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What IS that Patagonian giant doing on your Renaissance map? Surekha Davies tells us how she came to write her extraordinary, award-winning book, Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters
The concept of totality has a long history. During the Twentieth Century and on in to the Twenty-First, however, there are two thinkers who have written almost obsessively on this concept and its relation...
My aim in writing Strategies for Managing Uncertainty was to understand how key players in oil and natural gas and automotive sectors have hedged their bets in making long term decisions, when the results...
As strange as it may seem, there is very little research on the topic of physical appearance and its relationship to criminal involvement, criminal victimization, and the crime control process. While...
I love a good story, which isn’t the easiest thing for a historian to admit. When I was sitting in the archives tracking down statistics on the volume of tobacco moving through the Baltic, I came across...
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...
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