Clare Anderson provides a radical new reading of histories of empire and nation, showing that the history of punishment is not connected solely to the emergence of prisons and penitentiaries, but to ...

American writer Will Durant once spoke of “our tendency to view history as a turbulent stream of conflicts” — a “dramatic ...

Most students’ experiences with history beyond the United States begin and end with global or world history in high school— thousands of years summed up in about eighteen months. As someone with a ...

Despite three decades of rapid expansion and public success, global history's theoretical and methodological foundations remain under-conceptualised, even to those using them. In this collection of ...

political and economic entities with different local functions and characteristics – developed from an Italian and European into a global phenomenon. While a general history of free ports – from their ...

Imagine that a massive ice sheet covered Canada and oozed down over a large part of the northern United States, like icing spilling down the side of a cake. That was the situation somewhere ...