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?

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

Charles Lord Cornwallis’s campaign through the southern American colonies came to an ignominious close on October 19, 1781, on an open field outside Yorktown, Virginia...

Lightfoot traces the ways Antiguans and Barbudans experienced freedom in the immediate years before and decades after British emancipation in 1834...

Chhabria argues that cities are not naturally occurring spaces or innocent administrative categories marked by lines on a map: instead they are spaced produced by constant labors of inclusion and exclusion which serve to keep capital flowing while stigmatizing the laboring poor...

Rocklin draws on colonial archives and ethnographic work in this pioneering examination of the realities of indentured workers in colonial Trinidad...

Zevin helps us see what he calls “really existing liberalism”––that is, a liberalism that rooted for empire, embraced finance, and has always wielded an ambivalence towards democracy...

Why was mass democratization – abolishing property and tax qualifications – accompanied by the mass disenfranchisement of black, male citizens?

Stephens examines how Islam and Muslims were regulated within legal domains that managed various spheres of life...

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

How does music help us to understand the contemporary city?

The British romantic poet William Wordsworth is best known for his moving evocations of nature,..