Failure of Analysis: Philip Bobbitt’s The Shield of Achilles

Towards a More Total War: ‘Gentlemanly Warfare’ and the Rise of the Nation-State

Episodic History: Bryan’s Picks

Dueling Perspectives: John Keay and J.A.G. Roberts’s Histories of China

Grand Prize, or Honorable Mention? The Case of American Settler Empire

Size, or How You Rule It? Determining History’s Greatest Empire

Greater than Its Parts: The Prospect of Global History

Crucible of the World: Peter Frankopan’s The Silk Roads