through the current Russian invasion. In 1991, after seventy years of imperial Soviet rule, Ukraine became an independent country. Since 202...

A biography of "Native Son's" Bigger Thomas that examines his continued relevance in debates over Black men and the violence of racism. Bigger Thomas, the central figure in Richard Wright's novel "Native Son" (1940), eludes easy categorization. A v...

A translation of Muhammad Rashid Rida's best-known work, which examines the compatibility of Islamic political and legal tradition with modern thought. Muhammad Rashid Rida (1865-1935) was a prominent Muslim intellectual and reformer. Born in a vil...

The best essays from America's premier cultural historian. Jackson Lears has been hailed as "America's premier cultural historian", the "dean of American cultural history", and "one of the few pre-eminent historians of our time". Well known for his...