Political

Hinduism predates colonialism by thousands of years, but in Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity Manu S. Pillai explains how European ideas shaped Hindutva.

The ancient world found him to have achieved greatness and thrust it upon his name, but was the destruction of Babylon Cyrus’ divinely ordained destiny?

In 1903 a group of politicians tried to sell tariffs as a panacea to all of Britain’s problems. Would the public buy it?

How did a Gulf backwater become a global powerbroker? Saudi Arabia: A Modern History by David Commins explores the uneasy alliance between oil, autocracy, and Wahhabism.

How to reform an ancient Greek tyrant? Plato’s final advice to Dionysius the Younger was not well received.

Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire by Sarah E. Bond assembles a case for the power of the worker in ancient Rome.

A huge bestseller and undisputed guide to the Nazi worldview, did Germans actually read Mein Kampf?

Margaret Thatcher struggled to write her own speeches. Who put the words in her mouth?

America, América: A New History of the New World by Greg Grandin finds a place for Latin America and its ideals in the story of the United States.

When it comes to the end of the Roman Empire three things are certain: death, taxes, and Goths. Were reports of its demise exaggerated?