In a phenomenon historian David Courtwright termed the "psychoactive revolution," the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries witnessed the...

In the intricate dance between memory and history, each partner influences and reshapes the other. This essay discusses the complexities...

I cannot say more, only that from nothing I have created a new different world János Bolyai, letter to Farkas Bolyai describing his...

This essay argues that mainstream psychiatrists and physicians between 1860 to 1900 conceptualised Black women (both those inside and...

To what extent are mental illnesses the product of human culture? Western practices have ensured that psychiatrists are now able to...

During the twentieth century, England saw a dramatic increase in rates of immigration from parts of the Commonwealth, primarily due to...

Studying the explosion of vernacular literature is fundamentally important to historians of the Middle Ages because it informs them about...

Foucault’s volumes on the history of sexuality have been immensely influential in modern understandings of sexuality in the ancient...

Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries British merchants, diplomats and soldiers attempted to break into China by a number of...

Introduction Leading scholars of inequality today, such as Branko Milanovic[1] or Frank Stilwell[2] amongst others, tend to structure...

It is an undisputable fact that enslaved Africans were put through violent, horrific practices in all areas of enslavement. Some...

No one can deny that the Napoleonic Wars represented a turning point for the Russian Empire. Not only did the so-called Great Patriotic...

Early modern English perceptions of China, as expressed in surviving print materials, occupy a liminal intellectual zone, suspended...

1950s London, an increasingly cosmopolitan capital city, witnessed “vice” pushed to the forefront of public anxieties. Vice came in the...

As with most cultural processes in the ancient world, whether they be ethnic identities or cultural exchange and interconnectivity, the...

Few things preoccupied the medieval Christian church more than the notion of sin: because of mankind’s propensity to corruption the...

Abstract Victorian society has often been thought of one of upstanding morals, rigid etiquette and sombre tones. Yet the lunacy panics...

During the period between late nineteenth century and the end of the Second World War, science became a tool for categorizing and...

The most common historiographical stance regarding early modern revolts is that rebels were motivated by ‘blind rage’ and their actions...

Legend has it that coffee beans were first discovered in Ethiopia by a goat herder who had noticed his goats become more energetic and...