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An urgent and incisive new framework for understanding the origins—and stakes—of global conflict with China, Russia, and Iran. Eurasia is a strategic prize without equal—which is why the world has …

The Nazi Worker is the second in a three-volume project on the figure of the worker and, by extension, questions of class in twentieth-century German culture. It is based on extensive research in the …

The story of the audacious showman who built the greatest carnival dynasty in North America. Enter the realm of the carnie king, Patty Conklin, the flamboyant founder of what would become the wor …

The best-known songs in the world are violent, sexist, and religious — so why do we celebrate national anthems when we should be rewriting them? “Fascinating and thoughtful … showcases how anth …

In 2020, the Vatican opened its archives for the pontificate of Pius XII (1939-1958), the pope that led the Catholic Church during WWII, the Holocaust, and the beginning of the Cold War. The Global P …

Shows that a fraught historical process was at work in which Basotho drew on local and global sources of knowledge and how this small nation surrounded by South Africa can serve as a valuable case-st …

Get ready for a wonderful story of realization and redemption. The author starts to tell his story from childhood into his late 60’s. It seems to be a difficult process, as he made many mistakes al …

The twentieth century left humanity in despair. Two World Wars caused the death of more than seventy million people. The Holocaust of the Jews and genocide against other groups left us the images of …

The concept of Manifest Destiny has been highly misinterpreted. Such items as the Cherokee Trail of Tears, the US as the hemisphere policeman, exploitation of Pacific Island Nations, and the list goe …

An international history of the uncanny in the 1920s and 1930s. The interwar period was a golden age for the occult. Spiritualists, clairvoyants, fakirs, Theosophists, mind readers, and Jinn summon …