New Books in British Studies
Episodes
Michael S. Dodson, "Bureaucracy, Belonging, and the City in North India: 1870-1930" (Routledge, 2020)
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Michael S. Dodson's Bureaucracy, Belonging, and the City in North India: 1870-1930 (Routledge, 2020) is a re-evaluation of modern urbanism and arch...
Lee B. Wilson, "Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660–1783" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lee B. Wilson is the author of Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660-1783, publish...
Edmond Smith, "Merchants: The Community That Shaped England's Trade and Empire, 1550-1650" (Yale UP, 2021)
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the century following Elizabeth I's rise to the throne, English trade blossomed as thousands of merchants launched ventures across the globe. Throu...
Retief Muller, "The Scots Afrikaners: Identity Politics and Intertwined Religious Cultures in Southern and Central Africa" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Drawing primarily on Dutch and Afrikaans archival sources including the Dutch Reformed Church Archive and private collections, Retief Muller's The S...
Fiona Hill, "There Is Nothing for You Here: Opportunity in an Age of Decline" (Mariner Books, 2021)
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to the remarkable Fiona Hill about her new memoir There Is Nothing for You Here: Opportunity in an Age of Decline (Mariner Books, 2...
Michael S. Neiberg, "When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance" (Harvard UP, 2021)
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
According to US Secretary of War Henry Stimson, the "most shocking single event" of World War II was not the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but rath...
Devin J. Vartija, "The Color of Equality: Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment Thought" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Enlightenment is often either praised as the wellspring of modern egalitarianism or condemned as the cradle of scientific racism. How should we ma...
Andrew T. Jarboe, "Indian Soldiers in World War I: Race and Representation in an Imperial War" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
More than one million Indian soldiers were deployed during World War I, serving in the Indian army as part of Britain's imperial war effort. These men...
Andrew Roberts, "The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III" (Viking, 2021)
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Following upon the success of his magisterial account of Winston Churchill, Andrew Roberts returns with an outstanding biography of George III: T...
Crawford Gribben, "The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland" (Oxford UP, 2021)
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today Crawford Gribben joins us to talk about his new book, The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland (Oxford UP, 2021). Ireland has long been regard...
Vlad Solomon, "State Surveillance, Political Policing and Counter-Terrorism in Britain, 1880-1914" (Boydell Press, 2021)
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1850 Charles Dickens wrote that Great Britain had “no political police,” adding that “the most rabid demagogue” could speak out “without ...
Jeremy Black, "England in the Age of Dickens, 1812-70" (Amberley, 2022)
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Black, who recently retired as professor of history of Exeter University, has just published the two latest installments of his series of work...
James G. Cantres, "Blackening Britain: Caribbean Radicalism from Windrush to Decolonization" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Covering the period from the interwar years through the arrival of the steamship SS Empire Windrush from Jamaica in 1948 and culminating in the period...
Gershom Gorenberg, "War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East" (PublicAffairs: 2021)
11 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Second Battle of El-Alamein, alongside Stalingrad and Midway, is taught in schools the world over as one of the turning points of the Second World...
Kristin Hussey, "Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880-1914" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
11 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With the opening of the Suez Canal, larger and faster steamships, plus dockside engineering to accommodate them – time shrunk in the British Empire....
Michael Braddick, "A Useful History of Britain: The Politics of Getting Things Done" (Oxford UP, 2021)
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What have the Romans ever done for us? That’s the question put to his pals by Reg, in a much quoted scene from Monty Python’s Life of Brian. The ...
John D. Gazzelli. "Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Morgan, KCB: The Planner Who Saved Europe" (Palmetto, 2021)
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I spoke to John D. Gazzelli about his book Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Morgan, KCB: The Planner Who Saved Europe (Palmetto, 2021). Histo...
Dyron B. Daughrity, "Worldly Christian: The Life and Times of Stephen Neill" ( Lutterworth Press, 2022)
29 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bishop Stephen Neill was one of the most prolific, accomplished, and fascinating Christian leaders of the global church in the twentieth century. Priv...
Max Siollun, "What Britain Did to Nigeria: A Short History of Conquest and Rule" (Hurst, 2021)
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this ambitious book, Max Siollun provides an overview of Nigerian history from 1472 to the 1950s. As such, What Britain Did to Nigeria: A Short Hi...
