Reviews

The mobilisation of economic, diplomatic and military resources.

Studying African history through the lens of cinema.

The skills of the stone mason align with language to document a 30-year love affair with stone.

The 17th and 18th century European scholars who pioneered the study of Arabic and Islam as an academic discipline.

Those pushing the burgeoning field of Classical Reception Studies probably hadn’t intended to leave the door ajar for heavy metal.

Everything you thought you knew about the Aztecs is wrong.

An outsider’s observations from the moments before China’s Cultural Revolution.

A far-reaching account of the significance of menopause in human evolution.

Getting intimate with America’s only bachelor president.

How educated exiles transformed Irkutsk into ‘the Paris of Siberia’.