The journal of the Hebrew Union College, an anthology of scholarly articles concerning Jewish history, religion and culture from antiquity to the present.
The journal of the Hebrew Union College, an anthology of scholarly articles concerning Jewish history, religion and culture from antiquity to the present.
A collection of essays that bring new insight into Jewish culture as it is intertwined in Jewish, European, Ottoman, and American history.
Crime and violence soared in twenty-first-century Venezuela even as poverty and inequality decreased, contradicting the conventional wisdom that these are the underlying causes of violence.
During its heyday, international development included not just dams, roads, health programs, and agricultural projects but also animal husbandry schemes, urban development, and wildlife protection plans.
Since the end of World War II, the United States has come to dominate the world economically and politically, leading many to describe the United States as an empire.
Popular natural history periodicals in the nineteenth century had an incredible democratizing power.... Læs mere
Together, they reveal how tools and data from automated textual analysis, or machine “reading,” combined with methods and models from game theory and cultural evolutionary theory, can begin to answer fundamental questions about the nature and history of science.
Baranski argues that Borlaug’s new technologies ultimately privileged wealthier farmers, despite assurances to politicians that these new crops would thrive in diverse geographies and benefit all farmers.
In the final decades of the twentieth century, the advent of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo) offered a revolutionary new perspective that transformed the classical neo-Darwinian, gene-centered study of evolution.
The range of topics covered includes American Indian and Indigenous representations, literacies, and rhetorics, critical... Læs mere
Volume historicizing energy production and consumption which foregrounds the importance of energy for big historical questions.