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Languages appear to us as self-evident truths in the world. Until recently, the definition of what is a language seemed to be relatively straightforward: a language is what people from the same culture,...
The basso continuo of these essays is Euclid’s algorithm. The author wants readers to discover that almost every page contains the algorithm either visibly or implicitly or in disguised forms. Readers...
In the twelfth through fourteenth centuries, at the height of the cult of the Virgin Mary, a rare and rich conflux of past and present events, both authentic and legendary, catapulted Orvieto into the...
In 1947, Winston Churchill—no longer Prime Minister but still sparring from the backbenches—famously quipped that democracy is “the worst form of government except for all the others that...
My new book, From Manners to Rules: Advocating for Legalism in South Korea and Japan, challenges the conventional wisdom that law and courts play marginal roles in Korean and Japanese politics. In the...
Émile Zola’s Le Rêve—The Dream, in English—appeared in book form in October 1888. It was a strikingly slender novel, by Zola’s standards—the shortest of the twenty volumes that would make...
During the 2022 Oscars ceremony, actor Will Smith famously walked onto the stage and slapped presenter Chris Rock across the face, in response to a joke about the former’s wife. Pictures of the slap...
Why is our edited volume devoted exclusively to Latin America and the Caribbean, some might ask. After all, antifascism was born in Europe, and many scholars regard this continent as the main arena...
In today’s world of nation states, conventional narratives present decolonisation as an inevitable transition from empire to national independence. However, this does not fully acknowledge the complex,...
Historical rags to riches stories attract intrinsic interest. Nineteenth century social history is populated by men (mostly) driven by the self-improvement ethos who emerged from humble circumstances...
Historians of war often pride themselves on telling ‘forgotten stories’ on the basis of ‘lost voices’ from the past, and rightly so. Those dedicated to the International Brigades would, however,...
What happens when a state is not just funded by carbon—but fundamentally formed by it? In the hydrocarbon-rich monarchies of the Gulf, energy has never been a mere commodity. It has served as the scaffolding...
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