After the United States invaded Puerto Rico in 1898, the new unincorporated territory sought to define its future. Seeking to shape the next generation and gene

Examines how negotiations between the Ottomans and Arab nomads played a part in the making of the modern Middle East.

This volume takes a decentered look at early modern empires and rejects the center/periphery divide. With an unconventional geographical set of cases, including

Accounts of U.S. empire building in Latin America typically portray politically and economically powerful North Americans descending on their southerly neighbor

With its rapid industrialization, modernization, and gradual democratization, Imperial Germany has typically been understood in secular terms. However, religion