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  • 29 Oct 2018
    Michael H. Fisher

    An Environmental History of India

    The current global environmental crisis increasingly affects us all.  Efforts to mitigate and adapt ourselves to its effects must vitally engage all nations and all people. Yet, the pressing and immediate features of our time have deep roots in the long history of human interactions with the world around us, both animate and inanimate.  Further, […]

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  • 17 Oct 2018
    Aimée Fox

    The British Army and the First World War

    Innovation is big business. Whether we’re talking about blue chip companies like Apple, multinationals like Google, or the Defence community, the ability to innovate is associated with greater competitive advantage and versatility. Yet, for the military, in an era marked by tightening budgets, constant confrontation, and the blurred distinction between war and peace, armed forces […]

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  • 2 May 2018
    Elina Screen, Charles West

    The Montpellier Psalter and ‘Writing the Early Medieval West’

    Robed in elegant shades of green and purple, Christ stands holding a gospel book beneath an arch decorated with interlace. Below this portrait, a prayer has been written in a fine Carolingian minuscule, appealing for divine support. We chose this cover image for Writing the Early Medieval West because it neatly connects and ties together […]

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  • 30 Mar 2018
    Lyndon Johnson announcing is intention not to run for re-election
    Kyle Longley

    LBJ’s 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America’s Year of Upheaval

    Author Kyle Longley joins Cambridge University Press Senior Editor Deborah Gershenowitz to discuss his new book, LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval.

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  • 7 Mar 2018
    Alice Tranah

    Notes of a Bookseller: International Women’s Day

    About the Cambridge University Press Bookshop Cambridge University Press Bookshop opened in 1992, but the shop itself has been around for a great deal longer and selling books all the while; since 1581, in fact. Passing from hand to hand over the centuries, 1 Trinity Street was taken over in 1846 by Daniel and Alexander […]

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  • 2 Feb 2018
    Alice Tranah

    Notes of a Bookseller: A Century of the Women’s Vote

    About the Cambridge University Press Bookshop Cambridge University Press Bookshop opened in 1992, but the shop itself has been around for a great deal longer and selling books all the while; since 1581, in fact. Passing from hand to hand over the centuries, 1 Trinity Street was taken over in 1846 by Daniel and Alexander […]

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  • 31 Jan 2018
    Peter B. Levy

    Of Kerner, King and the Great Uprising: Fifty Years Later

    How should we respond to the golden anniversaries of the publication of the Kerner Commission’s Report (March 1968) and the greatest wave of racial unrest in American history which followed Martin Luther King, Jr’s assassination (April 1968)?   Will we allow these anniversaries to pass largely unnoticed, preferring to commemorate more triumphant moments?  Or will we […]

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  • 10 Nov 2017
    Jay Winter

    Commemorating catastrophe

    One hundred years after the United States’ entry into the 1914–18 world war, what aspects of this vast global conflict, and of America’s role in it, are worthy of commemoration? First and foremost, we remember the ten million men all over the world who lost their lives in the war. Indeed, remembering this “Lost Generation” is […]

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