When I started writing Utopia and the Contemporary British Novel ten years ago, I could not have foreseen how relevant many of the book’s core concerns would become. Reeling from the global financial...
Decadence and Literature is a volume in the Cambridge Critical Concepts series whose larger purpose is not only to show how certain key terms in literary studies have originated and developed in the past...
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) brings together 57 participating states, including the USA and Russia, which makes it the world’s largest regional security organisation....
Working Wonders: How to Make the Impossible Happen puts forth the message that the difference between what’s possible and what’s not is, to a great extent, a construct of the human mind. And it’s...
Cambridge Author, Marcos Zunino, talks about Transitional Justice and his new book - Justice Framed: A Genealogy of Transitional Justice.
Like most Americans, I encountered Sylvia Plath’s poetry before that of her husband, Ted Hughes, and I approached his work with some reluctance – as only seemed natural, considering his customary...
On Saturday 18th June 1910, the Women’s Social and Political Union staged one of its largest and most spectacular demonstrations. The Great Procession through the streets of central London was carefully...
In our world, judicial independence is perennially contested. Threats from the political branch pose obstacles to judges’ ability to perform their constitutional duties. Marie Seong-Hak Kim talks about her title, Constitutional Transition and the Travail of Judges, and how this affects the freedom & liberty of the Korean people.
In the summer of 1544, Henry VIII invaded France with 36,000 soldiers – the largest army sent overseas by an English ruler until the reign of William III (1689-1702) – and captured the town of Boulogne...
There are two main ways of approaching the study of revolution in the contemporary world – and they are both wrong. On the one hand, revolutions are everywhere: on the streets of Kobane, Caracas, and...
Gather everything that we humans, religious and nonreligious, have ever done to satisfy ourselves about transcendent things under this label: the religion project. Then ask yourself whether the effort...
In this post, Professor Daniel Woolf, author of A Concise History of History: Global Historiography from Antiquity to the Present cuts to the core of the debates around the internet and its pros and cons...