Antony Best, "British Engagement with Japan, 1854-1922: The Origins and Course of an Unlikely Alliance" (Routledge, 2020)
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Antony Best's British Engagement with Japan, 1854-1922: The Origins and Course of an Unlikely Alliance (Routledge, 2020) reconsiders the circumstan...
Anthony Seldon, "The Impossible Office?: The History of the British Prime Minister" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Marking the third centenary of the office of Prime Minister, The Impossible Office?: The History of the British Prime Minister (Cambridge UP, 2021) ...
Eileen Hunt Botting, "Portraits of Wollstonecraft" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eileen Hunt Botting is a Professor political science at the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Botting is a widely published and cited scholar on the thoug...
Robert McCrum, "Shakespearean: On Life and Language in Times of Disruption" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When inspiration struck Robert McCrum to write a book about the Bard, it came while watching one of the playwright’s plays in Central Park, New York...
Emma Dowling, "The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It?" (Verso, 2021)
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is the future of care? In The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It? (Verso, 2021), Emma Dowling, an associate professor at the ...
Gregory Vargo, "Chartist Drama" (Manchester UP, 2021)
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Greg Vargo's Chartist Drama (Manchester UP, 2021) opens a window into a fascinating aspect of working-class radical drama. This book includes script...
David Kunzle, "Rebirth of the English Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope, 1847-1870" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rebirth of the English Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope, 1847-1870 (UP of Mississippi, 2021) enters deep into an era of comic history that has been entir...
Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, "Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion" (Princeton UP, 2021)
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise of large-scale industrial mining in the British imperial world. Elizabeth Carolyn Miller examines how literature o...
Peter Mitchell, "Imperial Nostalgia: How the British Conquered Themselves" (Manchester UP, 2020)
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With Imperial Nostalgia: How the British Conquered Themselves (Manchester UP, 2020) Peter Mitchell offers a “history of the present”. That is t...
Harrison Guthorn, "Capital Development: Mandate Era Amman and the Construction of the Hashemite State (1921-1946)" (Gingko Library, 2021)
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Amman, the capital of Jordan, contends with a crisis of identity rooted in how it grew to become a symbol for the Anglo-Hashemite government first, an...
Timon Screech, "The Shogun's Silver Telescope: God, Art, and Money in the English Quest for Japan, 1600-1625" (Oxford UP, 2020)
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An English mission to Japan arrives in 1613 with all the standard English commodities, including wool and cloth: which the English hope to trade for J...
Daniel Larsen, "Plotting for Peace: American Peacemakers, British Codebreakers, and Britain at War, 1914–1917" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With Britain by late 1916 facing the prospect of an economic crisis and increasingly dependent on the US, rival factions in Asquith's government battl...
John Shovlin, "Trading with the Enemy: Britain, France, and the 18th-Century Quest for a Peaceful World Order" (Yale UP, 2021)
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Britain and France waged war eight times in the century following the Glorious Revolution, a mutual antagonism long regarded as a "Second Hundred Year...
Samuel Foster, "Yugoslavia in the British Imagination: Peace, War and Peasants Before Tito" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Despite Britain's entering the 20th century as the dominant world power, its public discourses were imbued with cultural pessimism and rising social a...
Nikki Hessell, "Sensitive Negotiations: Indigenous Diplomacy and British Romantic Poetry" (SUNY Press, 2021)
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Diplomatic relationships between Indigenous sovereigns and colonial and settler governments were defined by language. In some cases, cultural divides ...
Russell Newton et al., "The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland" (Boydell Press, 2021)
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland (Boydell Press, 2021), edited by Chris R. Langley, Catherine E. McMillan and Russell Newton, is an outstandin...
Alexander Wragge-Morley, "Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650-1720" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The scientists affiliated with the early Royal Society of London have long been regarded as forerunners of modern empiricism, rejecting the symbolic a...
Henry Hardy: Capturing Genius: Editing Isaiah Berlin
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Howard talks to Henry Hardy, Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and the author of In Search of Isaiah Berlin: A Literary Adventure abo...
Sylvana Tomaselli, "Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics" (Princeton UP, 2020)
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, first published in 1792, is a work of enduring relevance in women’s rights advocacy. ...
Emily Erikson, "Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought" (Columbia UP, 2021)
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can ideas from sociology help us understand history and economics? In Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought (Co...
Edmund Richardson, "Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City Beneath the Mountains" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The story of Alexander the Great has inspired conquerors and would-be conquerors throughout history. Alexander’s sweep through the Middle East and C...
