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Contemporary Review
Founded in 1866, Contemporary Review is a scholarly journal published quarterly. Contemporary Review Company Ltd. owns and publishes this journal, and its editorial headquarters is in Oxford, United Kingdom.Contemporary Review covers a number of topics, including politics, international affairs, literature, art and art history. Its region and its audience are international. Dr. Richard Mullen is the editor; Dr. Alex Kerr is the managing editor; Dr. James Munson is the literary editor; and Anselma Bruce is the associate editor. James LoGerfo, Robin Findlay and Charles Foster are the editorial advisers.
Articles from Vol. 291, No. 1694, Autumn
Afghanistan: The Tajik Ismailis of Takhar-An End to Isolation
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IN recent decades there has been renewed interest in the study of Islam and the Muslim world, resulting in scholars, theologians and religious figures presenting their interpretations of modernity and development in Muslim societies. It is generally...
Carbon Hopes and Landless Farmers in Indonesia and Malaysia
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LANDLESS farmers, in Indonesia and Malaysia, fear they will suffer if tropical countries get cash to save forests. This dispute shows the tensions so often present between the hopes of environmentalists and the realities of life in Third World countries....
Disappointed Eastern Europe Confronts Its Neo-Nazis
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JUST TWO decades ago, Hungary became the hope of the democratic world when a reform-minded government here tore down the hated Iron Curtain and opened the way to the peaceful reunification of Europe. Today, the neo-Nazi paramilitary Hungarian Guard...
Ireland's Contemporary Writers: An Exploration
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NORTHERN Ireland and the Irish Republic can rightly boast of a rich, enduring literary heritage. This article explores some of the most salient features of contemporary Irish writing, in both the North and South of Ireland and considers some of the...
Lists
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OFTEN, the books that really influence us are neither the bearers of profound ideas nor works of any great literary accomplishment. They are, rather, those accidental volumes that just happened to be there, accompanying our growing up, or that we came...
'Not One Grain of Sand': International Law and the Conflict in Western Sahara
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'EMPTY time is a dangerous thing', Jadiya Hamdi tells me over a glass of sweet tea. 'It can kill a human soul'. As an exile herself, she understands how the physical hardships faced by the 165,000 Saharawi people living in refugee camps in the Algerian...
Shakespeare: The First Folio
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FOLIO, a sheet of paper which is folded in half, making two leaves or four pages. Fold it again and you have a quarto, with one sheet supplying eight pages. The folio format makes for a large, prestigious book, which has to be bound; quarto is half...
'The Boldest Outreach': The Eastern Partnership Initiative of the European Union
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AS a counterbalance to the Northern Dimension and the Union for the Mediterranean, the Foreign Minister of Poland, aided and abetted by his counterpart in Sweden, suggested a Partnership with the emerging states to the east of the European Union. This...
The British Myth of the Local Community
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WITH pubs and churches, post offices and local shops throughout Britain closing, the decline of the local community is often proclaimed as an undeniable fact and a matter of deep regret. Speaking in 2007 Sir Menzies Campbell MP, the then leader of...
The Future of the Second World War
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NO historical topic has been more intensively studied during the last six decades than the Second World War which began just seventy years ago. It is almost certain that the 1939-45 conflict will continue to be a major focus of research and discussion...
The Importance of Sport in Society
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WINNING in a sporting event is not a matter of life or death--it is much more important than that.' This sporting cliche sums up an attitude towards sport that is increasingly common around the world. The object of this article is to examine how sport...
The Jacobite Poets of Richmond
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SUCH is the dexterity of Thackeray's sombre and even bitter novel, Henry Esmond (1852). that, although many of us know its outcome already, we read its last chapters spellbound. In the end the son of King James II (whom Thackeray calls by the neutral...
The World of Paperbacks
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PHOENIX leads this issue's column with an impressive range of new history titles, the first of which is John Adamson's The Noble Revolt: The Overthrow of Charles I ([pounds sterling]16.99). a detailed account of the opposition to the King's policies...
William Roscoe and the Liverpool Athenaeum
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THE Liverpool Athenaeum was founded in 1797 by some of the city's wealthy merchants, making it one of the oldest private members clubs still in existence--and almost thirty years older than the Athenaeum Club in London. Liverpool's gentry were seeking...
