Books in the Global and International History series

This book studies Jawaharlal Nehru's use of internationalism and anti-imperialism to unite the Global South between the world wars and provides an important history of the interwar years. For those interested in modern India, British imperialism, anti-colonial nationalism, decolonization, international history, and the Cold War.

This anthology offers cutting-edge perspectives on how international development has shaped the history of the modern world. It focuses on the role of development practices and projects in the history of empire, Cold War competition, decolonization and postcolonial governance, transnational activist movements, and the global environment.

Latin America and the First World War employs a transnational lens to offer a comprehensive study of the subcontinent during World War I. Using a sweeping range of textual and visual sources, this book breaks new ground and adds a fresh dimension to the historiography of the Great War, of Latin America, and of international relations.

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

This book examines the social life of non-Europeans in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s and describes the political outgrowths of their migration to France. It argues that this migration was crucial for decolonization and the rise of a Third World consciousness after World War II.

Oil Revolution examines the anti-colonial diplomats, lawyers, and economists from the oil-producing nations in the Middle East and Latin America who forged a new economic culture of decolonization after World War II. Their efforts transformed the oil industry but had devastating consequences during the energy crises of the 1970s.

This book is a global history of development and humanitarianism in Afghanistan during the Cold War. Relying on sources from Soviet, Western, and NGO archives, as well as original interviews, it will engage readers interested in Soviet and Russian history, Afghan history, and the history of international development and NGOs.

Based on research in Arabic and English, this book analyzes US-Arab conflicts over modernization. Challenging assumptions about a 'clash of civilizations', it shows how Americans and Arabs including nationalists, Islamists, and communists debated the Arab future within a shared set of Cold War-era ideas about progress.

This book studies the interplay between deforestation, forced labor, and capitalist development in the Amazon through a case study involving Volkswagen in the years of the Brazilian military dictatorship. Focused on both international and local connections, it shows how an agenda for tropical rainforests emerged through economic globalization.

This anthology offers cutting-edge perspectives on how international development has shaped the history of the modern world. It focuses on the role of development practices and projects in the history of empire, Cold War competition, decolonization and postcolonial governance, transnational activist movements, and the global environment.