In The Shah’s Party and the Iranian Revolution That Followed Robert Templer reveals the hubristic high point of the Pahlavi ...

For those governing Britain’s imperial possessions, sports were a site for what Headlam termed ‘moral training’, a key ...

A new translation marks the 50th anniversary of Carlo Ginzburg’s pioneering microhistory The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos ...

Redressing the crimes of Pinochet’s regime has been a hard-fought and often contested process. Chile’s current presidency has ...

The Life of Emily Brontë by Deborah Lutz vividly reconstructs the world that produced Wuthering Heights. Are there limits to ...

A Cultural History of Nationalism in Europe from 1800 to the Present by Joep Leerssen looks to art and not politics for the ...

M ost historians would probably say that King Arthur was just a myth. This consensus was established in 1977 in a brilliant ...

I n August 1944, as the French Resistance fought to liberate Paris, Albert Camus went to see Jean-Paul Sartre at the ...

A passage from book 12 of The Odyssey, in Emily Wilson’s acclaimed translation of Homer’s epic, sees the hero Odysseus, known in Latin as Ulysses, warn his men of an impending challenge: She [Circe] ...

During the reign of Sultan Mehmet IV (r. 1648-87), the Dîvân-ı Hümâyûn (imperial council) would meet every other morning in a domed chamber of the Topkapi Palace. When the Grand Vizier and his ...

In the popular imagination, early medieval England was a wild place populated by packs of ravenous wolves, devouring people and livestock. The image is at odds with modern research into wolf biology ...

The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on 28 May 1830, forcing the migration of five Native American nations from their homelands. The removal of the Cherokee, c.1850.