Business & Economics Mapping the Course of Inequality Through History Thomas Piketty enlarges upon ideas of social inequality from his popular book Capital and Ideology.
Arts & Humanities What is Animal History and Why Does It Matter? Relationships between humans and other animals are multi-faceted, often intimate, and frequently ambivalent. Most of all, they are deeply historical. The surging field of animal history aims to tell these stories.
Arts & Humanities The Invention of Modern Peacemaking Roughly 2,000 peace treaties made between the 15th and the 19th century show us how early modern peacemaking laid the foundations for both the modern constitutional development of European states and for relations between those states to the present.
Science & Technology Vom Kerbholz zum Smartphone – Mathe leicht gemacht seit der Steinzeit! Trotz mangelnder Beliebtheit an Schulen weltweit gilt die Rechenkunst als gewaltige Kulturleistung der Menschheit. Und das zu recht: seit Jahrtausenden entwickeln wir immer ausgefeiltere Methoden und Instrumente, um der Zahlen Herr zu werden.