Offers cutting-edge perspectives on how international development has shaped the global history of the modern world.

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Eve E. Buckley’s study of twentieth-century Brazil examines the nation’s hard social realities through the history of science, focusing on the use of techno

Of Limits and Growth offers new perspectives on environmentalism, post-1945 international history, and the origins of sustainability.

In this scholarly and original study of military thought during the nineteenth century Azar Gat continues and expands the themes he explored in his previous boo