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2755 results in Cambridge Elements

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Literature and War Medicine

Literature and War Medicine
  • Bassam Sidiki
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    August 2026
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    31 August 2026
  • Literature and War Medicine argues for the centrality of armed conflict in cultural histories of health and medicine. The emerging field of health humanities has, in the main, not engaged substantively with the burgeoning signifying practices that thematize the many pathologies-physical, psychological, and social-engendered by war. Histories of military conflicts and their attendant medical advances have been and will continue to be written, but how can health humanists theorize injury, healing, and disablement by closely reading literary narratives that grapple with these historical moments? How can novels, memoirs, and short stories that represent war medicine-and sustained attention to their formal properties-provide an alternative avenue for bioethical and biopolitical inquiry? Literature and War Medicine appraises contemporary literature representing medicine, illness, and disability amidst the colonial wars of the nineteenth century, WWI, WWII, postcolonial civil wars in Asia and Africa, the Global War on Terror, and the occupation of Palestine.

Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions
  • Matthieu Richelle
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    August 2026
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    31 August 2026
  • The purpose of this Element is twofold. First, it offers an up-to-date introduction to Paleo-Hebrew inscriptions. Second, it argues that the wealth of information they yield about ancient Israel and Judah is underappreciated and needs to be reevaluated. To these ends, it first briefly retraces the slow rediscovery of the Paleo-Hebrew script by modern scholars from the Renaissance onward and shows that it remained poorly identified by many until the second third of the twentieth century. Even today, most historians focus on a few iconic inscriptions or sets of inscriptions in specific periods. This Element then retraces the biography of the script in its entirety and highlights the surprising variety of its uses over more than a millennium. Finally, it shows, by a selection of relevant documents, how Paleo-Hebrew inscriptions shed light on daily life, historical events, religious beliefs and practices, and literacy in ancient Israel and Judah.
Revolution by Stealth

Revolution by Stealth
  • How Women's Groups Catalyzed a Cultural Transformation in Bihar
  • Shruti Majumdar, Vijayendra Rao, Paromita Sanyal
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    August 2026
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    30 September 2026
  • Revolution by Stealth: How Women's Groups Catalyzed a Cultural Transformation in Bihar tells the story of how Jeevika, a large-scale livelihoods project, sparked far-reaching change in one of India's poorest and most patriarchal states. Based on four years of qualitative fieldwork embedded within a randomized trial, the Element traces how federated self-help groups enabled marginalized women to access credit, build collective capacity, and reshape gender norms. Through shared rituals, new roles, and solidarity networks, women moved from domestic isolation to public voice, challenging caste and patriarchal hierarchies. Conceptualizing Jeevika as an “induced social movement,” the authors show how state-supported programs rooted in local traditions can generate durable empowerment. Empirically rich and theoretically grounded, the Element offers an interdisciplinary synthesis across development economics, sociology, and feminist theory, advancing debates on agency, norm change, and participatory development. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Fuzzy Authoritarian Rule

Fuzzy Authoritarian Rule
  • How Uncertainty Deters Dissent
  • Dawn Brancati, Nadine Sika
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    August 2026
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    30 September 2026
  • Many authoritarian regimes, including some of the world's most populous autocracies, such as China and Egypt, often do not make it clear what views, attitudes, and behaviors people may express openly without being sanctioned. This Element investigates how the uncertainty that this style of rule instills among people impacts the effectiveness of repression in deterring dissent. The authors develop a novel argument about how it can magnify the effect of repression by affecting how people understand what repression signals about a regime's resolve to sanction dissent. Their analysis, based on two laboratory experiments conducted in Egypt, confirms their argument and, in the process, challenges aspects of prominent behavioral arguments linking negative emotions to uncertainty. The authors' results imply that repression is least effective against acts of dissent regimes are opposed to the most and are very clear about their resolve to repress them as a result.
Rational Attitudes to Risk

Rational Attitudes to Risk
  • Ittay Nissan- Rozen
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    August 2026
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    30 September 2026
  • While reviewing central approaches in the philosophical literature on risk-attitudes, this Element argues for two related pluralistic theses, one conceptual and one normative. The conceptual thesis is that different types of attitudes, some of which are desires and some of which are not, count as risk-attitudes. An agent's attitude toward the risk involved in an uncertain prospect is characterized as the collection of mental states that affect the agent's evaluation of the prospect's possible outcomes, in the context of that specific prospect. The normative thesis is that the rationality conditions governing risk-attitudes have a conditional form: they allow for a wide range of preferences, provided that the agent has reasons to adopt particular risk-attitudes. The axiom systems used in different decision-theoretic models are understood not as expressing universally applicable normative constraints, but rather as characterizations of types of situations in which the reasons to adopt certain risk-attitudes exhibit specific structures.
Gendered Neologisms and Social Transformation

