Napoleon and The Shroud is the previously untold story of two of the most remarkable giants of the modern world. It is a......more

Text in French Cette Provence tant visitée chaque année, pour son soleil, ses calanques, ses odeurs d’été, détient un au......more

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This book draws on the latest scholarship and archival research to examine the story of the Soviet Union and race. It lo......more

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Russian dissident, former world chess champion and human rights activist Garry Kasparov argues that the invasion of Ukra......more

From the acclaimed biographer of explorers Magellan, Columbus, and Francis Drake comes a unique exploration of life and ......more

Beginning with the 1881 Itinerant Art Exhibition, this book examines the history of modern Russia through the paintings ......more

Beginning with the 1881 Itinerant Art Exhibition, this book examines the history of modern Russia through the paintings ......more

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The Armenian world was shattered by the 1915 genocide. Not only were thousands of lives lost but families were displaced......more

This accessible study examines the Holocaust’s "forgotten victims" - Jews and other victims who suicided from 1939 to 19......more

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A groundbreaking cultural history of calamitous teacher-student relationships at the heart of nineteenth-century French ......more

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Bodies of water have played myriad roles in human history--as cultural landmarks, foundation myths and origin stories, s......more

Bodies of water have played myriad roles in human history--as cultural landmarks, foundation myths and origin stories, s......more

An expansive spatial history of Drancy, the Parisian antechamber to Auschwitz, from the 1930s to the present day. Drancy......more

Rus’ and Mongol Rule presents the fullest examination in English to date of the economic and social history of Rus’ from......more

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An exploration of the pivotal shift on the Eastern Front during World War II, highlighting how the Red Army’s mechanized......more

Legal Moves engages in a project of epistemological disobedience, boldly suturing concepts of dance studies--kinesthetic......more

Form and Transformation in Soviet Underground Writing examines the rich literary and cultural innovation that thrived un......more

This book brings a selection of the influential writings of Marc Bloch into the English language, largely for the very f......more

What do Buffalo Bill and Gustave Eiffel have in common? These celebrities are both part of Venita Datta’s analysis of co......more

What do Buffalo Bill and Gustave Eiffel have in common? These celebrities are both part of Venita Datta’s analysis of co......more

A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of twenty-first-century Russia, where even dictatorship is a reality show "......more

This book examines the existence of the Yakutian young ones as silenced inhabitance a "negative space" of fear and myths......more

Explore the legacy of one of the greatest battles in military history--the Battle of Waterloo--through this finely craft......more

From the acclaimed biographer of explorers Magellan, Columbus, and Francis Drake comes a unique exploration of life and ......more

Revisits issues of gender equality and feminism fifty years after revolutionary protests changed French society. The wom......more

The End of Violence focuses on General Jacques Pâris de Bollardière, who transformed from a rising star in the French ar......more

Since its birth in 1910, the Hotel Lutetia has been a grand Paris institution, a meeting place for artists, intellectual......more

This book provides an innovative martial history of British culture during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. It pri......more

Anthropology is inseparable from writing, whether in field diaries, letters, articles, or books. Among these writings, l......more

While Stalin’s Great Terror has been extensively studied, this is the first book to uncover the fate of Iranian communis......more

A study of the affects and effects of Russian narratives and their global dissemination. Disinformation, conspiracy narr......more

After the 1881 declaration of press freedom, France enjoyed a golden age of print, arguably up until the 1950s. This boo......more

This groundbreaking book highlights a generation of women who made art as a way of defining a culture of experimental th......more

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This absorbing study describes and illustrates the US, British, Japanese, French, Italian and Czechoslovak troops deploy......more

Banned Books and Counterfeit Notes examines how convicts sent to France’s overseas penal colony in French Guiana used th......more

A Protestant Air focuses on the Protestant connection linking three intellectual giants of twentieth-century French thou......more

A Protestant Air focuses on the Protestant connection linking three intellectual giants of twentieth-century French thou......more

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The French Army of the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748) is an in-depth study of Louis XV’s army. This first vo......more

This book explores Adam Johann von Krusenstern’s work in the service of the Russian Empire in broadening knowledge of th......more

The story of a bold political experiment in nineteenth-century France to establish power through finance. Amid the rise ......more

The story of a bold political experiment in nineteenth-century France to establish power through finance. Amid the rise ......more

When She Remembered showcases an intertwined group of seven influential women, from well-known figures such as Simone Ve......more

When She Remembered showcases an intertwined group of seven influential women, from well-known figures such as Simone Ve......more

There is an enduring fascination with Joan of Arc, yet she is almost always seen alone, as a victim or martyr. A strikin......more

Foreign Policy Best Book of 2023 Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2023 The "riveting" (The Economist), secret story of the h......more

With the collapse of the USSR in 1991, the Soviet armed forces were largely disbanded and some of their personnel were d......more

The ’Wagner’ mercenary group remained comparatively unknown for years, and only after the beginning of the full-scale in......more

A comprehensive history of Akademgorodok, the Russian ’science city’....more

The lives of five socialist women and their legacy for modern-day feminists Red Valkyries explores the history of social......more

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An absorbing portrait of Edmond de Rothschild, who defied his class to help build a nation--and found his identity in th......more

The Champagne-Marne Defensive occurred at a crucial moment in World War I and proved to be the turning point of the war.......more

"Vividly reconstructs how Maximilian’s power was forged and maintained by the sharp end of a French bayonet." --New York......more

We’re canceling publication of this book (both print and ebook) and terminating the contract today, 5/15/2025. Between 1......more

A major new political history of the French Revolution In 1786, France’s ancien régime was functioning as usual. Its all......more

A masterful history of how war and insecurity, both real and perceived, have driven Russia’s destiny for centuries, incl......more

Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has cast a spotlight on Russia’s burgeoning partnership with Ira......more

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For the British government’s supporters in Scotland in the 1790s, one thing was paramount: they were fighting French pri......more

An in-depth exploration of the history of representations of the indigenous ’Peoples of the North’ in the Soviet era, co......more

Petrograd, the imperial capital and the urban stage upon which virtually the entire Russian Revolution was enacted, in 1......more

How officials in bureaucratic institutions in Tajikistan, though well-meaning, create a postcolonial, problematic "migra......more

The French Resistance fought against Nazi occupation and Vichy collaboration, playing a pivotal role in France’s liberat......more

Refitted and reorganized after the Normandy campaign, the 12.SS Panzer Division ’Hitlerjugend’ participated in the Arden......more