Significant works reviewed by Engelsberg Ideas writers.
Historians of the British Empire are engaged in an often ill-tempered war of words that reveals more about the certainties of contemporary moral mores than it does about the past i..
The forms, perceptions and uses of money over time convey a compelling narrative about wealth, morality, and cultural identity through the ages.
In the final years of the 20th century, America's fringe ideologues and failed demagogues laid the groundwork for a future populist revolution.
Female British artists faced personal and institutional obstacles to practising their crafts. Their works convey a social history of women's changing roles in British society.
The imperial ventures of European powers were about the struggle for water almost as much as they were for land.
Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde remains a timeless testament to the searing power of forbidden love and artistic genius.
Beowulf is a mysterious and misunderstood work of Anglo-Saxon literature, but, once delved into, it offers a rich glimpse into the worlds of early medieval Scandinavia.
The word antisemitism was coined amid the racial politics of 19th-century Germany, but, a new study argues, it could equally be applied to the religious persecution of Jews widespr..
In the twilight of empire, the CIA waged the Cold War in many of the same locales and with many of the same strategies as its imperial forebears.
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