Madawi Al-Rasheed

This updated edition analyses the challenges, both internal and external, facing Saudi Arabia in the twenty-first century.

Ebru Boyar , Kate Fleet

Using a wealth of contemporary Ottoman sources, this book recreates the social history of Istanbul, a huge, cosmopolitan metropolis and imperial capital of the Ottoman Empire.

Stephen F. Dale

Between 1453 and 1526 Muslims founded three major states in the Mediterranean, Iran and South Asia: respectively the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires. This book is the first comparative study of the politics, religion, and culture of these three empires between 1300 and 1923.

Patricia Buckley Ebrey

In this sumptuously illustrated single-volume history, now in its second edition, noted historian Patricia Buckley Ebrey traces the origins of Chinese culture from prehistoric times to the present. Both a comprehensive introduction to an extraordinary civilization and an expert exploration of the continuities and disjunctures of Chinese history, Professor Ebrey's book has become an indispensable guide to China past and present.

The Forgotten History of a Humanitarian Disaster

M. W. Daly

Darfur's Sorrow is the first general history of Darfur to be published in any language. The second edition of the book brings the story up to date and includes an analysis of attempts to save Darfur's embattled people and to bring an end to the fighting.

Risk and Reciprocity in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire

Lauren M. MacLean

This book investigates the history of political and economic change in similar Akan villages on either side of the Ghana–Cote d'Ivoire border.

The Perils of Polarized Democracy

Timothy Frye

This book examines state-building and market-building in 25 post-communist countries from 1990 to 2004.

Alexander Statiev

The Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Western Borderlands investigates the Soviet response to nationalist insurgencies that occurred between 1944 and 1953 in the regions the Soviet Union annexed after the Nazi-Soviet pact.

Identity and Utopia in the Andes

Alberto Flores Galindo , Edited by Carlos Aguirre , Charles F. Walker , Translated by Willie Hiatt , Charles F. Walker

In Search of an Inca examines how people in the Andean region have invoked the Incas to question and rethink colonialism and injustice, from the time of the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century until the late twentieth century.

How the Separation of Powers Affects Party Organization and Behavior

David Samuels , Matthew Shugart

David J. Samuels and Matthew S. Shugart provide an analysis of the way that the separation of powers shapes parties’ relationship with their leaders – either directly elected presidents or appointed prime ministers.