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Past Forward
Kyung Moon Hwang discusses features of Korean history that illuminate current issues and pressing concerns, including recent political upheavals,…
A Common Humanity
Raimond Gaita asserts that our conception of humanity cannot be based upon the empty language of individual rights…
On Plato’s Timaeus
Until the Renaissance, the work of Calcidius offered the medieval West almost the only direct access to Plato’s…
War: How Conflict Shaped Us
Margaret MacMillan discusses the tangled history of war and society and our complicated feelings towards it and towards…
Re-creation, Fragmentation, and Resilience
Re-Creation, Fragmentation, and Resilience tells the story of post Second World War Canada by exploring ten themes key…
National indifference and the return of Alsace to France
Alison Carrol examines French policies to reintegrate the recovered region of Alsace into France after the First World…
Crusoe and His Consequences
300 years after it was first published, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe remains hugely influential and hotly debated. Since its…
Radical conduct: politics, sociability and equality in London 1789-1815
While the French Revolution drew immense attention to French radicals and their ideas, London also played host to…
Reassessing the British Way in Warfare
In the 1930s and 1940s, the military historian and strategic analyst Basil Liddell Hart developed the British ‘Way…
Imagining Afghanistan
Nivi Manchanda uncovers and critically explores Anglophone practices of knowledge cultivation and representational strategies, and argues that Afghanistan…