What on earth was that First World War really about? Some uppity people in the Balkans? Did they start it? Were they pus
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A prizewinning military historian explores a critical but overlooked cause for World War I: the staggering decrepitude o
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“In the century after 1530 the empires of the Habsburgs of Spain and the Ottoman Turks fought a maritime war that seemed
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York illustrates how Revolutionary Americans founded an empire as well as a nation, and how they saw the two as insepara
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In a book that Naomi Klein says could "change the world," Anthony Hall shows that the globalization debate act
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An expert on Hungary and the Habsburg monarchy, Carlile Aylmer Macartney was a Research Fellow of All Souls College from
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The history of the Balkans incorporates all the major historical themes of the 20th Century – the rise of nationalism, c
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The Habsburg Empire’s grand strategy for outmaneuvering and outlasting stronger rivals in a complicated geopolitical wor
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The Austrian Empire was not a colonial power in the sense that fellow actors like 19th-century England and France were.
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