Modern Library Chronicles

Communism : A History

Dangerous Games : The Uses and Abuses of History

Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan explores here the many ways in which hi...

Islam : A Short History

No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It ha...

The Korean War : A History

A bracing account of a war that lingers in our collective memory as both ambig...

The Balkans : A Short History

Throughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless mili...

The City : A Global History

If humankind can be said to have a single greatest creation, it would be those...

Peoples and Empires : A Short History of European Migration, Exploration, and Conquest, from Greece to the Present

Written by one of the world’s foremost historians of human migration, Peoples...

The American Revolution : A History

“An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field, which nicely i...

The Age of Shakespeare (Modern Library Chronicles)

In The Age of Shakespeare , Frank Kermode uses the history and culture of the...

California : A History

California has always been our Shangri-la–the promised land of countless pilgr...