History, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America: From the Great War to Thatcher and Reagan
A. W. Purdue finds a study of a neglected area of the 20th century complex and penetrating
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Responsibility to Protect: The Global Effort to End Mass Atrocities
The political concept of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) addresses the complex issue of a state's responsibility to protect its citizens from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes...
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Healthy Living in the Alps: The Origins of Winter Tourism in Switzerland, 1860-1914
It may seem odd to find a study of Swiss Alpine tourism in a book series on British popular culture. Yet, as anyone who has spent much time in Switzerland can attest, tourism patterns there have a...
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Society's ever shifting goalposts
Economic migrants face the continual production of new differences, says Jorg Michael Dostal
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Understanding Post-Communist Transformation: A Bottom up Approach
On the eve of the 21st century, the Soviet Union and its satellites went through the last of the convulsions that had characterised their history: the proclamation of glasnost and perestroika in 1987...
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Triumph of Order: Democracy and Public Space in New York and London
Lisa Keller's Triumph of Order could hardly be more timely. As controversies over balancing the competing demands of public protest and public order continue to arise throughout the world, here is a...
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Guilty Money: The City of London in Victorian and Edwardian Culture, 1815-1914
Through boom and bust, the popular view of high finance has changed little, finds Howard Davies
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Published this week
AMERICAN STUDIESRemembering Scottsboro: The Legacy of an Infamous Trial. By James A. Miller, professor of English and American studies, George Washington University. Princeton University Press, £32....
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Out of the ordinary
All of us on the editorial team of The Poppletonian are so fascinated by Off Piste, the fortnightly series in Times Higher Education in which academics step outside their area of expertise, that we'...
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Olivia Harris, 1948-2009
Olivia Harris, a leading anthropologist, has died.She was born on 26 August 1948, grew up in Surrey, was educated in Kent and studied Classics at St Anne's College, Oxford. She then switched to...
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Clever conceit won't protect free speech
The group Academics for Academic Freedom (AFAF) confuses freedom of speech with academic freedom, and thus undermines both ("Academics urged to defend free speech without limits", 14 May).It claims...
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Losing balance
In your story on the student disruption of a conference advocating closer ties between universities and industry ("Protesters disrupt business-link conference", 14 May), you first reported the...
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Degrees of scrutiny
You report the possible acquisition of BPP by the Apollo Group ("For-profit growth predicted if US giant buys UK's BPP", 14 May). If this happens, the legal responsibility for BPP's degree awards...
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Parental requiem
Alec Ryrie seems to imply in his (absolutely appropriate) commendation of Eamon Duffy's Stripping of the Altars ("The Canon", 7 May) that the book is "dedicated to God himself". I have no idea...
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Different wavelengths
I am surely not alone in being puzzled by the "Top journals in computer science" (Research intelligence, 14 May). By far the strangest inclusion was the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation...