Forgery and memory at the end of the first millennium

An in-depth exploration of documentary forgery at the turn of the first millennium Forgery and Memory at the End of the First Millennium takes a fresh look at documentary forgery and historical memory in the Middle Ages. In the tenth and eleventh centuries, religious houses across Europe began fa...

West side rising

The 1921 flood that put a spotlight on environmental and social inequality in a southwestern city

Haymarket scrapbook

In November, we remember! A new edition of a long out-of-print classic honoring the greatest flashpoint in American labor history.

We, the anarchists!

Essential reading on the Spanish Civil War and resistance to twentieth-century fascism and capitalism.

Hitler's american model

How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi GermanyNazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In Hitler’s American Model, James Whitman pres...

Stalin and the scientists

An eye-opening history of science in the Soviet Union, following the scientists who survived Stalin’s rule and helped to reshape the world

Landscapes of war

Marxism and historical practice (vol. ii)

Marxism and Historical Practice bring together essays written by one of the major Marxist historians of the last fifty years

Illusions of security

The government is spying on us. Here's how, and what we can do about it.

Crisis and contradiction

In this wide-ranging collection, experts from around the world analyze political and economic trends in Latin America since the 1990s.

The communist international and u.s. communism, 1919 - 1929

For most commentators the Comintern’s role in the development of American Communism is wholly negative. Zumoff challenges this narrative.

The new left, national identity, and the break-up of britain

Though often seen as marginal, Matthews' engaging analysis shows that national questions were considered crucial by the British New Left.

Communes and workers' control in venezuela

A sweeping, insightful history from below of the Bolivarian Revolution and its efforts to build socialism in the 21st century.

The sword and the cross

Whether writing of the Alps, the high seas, or the North Pole, Fergus Fleming has won acclaim as one of today's most vivid and engaging historians of adventure and exploration. The Sword and the Cross takes us to the Sahara at the end of the nineteenth century, when France had designs on a hostil...

Italian anarchism, 1864-1892

Heroism and hardship during a critical period of political development in Italy.

A living revolution

An exploration of the influences on Israel's early kibbutz movement.

The art of being governed

An innovative look at how families in Ming dynasty China negotiated military and political obligations to the stateHow did ordinary people in the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) deal with the demands of the state? In The Art of Being Governed, Michael Szonyi explores the myriad ways that families fulfil...

Working-class politics in the german revolution

An authoritative and engaging political biography of one of the most important, yet largely unknown, leaders of the German revolution.

Prophets unarmed

Drawing on numerous oral history interviews with survivors, this study of Chinese Trotskyism is exhaustive and groundbreaking.

Local girl makes history

A professor's nostalgic journey to childhood tourist attractions reveals their hidden histories and universal relevance.

The mexican heartland

A major new history of capitalism from the perspective of the indigenous peoples of Mexico, who sustained and resisted it for centuriesThe Mexican Heartland provides a new history of capitalism from the perspective of the landed communities surrounding Mexico City. In a sweeping analytical narrat...

One soldier's war

Horizontalism

A powerful oral history of modern day revolutionary Argentina. The social movements, neighborhood assemblies, and occupied factories.

Durruti in the spanish revolution

A political biography, history of of a revolutionary era, and nonstop adventure story across three continents.

World war i and the jews

World War I utterly transformed the lives of Jews around the world, allowing them to demonstrate patriotism, dispel antisemitic myths, and fight for their rights. This book provides a fascinating survey of the ways in which Jewish communities in Europe, North America, and the Middle East partic...

The nanking atrocity, 1937-1938

First published in 2007, The Nanking Atrocity remains an essential resource for understanding the massacre. This second edition includes an extensive new introduction reflecting on the historiographical developments of the last decade, making this even more relevant as we approach the 80th anni...

Western europe, eastern europe and world development 13th-18th centuries

Collected together, and in many cases translated, for the first time, this volume contains the key essays of Marian Malowist

Loaded

A provocative, timely, and deeply-researched history of gun culture and how it reflects race and power in the United States

First world, ha, ha, ha!

Hitler's generals

The american road to capitalism

Most historians assume that American capitalism was either imported or the result of market expansion. Post proves otherwise.

The russian social-democratic labour party, 1899-1904

Everyone has read Lenin’s ‘What is to Be Done.’ Now everyone can read the contributions of his political interlocutors.

Remembering scottsboro

How one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in the United States continues to haunt the nation’s racial psycheIn 1931, nine black youths were charged with raping two white women in Scottsboro, Alabama. Despite meager and contradictory evidence, all nine were found guilty and eight of the defe...

Dixie be damned

"The South will rise again" has a whole new meaning.

European regions and boundaries

References to regional differences remain central to cultural and political discourse all over the European continent. This collection presents a synoptic view of these regional concepts together with the historical and disciplinary contexts where they had emerged by bringing together prominent...

Rethinking the industrial revolution

The feudal state is often viewed as a passive actor in the rise of capitalism. Žmolek here corrects the record.

Berlin: the city and the court

Written before his death of TB at 27, this subtle work leaves indelible impression.

Space and spatiality in modern german-jewish history

This wide-ranging volume revisits both literal and metaphorical spaces in modern German history, working from an expansive concept of “the spatial” to examine the ways in which Jewishness has been attributed to them, and what the implications have been in different eras and social contexts.

Between empire and continent

It is the first major volume exploring the complex domestic backgrounds of British Foreign Policy, such as party politics, reform and retrenchment, invasion scares etc. It challenges many myths about the so called Anglo-German Antagonism such as the perceived threat of the High Seas Batt...

Havana without makeup

A diplomat and writer with decades of unparalleled knowledge delivers an intimate, unconventional portrait: the single must-read book about Cuba.

The apotheosis of captain cook

Here Gananath Obeyesekere debunks one of the most enduring myths of imperialism, civilization, and conquest: the notion that the Western civilizer is a god to savages. Using shipboard journals and logs kept by Captain James Cook and his officers, Obeyesekere reveals the captain as both the self-c...

The promise of american life

The Promise of American Life is part of the bedrock of American liberalism, a classic that had a spectacular impact on national politics when it was first published in 1909 and that has been recognized ever since as a defining text of liberal reform. The book helped inspire Theodore Roosevelt's N...

How the idea of religious toleration came to the west

Religious intolerance, so terrible and deadly in its recent manifestations, is nothing new. In fact, until after the eighteenth century, Christianity was perhaps the most intolerant of all the great world religions. How Christian Europe and the West went from this extreme to their present univers...

Tear off the masks!

When revolutions happen, they change the rules of everyday life--both the codified rules concerning the social and legal classifications of citizens and the unwritten rules about how individuals present themselves to others. This occurred in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, which la...

Changing the world

In May of 1919, women from around the world gathered in Zurich, Switzerland, and proclaimed, "We dedicate ourselves to peace!" Just months after the end of World War I, the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom--a group led by American progressive Jane Addams and comprising veteran ca...

Cross and scepter

A concise history of medieval ScandinaviaChristianity and European-style monarchy—the cross and the scepter—were introduced to Scandinavia in the tenth century, a development that was to have profound implications for all of Europe. Cross and Scepter is a concise history of the Scandinavian kingd...

Byzantine matters

Why the marginalized story of Byzantium has much to teach us about Western historyFor many of us, Byzantium remains "byzantine"—obscure, marginal, difficult. Despite the efforts of some recent historians, prejudices still deform popular and scholarly understanding of the Byzantine civilization, o...