How can we understand the legacy of colonialism within contemporary society?

The province of Odisha, previously “Orissa,” was the first linguistically organized province of India...

Featuring flyers and record covers Tomlin has created for the rave scene starting in the late 1980s, this is the first book which comprehensively and cohesively documents his work in this important UK subculture

Subramanian offers an amphibious history written around the juncture of the nineteenth century, when the northwestern littoral of India—largely comprising of Gujarat, Kathiawad, Cutch, and Sind—was battered by piratical raids....

Reid these vessels underwent considerable adaptation over the course of the 17th and 18th centuries in response to evolving technologies and the demands of their industry...

Naldrett begins his enjoyable trip around the British coast with the notion that reaching the seaside for most Britons is a matter of only a 1-2 hour car ride...

Kara’s book is rigorously researched and beautifully written. She draws on both archival and life history methods to center rural Kenyans,...

This lavishly illustrated volume compiles maps of the world, of Europe, of England, of English counties, and of English villages, to illustrate its author’s detailed description of the history of cartography...

The tactic of ‘no platforming’ has been used at British universities and colleges since the National Union of Students adopted the policy in the mid-1970s...

What brought about an end to the Cold War has long been a subject of speculation and mythology...

Maghji considers the identity of Britain’s Black middle-class by understanding culture and cultural consumption...

Keynes was not only an economist but the preeminent anti-authoritarian thinker of the 20th century,..

In the summer of 1960, the Republic of the Congo won its independence from Belgium...

Steinberg analyses the emergence of a particular notion of a “Teutonic” identity among a group of scholars in England and Germany...

Black presents an insightful and hugely entertaining exploration of the political and cultural context of the Bond books and films...

Philip A. Craig’s new book on John Owen, the premier puritan theologian, demonstrates how carefully his subject tracked the influence of antinomianism in his writing...

How are black lives lived in the contemporary city?

"Valkyrie” is skillfully arranged around the skeleton of the life cycle of a woman—from birth through childhood, adolescence, marriage, and old age.

Perhaps nothing was as unexpected in this conflict as the sudden termination of the same in November 1918...

To what degree did each of The Beatles exhibit emotional intelligence in the band’s final year?

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Harris examines the impact sisters and brothers had on eighteenth-century English families and society...

Barcia offers a striking rendition of the diseases that swept through the illegal slave trade Atlantic World...

The balance of power in nineteenth-century Europe was anchored on one end by the redoubtable Queen Victoria (1819 -1901), the doyenne of sovereigns, and at the opposite end by the autocratic Romanov dynasty...

When Britain went to war in 1914, policemen throughout Great Britain found themselves called upon to perform an ever-increasing range of new tasks that reflected the expanded power of the British state in wartime...