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Ever since I developed a passion for French music and started working on Berlioz and then Bizet, I was constantly aware of the formidable figure of Saint-Saëns at the end of the nineteenth century, contributing...
Dementia as life. That sounds all wrong, doesn’t it? Just look at the facts. Dementia is the umbrella term for a number of different organic brain diseases, which are progressive and terminal. Its symptoms...
My Cambridge Introduction to British Fiction, 1900-1950 is especially motivated by my experience in the classroom. A perennial teaching opportunity presents itself, I’ve found, in the assumption—held...
Mathematics rivals theology when it comes to ontological difficulties Mathematics rivals theology when it comes to ontological difficulties; consequently there are today three very different philosophical...
“What a great topic” – “I had never ever thought about it” – “There should be a book about this” – “Let’s discuss this further, later on”. Such were almost invariably the reactions...
The rise and fall of convict transportation in the British Empire is often told as a Gothic melodrama. John Mitchel, the Young Ireland leader transported for treason, was typical in referring to the British...
As many social democratic parties on the European continent are in crisis yet again, the quest for fresh ideas with which to win back disaffected voters has taken on renewed significance. These days, quite...
This blog post is written by Linda K. Hughes, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Poetry
Fatemah Alzubairi discusses her new book Colonialism, Neo-Colonialism, and Anti-Terrorism Law in the Arab World.
Look in any social psychology textbook and you’ll see that obedience is defined as a form of social influence elicited in response to direct orders. New research on the most (in)famous studies of obedience...
The recent lunar landing of a Chinese rover, called Chang’e-4, has renewed interest in the Chinese space program. Of course, space programs have long been a symbol of national prowess and prestige. Indeed,...
The Fourth Reich: The Specter of Nazism from World War II to the Present is available now. This episode is also available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher and Spotify. Read More ?
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