Sharp, authoritative essays on the dark realities of Empire and the true historian’s importance for democracy, amid history’s appropriation by apologists, racists and culture warriors.
A novel examination of interstate competition, considering how and why states employ proxies to perpetrate violence on their behalf.
From leading experts on Lebanese politics and society, a comprehensive account of the country's descent into chaos since 2019.
The first English translation of this revolutionary 1916 text, an unlikely collaboration between Arab intellectuals and British wartime intelligence.
A vital investigation into the mysterious events behind the surreptitious, illegal creation of a British colony in 1965--just as the United Kingdom decolonised elsewhere.
An absorbing new history of European colonialism, showing how ideas of retribution and revenge were used to justify violent conquest and rule.
A history of the fur trade originating on the Karakul sheep–raising steppe, and of the merchants who took the pelts to markets worldwide.
Reclaiming Turkmenistan from the margins of global attention, Hein offers a lively history of the ‘Mother of the World’ and its people.