In The Shah’s Party and the Iranian Revolution That Followed Robert Templer reveals the hubristic high point of the Pahlavi ...

For those governing Britain’s imperial possessions, sports were a site for what Headlam termed ‘moral training’, a key ...

A new translation marks the 50th anniversary of Carlo Ginzburg’s pioneering microhistory The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos ...

Redressing the crimes of Pinochet’s regime has been a hard-fought and often contested process. Chile’s current presidency has ...

A Cultural History of Nationalism in Europe from 1800 to the Present by Joep Leerssen looks to art and not politics for the ...

M ost historians would probably say that King Arthur was just a myth. This consensus was established in 1977 in a brilliant ...

I n August 1944, as the French Resistance fought to liberate Paris, Albert Camus went to see Jean-Paul Sartre at the ...

The potential implications of Charles Darwin’s theory of sexual selection did not sit well with Victorian gender mores – or with Darwin himself. For more than 150 years Charles Darwin’s theory of ...

Deep in Australia’s central deserts lies Section 400. Surrounded by bright red sand, tufty spinifex grass, and stumpy mulga trees, this patch of desert – covering some 1,782 square kilometres – was ...

Georgian London was not immune to eruptions of agitation or mob violence. The Wilkes affair of the mid-1760s, which mobilised the crowd behind ‘Wilkes and Liberty’ against the government, and the anti ...

Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince von Bismarck, prime minister of Prussia for almost thirty years and from 1871 to 1890 the first chancellor of the German Empire, which recognised him as its founder, died ...

In The China Question: Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear Ho-fung Hung watches the West swing from Sinophilia to Sinophobia and back again. The China Question argues that the Mongols’ brutal westward ...