SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE • Every day, thousands of new secrets are created by the United States government. What is all this secrecy really

Acknowledgements -- List of acronyms -- List of illustrations -- Introduction -- Part I. The rise of the modern (Dialectics of nationalism and internationalism

Fatal Misconception is the disturbing story of our quest to remake humanity by policing national borders and breeding better people. As the population of the wo

"The United States is in the midst of a bruising debate about its role in the world. Not since the interwar era have Americans been so divided over the scope an

Algeria sits at the crossroads of the Atlantic, European, Arab, and African worlds. Yet, unlike the wars in Korea and Vietnam, Algeria's fight for independence