Month: June 2017
Masquerades of War
Stephen Chan, SOAS, University of London states that masquerades are everyday aspects of the politics, praxis, and experiences…
China’s War with Japan, 1937-1945
Rana Mitter is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford and…
A New History of the French Resistance
The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but is it a story built on…
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
Richard White is a Pulitzer-Prize nominated historian and Margaret Byrne Professor of American History at Stanford University, a…
Plural International Relations in a Divided World
The world is troubled and full of misunderstandings. It seems a new world order of fundamentalist violence and…
Global Innovations in Measurement and Evaluation
What are the most exciting current developments in measurement and evaluation in the public, private and social sectors—and…
The History of Early Years Teacher Education and the Open-Air Nursery
Betty Liebovich, Goldsmiths, University of London, research interests include the history of the open-air nursery, focusing on the…
Margaret and Rachel McMillan: their influences on open-air nursery education and early years teacher education
Rachel and Margaret McMillan created an open-air nursery in Deptford, London that has influenced early years education for…
The Problem of Violence and the Will to Punish
More than 2.2 million Americans are incarcerated. Hundreds of thousands of people (mostly men) are released from U.S.…
The Growth of Incarceration in the United States
After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of imprisonment in the United…
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