Gendered Neologisms and Social Transformation
  • Maria Szymańska
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    August 2026
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    30 September 2026
  • This Element investigates the emergence and social significance of gendered neologisms – new lexical formations that encode gender within existing expressions, such as 'mansplaining', 'girlboss', or 'manny'. Situated at the intersection of sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and morphology, the Element explores how such words arise in response to changing social realities and how they participate in contemporary debates about gender, identity, and power. Drawing on corpus-assisted analysis of journalistic and public discourse, the study examines both the structural formation and the evolving meanings of these neologisms. The findings reveal that gender markers such as 'man-' or 'girl-' rarely function as simple descriptors; instead, they carry metaphorical and evaluative meanings rooted in cultural expectations and gender stereotypes.
What Did Folklore Do?

What Did Folklore Do?
  • The Social Functions of Tradition
  • Jeremy Harte
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    August 2026
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    30 September 2026
  • Belief, tradition and custom all shape and preserve the social order. It was through tradition that communities in rural and small-town England enforced social norms in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, until the reform of manners suppressed this autonomous working class lore. Folklore governed relations between parent and child, husband and wife, and master and man, legitimising rewards for right actions and punishment for wrong ones. It gave people a language and ceremony to celebrate who they were and how they bonded with others in their parish and trade. The traditional moral code of loyalty and generosity softened friction between those who held power and resources and those who depended on them: even riot and unrest aimed not at a new order but at ritual return to the past. Close reading of popular custom and oral literature reveals the underlying pattern of values and obligations which upheld pre-capitalist society.
Understanding the Dynamics of Inequality for Growth and Development

Understanding the Dynamics of Inequality for Growth and Development
  • Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
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    August 2026
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    31 August 2026
  • Inequality and its evolution over time are increasingly important subjects within the social sciences, particularly in the field of political economy. This Element identifies for the first time which inequality measures are best suited to capture the dynamics of inequality. The author generates a dataset of twelve types of inequality measures for 108 years across 34 countries using mortality distributions. When modelling inequality as a fractionally integrated process and using a Vector Autoregression approach, they find that mean-independent inequality measures are more suited to dynamic studies. In contrast, however, mean-dependent measures are unsuitable for dynamic studies. They suggest that no inequality measure should be used for dynamic purposes without rigorously testing its suitability. Tests of temporal normality and volatility serve as excellent "marker" tests of whether a chosen inequality measure is suitable for dynamic contexts. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Making Reference with Aphasia

Making Reference with Aphasia
  • A Usage-based Analysis of Noun Phrases
  • Rachel Hatchard, Elena Lieven
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    August 2026
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    31 August 2026
  • Noun phrases (NPs) are central to effecting linguistic reference, itself fundamental to human interactions. However, little research has examined the NPs used by people with the language disability, aphasia. This Element provides detailed analyses of noun- and pronoun-headed NPs in spoken narratives by twelve people with various aphasia types/severities, exploring NP elaboration and productivity along a continuum of spoken language capability. The Element explains how some observations challenge the rule-based theory that remains influential in aphasiology, while all can be predicted by a usage-based approach. It expands the emerging subfield of Cognitive Aphasiology, with potential implications for both linguistics and speech and language therapy.
The Parisian Musical Avant-Garde during the Great War

The Parisian Musical Avant-Garde during the Great War
  • Jane Bathori’s Concerts in War and Peace
  • Barbara L. Kelly
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    August 2026
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    30 September 2026
  • The Parisian Musical Avant-Garde during the Great War brings music in the city to life during and immediately after the conflict. It tells the extraordinary story of singer, Jane Bathori, who became temporary director of an avant-garde theatre in Paris, the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier. Drawing on a wide inter-artistic network, Bathori collaborated with writers, set designers, choreographers, performers and composers to create highly original programmes by commissioning new works, reviving early music, staging chamber opera, mixing high art music with folk, popular and patriotic songs, and incorporating literary events. Bathori is remembered for her advocacy of composers such as Ravel, Satie, Poulenc and Milhaud, but was systematically written out of theatre history. Drawing on a rich range of archival materials, I show that her war-time artistic action sparked inter-artistic collaborations and shaped interwar musical taste, alongside figures such as Serge Diaghilev and Jean Cocteau.
Climate Scenarios for Financial Modelling

