Hrotsvit, who lived at the convent of Gandersheim in Saxony in the tenth century, is the first Latin dramatist since late antiquity whose work survives. Her plays... Læs mere
Friction, the force that resists motion, has shaped technological progress for millennia. Jennifer Vail shows how the quest to master friction has driven innovation, culture, and... Læs mere
In the 1930s and 1940s, Caribbean and West African newspapers nurtured anticolonial movements through... Læs mere
In medieval and early modern Europe, the transition from Roman to Indo-Arabic numerals enabled their... Læs mere
Christina Cross decisively refutes culture-of-poverty narratives blaming family structure... Læs mere
John Samuel Harpham shows that the development of slavery in the English Atlantic world was underpinned by a... Læs mere
The so-called Golden Age of Athens, during and after the primacy of Pericles, was in fact a time of ruinous culture wars. Hubris shows how... Læs mere
In 1918, the nation of Georgia declared independence from a defunct Russian Empire. Georgian leaders then set about drafting the... Læs mere
The young Jewish boxer Ilya Goldinov and his wife Feliksa are looking ahead to a bright future in Kyiv. Then the Nazi invasion in the summer of 1941 changes everything. The Face of Fire... Læs mere
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Xu Guoqi navigates the fraught terrain of Chinese identity, arguing that the idea of China has always been constructed and reconstructed in concert with the broader... Læs mere