A girl of around 11 or 12 is reading out a letter to her attentive elders. Why did I pick James Brenan’s ‘News From America’ to illustrate a history of Ireland that spans sixteen centuries? ...
General audiences are accustomed to imagining medieval culinary practices through those of the elites — in shows, films, and novels, where little attention is given to the habits of common people. Perhaps...
The field of South Asian economic history has changed dramatically since the publication of The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. 2 (CEHI 2, 1983). CEHI 2 was a pathbreaking reference work when...
Over the past several decades, capital markets have become increasingly globalised, with major international financial centres such as the US, the UK, Hong Kong, and Singapore engaging in fierce competition...
The aim of this book is to find some precision and a point of origin for the concept of capital and by doing that, therefore capitalism. It also challenges the merchant based London centric interpretation...
Alongside, and fuelled by, rapid advances in artificial intelligence, recent years have witnessed the rise of technologies that appear to cross what was once considered the final frontier: the datafication...
It’s another dull, grey Tuesday morning. A colleague asks you how you are. Reflecting on the seemingly endless flow of tedious meetings in the day ahead, you reply that you’re “losing the will the...
Can Writing Academic Papers be Fun? Here’s a questionnaire for beginning and mid-career academics: Have you ever felt like giving up on academe and doing something useful, like opening a cheese...
In the classic film Casablanca, the Frenchwoman Yvonne, one of the regulars of Rick’s Café, joins the other refugees assembled there to sing the Marseillaise, boldly defying the Nazi officers present....
It is a sure bet that almost every study ever written on EU law has, at some point, referenced Eric Stein’s aphorism that the Court of Justice of the EU has been able to fashion a constitutional, federal-type...
Ottoman officials praying at Daraa Station. Source: Istanbul University, Rare Books Library, Sultan Abdülhamid II Photo Albums. NEKYA 90521/1. In 1886, the second edition of the yearbook of...
The epistle of 2 Peter is not merely a polemic against false teachers; it is founded upon a compelling theological vision of life with God. In my commentary on 2 Peter, I argue that the letter’s ethical...