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A New World (1979–1994)
This chapter examines the swee** changes in water and salinity management in the Murray–Darling Basin (MDB) during the late 1970s until the...
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Brave New World
In the first two decades of the century, American society and culture embraced business, its values and methods, with a fervor before unseen. Among...
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New Perspectives on the First World War Beyond No Man’s Land
Taken collectively, the chapters in New Perspectives on the First World War: Beyond No Man’s Landnot only illuminate pieces of the Great War that...
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A Utopian Vision: Jack Penn’s Brave New World
The chapter looks at three disparate elements of Penn’s life—his idealised vision for the world, his artistic endeavours and his foray into politics....
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Capitalism, Form of Life, Utopia: Critical Paths in a “New Normal” World
The three concepts of capitalism, form of life, and utopia allow us to critically reflect about a pandemic world reshaped according to a “new normal”...
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India’s Act East-Thailand’s Go West in the New World Order
This article explains the interactions of three major players: USA, China, India and South Asia in the global value chains that are...
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From New Départements to the New World: The Colonial Itinerary of an Imperial Agent
This paper focuses on the genesis and the transformations of the colonial idea from an individual perspective. The life of Jean-Joseph Schmit...
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Kenya in World Politics
The discussion in this chapter underscores the journey of Kenya in world politics. The altercations have characterized the journey with colonialism...
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Indigenous Petitioning in the Early Modern British and Spanish New World
The Spanish and British monarchies were the two most powerful European powers to claim sovereignty over large swaths of the New World. It is...
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A New Utopian Dimension in Arabic/Islamic Tradition: Cosmopolitan Vision of the Future in Nihad Sharif’s The Inhabitants of the Second World
This chapter examines Nihad Sharif’s The Inhabitants of the Second World (1977), arguing that his text illuminates a new cosmopolitan view of utopia,...
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The Virus World in Deep Time
A virus is a tiny, hybrid molecule of nucleic acid and protein capsid and is excluded from living entities because it lacks an actual cell membrane...
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The Realistic Utopia of a World Without Borders
Frontiers have a major influence on our lives. In our politically organized world, states have the power to decide on the entry and residence status...
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Chinese Civilization in World History
The subject of this course is the civilization of China, its development and special features. We should first make clear what we are doing and what...
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Slavery in the Indian Ocean World
This chapter provides a comprehensive history of various forms of slavery in what came to be known in historical works as the Indian Ocean World, or...
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The World of Africa
This chapter highlights the African world, focusing on East Africa, the Horn of Africa, Arabia and their links with Mediterranean societies and with...
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New Overlaps and Reciprocities Between the Faculties
The ongoing establishment of new specialized disciplines and subject areas from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century leads to a...
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The RNA World: Reality or Dogma?
The ribonucleic acid (RNA) world hypothesis suggests that life on Earth began with a simple RNA molecule that could copy itself before the advent of...
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Anticipating a New Order
From the end of the Spanish Civil War to the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan and Spain were involved in the victory of the Axis and its New Order from...
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The Iberian and New World Circulation of Sacrobosco’s Sphaera in the Early Modern Period
The aim of this paper is to reconstruct the circulation of Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de sphaera in early modern Iberian Peninsula and New World...