This chapter analyzes how, and with what consequences, livestock commodities became an increasingly important feature of the global economy, from the late 18th

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From Venezuela to Minnesota, Trump is trying to create a borderless American power, collapsing the foreign and the domestic into a single domain of impunity

Keynote Lecture for 140 Years Beyond the Berlin Conference, Africa Centre and SOAS Friday 12 December and Saturday 13 December 2025   Alan Lester Most British imperial historians have tended t…

You don’t bring a persuasive argument to a gunfight.

Vipin Krishna explores how colonial officials in nineteenth-century India turned linguistics into a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.

Why I stopped explaining the Middle East to Americans

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Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather...

Abstract. This article examines changes in the bodies and environment of labourers carrying timber imported into London’s docks in the 1860s to the 1920s t

In 1966, historian Albert Silbert highlighted the longstanding importance of fire in the traditional Portuguese rural economy, at a time when such practices were being erased from the landscape.

The Indonesian president, Prabowo, would like to turn the clock back to the dark days of the Suharto dictatorship. But he’s been confronted with an unexpected wave of protest after the killing of a yo...

Enquanto se acena com a descida dos impostos, a obsessão com os excedentes orçamentais continua a travar o investimento necessário em várias áreas.

This paper examines the intersection of environmental history and the history of science, specifically the impact of forestry science and fire management on lan...

There is an opportunity staring centre-left parties in the face – if they reject the male gaze distorting our politics, says political scientist Cas Mudde