This book is a sweeping transatlantic history of Puritanism from its emergence out of the religious tumult of Elizabethan England to its founding role in the story of America...

Anti-Semitic incidents, ranging from vandalism through murder, are on the rise in Great Britain, and across Europe and North America...

Whatmore tells the story of a utopian city inspired by a spirit of liberty and republican values being turned into a place where republicans who had fought for liberty were extinguished by the might of empire...

Chambers outlines Muslim cultural production during this period through a literary analysis of the senses, especially those beyond the visual...

For all of their prominence in the popular imagination today, the historical record of the Viking presence in England is limited...

What was the role of love and courtship in eighteenth-century English culture?

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

After Napoleon occupied Egypt, Europeans became obsessed with the ancient cultures of the Nile...

Taaffe describes the roles Washington's commanders played and their contributions to the war effort...

The British Empire at its greatest extent covered approximately twenty-five percent of the surface of the globe...

What was "Appeasement," and What Is It Today?

Namier remains famous in academic circles for supposedly declaring that any reference to ideas in political discourse was nothing more than 'flapdoodle'...

Ian shares with us his encounter with British psychoanalysis’s “entangled world of personal-political relationships and rivalries"...

McQuade opens up an entirely new field for the study of early modern women’s writing,..

In "Playing for Australia," Thompson investigates the Asian context of some of Australia’s earliest international soccer matches...

"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...

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

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

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...

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

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