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Mar
2023

Everything You Know About Fairies Is Wrong:...

“In th’olde days of the king ArthourOf which that Britons speaken great honour,All was this land full fill’d with faerie …” In Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath reflects that...
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16
Mar
2023

State Legislative Resistance

My latest book, Monitoring American Federalism: The History of State Legislative Resistance demonstrates how states played a crucial role from the beginning of the republic in assessing the equilibrium...
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14
Mar
2023

Something’s fishy in medieval Europe

If you cast your line in the right places medieval Europe is full of fish. “A surfeit of lampreys” reportedly killed England’s King Henry I in 1135, and Pope Martin IV (d1285) expired after...
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9
Mar
2023

Was anticolonial activism global?

The office of the Union for Democratic Control, 1959. Photograph by Cyril M. Bernard. Courtesy of Miriam Bernard and Hull University Archives...
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9
Mar
2023

Putting Alison back in the picture

The photograph above, taken in May 1941, shows meadows near Bemerton, Wiltshire (UK), with a girl named Alison sitting on a plank bridge across a stream. Several features would immediately catch...
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27
Feb
2023

How Intelligence Becomes Policy

For four decades now, historians have lamented intelligence as the “missing dimension” of diplomatic history and international relations, the lack of relevance afforded “long-term intelligence experience...
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20
Feb
2023

A LONG DELAYED NEW EDITION

I was 31 years old — or as it now seems, young —when my first book appeared in May 1972. Half a century later a second edition of The Inns of Court Under Elizabeth I and the Early Stuarts 1590-1640,...
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10
Feb
2023

How did ancient poets seize the day?

“Carpe diem” is one of the most recognisable Latin phrases: in our day it is a popular slogan on T-shirts; millions know the words through the movie Dead Poets Society, in which the actor Robin Williams...
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Salim Yaqub

Salim Yaqub is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara and author of Winds of Hope, Storms of Discord (2022).

Merry Wiesner-Hanks

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks is Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and an experienced textbook author.

Geoffrey Parker is Andreas Dorpalen Professor of European History and an associate of the Mershon Center at The Ohio State University. He has published forty books, and is the editor of The Cambridge History of Warfare and The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare

Magdalena Skoblar

Mark A. Waddell

Christopher W. Close

Siren Çelik

Frederico Freitas

Rafael Cardoso

Karin Bowie

Shivan Mahendrarajah

Claude Markovits

Richard English

Danelle van Zyl-Hermann

Lorenz M. Lüthi

Richard Hunter

Tom Stammers

Philip J. van der Eijk

Anthony Kaldellis

Peter Sarris

M. D. Usher

Ruth MacKay

Mona Siddiqui

Theodore M. Brown

Theodore W. Cohen

Jerry Toner

Miri Rubin

Francis Young

Marion Gibson

Shahla Haeri

Chiara Formichi

Ariela J. Gross

Gina Anne Tam

Jeffrey R. Collins

Jeff Forret

Francine McKenzie

Alejandro de la Fuente

Corinne Ondine Pache

Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper

Casey Due

Susan Lupack

Robert Lamberton

Carl Knappett

Claudia Yaghoobi

Chima J. Korieh

Sabine R. Huebner

Esther Eidinow

Chelsi Mueller

Ben Marsh

Nandini Chatterjee

Angeliki Lymberopoulou

Bernadette Whelan

Ashley T. Rubin

Brian Cummings

Alexandra Walsham

Bronwyn Wallace

Ceri Law

Norbert Götz

Georgina Brewis

Steffen Werther

Gregg Huff

Hannah-Rose Murray

Max Skjönsberg

Benedikt Pontzen

Simon Mitton

Simon Mitton is a Life Fellow at St Edmund\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s College, University of Cambridge. For more than fifty years he has passionately engaged in bringing discoveries in astronomy and cosmology to the general public. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a former Vice-President of the Royal Astronomical Society, and a Fellow of the Geological Society. The International Astronomical Union designated asteroid 4027 as Minor Planet Mitton in recognition of his extensive outreach activity and that of Dr Jacqueline Mitton.

Peter Mitchell

Kate Boehme

Alan Lester

Walter Pohl

Clemens Gantner

Jane Lydon

I. P. Haynes

Thomas Leahy

David Veevers

Rebecca Earle

Peder Anker

Shushma Malik

William Caferro

Andreas Agocs

John McNeil

Ester Salgarella

Samuel Fury Childs Daly

John D. Turner

William Quinn

L. Bosman

P. Liverani

Lea David

Lara Harb

Jaume Aurell

Nabaparna Ghosh

Andrew Kettler

Catherine Armstrong

Anna P. Judson

Hyaeweol Choi

Timothy J Lynch

Sascha Auerbach

Noah Riseman

Australian Catholic University, Melbourne

R. Scott Sheffield

University of the Fraser Valley

Monica R. Gale

J.H.D. Scourfield

Mark Hunter

Gavriel D. Rosenfeld

Greg Whitesides

University of Colorado, Denver

Martin T. Fromm

Mischa Honeck

German Historical Institute, Washington DC

James Marten

Marquette University, Wisconsin

Pat Thane

Jonathan Fennell

Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie

R.J.M. Blackett

Keri Leigh Merritt

Alice Tranah

Alice Tranah grew up in Cambridge and, after studying history at University, fell delightely into life as a bookseller, first in London and then here for Cambridge University Press Bookshop.

