These are some of the most insightful history books to add to your reading list. "Hands up all who know when Tsarist Russia took Finland from Sweden (1809) and when it partitioned Poland (1795)," said ...

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These advances might not have been possible without a key underlying shift in the global balance of military power. In his 1994 history of foreign policy over the past two centuries, Kissinger ...

Best books of 2023: ... "Goodbye, Eastern Europe" is a lively and sweeping history of a complicated region of the world. Accessibility statement Skip to main content. Democracy Dies in Darkness.

A new school history book is causing controversy in Switzerland, because of its treatment of the country's role during World War II. The book, called Hinschauen und Nachfragen or Look Back and Ask ...

As Martyn Rady informs us in “The Middle Kingdoms,” “invasion is a recurrent theme in Central Europe’s history,” lying, as the region does, between the powers of France and Germany in ...

Your book doesn’t address the experiences of Matoaka, the woman referred to as Pocahontas and later Rebecca Rolfe, who was one of the most famous Native Americans to visit Europe. Why not? First ...

In a new book by Pekka Hämäläinen, a picture emerges of a four-century-long struggle for primacy among Native power centers in North America.