How six conservative media moguls hindered America and Britain from entering World War II. As World War II approached, the six most powerful media moguls in America and Britain tried to pressure their countries to ignore the fascist threat. The med...

For sale in CIS only! From Spain to Syria, the thrilling, untold history of Nazi fugitives turned postwar agents – for America, the Soviets, the Third World, or themselves. After the Second World War, the Allies vowed to hunt Nazi war criminals "to...

For sale in CIS only! A lavishly illustrated history of diplomatic gifts, from the infamous Trojan Horse to the much-loved Christmas tree at Trafalgar Square. Gifts have been part of international relations since ancient times. They can serve as to...

What if history, as we know it, had run another course? Touching on alternate histories of the future and the past, or uchronias, "A Past of Possibilities" encourages deeper consideration of watershed moments in the course of history. Wide-ranging in...

For sale in CIS only! "Critical Muslim" is a quarterly magazine of ideas and issues, presenting Muslim perspectives on the great debates of our times. It is a tragedy that we only appreciate what has already been lost – this is where the concept of...

In the context of slavery, science is usually associated with slaveholders' scientific justifications of racism. But abolitionists were equally adept at using scientific ideas to discredit slaveholders. Looking beyond the science of race, "The Scien...

History is not, and has never been, inert, certain, merely factual, and beyond reinterpretation. Taking readers from Thucydides to the origin of the French Revolution to the Civil War and beyond, James M. Banner, Jr. explores what historians do and w...

In this engaging and controversial book, Miles Taylor shows how both Victoria and Albert were spellbound by India, and argues that the Queen was humanely, intelligently, and passionately involved with the country throughout her reign and not just in...

In this lively book, Ashley Cohen reveals how eighteenth-century Britons saw the empire – not as separate Atlantic and Indian spheres but as an interconnected "Indies". Crisscrossing the hemispheres, Cohen traces global histories of race, slavery, an...

On the tenth anniversary of his rise to power in 1932, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) seemed to many the "good dictator". He was the first totalitarian and the first fascist in modern Europe. But a year later Hitler's entrance onto the political stage...