Please introduce yourself. I’m Jatin Dua, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan and the incoming editor of Comparative Studies in Society and History.…
We are pleased to introduce ourselves to the Cambridge Core family as the co-editors of Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. Tristan is a professor of modern Japanese history at Nagoya University, specializing in colonialism, architecture, urban planning, film, and pop culture.…
“The full Historical Journal article on which this blog is based is currently not yet published but will be out soon!…
Contemporary European History's 2022 prize-winner, Luca Provenzano, wrote a blog introducing the argument of his (prize-winning) article.
Although ITV fundamentally transformed British television, a combination of archival red tape and academic disdain for the BBC’s ‘low-brow’ competitor has left its history largely untouched.
My aim in this piece, however, is to suggest that there is much to be gained from turning to Hobbes’s immediate Parisian surroundings—for, France had its own share of intellectual and political turmoil during the decade of 1640s.
Since the demise of Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948), known as the “Mahatma” or the Great Soul, numerous studies have unsurprisingly been published about him, particularly concerning his concept of “non-violence,” a central virtue of his anti-colonial satyagraha campaign. It is tempting to think that nothing new can be offered on the subject. However, by reading his writings in Gujarati, his native tongue, it is possible to reveal important and original insights.
Since the beginning of 2022, Turkey has witnessed an unexpected strike wave. The strike by couriers at Trendyol, an e-commerce platform bought by Alibaba in 2018, has attracted the most public attention.…
This article explores the career of Iosif Lavrent’evich Mordovets who was the chief of the Soviet political police in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (MSSR) for more than a decade (1944-1955). His long career as a chekist started in Ukraine in the early 1930s continuing through the Great Terror in 1937-38 into 1940-41 Romanian Bessarabia occupied by the Soviet Union.
Despite the fact that the leaders of the current governing alliance (Cumhur İttifakı– People’s Alliance) deny the possibility of a snap election, my short answer to the question in the title is “yes.”…
...my article explores a contrast between the national-patriotic character of the French Red Cross in the aftermath of World War One and the transnational humanitarian agenda of the broader Red Cross movement...
Usually slipped quietly between the pages of a coroner’s inquest, these deeply personal letters always gave me the greatest sense that I was hearing the voices of the people I studied.
It is shown that Shaftesbury’s opposition to both Cromwell during the Protectorate and Charles II in the Restoration was guided by a resolute ‘conscience’.
...documentations of housing projects offered by state-socialist Romanian design institutes to governmental clients in North Africa and the Middle East appeared as tools and records of negotiations among unequal parties...
In an attempt to create social cohesion, medieval European schoolmasters harnessed “youthful rebelliousness” during annual rituals so that a “modicum of order could be maintained.
This article highlights the fact that, alongside its other roles in the early modern British empire, alcohol was also an active force in imperial scientific culture in its role as medium of preservation and display.
1. Crypto is the Data Money, Blockchain is the Accounting System It is wrong to think that Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum are mere digital monies.…
Following the Great War, both countries tapped into their academic capital to pursue very different visions of the post-war order; that is either to enforce (in the case of France) or undo (in the case of Germany) the provisions of the Versailles peace settlement.