Climate Scenarios for Financial Modelling
  • Riccardo Rebonato
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    August 2026
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    30 September 2026
  • This Element explains the architecture of current climate scenarios and discusses whether it is well-suited to the needs of financial analysts and investment professionals. The author argues that prevailing models underrepresent the uncertainty surrounding climate outcomes. He shows that current scenarios architecture mechanically produces a negative climate risk premium, but that this result only obtains under very special circumstances. He quantifies the economic impact of a misspecification of the sign of the climate risk premium, finding that it is large. The current scenario architecture also unwarrantedly emphasizes transition risk over the potentially more severe physical risks, leading to a skewed picture of climate related financial exposure. The lack of probabilistic weighting in scenario design undermines their usefulness for asset valuation and risk assessment. The Element suggests how a new generation of climate scenarios for investors should be structured, emphasizing transparency, sensitivity analysis, and a more balanced representation of possible outcomes.
Penguins on the Couch

Penguins on the Couch
  • Penguin Books and the Psychologization of Britain, c.1945–c.1980
  • Gavin Miller
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    August 2026
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    30 September 2026
  • Penguin Books' extensive and affordable non-fiction list brought psychological ideas to a mass-market British readership. Even modestly successful titles sold thousands of copies per annum, while best sellers could sell hundreds of thousands over their lifetime. Covering a period from the mid-1940s to around 1980, Penguins on the Couch shows how psychological ideas were filtered and shaped by the inner life of Penguin Books as a commercial publisher with a commitment to professionalism, public education, and progressive politics. Penguin supplied and built a market for psychological knowledge in an era when these ideas were increasingly important – in clinical settings, in childcare and education, in progressive politics, and in the need to make sense of one's life as an autonomous individual.
Food and Feasts in the Hebrew Bible in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context

Food and Feasts in the Hebrew Bible in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context
  • Peter Altmann
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    August 2026
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    31 August 2026
  • Food, drink, and feasting represent both the stuff of everyday life and potent symbols for worship, identity, and power since time immemorial and throughout the globe. However, the ways they exercise influence take shape in accordance with the realities and imaginations of distinct cultural settings. This volume provides an overview of the ways that these elements and motifs appear in the texts of Hebrew Bible in relation to its larger cultural and historical context. After considering food as a broader anthropological object of study, it discusses the features of regular provision in ancient Israel. Specific investigations include feasts, prohibitions, fasting, along with connections with sexuality, worship, and identity in relation to the foodways of the broader region.
Censorship of History

Censorship of History
  • Antoon De Baets
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    August 2026
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    30 September 2026
  • Censorship is the dark side of historical writing. Because much censorship is shrouded in secrecy, the subject tends to stay outside mainstream histories of historical writing. Consequently, many such histories offer unduly optimistic accounts of historical writing. They assume that historians produced their works in a political vacuum. This view is challenged here through an examination of the post-1945 censorship of history and its entanglement with power and freedom. This Element can be explored in three ways. The main overview discusses the international standards on freedom of expression, the demarcation debates on censorship, and the problems in tracing it; it also reviews censorship's reasons, key players, and effects. Furthermore, a dozen spotlights present significant themes or patterns of censorship. Finally, a glossary locates the concepts related to the censorship of history within the broader network of terms related to the freedom of expression about the past.
Intercultural Health Communication

Intercultural Health Communication
  • Cultural Lenses and Shared Horizons as a Theoretical Framework
  • Elaine Hsieh, Sachiko Terui
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    August 2026
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    30 September 2026
  • Cultural Lenses and Shared Horizons (CLASH), a theory for intercultural health communication, addresses limitations of existing approaches by conceptualizing communication as a contextually situated and locally managed activity. By examining intercultural tensions in health contexts, the Element shows how meaning, ethics, and decision-making are constituted through communicative practices across legal, policy, community, and interpersonal levels. CLASH presents four frameworks-Magic Consciousness, Mythic Connection, Perspectival Thinking, and Integral Fusion—to explain and predict how different forms of cultural consciousness shape experiences of reality and the evaluation of communicative practices within and across specific communities. Emphasizing the dynamic and emergent nature of social interactions, CLASH provides an analytical framework to examine how participants recognize, negotiate, and reconcile divergent cultural frameworks. By conceptualizing culture as an ongoing process embedded in social contexts, CLASH offers a regenerative paradigm for analyzing intercultural health communication. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Monotheism and Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland

