"The Trials of Allegiance" looks at the law of treason during the American Revolution, showing just how central treason is to understanding the course of the Revolution...

Mill’s life was in many respects unsatisfying – riven with anxiety and trauma...

In 1845, two British naval ships left England with 129 men in search of the Northwest Passage...

The dominance of the London press in the British national media has long overshadowed the presence of local newspapers in Great Britain...

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

Hinchy documents the ability many Hijras have to preserve in spite of systematic policing and criminalization...

Nugent talks about Aboriginal Australians first encounter with Captain Cook at Botany Bay,..

Giovannetti-Torres focuses on the workers and their interactions with British colonial officials, American landowners and sugar producers, and local and national-level members of the Cuban government...

Joseph-Salisbury explores the double consciousness of black mixed-race men in America and the UK...

How did a Danish historian wind up with a human skull from colonial India in his University of London office

This book draws together Black’s expansive reading in Shakespeare’s contexts with extensive knowledge of the canon of his plays...

Reeder delineates the differences between the British and Portuguese empires as they struggled with revolutionary tumult...

Hughes shows how the British Army was so devastatingly effective against colonial rebellion in the mid to late 1930s by the Palestinian Arabs...

Beginning in the mid 19th century, thousands of indentured laborers traveled from India to the Caribbean, and many settled in Trinidad...

Laderman exposes the way that imperial ambitions suffused the ideas and practices of turn-of-century humanitarian intervention...

Not everyone was convinced by the arguments of patriots during the American revolution...

"Habeas Corpus in Wartime" is a comprehensive history of the writ of habeas corpus in Anglo-America...

Arik Moran examines three Rajput kingdoms during the transition to British rule (c. 1790-1840) and their interconnected histories and court intrigues.

There are few better guides to the “long eighteenth century” that J. C. D. Clark...

Did the Allied bombing plan for the liberation of France follow a carefully orchestrated plan, or was it executed on an ad-hoc basis with little concern or regard for collateral damage?

For all of his fame as one of the seminal figures of the Industrial Revolution, James Watt is a person around whom many misconceptions congregate...

Crowcroft's is a tale of relentless intrigue, burning ambition, and the bitter rivalry in British politics during the years preceding the Second World War...

Chico’s new book upends the traditional, modern dichotomies which enforce strict separations between literature and science...

There is no denying that the public remains fascinated with monarchy...

Pack considers the Strait of Gibraltar as an untamed in-between space—from “shatter zone” to borderland...