Walter Scott 
Tales of a Grandfather 
Being the History of Scotland, From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Reign of James the Fifth

Scholars have tended to portray T.H. Huxley, John Tyndall, and their allies as the dominant cultural authority in the second half of the 19th century. Defenders of Darwin and his theory of evolution, …

In a radical reflection, John Young contends that the US model of democracy has failed the Global South because its emphasis on the supremacy of market capitalism entails a loss of national sovereign …

Turkey stands at the crossroads of the Middle East–caught between the West and ISIS, Syria and Russia, and governed by an increasingly forceful leader. Acclaimed writer Kaya Genc has been covering …

The most significant political development of the post-Cold War era was, arguably, the diffusion of neoliberalism across the globe. Yet behind the illusion of abundance and development, the ”rule of …

In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek – the head of China”s military academy and leader of the Kuomintang (KMT) – began the `northern expeditions” to bring China”s northern territories back under the control …

Soviet foreign policy in the Stalin era is commonly assumed to have been a direct product of either Marxist ideology or the leader”s whims. Both assumptions, however, oversimplify the complex and …

The Mongol invasions in the first half of the thirteenth century led to profound and shattering changes to the historical trajectory of Islamic West Asia. As this new volume in The Idea of Iran …

Navies in Modern World History traces the role of navies in world history from the early nineteenth century, through both World Wars, to the dawn of the twenty-first century and beyond. In a series …

Pioneers of Australian Armour tells the story of the only Australian mechanised units of the Great War. The 1st Australian Armoured Car Section, later the 1st Australian Light Car Patrol, and the …

A detailed account of the rich history and resilience of the Bakwena ba Mogopa, one of the most important traditional communities in South Africa. This seminal and lucid work depicts the scope of soc …