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

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From 1885–1924, China underwent a period of acute political struggle and cultural change, brought on by a radical change in thought: after over 2,000 years of

Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an inevitable

This volume brings together a group of some of the most outstanding scholars in political science, history, and historical sociology to examine the causes of im