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In late 2024 Cambridge University Press published two surveys of the history of evolutionism, Michael Ruse’s Charles Darwin: No Revel, Great Revolutionary and my own Darwin for the People. Michael passed away more or less as his book was hitting the shops, so this is his last contribution – unless he has another in press […]
Read MoreScholars have often looked at cultures through the lens of their “keywords”– terms allegedly so unique as to be untranslatable. In German-speaking countries, one six-letter word has particularly generated controversy: “Heimat.” According to one professional poll, over 90% of Germans view “Heimat” positively. Activists on the political left, however, have been deeply divided between those […]
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This is an urban age. The concept of “world cities” and the cross-border networks that animate them inspired a wave of interdisciplinary research. Megaregions like New York, Lagos, Mexico City, and Mumbai captivate the world by their scale and reach. Obscured by this shock of the new are the untold stories of past city networks […]
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One of the most significant legacies of Greek and Roman antiquity is the vast body of scientific and technical writings which, copied and transmitted across the centuries, has exerted a profound influence on the development of the modern world. Certain centuries, certain places, have often captured the modern imagination as particularly significant for this tradition: […]
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Nestled beneath the “pointed peaks” of the legendary Tmolos Mountains in Turkey, the Temple and Sanctuary of Artemis at Sardis is one of the most impressive monuments of classical antiquity. Dating to the Hellenistic period, it was undertaken, not by a king, but, we believe, by Stratonike, a“fiery” Hellenistic queen, and redesigned under the Roman […]
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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 expansion. Events outside the United States – usually the Barbary Wars and, later, the Mexican War, are relegated to diplomatic historians, a […]
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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 of their history. We all look for explanations of chronic political polarization, rampant social media addiction, heightened concern over global warming, armed global conflict, widening […]
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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 Chinese merchants who frequented there called it Gangkou, or The Port. The pioneer who built up this thriving settlement was Mo Jiu […]
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