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The U.S. Supreme Court’s controversial decision last month in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby was a blow to women’s rights organizations and civil rights lobbyists everywhere, but a victory for religious...
This week, we delve further into the cultural impact of author of the Great War as Paul Sheehan, Modernism and the Aesthetics of Violence, examines pity and pathos in World War I poetry.
As long as there has been law, there's been religion—and vice versa. In this interview with Russell Sandberg, the author of Religion, Law and Society, he explains how age-old debates over the relationship between law and religion have shaped our modern world.
Bruno Cabanes' close look at the birth of the international Human Rights movement is also a study of World War I and the complicated peacetime that followed the first global tragedy. This excerpt from The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism offers a glimpse into the complex history of war, peace, and human rights.
Sneak a peek at our latest book trailer for Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works. Once preserved on nine ancient papyrus scrolls, many of Sappho’s poems have been lost in the 2600 years since...
As you get excited about our forthcoming book The New Moon, take advantage of warm summer nights and bring your camera outside to photograph the Moon! You could win $125 worth of Cambridge astronomy books.
For the next few weeks, we'll be examining the cultural impact of the Great War, particularly its influence on 20th century literature. Ann-Marie Einhaus, author of The Short Story and the First World War, offers a guide to some excellent war stories from and about World War I.
Clive Oppenheimer, author of Eruptions That Shook The World (2011), talks us through the importance of studying historical eruptions, and how it can save thousands of lives.
In this excerpt from July Crisis, T. G. Otte goes behind the scenes of the events that led up to the greatest catastrophe of the last century, and the war that has defined the last hundred years.
John L. Brooke, the author of Climate Change and the Course of Global History, explores the currents that shape our civilizations and how we have become a part of our own global environmental history.
Dr Rosalind Grooms, Cambridge University Press Archivist, explores how the First World War impacted upon our printing, publishing and employees.
We invited four leading World War One historians and Cambridge authors to explore the main reasons for the outbreak of The Great War. Around the table are Jack S. Levy, William Mulligan, Thomas Otte, and John C. G. Röhl.
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