This book offers readers an introduction to the world of artificial histories and historians. It looks behind the interfaces of AI and explores everyday platforms and prize-winning history books to identify how people and algorithms make histories and how they might make histories in the future. Every moment around ...

The Cristero War took place in Mexico between 1926 and 1929. It was a war of rebellion by Mexican Catholics against the government, which had enforced restrictions on their faith. It was mainly a guerilla war, in which the Cristeros launched sudden, quick attacks against strategic locations. It began in central Mexi...

A global perspective on the nature and evolution of nationalism, from the early modern era to the present The current rise of nationalism across the globe is a reminder that we are not, after all, living in a borderless world of virtual connectivity. In Nationalism, historian Eric Storm sheds light on contemporary n...

This book studies the social consequences of bureaucratic and scientific change during the transition to modern states and societies in the Age of Enlightenment, as it explores how the Habsburg Empire deployed new ways and means to integrate existing structures into supra-regional systems of order. Exemplarily focus...

History describes the 872-day Siege of Leningrad as the most devastating siege in history. The German army had made its way to Leningrad before the city had the opportunity to prepare for an assault and the consequences were lethal. Accompanied by one of the worst famines in history, as well as a brutally cold winte...

North Korea may be known as the world's most secluded society, but it too has witnessed the rapid rise of new media technologies in the new millennium, including the introduction of a 3G cell phone network in 2008. In 2009, there were only 70,000 cell phones in North Korea. That number has grown tremendously in just...

James Brown is known as the "Godfather of Soul"ーand for good reason. All you have to do is listen to that signature James Brown sound, and you understand the impact he made on music. Just one lip curl and Elvis was sent running, just one, "Hey! Hey! Hey!" and Michael Jackson was inspired. It seems that James Brown'...

Distorted Descent examines a social phenomenon that has taken off in the twenty-first century: otherwise white, French descendant settlers in Canada shifting into a self-defined “Indigenous” identity. This study is not about individuals who have been dispossessed by colonial policies, or the multi-generational effor...

"Chinese Civil War: A History from Beginning to End" offers a detailed historical timeline and an in-depth discussion of the Chinese Civil War in its entirety. The book covers the first stages of the war, from 1927-1937, the interlude from 1938-1945 during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, and the final...

Bob Hope was the kind of entertainer who only comes along once in a lifetime. Spanning the decades, he worked through just about every era of the twentieth century. Hope grew up doing his best vaudeville routine and ended up performing far and wide with the USO during World War II and the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Leb...

Journey through the shadows of historyーwhere empires collapsed, kings rose and fell, and the seeds of modern civilization were sown. The Dark Ages Collection brings together a rich tapestry of writings from and about the medieval world. From the fall of the Roman Empire to the early stirrings of the Renaissance, th...

Explore the turning points that shaped the modern worldーthrough the most respected historical chronicle of its kind. The Cambridge Modern History Collection is the ultimate reference work in historical scholarship, originally conceived by Lord Acton and written by leading historians of the time. This definitive edi...

'Memorable... One of [China's] most astute and sensitive foreign observers' Financial Times 'Compassionate... full of warmth' Guardian More than twenty years after teaching English to China's first boom generation at a small college in Sichuan Province, Peter Hessler returned to teach the next generation. At the sam...

What makes a just government? How can liberty be protected from tyranny? The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 powerful essays written in the late 18th century by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, advocating for the ratification of the United States Constitution. These writings remain essential to ...

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles." The Art of War by Sun Tzu is one of the most influential works of military strategy and philosophical wisdom ever written. Over 2,500 years old, this Chinese classic has guided generals, CEOs, athletes, and thinkers through...

The Mau Mau Rebellion took place in Kenya, beginning in 1952. A group of native Kenyan peoples, mostly from the Kikuyu tribe, rose up against their British colonizers, who had held the region since 1895. With a complicated story, it can be difficult to place the Mau Mau Uprising within the larger history of Kenyan n...