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To become a better writer, stop imitating published writing—and follow the science If only writers knew the unnecessary effort their texts inflict on hapless readers, they would change the way they...
The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature brings together more than 50 scholars to provide a literary history of the queerness of American literature from its earliest beginnings to 2023. It...
Despite having been alive for more than three centuries the classical N-body problem remainsalive and well! In this book I demonstrate its vibrancy by exploring four open questions within the problem. The...
Ethnicity is everywhere. From the delights of ‘ethnic cuisine’ to the grim realities of ‘ethnic cleansing’, this concept helps us make sense of the world around us. In many countries, including...
Imagine a deluge of scholarly works, all describing the symptoms of a disease—but offering no discussion of the deep-rooted factors that caused the outbreak. In recent years, as democracies have faced...
It’s a cliché that Britain’s power as a nation is linked to the English language, so much so that prime minister Theresa May assured the public that Brexit would be a success because “our language...
Most historians of the formative generations of the United States have focused (and still do) on a story of nation building that is centered on the creation of domestic institutions, identity, and westward...
As the United States recently completed a bitter and divisive national election, Americans find themselves in the middle of the third decade of the twenty-first century searching for new understandings...
For you reading this text on the Cambridge University Press blog, life without access to the internet has probably become unthinkable. We have become dependent on it for many things we do. But online...
Hà Tiên, situated in the western Mekong River Delta and Gulf of Siam littoral not far from Vietnam’s present border with Cambodia, thrived as an entrepôt over much of the eighteenth century. The...
The ascendance of secondary sanctions We live in an age of economic sanctions, of powerful states imposing restrictions on commercial and financial transactions with other states (and non-state actors)...
It has been more than three decades since the discovery and archaeological investigation of the African American burial ground in New York City. Since then, a generation of historians have prompted...
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