Self-Determination

Kwasi Kwarteng brings a unique perspective and impeccable academic credentials to a narrative history of the British Empire....

The sweeping story of entrepreneurship, empire, and epicurean triumph unlike anything the world has ever seen before....

The China Mirage explores a difficult century that defines US-Chinese relations to this day....

In this innovative and illuminating book, Hal Brands, a leading historian and former Pentagon adviser, argues that America should look to the history of the Cold War for lessons in how to succeed in great-power rivalry today....

In When the Facts Change, Tony Judt's widow and fellow historian Jennifer Homans has assembled an essential collection of the most important and influential pieces written....

Our relationship with China remains one of the most complex and rapidly evolving and is perhaps one of the most important to our nation's future....

In Tank Warfare, prominent military historian Jeremy Black offers a comprehensive global account of the history of tanks and armored warfare in the 20th and 21st centuries....

Today, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence....

Americans constantly make moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through. A president is either praised for the moral clarity of his statements or judged solely on the results of their actions....

Cook takes listeners through the tumultuous era of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the gathering storms of World War II - the years of the Roosevelts' greatest challenges....

When the Cold War ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Washington establishment felt it had prevailed in a world-historical struggle. Our side had won, a verdict that was both decisive and irreversible....

By the author of acclaimed biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Adams, a penetrating biography of one of the most high-minded, consequential, and controversial US presidents, Woodrow Wilson....

The Consequences of Humiliation explores the nature of national humiliation and its impact on foreign policy. Joslyn Barnhart demonstrates that Germany's catastrophic reaction to humiliation at the end of World War I is part of a broader pattern....

As Mark Lawrence Schrad shows in Smashing the Liquor Machine, the conventional scholarship on prohibition is extremely misleading for a simple reason: American prohibition was just one piece of a global phenomenon....

As a boy, Robert D. Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father's evocative stories about traveling across America as a young man....

Hillary Rodham Clinton's inside account of the crises, choices, and challenges she faced during her four years as America’s 67th Secretary of State....

Revolutionary Islam, the stirrings of globalization, market reforms in China, and the beginning of the end of the USSR - 1979 heralded the economic, political, and religious realities that define the 21st century....

Historian Michael Warner addresses the birth of professional intelligence in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century and the subsequent rise of US intelligence during the Cold War....

A work of enormous range and stirring human drama, conjuring both the Asian and European theaters with equal fluency....

In 1963, Norman F. Cantor published his breakthrough narrative history of the Middle Ages. Here is a significant revision, update, and expansion of that work....