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In honor of Cotton’s release, we’re hosting a galley giveaway! As historian Giorgio Riello points out in his book, cotton was a global commodity that was traded from East to West and everywhere in...
In the weeks leading up to the release of the new 3-D Great Gatsby film, director Baz Luhrmann talked a lot about how an early draft of Fitzgerald's great American novel called Trimalchio helped influence his adaptation. Cambridge University Press is the only publisher of that original version, which Luhrmann cited as an inspiration in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and the New York Times. He also consulted the volume's editor, James L.W. West III, for advice on the film.
I have worked within the wireless communications R&D industry for close to 20 years now and, in my experience, one consistent ingredient that has often escaped the recipe of so many consumer electronic...
How well do you know the history of Cotton? Take our quiz to find out, and look for Giorgio Riello’s Cotton (on sale June 28) for more on the history of the fabric that defined trade. Cotton:...
It is time to send in the clowns. With North Korea’s new young leader falling into old habits of saber rattling toward South Korea, and with China unwilling to put pressure on it to come into the...
From the mid-seventeenth century onwards, Indian textiles were imported by the European East India companies and were sought after by consumers not just in England, but in most European countries. These...
Operation Typhoon involved over three million men on both sides of the eastern front. Such a figure is hard to comprehend and the truth is, even as an historian, it’s easy to lose sight of the human...
Take a deeper look into the inspiration behind the new Great Gatsby film. Some sources might surprise you.
Today on Into the Intro, we're celebrating one of our favorite national pastimes—The Kentucky Derby, which kicked off this year's Triple Crown races on Saturday. As you gear up for the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes, don't forget to catch up on the history, culture, and legacy of the sport with The Cambridge Companion to Horseracing.
Fitzgerald Fever is in full swing at the Cambridge office, and every good party needs a playlist! We present our Gatsby-inspired playlist in honor of the Roaring Twenties.
Do you have the political / historical / literary / geographical / mythological savvy to have written the Bard's canon? Take our quiz to find out!
Launched in October 1941, Hitler’s Operation Typhoon had a simple objective: capture Moscow and knock the Soviet Union out of the war. Operation Typhoon is an incisive, groundbreaking account of Germany’s drive to capture Moscow.
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