At the turn of the nineteenth century, the British Empire is at the height of its ascendancy; Nap...

Staking Claims to a Continent is a highly readable examination of how Jefferson Davis, Abraham Li...

A fascinating look at empires and imperialism, and the new kind of empire the United States has b...

-This richly illustrated book tells the remarkable life story of Tecumseh--one of the great leade...

The remarkable memoir of growing up in a communist family at the height of the Cold War by the la...

In the 20th century, the availability and low cost of oil triggered the industrial growth and dev...

At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the British Empire is engaged in a titanic war with Napole...

Staking Claims to a Continent is a highly readable examination of how Jefferson Davis, Abraham Li...

Insightful, prescient and often funny, The Border explores what it means to be Canadian and what ...

An investigation of the origins of democracy in a range of countries and societies, from ancient ...