His sophisticated, ambitious survey of Viet-Nam history will have a lasting value that sets it ap...

The Hungry Steppe examines one of the most heinous crimes of the Stalinist regime, the ...

Analytic summaries of primary works make the essays fully accessible to non-Slavist readers.

During the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, Laos was positioned to become a major front...

With this book, Mark Metzler continues his investigation into the economic history of twentiet...

John Brown was fiercely committed to the militant abolitionist cause, a crusade that culminate...

For more than one hundred years, governments have grappled with the complex problem of how to ...

The organizational cohesion of insurgent groups is central to explaining patterns of violence,...

In the years leading up to and directly following rapprochement with China in 1992, the South ...

The U.S. healthcare system is now spending many millions of dollars to improve 'patient safety...

Across the world, welfare states are under challenge (or were never developed extensively in t...

New York City boasts a higher rate of unionization than any other major U.S. city—roughly doub...