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Sarah: As the year hurtles towards its close, I’ve spent more time reading than writing. It has been a positively luxurious experience that has nevertheless left me with the conundrum of having far too many pieces to put forward here…. Continue Reading →
Over the week from Christmas to New Year, we’ll be taking a brief hiatus from our regular publishing schedule. To tide you over until 2019, we’ll be publishing two installments of holiday reading recommendations. The first is below. In the… Continue Reading →
by contributing author James Farquharson ‘[t]he lack of American diplomatic initiative [in the Nigerian Civil War] is very apparent. The will to clear the “political hurdles” in this genocidal tragedy lies lost somewhere in the swamps of the Mekong Delta’…. Continue Reading →
By Editor Spencer J. Weinreich “Whiskey per tutti!” “Benvenuto fra noi, Johnson di Sacramento!” “Una buona giornata per Wells Fargo!” (Puccini 11, 23, 50). La fanciulla del West (“The Girl of the West”), Giacomo Puccini’s opera set in the Wild… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Jonathon Catlin The German historian Reinhart Koselleck (1923–2006) is best known as the founder of Begriffsgeschichte, or conceptual history, a historical methodology that culminated in the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe: Historisches Lexikon zur politisch-sozialen Sprache, a massive eight-volume… Continue Reading →
All photographs by Enrique Ramirez, click to enlarge + read captions By guest contributor Enrique Ramirez There was a moment upon entering Bodys Isek Kingelez: City Dreams, currently at MoMA until January 1, 2019, when I felt as if I… Continue Reading →
By Contributing Editor Kristin Buhrow Most commonly associated with Medieval Europe, the term “serf” is commonly used to describe a certain type of peasant class with a particular set of living conditions. From the European Middle Ages, academic discourse in… Continue Reading →
by contributing writer Philipp Sperner While the need to study notions of power, sovereignty and rule from a global perspective has been widely acknowledged, the research is all too often limited by its strong dependence on the disciplinary framework of… Continue Reading →
Contributing Editor Disha Karnad Jani interviews Ethan Kleinberg, Joan Wallach Scott, and Gary Wilder, the authors of Theses on Theory and History. Please click for the full conversation.
