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A girl of around 11 or 12 is reading out a letter to her attentive elders. Why did I pick James Brenan’s ‘News From America’ to illustrate a history of Ireland that spans sixteen centuries? Why not pick a ring fort, a round tower, a monastic ruin, a seventeenth-century battle scene, a graceful eighteenth-century public […]
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General audiences are accustomed to imagining medieval culinary practices through those of the elites — in shows, films, and novels, where little attention is given to the habits of common people. Perhaps as a contrast to the material wealth of aristocrats, society tends to picture ordinary individuals from the Middle Ages as dirty and uncivilised, […]
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The field of South Asian economic history has changed dramatically since the publication of The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. 2 (CEHI 2, 1983). CEHI 2 was a pathbreaking reference work when it appeared. But it was a largely descriptive narrative that avoided comparative analysis, theoretical debates, and historiography. Its exclusive focus on India, […]
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The aim of this book is to find some precision and a point of origin for the concept of capital and by doing that, therefore capitalism. It also challenges the merchant based London centric interpretation of the financial revolution, and argues that the socially and geographically broad based financial development it describes allowed industrialisation to […]
Read MoreOttoman officials praying at Daraa Station. Source: Istanbul University, Rare Books Library, Sultan Abdülhamid II Photo Albums. NEKYA 90521/1. In 1886, the second edition of the yearbook of the Ottoman province of the Hejaz was printed at the governmental printing house in Mecca. Even before mentioning the names of Ottoman sultans and giving information about […]
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In 2019, Paul Manafort was sentenced to 73 months in jail for failing to register as with the United States Justice Department an agent of pro-Russian Ukrainian leader Viktor Yanukovych. The story became headline news, given Manafort’s role in Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign, and the subsequent investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into potential […]
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In a fractured world, we can mostly agree that medical progress is valuable, and that achieving it is a worthwhile social goal. But beyond that, there are different and conflicting visions of what exactly progress in medicine entails. The consensus that we need more of it – whatever it may be – means that the […]
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When we think about politics today, we tend to think about speeches, soundbites, social media posts, or rolling news. Books can seem almost incidental: slow, old-fashioned, and increasingly marginal. And yet political books continue to be written, published, reviewed, displayed, debated, and argued over in Britain. Why? One answer is obvious enough: some people still […]
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