Monotheism and Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland
The Amarna Letters and the Scribes Who Wrote Them

The Amarna Letters and the Scribes Who Wrote Them
  • Alice Mandell
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    August 2026
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    31 August 2026
  • This Element offers readers an introduction to the Amarna letters. This group of 350 cuneiform tablets was discovered at the site of Tell el-Amarna (ancient Akhetaten) in Egypt. They date to the mid-fourteenth century BCE and preserve correspondence between Egyptian rulers of the late Eighteenth Dynasty and foreign political contemporaries from all over ancient Western Asia. These rulers (with few exceptions) never met face-to-face, yet they communicated about trade, military operations, gift-giving, and intermarriage between royal houses. The Canaanite Amarna letters from the southern Leant also elucidate the impact of Egypt's military and economic agenda from the perspective of subjugated elites. The Amarna letters are also important for our understanding of the people who made written diplomacy possible: cuneiform scribes. Overall, the letters paint a picture of highly localized and divergent scribal practices. The letters thereby fill in the gaps in material evidence for cuneiform scribal communities in the Amarna Age.
As I Write Dying

As I Write Dying
  • Memoirs of the End
  • Maria Anna Mariani
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  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2026
    Print publication:
    01 January 2028
  • As I Write Dying: Memoirs of the End examines the rise of a distinctive literary form: the real-time memoir of terminal illness. Since the 1990s, writers such as Christopher Hitchens, Oliver Sacks, Ruth Picardie, and Jenny Diski have chronicled their dying in serialized essays for major periodicals, transforming an intensely private experience into a public narrative shaped by publication cycles and the temporality of reading. These “memoirs of the end” challenge the philosophical claim that one's own death cannot be narrated, showing how modern medicine and media reconfigure how mortality is lived and understood. Unlike traditional illness narratives oriented toward recovery and survival, they remain in the durational present of dying itself, turning autobiography into autothanatography. Bringing literary analysis into dialogue with philosophy and cultural history, the Element argues that such works make mortality legible again, returning death – and the language of its approach – to the center of modern thought.
An Evolutionary Approach to Secular Stagnation

An Evolutionary Approach to Secular Stagnation
  • Andrea Borsato
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    August 2026
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    30 September 2026
  • This Element examines Secular Stagnation in the USA and responds to a recognised need for greater conceptual precision and analytical clarity regarding its nature and economic implications. Revisiting the contemporary economic debate, I propose a coherent reconceptualisation of Secular Stagnation grounded in long-run descriptive empirical evidence and an evolutionary theoretical framework. The analysis shows that stagnation should not be understood as a mere shortage of innovation or a transitory macroeconomic imbalance, but as a structural outcome of the interaction between technological change, demand dynamics, and selection mechanisms. Finally, I discuss how recent advances in automation technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), may either mitigate or reinforce Secular Stagnation, depending on how innovation policies and institutional settings shape the direction and diffusion of technological change in the US economy.

Leading for a Fragmented World
  • School Leadership as Epistemic Stewardship
  • Chris Brown
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  • Expected online publication date:
    August 2026
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    31 August 2026
  • Democratic societies are experiencing growing epistemic strain. Misinformation, polarisation, and fragmented information environments are weakening shared standards of evidence and the capacity for collective reasoning. Education policy has often responded by emphasising individual competencies such as critical thinking and media literacy. While important, this Element argues that such approaches are insufficient unless they are embedded within institutional conditions that allow ideas to be examined, contested, and translated into collective action. The Element introduces democratic intelligence: the collective capacity of institutions and societies to reason, learn, and act effectively under conditions of uncertainty and difference. It advances epistemic stewardship as a core responsibility of school leadership, focusing on the deliberate design of organisational conditions that enable engagement with trustworthy knowledge and structured professional dialogue. Across four sections, the Element shows how leaders can strengthen knowledge engagement, organise dialogue across difference, and translate collective reasoning into coordinated action and sustained school improvement.

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