After decades of progressive reforms, since the early 2010s, Turkey has enacted a series of rollbacks on women’s rights and gender equality.…
The autonomy of universities from politics and the executive branch may sometimes be taken for granted. For this reason, it is worth emphasizing why that autonomy is so important.…
Boğaziçi University Protests and State Homophobia in Turkey
Founded in 1960, The China Quarterly is on the eve of entering its seventh decade of publishing world-class research on China.…
When, in September 2019, the editors of the Journal of Modern African Studies invited Professor Moses Ochonu, a historian at Vanderbilt University, to write a brief on recurrent xenophobia in South Africa, we were unsettled by the apparent contradiction between repeated attacks on individuals from other African countries, and the idea of Ubuntu, a philosophical insistence on Afro-human solidarity championed most vigorously within the South African academy.…
Traditionally, the second Monday of October is observed as Columbus Day in the United States. However, the holiday and its history are controversial.…
In June 2014, the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Islamic Action Front Party organised a press conference to present its new and detailed economic plan in Amman.…
It has been nine months since the “normal” has been disrupted with the emergence of a novel coronavirus and while we continue to be in the clasp of the COVID-19 pandemic the “new normal” has not ossified yet.…
A group of residents living on Russell Island, off the coast of Brisbane, Queensland, are petitioning to change the island’s name to an indigenous one.…
Adalet Ağaoğlu, one of the most prominent authors of modern Turkish literature, passed away at the age of 91 leaving behind a literary legacy that will be difficult to match for years to come.…
“Staying Here may be our only option during the current pandemic, but it would be too simple to declare this the only right answer for all time.”…
“Centennial Reflections – a distinguished parasitologist reflects on a paper published in their field in Parasitology 100 years ago” Coccidiosis in humans – the past 100 years: A Revision of the Coccidia Parasitic in Man BY: J.…
What do we mean when we talk about “scarcity”? Is it an absolute or relative condition? Observers of the 1959 Cuban Revolution have long relied on the category of scarcity to advance a variety of arguments.…
Experts on ethnic riots agree that the ethnic composition of localities affects their susceptibility to violence. They are however divided on which are more prone to turmoil between ethnically segregated and diverse settings.…
What does an empty bottle of concentrated orange juice have to do with colonialism? Some of you may remember the Welfare Orange Juice that the British government provided to pregnant women and young children from the middle of the Second World War until 1971.…
Journalists, China-watchers and academics have fiercely debated the legacy of China’s leaders, Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao. Some see the Hu–Wen period (2002–2012) as a “golden era” of rapid growth, while others portray it as a “lost decade” for economic and political reform.…
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The sweet banquet was a pervasive dining practice from the 1520s until the middle of the seventeenth century. It quickly spread beyond the court to the country houses of the nobility and gentry...
To mark the 150th anniversary of the Royal Historical Society, Cambridge University Press are making a selection of ten volumes from the Camden Series freely available to researchers until the end of the year.…
When the History of Education Quarterly asked me to contribute to a symposium on academic freedom, I could hardly refuse. I had recently written a book about how anti-communist witch hunters in the late 1940s and 1950s attacked teachers and professors, and about the Supreme Court’s eventual (and much-belated) response in 1967–striking down a typical state loyalty law and announcing that academic freedom is a “a special concern of the First Amendment, which does not tolerate laws that cast a pall of orthodoxy over the classroom.”…
UC Irvine history professor Jeffrey Wasserstrom recently concluded his ten-year tenure as editor of the Journal of Asian Studies. One of the new practices that Wasserstrom introduced as editor was a “JAS-at-AAS” panel at the annual conference.…
This blog post is taken from the ‘Introduction by Andrew I. Port’ on a special forum that looks at the lives and legacies of Helmut Schmidt and Helmut Kohl.…
A Response to Michael Sherry’s “War as a Way of Life” The United States never experienced sustained conflict on its mainland during the twentieth century.…
Articles of 5,000-8,000 words on topics relating to research, libraries, archives and publishing in and on Africa, and in African studies, are invited.…
This blog post is taken from the ‘Letter from the Editor’ to the special edition of Central European History published to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Journal. …
Think back to your childhood. What did you take with you when you went to school? Many of us would have set off with a backpack brimming with notebooks, erasers, a ruler, pens, pencils and perhaps a handful of sweets to enjoy when the teacher wasn’t looking.…
