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On the publication of Oliver Goldsmith’s The Citizen of the World in 1762, the British Magazine described it as ‘Light, agreeable summer reading, partly original, partly borrowed’....
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European History
When Michel de Montaigne asked his famous question, “What do I know? (Qui sçay-je?)” in the longest of his essays, “An Apology for Raymond Sebond,” what he was asking was...
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African History
I didn’t set out to write a book about freedom, or about the Black Atlantic. I thought I was writing a history of education in postcolonial West Africa. But the longer I spent in...
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Philosophy & Religion
This new book, Providence, Evil and Salvation – a Thomist Perspective attempts to address some questions central to the Christian faith: How can we square the belief in God with...
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Philosophy & Religion
One of the enduring assumptions in the study of religion is that belief in the devil emerged as an attempt to explain the existence of evil. Before modern psychology, sociology, or...
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History & Classics
When people think about the Anthropocene—the age in which human activities have become a major force shaping the Earth’s climate, ecosystems, and geology—they usually picture...
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Architecture
While a university student, by chance I took an elective course in glassblowing. One of the first things I remember is learning how to hold the heavy metal blowpipe. Against the soundtrack...
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Art History
Italian Renaissance painter, author, architect, and poet Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) is best known for his multi-volume Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects...
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In 2000, while working in the rare books collection of Mexico’s National Library, I encountered something that caught me off guard. As I flipped through the card catalogue of...
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European History
A society’s true measure of success is its capacity to deal with failure. In the mid–seventeenth century, this is just what we can observe in the city of Amsterdam, at the time...
Read MoreRussia is not a textbook example in the innovation studies literature – it is either ignored or considered an outlier because of its political regime. Russia’s current innovation system is largely...
In June on this blog, I wrapped up my post by asking which of the five CERIC elements we use to analyze scientific articles feels the toughest. The questions we use focus on the Claim (as in, the new...
Edmund Curll has gone down as the bad boy of British publishing, and it would be an affectation to disagree with this verdict. Even people with no special interest in book history or the eighteenth century...
Pluralism in research is based on the awareness that often we can answer any research question in different ways. Which one is preferable depends on many factors and circumstances rather than on general...
One of the most striking principles to come out of the natural sciences is that our universe appears to be governed by just handful of relatively simple principles. The newly published book `Spontaneous...
Institutionalized as a census category in 1881, the concept of mother tongue is central in education policy, scholarly discourse, and popular understandings of language and social identity in contemporary...
John Dewey’s Experience and Nature (1925), the great jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., once said, conveyed to him “a feeling of intimacy with the inside of the cosmos”; it read, he...
Whenever I mention that I’ve just written a book on slavery and literature in Cuba in the nineteenth century, the conversation almost immediately turns to the present. Do I travel to Cuba? How do Cubans...
In the recent Christopher Nolan film “The Odyssey” we see a curious depiction of Circe transforming Odysseus’ crew of sailors into pigs. The cinematic representation drips with Circe’s disdain...
Here in the United States, history is a recent phenomenon. This summer, the U.S. celebrated its 250th birthday. That’s not nothing, of course, but it pales before many sovereign nations in Europe that...
On the publication of Oliver Goldsmith’s The Citizen of the World in 1762, the British Magazine described it as ‘Light, agreeable summer reading, partly original, partly borrowed’. In his Lectures...
Both climate change and the ocean have always been topics I felt drawn to. Both felt scientific, urgent, and practical, and they somehow involved the outdoors, which, for me, as a lawyer working inside...
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