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Rising tensions over scarcities of food, land and water combined with increasingly unstable climates threaten to unleash new wars and the mass flight of hundreds of millions of people by the mid-century. ‘Food...
In my recent Cambridge University Press book, A Renaissance of Violence, I document a frightening rise in civil violence in the Italian city of Bologna in the seventeenth century. I show how what began...
Whatever else religious experience is, it is experience, and it should be assessed accordingly. It is not a belief, a theory, or a creed. Instead, it is a kind of awareness that attracts one’s attention,...
What’s the big question you are trying to tackle and to what extent will Literature, Spoken Language and Speaking Skills lead to new avenues of enquiry? I am interested in how we can best understand...
Why put a Native American object on the cover of a book about Jacobean politics? The image that appears on the cover of The Making of an Imperial Polity is a headdress from Guiana (now Guyana), a region...
In this book, Cathy Willermet and Sang-Hee Lee reflect that the “steadfast obsession with the scientific approach that characterized biological anthropology, like no other subfield in American anthropology, is in fact a response to mask the dark history surrounding its birth”.
On 31 October, 2019, a massive fire tore through the UNESCO World Heritage site of Shuri Castle in Okinawa, sparking a global reaction and comparisons with the devastating fire at Notre Dame, another World...
What I’ve found in teaching Milton is that an author, whom students at first think of as inaccessible, because his poems are full of Biblical and classical references, familiar to his initial readers...
Why were these 17 species such successful colonisers in contrast to most other birds? Most cosmopolitan birds exploit water environments and because there is water everywhere, with continents surrounded...
As Artificial Intelligence is increasingly used by companies in their hiring processes, as well as other HR duties, Rick Bales looks into what consequences this may have on wider employment law, and for the individual worker.
How can the edicts of a sovereign power—monarch, democratic assembly, or other institutional arrangements—succeed to engender obligations for a multitude of subjects, most of whom hardly know (let alone approve of) the contents of such edicts? Stefano Bertea investigates.
William Shakespeare was born just thirty years after the founding of Cambridge University Press, yet it was another three hundred years before the Press started printing his works. Since then, we have...
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