This book examines the practices of contesting evidence in democratically constituted knowledge societies. It provides a multifaceted view of the processes and conditions of evidence criticism and how they determine the dynamics of de- and re-stabilization of evidence. Evidence is an essential resource for establish...

This open access book investigates how representation of Native Americans and Mexican-origin im/migrants takes place in high school history textbooks. Manually analyzing text and images in United States textbooks from the 1950s to 2022, the book documents stories of White victory and domination over Black, Indigenou...

How the specter of climate has been used to explain history since antiquity Scientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet and may even bring about the extinction of our species. Yet behind these anxieties lies an ol...

The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960–2000 combines digital cartography with close readings of representative films from 1960 to 2000. Christian B. Long offers a unique history of twentieth-century Hollywood narrative cinema, one that is focused on the intersection of the geographies of narrative location...

This edited collection challenges and re-imagines what is ‘heritage’ in Britain as a globalised, vernacular, cosmopolitan ‘post-nation’. It takes its inspiration from the foundational work of public intellectual Stuart Hall (1932–2014). Hall was instrumental in calling out embedded elitist conceptions of ‘The Herita...

If the United States is really the 'Land of the Free' where anyone can become president, you would expect that the American presidents [George Washington to Joe Biden] would express that genetic diversity. This has not been the case. The presidents of the United States are as much a royal dynasty as anything in Euro...

This book looks at the history of the EU’s trade negotiations with China from 1975 to 2019 from a distinctive perspective – the EU as a linkage power. The author explains how the EU through linkage strategies speaks with one voice, overcomes its weakness in military capabilities and translates its non-military capab...

La aventura de la ciencia convertida en literatura. Un libro inclasificable y poderosamente seductor. Las narraciones incluidas en este libro singular y fascinante tienen un hilo conductor que las entrelaza: la ciencia, con sus búsquedas, tentativas, experimentos e hipótesis, y los cambios que –para bien y para mal–...

In this masterful history, Eli Zaretsky reveals the power of Freudian thought to illuminate the great political conflicts of the twentieth century. Developing an original concept of "political Freudianism," he shows how twentieth-century radicals, activists, and intellectuals used psychoanalytic ideas to probe consu...

Burmese Days is set in 1920s imperial Burma, in the fictional district of Kyauktada, based on Kathar (formerly spelled Katha), a town where Orwell served. It is a thinly-veiled tale from the waning days of British colonialism when Burma was ruled from Delhi as a part of British India–a portrait of the dark side of t...

As discussed on Coast To Coast AM! What if there were a place on earth that matched Plato's description of Atlantis to a scientifically proven 99.32% accuracy? What if multiple historical documents corroborate the location? What if NASA satellite images were found that provided undeniable visual evidence? These are ...

This Open Access book provides a comprehensive analysis of political reforms in Japan since the 1990s, emphasizing the role of ideas in shaping their goals and outcomes. For more than fifteen years following the collapse of Japan’s economic bubble, politicians, business people and academics tackled a range of instit...

為何不是陸地的歷史，而是海洋的歷史？ 為何不是國族與國別史，而是區域和網絡的歷史？ 了解濱下武志的主張和研究成果，看見東亞史的樣貌如何改換一新 　　二戰後，東亞近代史研究由兩大典範主宰。一是以哈佛費正清為首的「衝擊─回應」模型，認為東亞在西方強力叩門下被迫以「西化」回應，以此解釋日本的明治維新、清朝的自強運動以及各地建...

In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise poli...

This book considers the evolution and characteristics of Nigeria’s third-generation literature, which emerged between the late 1980s and the early 1990s and is marked by expressive modes and concerns distinctly different from those of the preceding era. The creative writing of this period reflects new sensibilities ...

More than 30 years ago, 24th Infantry Division soldiers answered the call of their Nation and went to war, first in Panama during Operation Just Cause to capture General Manuel Noriega and then in the Middle East during Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm to liberate Kuwait from Saddam Hussein. It was the 24th IDs...