Kyle Longley

Nikolay Koposov

Robert Scott Kellner

Anne C. Bailey

George Lawson

Elina Screen

University of Oxford

Tillman W. Nechtman

Skidmore College

Aimée Fox

King\'s College London

John F. Drinkwater

Roger L. Ransom

Clive Gabay

Queen Mary University of London

Michael H. Fisher

Oberlin College, Ohio

Hans Pols

University of Sydney

Charles West

University of Sheffield

Calvin Schermerhorn,

Giovanni Ruffini

Ewout Frankema

Anne Booth

Linda Levy Peck

Jon Piccini

Vanessa Rampton

Peter Hill

Lauren Working

Warren Chernaik

Edward Roberts

Matthew P. Romaniello

Surekha Davies

Jan De Graaf

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Hilary M. Carey

University of Bristol

Christian Laes

University of Manchester

Robert Lynch

Arianne Chernock

Jeffrey L. Gould

Robert H. Blackman

Agustí Nieto-Galan

Kevin A. Young

Guy Ortolano

Neil Murphy

Laura Schwartz

Daniel Woolf

Daniel Blue

Matthias Schmelzer

Raymond Gavins

The Cambridge Guide to African American History

Damian Alan Pargas

Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South

Steven Lubet

\\\'The Colored Hero\\\' of Harper\\\'s Ferry

Robert Shoemaker

London Lives

Karlos K. Hill

Christopher Rowe

Helen Van Noorden

Playing Hesiod

Julie Buckner Armstrong

The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature

George Garnett

Magna Carta Third Edition

John Hudson

Magna Carta Third Edition

William Rorabaugh

American Hippies

Jesse Keskiaho

Dreams and Visions in the Early Middle Ages

Wilson D. Miscamble

The Most Controversial Decision

Phillips Payson O'Brien

How the War Was Won

Cody Marrs

Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War

James Melton

Magna Carta and Its Modern Legacy

Mark Hill QC

Magna Carta, Religion and the Rule of Law

Prasenjit Duara

The Crisis of Global Modernity

Ciraj Rassool

The Politics of Heritage in Africa

Sarah Bush

The Taming of Democracy Assistance

Reuel Schiller

Forging Rivals

Alissa M. Ardito

Robin Grier

The Long Process of Development

Yuma Totani

Justice in Asia and the Pacific Region, 1945-1952

Stephen Macekura

Of Limits and Growth

Mark A. Zupan

Tim William Machan

Imagining Medieval English

Raffael Scheck

French Colonial Soldiers in German Captivity during World War II

Andrew Buchanan

American Grand Strategy in the Mediterranean during World War II

Jeff Rutherford

Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front

Gerhard L. Weinberg

Visions Of Victory: The Hopes Of Eight World War II Leaders

Timothy Parsons

Africa and World War II

Ran Zwigenberg

Hiroshima

Douglas Porpora

Reconstructing Sociology

Siniša Malešević

Jared Rubin

Pierre Asselin

San Diego State University

Clare Makepeace

Michael G. Kort

Jay Winter

Jean-Philippe Platteau

Assaf Likhovski

Maarten Derksen

Jeremy C. Young

Rex A. Wade

Katharina Lorenz

Richard W. Kaeuper

Bruce M.S. Campbell

Robert Peckham

Gavriel D. Rosenfeld

Mark Philip Bradley

Kirsten McKenzie

Alex J. Kay

Michael J. Hogan

Michael E. Neagle

Alexander Hill

Christoph Kalter

William Thomas Okie

Q. Edward Wang

Chopsticks

Hendrik W. Day

The Afterlife of the Roman City

Cristina Mazzoni

She-Wolf: The Story of a Roman Icon

William O. Walker III

National Security and Core Values in American History

William E. Wallace

Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and His Times

Douwe Draaisma

Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older

Bruce Bradley

Dictionary of Irish Biography

Michael A. Lawrence

Radicals in Their Own Time

Scott H. Ainsworth

Abortion Politics in Congress

Thad E. Hall

Abortion Politics in Congress

Nancy Holmstrom

Capitalism, For and Against

Ann Cudd

Capitalism, For and Against

Sarah E. Wagner

Srebrenica in the Aftermath of Genocide

Garrett G. Fagan

The Lure of the Arena

Stephen H. Norwood

Antisemitism and the American Far Left

Myrna I. Santiago

The Ecology of Oil

Stephen Sheppard

I Do Solemnly Swear

Robert S. Singh

After Bush

Timothy J. Lynch

After Bush

Neil Kent

A Concise History of Sweden

John Hagan

Darfur and the Crime of Genocide

Wenona Rymond-Richmond

Darfur and the Crime of Genocide

Martin Gardner

The New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library

Laurent Murawiec

The Mind of Jihad

Teresa da Silva Lopes

Global Brands

James A. Winn

The Poetry of War

Michelle Zerba

Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance

Giorgio Riello

Cotton

Charles Bamforth

Grape vs. Grain

Susan Pinkard

A Revolution in Taste

Brian Balogh

A Government Out of Sight

Pita Kelekna

The Horse in Human History

Thomas Curley

Samuel Johnson, the Ossian Fraud, and the Celtic Revival in Great Britain and Ireland

Janet Afary

Sexual Politics in Modern Iran

Colin Shindler

A History of Modern Israel

Lizabeth Cohen

Making a New Deal

Robert M. Calhoon

Political Moderation in America\\\'s First Two Centuries

Quentin Skinner

Liberty before Liberalism

Lara J. Nettelfield

Srebrenica in the Aftermath of Genocide

Kume Kunitake

Japan Rising

Joanne M. Ferraro

Venice: History of the Floating City

Shelley Baranowski

Nazi Empire

Marshall Poe

A History of Communications

Marie C.

Library marketing associate

James M. Banner Jr.

Being a Historian

Jacques Pépin

The Origins of AIDS

J. C. A Stagg

The War of 1812

Joseph P. Ward

London: A Social and Cultural History, 1550–1750

Rebecca Y.

Carolyn Bronstein

Battling Pornography

Stanley G. Payne

The Spanish Civil War

Peter Conn

The American 1930s

David Stahel

Operation Typhoon

Kristie Macrakis

Seduced by Secrets

Shannon Gilreath

The End of Straight Supremacy

John O'Beirne Ranelagh

A Short History of Ireland

David Foglesong

The American Mission and the \\\\\\\'Evil Empire\\\\\\\'

S. Jonathan Wiesen

Creating the Nazi Marketplace

R. Kent Newmyer

The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr

John Quigley

The International Diplomacy of Israel’s Founders

Elliott Abrams

Tested by Zion

Robert O. Bucholz

London: A Social and Cultural History, 1550-1750

James R. Flynn

Does Your Family Make You Smarter?

Martin H. Quitt

Stephen A. Douglas and Antebellum Democracy

Heather Stur

Beyond Combat

Andrew Martin

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Brian Jeffrey Maxson

The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence

Maartje Abbenhuis

An Age of Neutrals: Great Power Politics, 1815–1914

Jamie Kreiner

The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom

Joseph Michael Finger

Developing Countries in the GATT Legal System

Tyler Lange

The First French Reformation

Craig Gibson

Behind the Front

Michael A. Livingston

The Fascists and the Jews of Italy

Mo Moulton

Ireland and the Irish in Interwar England

Michael D. Bailey

The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West

Julián Casanova

Twentieth-Century Spain

Ayelet Haimson Lushkov

Magistracy and the Historiography of the Roman Republic

Joel Cabrita

Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church

Brian A. Catlos

Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c.1050–1614

John L. Brooke

Climate Change and the Course of Global History

Mitra Sharafi

Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia

Tom Ginsburg

Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes

Paul Sheehan

Rosalind Grooms

Cambridge University Press Archivist

Alan McDougall

The People\'s Game

Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb

The International Distribution of News

Valeska Huber

Channelling Mobilities

Ann-Marie Einhaus

The Short Story and the First World War

David Woodward

The American Army and the First World War

Sarah Roth

Gender and Race in Antebellum Popular Culture

Celia Marshik

The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Culture

Emile Chabal

A Divided Republic

David Chan Smith

Sir Edward Coke and the Reformation of the Laws

George Thomas

The Founders and the Idea of a National University

Dean Hammer

Roman Political Thought

Stephen Offutt

New Centers of Global Evangelicalism in Latin America and Africa

Jordi Díez

The Politics of Gay Marriage in Latin America

Ethan J. Kytle

Romantic Reformers and the Antislavery Struggle in the Civil War Era

Robert E. May

Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics

Laura Edwards

Laura F. Edwards, Duke University, North Carolina Laura F. Edwards is the Peabody Family Professor of History at Duke University. Her book The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South was awarded the American Historical Association\\\\\\\'s 2009 Littleton–Griswold Prize for the best book in law and society and the Southern Historical Association\\\\\\\'s Charles Sydnor Prize for the best book in Southern history.