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Imperial Borderlands: Institutions and Legacies of the Habsburg Military Frontier

Migration of the Serbs, by Serbian painter Paja Jovanović Security concerns often necessitate the establishment of specialized institutions in border regions that diverge from the norm in...

Bogdan G. Popescu | 15 Nov 2023

Thinking Empire with Leo Baeck

Leo Baeck arriving to La Guardia – ©Leo Baeck Institute New York White-bearded and dignified, Leo Baeck disembarked an airplane in New York’s La Guardia airport in January 1948. The seventy-four...

Yaniv Feller | 15 Nov 2023

Reflections on Parent Dependency in American Social Policy

Caring for aging parents is a reality that many people face, or will face, as their parents age and need more support and care. My book, Caring for Mom and Dad, analyzes public policies that either...

Susan Stein-Roggenbuck | 14 Nov 2023

The Cultural Politics of Art in Iran

My book, The Cultural Politics of Art in Iran – Modernism, Exhibitions, and Art Production, revisits the era of modernist art production in Iran from the 1950s to the 1970s. This book highlights that...

Katrin Nahidi | 13 Nov 2023

Social Anarchism and the Rejection of Moral Tyranny

My sophomore year of college, I stumbled across an anarchist forum while browsing the internet. I decided to take a few minutes to investigate, reflexively adopting the outlook of an anthropologist:...

Jesse Spafford | 10 Nov 2023

The Cambridge Introduction to Intercultural Communication: Q&A with Sebastian Rasinger and Guido Rings

Associate Professor Sebastian Rasinger and Professor Guido Rings, authors of The Cambridge Introduction to Intercultural Communication, discuss Intercultural Communication and their latest textbook What...

Guido Rings, Sebastian Rasinger | 10 Nov 2023

Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet

The wait is over! We are very excited to announce the publication of the latest edited volume in the Cambridge University Press Shakespeare on Screen series, focusing on Romeo and Juliet!...

Victoria Bladen, Sarah Hatchuel, Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin | 9 Nov 2023

Decolonizing the Literary Curriculum

The word curriculum is derived from the Latin verb “currere,” meaning run, trot, gallop, hasten, speed, travel, or rapidly flow. The concept of the curriculum is a unique, almost self-cancelling aggregate...

Ankhi Mukherjee, Ato Quayson | 3 Nov 2023

You can’t write that…8 myths about correct English

Picture a boxing ring, English on one side, diversity on the other, and you have a basic version of the history of written English in schools. English and diversity might otherwise be great friends, but...

Laura Aull | 2 Nov 2023

Emotion? We don’t talk about it!

Few would deny that emotions are fundamental to what it means to be human. Indeed, according to some, emotions are what make us human. Given that, and given the fact that humans communicate about their...

Louis de Saussure, Tim Wharton | 2 Nov 2023

Economic Immigrants and Refugees in Late Medieval England

In 1353, a fuller from Bruges, Walter Collessad appeared twice in the borough court of Great Yarmouth. On 25 March, he was sued for an unspecified debt by a weaver from Bruges, Peter van Skelle and then...

Milan Pajic | 1 Nov 2023

England’s Insular Imagining: The Elizabethan Erasure of Scotland

We say – and rightly – that we need to learn our histories. ‘Not knowing each other’s stories’, as David Olusoga has recently said in the Guardian, is a ‘weakness’ in Britain, not least...

Lorna Hutson | 31 Oct 2023