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5 Things I Learned About William Lindsay Gresham
Read more: 5 Things I Learned About William Lindsay Greshamby G. Connor Salter I knew that he put the word “geek” into popular culture with his 1946 novel Nightmare […]
Imagining with Film
By Sarah Cooper I revisited my local Odeon cinema in London recently, just prior to receiving the advance copies of my book, Film and the Imagined Image. As I sat back to enjoy the Sunday afternoon screening, I was reminded…
Free EUP content this month: September 2019
Read on to find out about the latest research content you can access and read for free this month, from journal articles, to free sample chapters and open access books spanning across a range of our core subject areas. Film,…
A story of Armenian migration to North America
By David Gutman In April 1906, a man appeared at the United States consulate in Sivas, a city located deep in the Anatolian interior in what is today central Turkey. In fluent English, the man identified himself as Ohannes Topalian,…
How Information Warfare Shaped the Arab Spring
An interview with Nathaniel Greenberg – author of How Information Warfare Shaped the Arab Spring: The Politics of Narrative in Tunisia and Egypt – first featured on the Jadaliyya website. Read the original interview Jadaliyya (J): What made you write…
An interview with Taef El-Azhari, author of ‘Queens, Eunuchs and Concubines in Islamic History, 661–1257’
Tell us a bit about your book Queens, Eunuchs and Concubines in Islamic History, 661–1257 is the first comprehensive study of sexual politics in medieval Islamic history. While there are several books written on the Ottomans and Safavids, we do…
Studies in World Christianity Celebrates 25 Years
by Emma Wild-Wood With the publication of Volume 25, the journal Studies in World Christianity completes twenty-five years of existence. Launched at the beginning of 1995 to be an ‘international forum for a dialogue of equals’ on the study of…
Writing about State Violence: Commemoration & Collaboration
Michael Demson discusses the essays contributed to a new edited collection on Peterloo.
A History of Distributed Cognition
Distributed cognition – the idea that cognition or the mind extends across brain, body and world – is not a term that rolls off the tongue. Nevertheless, distributed cognition describes a fundamental aspect of being human. Examples of distributed cognition…
The continuing importance of Chile’s Cold War history
Earlier this year, the United States government declassified more than 40,000 documents showing the American intelligence community’s reporting on the Argentine dictatorship’s Dirty War. This refers to Argentines’ counterinsurgency campaign that decimated their country’s far left in the late 1970s.…