Arnab Dey, "Tea Environments and Plantation Culture: Imperial Disarray in Eastern India" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Tea Environments and Plantation Culture: Imperial Disarray in Eastern India (Cambridge UP, 2021), Arnab Dey examines the intersecting role of la...
Keith Pluymers, "No Wood, No Kingdom: Political Ecology in the English Atlantic" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Pushing back against the traditional narratives assuming that the American colonies served as resource “windfalls” which released Europe from the ...
Arvind Sharma, "The Ruler's Gaze: A Study of British Rule Over India from a Saidian Perspective" (HarperCollins, 2018)
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) is a seminal work in the field of postcolonial culture studies. It critiqued Western scholarship about the Eastern ...
Kirsten A. Greer, "Red Coats and Wild Birds: How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire" (UNC Press, 2020)
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Remapping empire, nature, and scientific enquiry beyond the simple binary exchange between periphery and metropole, Dr. Kirsten Greer demonstrates how...
John Coffey, "The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions: The Post-Reformation Era, 1559-1689" (Oxford UP, 2020)
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions: The Post-Reformation Era, 1559-1689 (Oxford UP, 2020) traces the emergence of Anglophone Prot...
Jeremy Black, "How the Army Made Britain a Global Power: 1688-1815" (Casemate, 2021)
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the new book, How the Army Made Britain a Global Power: 1688-1815, published by Casemate, acclaimed historian and commentator Professor Jeremy Bla...
Páraic Kerrigan, "LGBTQ Visibility, Media and Sexuality in Ireland" (Routledge, 2020)
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“We know what we want, and one day, our prince will come,” says Toby, the bicycle-shorts-wearing, double ententre-making, unacknowledgely-gay neig...
Cian T. McMahon, "The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine" (NYU Press, 2021)
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cian T. McMahon is an associate professor of history at University of Nevada-Las Vegas. His research focuses on the history and identity of the Irish ...
Jill P. Ingram, "Festive Enterprise: The Business of Drama in Medieval and Renaissance England" (U Notre Dame Press, 2021)
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Festive Enterprise: The Business of Drama in Medieval and Renaissance England (University of Notre Dame Press, 2021), Dr. Jill Ingram merges th...
Radhika Vivas Mongia, "Indian Migration and Empire: A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State" (Duke UP, 2018)
05 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How did states come to monopolize control over migration? What do the processes that produced this monopoly tell us about the modern state? In Indian...
Alex Csiszar, "The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this interview of Alex Csiszar, professor in the Department of the History of Science, Harvard University and author of The Scientific Jour...
Malcolm James, "Sonic Intimacy: Reggae Sound Systems, Jungle Pirate Radio and Grime YouTube Music Videos" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can music change the world? In Sonic Intimacy: Reggae Sound Systems, Jungle Pirate Radio and Grime YouTube Music Videos (Bloomsbury, 2020), Mal...
Max Skjönsberg, "The Persistence of Party: Ideas of Harmonious Discord in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
30 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Political parties are taken for granted today, but how was the idea of party viewed in the eighteenth century, when core components of modern, represe...
Riaz Dean, "Mapping the Great Game: Explorers, Spies & Maps in 19th Century-Central Asia, India and Tibet" (Casemate, 2019)
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“A map is the greatest of all epic poems, its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams.” --Gilbert Grosvenor The Great Game raged thr...
David Veevers, "The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600–1750" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is an important, revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. In The Origins of the British Emp...
George Southcombe, "The Culture of Dissent in Restoration England: The Wonders of the Lord" (Royal Historical Society, 2019)
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After over a decade of king-less government, civil war, and political and religious revolution, the restoration of the Stuart monarchy created a comp...
Jack Green and Ros Henry, "Olga Tufnell’s 'Perfect Journey': Letters and Photographs of an Archaeologist in the Levant and Mediterranean" (UCL Press, 2021)
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Olga Tufnell (1905–85) was a British archaeologist working in Egypt, Cyprus, and Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s, a period often described as a gol...
Margo Shea, "Derry City: Memory and Political Struggle in Northern Ireland" (U Notre Dame Press, 2020)
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The city that sits on the River Foyle on the North side of the Irish isle in many ways has stood as a microcosm of the conflicts in Northern Ireland, ...
Mary Louise Roberts, "Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Marching across occupied France in 1944, American GI Leroy Stewart had neither death nor glory on his mind: he was worried about his underwear. "I ran...
