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Christopher Watkin
If the last year of geopolitical upheaval has taught us anything, it is that the international order is far more fragile than we cared to imagine. When established alliances like NATO fracture under the weight of internal tensions, or when a US President casually proposes treating a sovereign territory as an asset in a real […]
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Lee Palmer Wandel
Uly Anders first pulled me into the puzzle The Reformation of Liturgy: Matter and Time Reconceived seeks to unravel. He was executed in 1520. His crime? Blasphemy, which the law defined as an affront against God. Anders had broken up and thrown out a window a small crucifixion scene carved in wood. The image had […]
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Stephen Broadberry, Mark Harrison
Our book’s eighteen authors investigate eight major applications of economic warfare and sanctions, set out in a common framework. We cover the Anglo-French wars of the long eighteenth century, the American Civil War, Britain versus Germany in two World Wars, the interwar sanctions on Italy, interwar sanctions followed by economic warfare against Japan, trade and […]
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Kate Smith
Look in most eighteenth-century newspapers and you will be struck by the number of notices for lost dogs, absconding apprentices and missing bank notes. The range of lost ‘things’ included in such notices might astound you. People advertised all sorts of missing items, from anchors to monkeys, keys, walking sticks and lumps of timber. They […]
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Gary D. Libecap
What can we learn about broad institutional formation from the experience of US environmental legislation? Despite providing public goods, environmental regulation is too costly, inequitable, and controversial. Why that is the case and what it suggests for general institutional change are cautionary lessons from the adoption of centralized prescriptive policies rather than decentralized markets to […]
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Paolo Heywood
‘You have to understand the context’ is perhaps one of the most common intellectual reflexes of our time. Historians insist on historical context, literary critics on textual context, psychologists on environmental context. Across the humanities and social sciences, we’ve become thoroughly contextualist in our thinking. Yet we rarely pause to ask where this commitment came […]
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Jean Muteba Rahier, Jemima Pierre
The world is currently experiencing a period of intense convulsion, where the structures of race and white supremacy have moved to the very center of global cultural politics. In 2023, the police killing of Nahel Merzouk in France sparked weeks of protests that many viewed as a tipping point for Black and Brown populations relegated […]
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Geoffrey T. Wodtke, Xiang Zhou
If you’ve ever spent any time with kids, you probably know the drill: “Why are leaves green?” “How does the microwave make food hot?” “Why is snow cold?” “How do airplanes stay in the sky?” Our own kids can turn the simplest observations into an unending chain of hows and whys. And while these moments […]
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Christopher Watkin
If the last year of geopolitical upheaval has taught us anything, it is that the international order is far more fragile than we cared to imagine. When established alliances like NATO fracture under the weight of internal tensions, or when a US President casually proposes treating a sovereign territory as an asset in a real […]
Read More
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Lee Palmer Wandel
Uly Anders first pulled me into the puzzle The Reformation of Liturgy: Matter and Time Reconceived seeks to unravel. He was executed in 1520. His crime? Blasphemy, which the law defined as an affront against God. Anders had broken up and thrown out a window a small crucifixion scene carved in wood. The image had […]
Read More
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Stephen Broadberry, Mark Harrison
Our book’s eighteen authors investigate eight major applications of economic warfare and sanctions, set out in a common framework. We cover the Anglo-French wars of the long eighteenth century, the American Civil War, Britain versus Germany in two World Wars, the interwar sanctions on Italy, interwar sanctions followed by economic warfare against Japan, trade and […]
Read More
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Kate Smith
Look in most eighteenth-century newspapers and you will be struck by the number of notices for lost dogs, absconding apprentices and missing bank notes. The range of lost ‘things’ included in such notices might astound you. People advertised all sorts of missing items, from anchors to monkeys, keys, walking sticks and lumps of timber. They […]
Read More
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Gary D. Libecap
What can we learn about broad institutional formation from the experience of US environmental legislation? Despite providing public goods, environmental regulation is too costly, inequitable, and controversial. Why that is the case and what it suggests for general institutional change are cautionary lessons from the adoption of centralized prescriptive policies rather than decentralized markets to […]
Read More
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Paolo Heywood
‘You have to understand the context’ is perhaps one of the most common intellectual reflexes of our time. Historians insist on historical context, literary critics on textual context, psychologists on environmental context. Across the humanities and social sciences, we’ve become thoroughly contextualist in our thinking. Yet we rarely pause to ask where this commitment came […]
Read More
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Jean Muteba Rahier, Jemima Pierre
The world is currently experiencing a period of intense convulsion, where the structures of race and white supremacy have moved to the very center of global cultural politics. In 2023, the police killing of Nahel Merzouk in France sparked weeks of protests that many viewed as a tipping point for Black and Brown populations relegated […]
Read More
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Geoffrey T. Wodtke, Xiang Zhou
If you’ve ever spent any time with kids, you probably know the drill: “Why are leaves green?” “How does the microwave make food hot?” “Why is snow cold?” “How do airplanes stay in the sky?” Our own kids can turn the simplest observations into an unending chain of hows and whys. And while these moments […]
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