"e;A landmark book...[a] bold reframing of the history of the British Empire."e;-Caroline Elkins, Foreign AffairsAn award-winning historian places the corporation-more than …
The first comprehensive history of America's attempts to promote international development by exporting private enterprise, a story marked by frequent failure and occasional …
"e;An important new book...offers a powerful call for historians of the ancient Mediterranean to consider their implicit biases in writing ancient history and it provides an …
How the imposition of Crown rule across the British Empire during the Age of Revolution corroded the rights of British subjects and laid the foundations of the modern police …
A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the YearA vivid, novelistic history of the rise of Athens from relative obscurity to the edge of its golden age, told through the lives of …
Winner of the 2022 London Hellenic PrizeOn the bicentennial of the Greek Revolution, an essential guide to the momentous war for independence of the Greeks from the Ottoman …
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award"e;Impeccably researched and seductively readable...tells the story of Sam Sharpe's revolution manque, and the subsequent …
A scholar and activist tells the story of change makers operating within the Chinese Communist system, whose ideas of social action necessarily differ from those dominant in …
A digital anthropologist examines the online lives of millions of people in China, India, Brazil, and across the Middle East-home to most of the world's internet users-and …
Greek myths have long been admired as beautiful, thrilling stories but dismissed as serious objects of belief. For centuries scholars have held that Greek epics, tragedies, and the …
