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.

The effect of the Cuban diaspora on Miami has long been observed, but how this history fits into broader trends in American history has not been properly understood. Only a Few Blocks to Cuba shows how a story of migration, federal largesse, and Cold War priorities shaped not only South Florida but our broader national politics.

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.