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Lacy K. Ford
As the United States recently completed a bitter and divisive national election, Americans find themselves in the middle of the third decade of the twenty-first century searching for new understandings of their history. We all look for explanations of chronic political polarization, rampant social media addiction, heightened concern over global warming, armed global conflict, widening […]
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Merten Reglitz
For you reading this text on the Cambridge University Press blog, life without access to the internet has probably become unthinkable. We have become dependent on it for many things we do. But online access is not just a matter of convenience or doing things faster. Rather, without the internet, there would be no Fifteen […]
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Xing Hang
Hà Tiên, situated in the western Mekong River Delta and Gulf of Siam littoral not far from Vietnam’s present border with Cambodia, thrived as an entrepôt over much of the eighteenth century. The Chinese merchants who frequented there called it Gangkou, or The Port. The pioneer who built up this thriving settlement was Mo Jiu […]
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Tom Ruys, Cedric Ryngaert, Felipe Rodríguez Silvestre
The ascendance of secondary sanctions We live in an age of economic sanctions, of powerful states imposing restrictions on commercial and financial transactions with other states (and non-state actors) to achieve political goals. In particular, states that control key nodes in the global financial, economic and technological network can leverage global economic interdependence and wield […]
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Michael J. Douma
It has been more than three decades since the discovery and archaeological investigation of the African American burial ground in New York City. Since then, a generation of historians have prompted New Yorkers to ask themselves how it is that the history of slavery in the state is so unknown. Much progress has been made […]
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Andrei Khrennikov
Quantum mechanics—one of the most puzzling and fascinating areas of modern science—has captivated both physicists and the public for over a century. From Einstein’s skepticism about its strange implications to the mysterious behavior of particles that seem to communicate instantaneously across vast distances, quantum theory constantly challenges our understanding of the universe. In my new […]
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Thomas T. Hills
Why do we see the behaviors that we do in the world? This question has challenged many notable thinkers, including Darwin, Saussure, Wittgenstein, Lévi-Strauss, Durkheim, and many other past and recent thinkers. Their conclusions identified how things in the world – from species to thoughts to culture – rely on the interconnectivity of the systems […]
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Keith Ward
The world is in a mess – wars, famines, storms, floods, and massacres – human existence so often seems, as Thomas Hobbes thought, nasty, brutish, and short. Karl Marx thought that religion was ‘the heart of a heartless world’, offering an escape, albeit an illusory one, from the world’s ills. But some recent writers see […]
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Lacy K. Ford
As the United States recently completed a bitter and divisive national election, Americans find themselves in the middle of the third decade of the twenty-first century searching for new understandings of their history. We all look for explanations of chronic political polarization, rampant social media addiction, heightened concern over global warming, armed global conflict, widening […]
Read More
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Merten Reglitz
For you reading this text on the Cambridge University Press blog, life without access to the internet has probably become unthinkable. We have become dependent on it for many things we do. But online access is not just a matter of convenience or doing things faster. Rather, without the internet, there would be no Fifteen […]
Read More
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Xing Hang
Hà Tiên, situated in the western Mekong River Delta and Gulf of Siam littoral not far from Vietnam’s present border with Cambodia, thrived as an entrepôt over much of the eighteenth century. The Chinese merchants who frequented there called it Gangkou, or The Port. The pioneer who built up this thriving settlement was Mo Jiu […]
Read More
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Tom Ruys, Cedric Ryngaert, Felipe Rodríguez Silvestre
The ascendance of secondary sanctions We live in an age of economic sanctions, of powerful states imposing restrictions on commercial and financial transactions with other states (and non-state actors) to achieve political goals. In particular, states that control key nodes in the global financial, economic and technological network can leverage global economic interdependence and wield […]
Read More
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Michael J. Douma
It has been more than three decades since the discovery and archaeological investigation of the African American burial ground in New York City. Since then, a generation of historians have prompted New Yorkers to ask themselves how it is that the history of slavery in the state is so unknown. Much progress has been made […]
Read More
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Andrei Khrennikov
Quantum mechanics—one of the most puzzling and fascinating areas of modern science—has captivated both physicists and the public for over a century. From Einstein’s skepticism about its strange implications to the mysterious behavior of particles that seem to communicate instantaneously across vast distances, quantum theory constantly challenges our understanding of the universe. In my new […]
Read More
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Thomas T. Hills
Why do we see the behaviors that we do in the world? This question has challenged many notable thinkers, including Darwin, Saussure, Wittgenstein, Lévi-Strauss, Durkheim, and many other past and recent thinkers. Their conclusions identified how things in the world – from species to thoughts to culture – rely on the interconnectivity of the systems […]
Read More
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Keith Ward
The world is in a mess – wars, famines, storms, floods, and massacres – human existence so often seems, as Thomas Hobbes thought, nasty, brutish, and short. Karl Marx thought that religion was ‘the heart of a heartless world’, offering an escape, albeit an illusory one, from the world’s ills. But some recent writers see […]
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