As historian Reinhold Wagnleitner put it, U.S. foreign policy in the '50s was based on "Coca-Colonization" and "the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine". Hixson allows us a scholarly but intriguing glimpse into the inner workings of the American propaganda machinery of the early Cold War era.
Six scholarly articles offer intriguing insights into factors that can affect the decision-making process.
An intriguing scholarly investigation, not so much of the ways the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries articulated pain, but of the ways in which pain itself articulated the late eighteenth-century experience.
The perfection and visual precision of the writing in Oxiana, combined with its wit, its farcical playlets, its intriguing scholarly essays and its fierce passion for its subject - a search for the Central Asian roots of Islamic architecture - have given the book a far greater degree of immortality than the travel writing of any of Byron's contemporaries.
Here are highlights of a handful of recent scholarly articles that offer intriguing insights into decision making from several disciplines.
The author's scholarly information is laced with some intriguing tales of how Queen Mary, passionate equally about jewels and about royal history, stepped in to buy back family emeralds from her brother's mistress after his death.
Back then, it was re-released in the scholarly series Addiction in America, alongside such intriguing sounding titles as Inebriety (1888), Drugs That Enslave (1881), Morbid Craving For Morphia (1878) and Japan and the Opium Menace (1942).
This latest, intriguing addition to Harold Bloom's prodigious scholarly output might be described as a book in search of a genre, as the narrative seems to shift constantly from one form of expression to another.
I found the possibility of layering different scholarly interpretations of the same text to be imminently intriguing, particularly as a means of making academic discourse more transparent for non-specialists.
Toward the end, the book gets fuzzy with scholarly concepts, but along the way the reader will discover intriguing tidbits: The Society of Friends, shunned and excluded, nevertheless overflowed with talented inventors and businessmen.
Gabriel Barkay, a professor of archaeology at Bar-Ilan University, said Jacobovici's investigation was "very challenging, very interesting, very intriguing, but it's a TV show and not a scholarly study.