Kate Kennedy, "Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney" (Princeton UP, 2021)
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The First World War poet and composer Ivor Gurney (1890–1937) spent the last fifteen years of his life confined in a Kent mental hospital befor...
Richard Scholar, "Émigrés: French Words That Turned English" (Princeton UP, 2020)
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
English has borrowed more words from French than from any other modern foreign language. French words and phrases—such as à la mode, ennui, naï...
Suchitra Vijayan, "Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India" (Melville House, 2021)
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Borders are “important”: they define, in legal terms, who we are, our identity, and our rights. Except borders are rarely imposed with any thought...
Diana Seave Greenwald, "Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art" (Princeton UP, 2021)
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art (Princeton UP, 2021) presents a groundbreaking blend of art historical and socia...
Nick Lloyd, "The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918" (Liveright, 2021)
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Western Front evokes images of mud-spattered men in waterlogged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts and machine-gun fire by a few feet of dir...
Cees Heere, "Empire Ascendant: The British World, Race, and the Rise of Japan, 1894-1914" (Oxford UP, 2020)
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1902, the British government concluded a defensive alliance with Japan, a state that had surprised much of the world with its sudden rise to promin...
Megan Eaton Robb, "Print and the Urdu Public: Muslims, Newspapers, and Urban Life in Colonial India" (Oxford UP, 2020)
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In early twentieth century British India, prior to the arrival of digital medias and after the rise of nationalist political movements, a small-town p...
Rahul Rao, "Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality" (Oxford UP, 2020)
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Between 2009 and 2014, an anti-homosexuality law circulating in the Ugandan parliament came to be the focus of a global conversation about queer right...
Papermaking Traditions, East and West: A Discussion with Timo Särkkä
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our relationship to paper and paper products is changing every day. Fewer newspapers and magazines are in print, but growing dependence on online reta...
J. Laite, "Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens: Commercial Sex in London, 1885-1960" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012)
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Between 1885 and 1960, laws and policies designed to repress prostitution dramatically shaped London's commercial sex industry. J. Laite's book Commo...
Carly S. Woods, "Debating Women: Gender, Education, and Spaces for Argument, 1835-1945" (Michigan State UP, 2018)
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Spanning a historical period that begins with women’s exclusion from university debates and continues through their participation in coeducational i...
Christopher Grey, "Brexit Unfolded: How No One Got What They Wanted (and Why They Were Never Going To)" (Biteback, 2021)
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 2020-21, the UK left first the EU and then the 30-nation European Economic Area. Much of the impact has been masked by the coronavirus pandemic but...
Claire L. Jones, "The Business of Birth Control: Contraception and Commerce in Britain before the Sexual Revolution" (Manchester UP, 2020)
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How does understanding business help us understand sex? In The Business of Birth Control: Contraception and Commerce in Britain before the Sexual Rev...
James Reeves, "Godless Fictions in the Eighteenth Century: A Literary History of Atheism" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Although there were no self-avowed British atheists before the 1780s, authors including Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Sarah Fielding, Phebe Gibbes, ...
Philip Zelikow, "The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917" (PublicAffairs, 2021)
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
During a pivotal few months in the middle of the First World War all sides-Germany, Britain, and America-believed the war could be concluded. Peace at...
Richard Toye et al,, "The Churchill Myths" (Oxford UP, 2020)
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is not a book about Sir Winston Churchill. It is not principally about his politics, nor his rhetorical imagination, nor even about the man himse...
Richard Thompson, "Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975" (Algonquin Books, 2021)
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Thompson's Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975 (Algonquin Books, 2021) gives fans of his music a tale as rollicking and e...
Bradley Cesario, "New Crusade: The Royal Navy and British Navalism, 1884-1914" (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021)
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the years leading up to the First World War, a loose combination of serving naval officers, journalists, and politicians in Great Britain orchestra...
Katherine Carté, "Religion and the American Revolution: An Imperial History" (UNC Press, 2021)
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For most of the eighteenth century, British protestantism was driven neither by the primacy of denominations nor by fundamental discord between them. ...
Anahid Nersessian, "Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I interview Anahid Nersessian, professor of English at UCLA, about her book, Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse (University of C...
C. Kong and A. Ruck Keene, "Overcoming Challenges in the Mental Capacity Act 2005" (Jessica Kingsley, 2018)
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Overcoming Challenges in the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Practical Guidance for Working with Complex Issues (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2019) both d...
