Genetically Modified Organisms
The rejection of GMOs is fueled by a misdirected struggle that fosters public fear. This book explains this contemporary taboo and calls for the well-regulated use of all biotechnological innovations, ending a stalemate which stymies public research and its benefits.
England’s Response to Hitler in the 1930s
This book analyses the political tactics of the ‘Cliveden Set’, aristocrats in 1930s Britain. Scapegoated for the Appeasement Policy, they used their influence to encourage a foreign policy that supported Hitler’s rearmament and the annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia.
The Politics of Nuclear Power in Finland
A Finnish nuclear deal with Russia’s Rosatom reveals the invisible bonds of trust that hold a community together. An eye-opening look into the cultural roots and hidden forces that drive high-stakes political decision-making.
This book is a collection of biographies of forgotten leaders in the temperance movement. Recovering the lives and works of these reformers enhances our understanding of the movement and is for anyone interested in the lost history of social movements.
The Jewish Leaderships in Slovakia and Hungary During the Holocaust Era
This study of the Holocaust in Slovakia and Hungary reveals that in 1944, Jewish leaders were fully informed about Auschwitz but did not warn their people. While the vast majority of Jews perished, almost all the leaders survived. Why did they choose to remain silent?
This volume explores the historical background of contemporary social and economic issues. It argues that globalisation is not new, and that deep history offers essential lessons about wealth, the nature of money, and the understanding of justice.
Legacies of Trade and Empire
This book challenges established histories of slavery and indentured labour under European empires, focusing on the Indian Ocean. To break the silence on legacies of empire, authors explore decolonisation, agency, and the assertion of identities, musical practices, and cuisines.
The Paris Peace Conference set the stage for WWII, yet many European historical perspectives remain inaccessible in English, marginalizing the voices most affected by its fallout. This book remedies this, providing access to the latest research based on primary sources.
This collection of scholarly studies focuses on urban life and culture in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Vilnius in the 17th-18th centuries. It covers craft guilds, inns, music, plague outbreaks, and burial customs, contributing to the history of Eastern Europe.
This collection of essays explores sacred groves in Africa and Asia, offering perspectives on the cultural and spiritual dimensions of biodiversity conservation. It brings center-stage the complex interaction between the ‘sacred’ and ‘secular’ in our threatened world.
This book examines the severe post-WWII conflict over immigration to Palestine and Britain’s policy of deporting immigrants to detention camps in Cyprus. It explores the perspectives of British officials, Jewish underground forces, and Palestinian Arabs.
Defending against Climate Risk
The climate wars are not fiction. This book teaches you how to engage in the debate by thinking coherently about climate risk. It presents lessons in risk management drawn from the author’s experiences working with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
How History and Genetics Define Jewish Diversity and Identity
This book links Jewish genetics, history, diversity, and identity on a quest to answer “Who is a Jew?” Journeying from the ancient world to today, it explores the Jewish gene pool, where modern genetic research sheds new light on old debates.
The Evolution of the US Healthcare System
Why does the US spend more on healthcare but get less? This book exposes a system built for the opportunistic motives of powerful corporations and politicians, answering how it became so expensive and hard to use, and why this failing system is a threat to national security.
Born a slave, C.H.J. Taylor became an influential, controversial figure in African American conservatism. He argued poverty, not racism, was the principal barrier to Black advancement, recruiting Blacks to vote Democratic and clashing with figures like Douglass and Ida B. Wells.
Black Women Activists in Nineteenth Century New Orleans
In nineteenth-century New Orleans, free women of color Marie Laveaux and Henriette Delille rejected a life of privilege. This book explores how they chose service instead, using their faith-based practices to address the needs of the city’s poor, enslaved, and disenfranchised.
Scanning and Sizing the Universe and Everything in It
Philosophy often ignores the vast scale of the natural continuum for a human-centered view. This book puts our world in the context of all atomic matter, revealing the discrepancy between our ‘yardsticks’ and the reality of cosmic ‘light years’.
In 18th-century China, Jesuits defied a papal ban on Chinese Rites. Teodorico Pedrini was sent to enforce orthodoxy. To silence him, they imprisoned him, bringing him near death. His writings reveal their plot and cast a new perspective on the proscription of Christianity.
Despite our analytical intelligence, humans are the most cooperative species on the planet. This book argues that this is due to our consciousness. Using concepts from Schopenhauer, Russell, and information technology, it defines consciousness as a super-compound quale.
In 1767, the Jesuits were expelled from Spanish America. This book provides an overview of their urban colegios and frontier missions at the time of the expulsion, focusing on the Guaraní missions. This volume contains a visual catalog of historic maps and images.
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