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This book uncovers the driving forces and mechanisms through which Yoruba migrant communities in Kano, the largest commercial and administrative city in northern Nigeria, and Tamale, the largest comm …

The untold story of film as a chemical cousin to poison gas and nuclear weapons, shaped by centuries of violent extraction.   The history of film calls to mind unforgettable photographs, famou …

Teenage Intimacies offers a new account of the ‘sexual revolution’ in mid-twentieth century England. Rather than focusing on ‘Swinging London’, the book reveals the transformations in social life tha …

Was Franco’s Spain really a pariah in the Anglosphere? This book examines pro-Francoism and the significant influence of a ‘Spanish lobby’ in shaping US and British policy towards Spain during the Se …

This book is motivated by a concern for the continued freedom of America. America as a Constitutional Republic is quickly slipping away, and what awaits is a Communist dictatorship. As a senior citiz …

“A wonderful subject, beautifully written, evoking a world startlingly like and unlike our own. Essential reading for anyone interested in the origins and possibilities of our current global crisis.” …

A history-focused spinoff of the Maps for Curious Minds series: The story of perhaps the most consequential decade of the twentieth century, brought to vivid life in signature Curious Minds style, br …

Energy history is an approach to understanding the past that takes changes in the human exploitation of Earth’s energies as its object of inquiry. This interdisciplinary field documents and analyzes …

Previously unavailable archival sources reveal the socially disruptive impact of the First World War in Scotland. While a great deal has been written on Scotland and the First World War, the question …

This is a book about dictatorship and democracy. Its treatment of these two patterns of government is not conventional. Instead of setting the one against the other, it proposes to demonstrate how th …