In most developed countries there is a palpable sense of confusion about the contemporary state of the world. Much that was taken for granted a decade or two ag

A historian and anthropologist use demographic and economic factors to explain the waning hegemony of the United States.

This book examines some of the salient historiographical and conceptual issues that animate current scholarly debates about the nature of the medieval contribut

DIVA collection of essays arguing for a global and economically based modernity driven by capitalist development./div

We live in a time of great uncertainty about the future. Those heady days of the late twentieth century, when the end of the Cold War seemed to be ushering in a