Depictions of colonized African peoples from Southwest Africa (DSWA, present-day Namibia), Germany’s first overseas colony, were prevalent throughout the German metropole at the turn of the twentieth century.…
The article A Shadow on the Past: Teaching and Studying Migration and Borders in the Age of Trump by Hasia Diner, Sonia Hernández, Benjamin H.…
Matthew Casey, author of Empire’s Guest Workers, discusses President Trump’s recent comments on Haiti. Donald Trump’s description of Haiti as one of a number of “shithole countries” came one day before the anniversary of the 2010 Haitian earthquake and a few weeks after he resurrected stereotypes associating Haitians with AIDS.…
China’s government has proclaimed a “war against pollution” and promised its citizens that problems of air pollution will be solved in the foreseeable future.…
“I maintain that the analogy between Finland and Ireland is almost perfect” -Michael Collins At the end of 2017, with Ireland approaching the half-way mark of what is designated a “Decade of Centenaries,” a country at the opposite edge of northern Europe will celebrate a hundred years of nationhood.…
This blog accompanies the new special issue of Irish Historical Studies, Ireland and Finland, 1860–1930: Comparative and Transnational Histories. Just over twenty years ago, the central debate among Irish historians could be presented as one between two competing strands of conservatism.…
Last year marked the anniversary of two of the most important scholarly debates about modern German history and the Holocaust: the so-called Historikerstreit (“historians’ quarrel”) that erupted thirty years ago in West Germany, as well as the lively debate sparked exactly a decade later by the publication in 1996 of Daniel J.…
Cambridge University Press welcomes 12 new journals in 2018, including 1 brand new launch title, 2 open access titles, and 9 from new society partners.…
This article examines the parallel strategies taken by Hermann Cohen (1842–1918) and contemporaries in the Eastern European Lithuanian Talmudic academies to develop modernizing interpretations of Jewish text, tradition, and law.…
With North Korea in the news, we would like to call attention to the range of research the Journal of East Asian Studies has published on the country.…
Introduction to the current issue (17, 2) The current issue of the Journal of East Asian Studies (17, 2) brings together a number of pieces on China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, beginning with Qingjie Zeng’s discussion of Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign.…
In this blog Dr Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin discusses her article Gifting cultures and artisanal guilds in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century London which was published in The Historical Journal.…
In this blog Dr Eliza Riedi discusses her article Assisting Mrs Tommy Atkins: Gender, class, philanthropy, and the domestic impact of the South African War, 1899–1902 which was published in The Historical Journal.…
For the latest entry of our blog series introducing the board members of the new Cambridge University Press journal, Modern American History, Bruce J.…
My book, Tax Law and Social Norms in Mandatory Palestine and Israel, emerged out of an interest I had, as a tax law teacher, in the history of tax avoidance doctrines.…
For the latest entry of our blog series introducing the board members of the new Cambridge University Press journal, Modern American History, Barbara Keys shares her thoughts on the field and on teaching American history in Australia.…
Francis Samwell was an auditor of the Exchequer around the time that Burghley ordered Heywood’s documentation to be re-examined. Perhaps at that time Samwell came across the poem and made his copy of Heywood’s ‘Swannys Songe’.
The latest issue of The Americas is a specially curated collection that explores revolution and revolutionary movements in Latin American history from the colonial period to the present.…
Read Jay Roszman’s recent article, ‘Ireland as a Weapon of Warfare’: Whigs, Tories, and the problem of Irish outrages, 1835 to 1839‘ in The Historical Journal.…
Rethinking the English Revolution of 1649 by Jonathan Fitzgibbons was published in The Historical Journal When the axe fell on 30 January 1649, cutting short the troubled life of King Charles I, one eyewitness claims that there followed ‘such a groan’ from the crowds of spectators ‘as I never heard before and desire I may never hear again’.…
In this blog Nancy Beadie, Senior Editor of History of Education Quarterly discusses the latest issue of the journal and how this special collection of articles, book reviews and a two-part historiographical essay on Rethinking Regionalism: The West aims to illuminate changing perspectives of the history of education in the Western United States of America.…
As part of our ongoing blog series introducing the board members of the new Cambridge University Press journal, Modern American History, Madeline Y.…
In this installment of our blog series introducing the board members for the new Cambridge University Press journal, Modern American History, Christopher Capozzola gives us his take on United States history.…
The Institute for Historical Research recently selected ten of the “most interesting articles and books” of 2016 and I was delighted to find my BJHS paper Deceived by Orchids: Sex, Science, Fiction and Darwin among them.…
