Why most modern revolutions have ended in bloodshed and failure-and what lessons they hold for to...

The legacy of the Second World War has been, like the war itself, an international phenomenon. In...

This book analyzes widespread global ethnic conflicts that tear asunder nations and regions, such...

How have societies changed over the past 5,000 years? Welcome to the brief, manageable macro-soci...

A timely second edition of this popular exploration of the evolution of human society.

Along with its much vaunted progress in scientific and economic realms, our century has witnessed...

This book analyzes widespread global ethnic conflicts that tear asunder nations and regions, such...

Genocide, mass murder, massacres. The words themselves are chilling, evoking images of the slaugh...

Ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia, like Jews in Central Europe until the Holocaust, have been rema...

How four revolutionary ideas from the Enlightenment shaped today's worldThis panoramic book tells...

Post-communism, Democracy, and Illiberalism in Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of the S...