Buruma offers a brilliant, witty journey through the "Special Relationship" between Britain and America that has done so much to shape the world, from World War II to Brexit...

Schneer's recounts the story of a young British diplomat, Bruce Lockhart, sent to Soviet Russia soon after the October Revolution in 1917...

What are the identity conflicts that define contemporary society?

Bellenoit digs beneath imperial formation on a macro level and looks at the fiscal management of empire....

Szwydky explores a range of works by authors such as Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, Lord Byron, John Keats and many more...

Pernau examines the varied and hugely consequential expressions of and normative investments in emotions in modern South Asian Muslim thought...

Sobande explores the experiences of Black women as producers and as consumers of digital media...

In Simpson’s account, liberalism did not flow neatly from Protestant triumph. Liberalism and Protestantism are indeed intertwined, but in a much more violent, anguished way than we’re familiar with...

Lerner describes their lives – one of them her mother, the other one of the people who helped save her – and how they intersected when British forces liberated Bergen-Belsen in April 1945...

What was at the core of the UK's semi-detachment to the EU?

In this wide-ranging history of the African diaspora and slavery in Arabia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Matthew S. Hopper examines the interconnected themes of enslavement, globalization, and empire and challenges previously held conventions regarding Middle Eastern slavery and British imperialism...

Historians of early modern religion recognise the importance of the development of covenant theology in the formation of Calvinism...

Modern finance isn't really all that modern...

D-Day, June 6, 1944, looms large in both popular and historical imaginations as the sin qua non, or single defining moment, of the Second World War....

Over the course of his long career, Pigou advanced ideas that remain very relevant today...

The authors present nine mini-biographies that outline key events in the lives of individuals including Anne Bradstreet, John Eliot, John Cotton and Cotton Mather...

In Farm to Form, Martell contextualizes some familiar texts of British Literary Modernism, into a history that recognizes the role of food and agriculture...

Alison Games shows how the English East India Company transformed that conspiracy into a massacre through printed works, both books and images, which ensured the story's tenacity over four centuries...

Why did America enter the First World War? The author presents a new theory...

What happens when a distant colonial power tries to tame an unfamiliar terrain in the world's largest tidal delta?

Dorner unravels the intertwined history of financial markets, health concerns, and colonial warfare...

Metcalf offers an innovative remapping of empire...

Potter describes the efforts to use radio to promote global harmony and how they were eclipsed by nationalism and the weaponization of broadcasting as a propaganda tool...

According to the influential French commentator and scholar, Raymond Aron, one the great un-answered questions of the post-1945 period is how and why the British went from being ‘Romans to Italians’...

A hospital run by two suffragette doctors, Louisa Garrett Anderson and Flora Murray...