Autor: Erling Sandmo

What is—and what was—“the world”? Though often treated as interchangeable with the ongoing and inexorable progress of globalization, concepts of “world, ” “globe, ” or “earth” instead suggest somethi …

Früher waren Seeungeheuer für die Menschen so real wie Wale und Elche. 20 Porträts zeigen die grausamen, bisweilen aber erstaunlich sanft und treuherzig anmutenden Ungeheuer. So wohlig hat man sich …

Historians have long been interested in knowledge – its nature and origin, and the circumstances under which it was created – but it has only been in recent decades that the history of knowledge has …

What is—and what was—“the world”? Though often treated as interchangeable with the ongoing and inexorable progress of globalization, concepts of “world, ” “globe, ” or “earth” instead suggest somethi …