Jonas Kreienbaum, "A Sad Fiasco: Colonial Concentration Camps in Southern Africa, 1900–1908" (Berghahn Books, 2019)
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Holocaust and Genocide historians have spent much time and effort recently considering the connections between the experiences and ideas of colonialis...
Silke Muylaert, "Shaping the Stranger Churches: Migrants in England and the Troubles in the Netherlands, 1547–1585" (Brill, 2020)
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
During the mid-sixteenth century, English reformers invited a group of continental Protestant refugees to London and surrounding provinces. The eccle...
Rachel Stuart on the Unmet Health Needs of London Sex Workers
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Doctors of the World, also known as Médecins du Monde, is an international network of more than 400 programmes across 80 different countries, providi...
A. Burton and R. Mawani, "Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Times" (Duke UP, 2020)
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From yaks and vultures to whales and platypuses, animals have played central roles in the history of British imperial control. The contributors to An...
Hannah Jones, "Violent Ignorance: Confronting Racism and Migration Control" (Zed Books, 2021)
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An elected politician is assassinated in the street by a terrorist associated with extreme political groups, and the national response is to encourage...
Suzanne M. Hall, "The Migrant's Paradox: Street Livelihoods and Marginal Citizenship in Britain" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this richly observed account of migrant shopkeepers in five cities in the United Kingdom, Suzanne Hall examines the brutal contradictions of sovere...
Jeremy Black, "To Lose an Empire: British Strategy and Foreign Policy, 1758-90" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bringing strategy, foreign policy, domestic and imperial politics together, this book challenges the conventional understanding as to why the British ...
Jordan A. Stein, "When Novels Were Books" (Harvard UP, 2020)
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For most of the eighteenth century, the format, size, and price of the earliest novels meant that they would have been sold and bought alongside Prot...
Jurgen Martschukat, "The Age of Fitness: How the Body Came to Symbolize Success and Achievement" (Polity, 2021)
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today on New Books in History, Juergen Martschukat, professor of North American History at Universitat Erfurt, talks about his new book, The Age of ...
Kama Maclean, "A Revolutionary History of Interwar India: Violence, Image, Voice and Text" (Oxford UP, 2015)
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kama Maclean's book A Revolutionary History of Interwar India: Violence, Image, Voice and Text (Oxford University Press, 2015) draws on new evidenc...
Benjamin Piekut, "Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem" (Duke UP, 2019)
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Benjamin Piekut's Henry Cow: The World is a Problem (Duke UP, 2019) provides a compelling case study of the problems and possibilities of collectiv...
Matthew Thompson, "Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool's Hidden History of Collective Alternatives" (Liverpool UP, 2020)
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can we develop solutions to the housing crisis? In Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool's Hidden History of Collective Alternatives (Liverpo...
Tim Lockley, "Military Medicine and the Making of Race: Life and Death in the West India Regiments, 1795–1874" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Military Medicine and the Making of Race: Life and Death in the West India Regiments (Cambridge University Press, 2020) by Tim Lockley demonstrates ...
Linda Colley, "The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World" (Liveright, 2021)
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Linda Colley is a luminary in the fields of British and imperial history, and the Shelby M. C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University...
Jenny Bangham, "Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Blood is messy, dangerous, and charged with meaning. By following it as it circulates through people and institutions, Jenny Bangham explores the inti...
Michael P. Winship, "Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America" (Yale UP, 2019)
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The English Reformation started in the middle of the sixteenth century, and right away there were more zealous reformers who were not satisfied with t...
Patrick Spero, "Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776" (Norton, 2018)
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Boston, Philadelphia, London...Fort Loudon, PA. One of these places is not usually included when imagining the crucial scenes of the American Revoluti...
Christine Walker, "Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire" (UNC Press, 2020)
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire (Omohundro Institute/University of North Carolina Press, 2020) is t...
Jason H. Pearl, "Utopian Geographies and the Early English Novel" (U Virginia Press, 2014)
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Historians of the Enlightenment have studied the period’s substantial advances in world cartography, as well as the decline of utopia imagined in ge...
Joseph McQuade, "A Genealogy of Terrorism: Colonial Law and the Origins of an Idea" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Joseph McQuade about his book A Genealogy of Terrorism: Colonial Law and the Origins of an Idea (Cambridge University Press, 2020)...