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Gregory Fried provides a novel way of understanding politics and ethical life he calls a polemical ethics, which mediates between finitude and transcendence by engaging in constructive confrontation with both traditions and other persons.

Bernard Mandeville’s The Fable of the Bees outraged its eighteenth-century audience by proclaiming that private vices lead to public prosperity. Today the work is best known as an early iteration of laissez-faire capitalism. Focusing on Mandeville’s moral, social, and political ideas, Robin Douglass offers an account of why we should take Mandeville seriously as a philosopher.

When Henry Brougham, first Baron Brougham and Vaux, died in his villa in Cannes in May 1868 at the age of eighty-nine, he was well known for his many achievements in the fields of politics, law and education, and also as the man who put the Mediterranean town Cannes on the map. Rosemary Ashton discusses the origin of Cannes as a resort to a chance visit in 1834 by Lord Brougham.

Paul James discusses the significance of engaged globalization theory and critical reflexivity and the development of an integrated method of analysis.

Anthony Best discusses the circumstances which led to the unlikely alliance of 1902 to 1922 between Britain, the leading world power of the day and Japan, an Asian, non-European nation which had only recently emerged from self-imposed isolation.

A growing retreat from multilateralism is threatening to upend the institutions that underpin the liberal international order. Bryan H. Druzin applies network theory to this crisis in global governance, arguing that policymakers can strengthen these institutions by leveraging network effect pressures.

Jeremy Crang traces the wartime history of the WAAF, ATS and WRNS and the integration of women into the British armed forces.

For centuries, Ferdinand Magellan has been celebrated as a hero: a noble adventurer who circumnavigated the globe in an extraordinary feat of human bravery; a paragon of daring and chivalry. Felipe Fernández-Armesto untangles the myths that made Magellan a hero.

Sarah Deutsch surveys the history of the U.S. West from 1898 to 1940. Centering what is often relegated to the margins in histories of the region—the flows of people, capital, and ideas across borders—Deutsch attends to the region’s role in constructing U.S. racial formations and argues that the West as a region was as important as the South in constructing the United States as a “white man’s coun...

Deborah Brown suggests René Descartes philosophy recognises irreducible composites that resist reduction, and require their own distinctive modes of explanation

Among the hundreds of thousands of displaced persons in Germany at the end of World War II, approximately 40,000 were unaccompanied children. Lynne Taylor discusses the heated battles that erupted amongst the various entities (military, governments, and NGOs) responsible for children's care and disposition.

Anne O'Brien discusses two moments of human rights advocacy for those experiencing homelessness; the Burdekan report on homeless children and the opposition to the Howard government erosion of democratic norms.

Thomas Irvine discusses how the sonic encounter with China shaped perceptions of Europe’s own musical development.

Peter Diggle discusses how core statistical ideas of experimental design, modelling, and data analysis are integral to the scientific method.

Riccardo Bavaj introduces and discusses spatial history through the lens of the different primary sources that historians use

Paul Cartledge discusses the differences and the interconnections between the Thebes of myth and the Thebes of history.

Throughout the long nineteenth-century the sounds of liberty resonated across the Anglophone world. Focusing on radicals and reformers committed to the struggle for a better future, Paul Pickering explores the role of music in the transmission of political culture over time and distance

Over the past century, while democratic governments have become more efficient, they have also become more disconnected from the people they purport to represent. John Matsusaka discusses how direct democracy can bring policies back in line with the will of the people. populism

As a French artist who lived in Polynesia, Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) occupies a crucial position in histories of European primitivism. Linda Goddard discusses his wide-ranging literary output, which included journalism, travel writing, art criticism, and essays on aesthetics, religion, and politics.

The striped velvet pantaloons of James, an enslaved man in the South Carolina upcountry, might not seem like an important legal artifact, but they are. Laura F. Edwards discusses how the legalities of textiles recast our understanding of Americans’ relationship to law and the economy in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War.

Ramie Targoff discusses Vittoria Colonna, a confidante of Michelangelo, the scion of one of the most powerful families of her era, and a pivotal figure in the Italian Renaissance.

Beryl Pong discusses British late modernism's relationship to war in terms of chronophobia: a joint fear of the past and future.

Prose poetry is a resurgent literary form in the English-speaking world and has been rapidly gaining popularity in Australia. Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington discuss Australian prose poetry written over the last fifty years.

Artist Si Sapsford discusses her new book which looks at the installation of her mechanical piece Civil Unrest.

Margaret MacMillan discusses the tangled history of war and society and our complicated feelings towards it and towards those who fight. MacMillan explores the ways in which changes in society have affected the nature of war and how in turn wars have changed the societies that fight them, including the ways in which women have been both participants in and the objects of war.