During most of the Late Bronze Age, the whole region of Syria-Palestine was under Egyptian and Hittite rule. The political scene of the Syro-Palestinian petty kings, especially reflected in the Amarna correspondence (second ...

Among the hundreds of polities in the pre-European Americas, the Inca realm stood out for its scale and organizational capacities. By AD 1532, the Incas had created the most sophisticated administration of any indigenous ...

Long-standing literature argues that social capital is closely implicated in labour market outcomes. However, this hypothesis has yet to be tested in Latin America, the most unequal region in the world. We focus on Chile, ...

This article questions the basis on which schools in Trinidad and Tobago are deemed to be "prestige schools," and suggests that other criteria should be used to determine school effectiveness

As globalization has expedited mobility of faculty across nations, faculty hiring is taking place at an international level. Institutions and governments often perceive hiring faculty who were trained in different countries ...

One of the most important mechanisms of (re) production of the elites is still education and, specifically, higher education. This article seeks to map the elites in the Chilean university field, identifying the main ...