The US Military, Korea, and the Origins of Military-Industrial Capitalism
Patrick Chung
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512828733
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
Standardizing Empire traces the rise of military-industrial capitalism. It explains how the US military’s overseas presence in places like South Korea during the Cold War led to a globalized economy, which facilitated both South Korea’s “economic miracle” and the decline of US industrial might.
This military handbook, attributed to the Byzantine emperor Maurice (582–602), is an invaluable source not only for early Byzantine history, but also for the history of the art of war. George T. Dennis’s translation renders the Strategikon’s straightforward, practical Greek into accessible, engaging prose. Includes a new foreword by Conor Whately.
Bringing together scholarly analyses of U.S. colonial wars in the American west and across Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Prehistories of the War on Terror reveals fundamental continuities between the contemporary War on Terror and earlier U.S. imperial conflicts.
British Military Rule and the Experience of Revolution
Donald F. Johnson
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512825480
Pub Date: August 2023
Format: Paperback
264 Pages
In Occupied America, Donald F. Johnson chronicles the everyday lives of ordinary people living under British military occupation during the American Revolution. Focusing on port cities, Johnson recovers how Americans navigated dire hardships, balanced competing attempts to secure their loyalty, and in the end rejected restored royal rule.
International Nuclear Abolitionism and the End of the Cold War
Stephanie L. Freeman
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512824223
Pub Date: April 2023
Format: Hardcover
328 Pages
During the 1980s, U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, and grassroots movements across the globe pursued the radical goal of nuclear abolition. Together, they reshaped U.S. and Soviet approaches to nuclear arms control and Europe in a way that brought the Cold War to an end.
Collecting new scholarship at the intersection of the fields of military history, business history, policy history, and the history of capitalism, The Military and the Market covers two centuries of history of the U.S. military’s vast and varied economic operations, including its often tense relationships with capitalist markets.
War, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Modern America
Olivier Burtin
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512823141
Pub Date: September 2022
Format: Hardcover
304 Pages
A Nation of Veterans examines how the United States created the world’s most generous system of veterans’ benefits and shows how veterans formed a social movement to obtain and then defend their advantages against criticism from liberals and conservatives alike.
