Britain's Levantine Empire, 1914-1923 explains the rise and decline and nature and extent of British military rule in the urban eastern Mediterranean during the

Takes another look at the displacement of Armenian citizens in Turkey in 1915, focusing on the Ottoman version of history, placing the whole question of forced

Text, maps, and illustrations present the history of the world from 4,000,000 BC to 1997.

In 1800, Europeans governed about one-third of the world's land surface; by the start of World War I in 1914, Europeans had imposed some form of political or ec