x

Fifteen Eighty Four

Academic perspectives from Cambridge University Press

Menu

Parenting: Old questions, new fears?

“It’s 10 O’clock – do you know where your children are?” This question was widely posed to parents in public service announcements broadcast on the radio and TV and posted on billboards...

Judith G. Smetana, Nicole Campione-Barr, Lauree C. Tilton-Weaver | 19 Dec 2024

Milton’s Ireland

The English author John Milton, who never set foot in Ireland, has long been a consequential presence there nonetheless.  Since 1890, for example, visitors to the National Library of Ireland in Dublin...

Lee Morrissey | 19 Dec 2024

Taste, Evolution, the Victorians, and You

What do you feel when you look at something beautiful? Take this honeysuckle pattern, copied from a Greek vase. As your eyes trace its symmetrical curves, can you feel your “two lungs draw in a long...

Lindsay Wilhelm | 17 Dec 2024

The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race

The English poet John Keats died in 1821, and almost immediately his friend Joseph Severn began working on the portrait of Keats that hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London. Severn painted from...

Manu Samriti Chander | 17 Dec 2024

Brexitspeak: Demagoguery and the Decline of Democracy

“Demagoguery and the decline of democracy” This is the subtitle of my new book with CUP. But it might just as well be a headline on 5 November 2024 when Donald Trump was voted 47th president...

Paul Chilton | 16 Dec 2024

Relocating Development Economics: Insights from Early Indian Economists

In the history of economics, the contributions of early Indian economists remain largely overlooked despite their profound impact. My work centers on the pioneering voices of these economists, particularly...

Maria Bach | 16 Dec 2024

The Role of Law in Combatting Modern Slavery

Modern slavery is regarded as a global problem of epic proportions. The 2021 Global Estimates on Modern Slavery contends that on any given day there are 50 million people in situations of modern slavery,...

Judy Fudge | 13 Dec 2024

The Family in EU Law

For most people, their family is the most important aspect of their life. The concept of ‘family’ is central to individual identity but an understanding of what constitutes a ‘family’ as well...

Marja-Liisa Öberg, Alina Tryfonidou | 13 Dec 2024

Party Transformation in Congressional Primaries

In an era of increasing partisan conflict and ideological division in the U.S. Congress, primaryelections are frequently blamed. In my new book, Party Transformation in CongressionalPrimaries: Faction...

Mike Cowburn | 13 Dec 2024

Jesus in a Changing World: Introducing The New Cambridge Companion to Jesus

As we step into the second quarter of the 21st century, the landscape of Christianity is undergoing a seismic shift. While Europe and North America have long been seen as the heartlands of Western Christianity,...

Markus Bockmuehl | 11 Dec 2024

International Organizations and Global Peaceful Change

The role of international organizations (IOs) in global politics is as complex as it is critical. Today, they are arenas of contestation among established and rising states as well as domestic politics...

T. V. Paul, Anders Wivel, Kai He | 9 Dec 2024

UN Mediators in Syria: The Challenges and Responsibilities of Conflict Resolution

In a world increasingly at war, defined by both great power-rivalry and forgotten conflicts, the United Nations (UN)—the international organization tasked with the responsibility to maintain international...

Fadi Nicholas Nassar | 9 Dec 2024