In this first entry of the blog series introducing the board members of the new Cambridge University Press journal, Modern American History, Thomas G.…
I grew up in the outskirts of Florence in the 1970s and 1980s, in a town that was neither city nor country and that is now firmly embedded in Florence’s metropolitan area.…
Beginnings are difficult to retrace. And the beginning of my book, The Beginnings of Islamic Law, is no exception. There are many experiences that shaped the writing of the book, including ones that predate when I began researching it.…
It is surprising that there has been no “big tent” journal devoted to recent U.S. history, a field of great vibrancy and enduring importance.…
The world waits on tenterhooks to discover what kind of leader President-elect Trump will be. Will Trump’s statecraft involve a straightforward implementation of his somewhat preposterous campaign promises?…
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History has an expansive remit: we publish original research into the history of Christianity broadly conceived, from the ancient world to the present, throughout the world, extending to every variant of Christianity and every historical subdiscipline.…
The latest issue of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society is a special double issue which honours the contribution Professor David O’ Morgan has made over many years to the understanding of the Mongols and their fascinating story.…
No matter what inscrutable socio-biological function they may serve, all anniversaries are constructs. This is a point worth recalling as we celebrate for the 70th time the end of World War II.
Gerald Hawting came to SOAS in 1963 to study for an undergraduate degree in History, “with special reference to the Near and Middle East”.…
Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is to be free again in March, to celebrate Women’s History Month.…
The July issue of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (13.3) features the forum, “Populists and Progressives, Capitalism and Democracy”.…
This blog post, adapted from Robert Adlington and Julian Johnson’s Editorial of the latest issue of Twentieth-Century Music (TCM), considers what ‘Twentieth-Century music’ actually means, and how we define it after the end of the Twentieth Century.…
Recorded at this year’s British Association of American Studies Conference, the latest Journal of American Studies podcast offers the opportunity to hear Professor Rob Kroes deliver his lecture on the interaction of the “Western” and the “Southern” in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained.…
What is the most influential historical journal published in English? The answer, according to Google Scholar, is The Journal of Economic History.…
Back in spring 2008 the new Doctor Who was entering its fourth season. David Tennant was the Doctor, Catherine Tate was his companion Donna, and Pompeii was the destination of their first journey through time together.…
The latest issue of the newly redesigned The Journal of African History (JAH) includes the first special Forum on Health and Illness in African History.…
The latest issue of Eighteenth-Century Music includes an article by José María Domínguez entitled ‘Corelli, Politics and Music during the Visit of Philip V to Naples in 1702.’…
As promised in our previous blog post, the Itinerario editorial board would like to report on the recent online discussion between David Armitage of Harvard and the journal’s readership.…
As the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the EU for six decades of work in advancing peace in Europe, Contemporary European History’s editor Holger Nehring revisits the journal’s special issue on‘ A Peaceful Europe?…
In the latest issue of Africa Carola Lentz (University of Mainz) introduces the work of Kumbonoh Gandah, an intellectual and historian from Northern Ghana. …
‘Hunchbacks smothered in mustard and served on a silver platter’ and ‘the mangling of a Fisherman’s face with a live Lobster’.…
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
Long before Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in 2016, or Kamala Harris became the first woman vice president and launched her own presidential bid in 2024, another woman set her sights on the White House, at a time when women couldn’t even vote.…
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
Some disability-related names have dropped out of usage, because they are now considered to be offensive due to their origins. Down Syndrome (Trisomy 21) is one example.…
Plenty has been written about the dog. Slobbery, goofy, embarrassingly friendly, with… well, everyone. Dogs are prominently featured in historic accounts and paintings, loaded down with ingratiating platitudes like “man’s best friend”.…
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
The opportunity to showcase some of the exciting archaeological research currently underway on medieval Ethiopia in a journal as widely read as Antiquity is important.
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
At the end of the Greek Bronze Age, between c.1400-1200 BCE, the Mycenaean palaces of Crete and mainland Greece used small clay tablets to keep their accounting documents.
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