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...

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...

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...

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 ...

With its roots in ancient food molds and table art for Renaissance banquets, butter sculpture in the United States debuted during the centennial and flourished in the first quarter of the twentieth century. As the dairy industry moved from farm to regional cooperative ...

This article considers why the idea of an ideal or planned political future for Italy went into decline in the last quarter of the twentieth century, after having dominated the country’s political thinking for much of the modern era. What form did imagined futures take ...