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Designing a Companion to Victorian Women’s Poetry in the Twenty-First Century

This blog post is written by Linda K. Hughes, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Poetry

Linda K. Hughes | 26 Mar 2019

The Rise of Authoritarianism under the Presidency of Trump

Fatemah Alzubairi discusses her new book Colonialism, Neo-Colonialism, and Anti-Terrorism Law in the Arab World.

Fatemah Alzubairi | 25 Mar 2019

Beyond Obedience?

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...

Stephen Gibson | 19 Mar 2019

Chang’e-4 and U.S. / Chinese Relations in Space

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,...

Greg Whitesides | 14 Mar 2019

The Fourth Reich: The Specter of Nazism from World War II to the Present

 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 ?

Gavriel D. Rosenfeld | 14 Mar 2019

Borderland Memories: Searching for Historical Identity in Post-Mao China

Borderland Memories: Searching for Historical Identity in Post-Mao China   Martin T. Fromm is author of Borderland Memories: Searching for Historical Identity in Post-Mao China (Cambridge University...

Martin T. Fromm | 13 Mar 2019

Do You Have a Soul?

Do you have a soul? In ancient Greece, answering ‘yes’ to this question would not necessarily imply that you had any strange metaphysical or religious beliefs. This is because, for an ancient Greek,...

Jason W. Carter | 12 Mar 2019

The Great Gatsby

Cambridge University Press will publish a fully annotated variorum edition of The Great Gatsby in April 2019.  This will be the eighteenth and final volume of the Cambridge Fitzgerald Edition, an editorial...

James L. W. West III | 12 Mar 2019

Understanding Science Through its History

Todd Timberlake author of Finding our Place in the Solar System discusses the key topic in his new book: The Copernican Revolution. "The Earth really does go around the Sun, but for a long time it was entirely reasonable to believe otherwise. This helps us to see why scientific controversies exist, but also how they are eventually resolved"

Todd Timberlake | 12 Mar 2019

Grasslands and Climate Change

Ecologists have fully embraced the study of climate change and grassland ecologists have often led the way in these studies, thanks to the tractability of doing ecological research in such environments, publishing nearly 1000 studies in that time. My colleague, David Gibson, and I decided it was time to take stock of what we have learned, at least for grasslands! This is the first review to focus solely on climate change.

Jonathan Newman | 11 Mar 2019

A Twentieth Century Legacy – Children and War

"War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars" takes a global look at how modern societies imagined childhood as a space of sheltered existence, while at the same time mobilizing their children to help fight their wars and turning them into both victims and actors in the twentieth century's greatest conflicts.

Mischa Honeck, James Marten | 8 Mar 2019

Notes of a Bookseller: Academic Book Week

The theme for this year’s Academic Book Week is banned books, a celebration of all things controversial and challenging. To join in the fun, we’ve collected together some of our favourite banned books, along with other titles that discuss them and their authors.

Alice Tranah | 7 Mar 2019