History

Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these ...

In this monumental book, Chris Harman achieves the impossible—a gripping history of the planet from the perspective of struggling peoples throughou...

China's emergence as a twenty-first-century global economic, cultural, and political power is often presented as a story of what Chinese leader Xi ...

What must China do to become truly democratic and equitable? This question animates most progressive debates on China, and in China's Twentieth Cen...

Much has been written on the how colonial subjects took up British and European ideas and turned them against empire when making claims to freedom ...

In February of 1917 Russia was a backward, autocratic monarchy, mired in an unpopular war; by October, after not one but two revolutions, it had be...

The Chinese Revolution was a complex and protracted event staged by competing groups and individuals with different hopes and expectations. Its vet...

In the 1950s, a French journalist joked that the Chinese were 'blue ants under the red flag,' dressing identically and even marching in an identica...

In 2011, Myanmar embarked in a democratic transition from a brutal military rule that culminated four years later, when the first free election in ...

Japan: The "other," lesser-known 1968. The analysis of May 68 in Paris, Berkeley, and the Western world has been widely reconsidered. But 1968 is ...