The possible explanations for her conduct vary according to her perceived status as either a willing participant or a victim. If she is a willing participant in her capitulation and seduction, there are three reasons why the knight is successful, according to antecedent...

Samuel Menashe, a man in his forties, lives alone and frugally in New York City. His sole collection of poems, The Many Named Beloved, appeared in London in 1961 from a publisher, Gollancz, who normally published little or no poetry at all. Thus there was something frea...

During the second quarter of the eighteenth century, Jamaica emerged as the richest and most valuable colony in Britain’s Atlantic empire. The labour of enslaved Africans not only fuelled Jamaica’s...

When Bolivian forces engaged the Paraguay Army in 1932 to control the desolate Chaco Boreal they began what would be a monumental transformative project. More than a quarter of a million men served on the Bolivian side, or almost 10 per cent of the total population. Of...

From the far-off surface of Mars to the much closer—but no less mysterious—human brain (the frontier between your ears), this year9s picks invite readers to jump into the scientific process feet first. Try your hand at home brewing with an archaeologist9s guide to recre...

Widespread academic use of the term "neoliberalism" is of surprisingly recent origin, dating to only the late 20th century. The vast and growing literature on this subject has nonetheless settled on an earlier origin story that depicts the term as self-selected moniker ...

Tuai of Ngare Raumati was probably the most written-about Māori in the first quarter of the 19th century. He was a man who lived in unstable times, who moved flexibly within European and Māori society, and who engaged with almost everyone he met, according to a French o...