In May we launched a new strand to the IHR’s Reviews in History series – inviting you to send in short, sharp commentaries on recent titles that impress and which you’d recommend to others. Essentially we like History books and we like talking about...
Latin American History2 October 2012John Coatsworth (Columbia)From Marx to Metrics in Latin America’s Economic History Since World War Two many conflicting, opposing, or parallel approaches toward understanding economic history in Latin America have received weight...
We’re close enough to Christmas for everyone to be aware of the subtle status games and power struggles involved in the ostensibly altruistic process of present-giving. Reassuringly, Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos’s new book The Culture of Giving: Informal...
