Oxford University Press

A Story of America in Its First Age of TerrorJust after noon on September 16, 1920, as hundreds of workers poured onto Wall Street for their lunchtime break, a horse-drawn cart packed with dynamite exploded in a spray of metal and fire, turning the busiest corner of the financial center into a war zone. Thirty-nine people died and hundreds more lay...

Political realism dominated the study of international relations during the Cold War and has again in recent years retuned to the centre of scholarly debate in international relations. In this book leading authors analyse various historical and philosophical themes, probing the potential and the pathologies of realist thought....

Provided for over 60 years, and expanding more rapidly today than it has for a        generation, foreign aid is now a $100bn business. But does it work? Indeed, is it        needed at all? In this first-ever, overall assessment of aid, Roger Riddell provides        a rigorous but highly readable account of aid, warts and all....

In this revised edition of Paul Thompson's successful book, he traces oral history        through its own past and weighs up the recent achievements of this international        movement. He challenges myths of historical scholarship and looks at the use of oral        sources by the historian. The author offers advice on designing a project;...

A Human History of the MediterraneanConnecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millennia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, clashed, influenced and absorbed one another. In this brilliant and expansive book, David Abulafia offers a fresh perspective by focusing on the sea itself: its...

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