"Properties of Empire" challenges assumptions about the relationship between Indigenous and imperial property creation in early America...

Richardson examines the cultural presence of Indians in the novels, poetry, plays and material culture of the eighteenth-century...

Hinke tells the stories of millionaires and pastry chefs, popcorn vendors, and perfume salesmen, all gathered aboard the gargantuan ship for its celebrated maiden voyage in 1912.

Hanley seeks to shift the focus of black history away from a slavery and abolition, and toward something more complex...

Erika recounts the special relationship between two intellectual juggernauts, Huxley and Osmond, and their discussions about drugs, addiction, and death and dying...

Crossland describes the emergence of various movements in the second half of the 19th. century...

For centuries the purpose of Hadrian’s Wall, and the life of those who built it and lived near it, were shrouded in archaeological mystery...

Black explores the forty-one years from the beginning of the Great War in August 1914 to the surrender of Japan in August 1945....

Beiner argues for the complexities and ambiguities of communal recollection by focusing on the contested memories of one of the shortest and certainly the bloodiest of politically driven Irish insurrections...

John Owen is one of the most significant seventeenth-century Protestant theologians...

Woodbridge focuses on a small but very significant evangelical community, the so-called Plymouth Brethren, and documents the attempts made by their missionaries in China during the first half of the twentieth century...

Edelson shows how the Crown and the Board of Trade initiated the mapping of every new corner of Britain’s American dominions – places that were also the ancestral homes of Native Americans and the site of emerging settler republics...

Reese, explores the social effects of the British empire, and its attending conditions, on Muslims in the port city of Aden...

Does publishing have a diversity problem?

Hackenbracht's book opens up questions about how seventeenth-century writers understood the Christian doctrine of the last judgement, and how the thought of that final reckoning shaped new attitudes to church and to nation....

John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667) is widely recognised as the greatest epic poem in the English language...

Professor Black shows the reader how criticisms of the legacy of the British Empire are, in part, criticisms of the reality of American power today.

Lachs looks at London's Yiddish popular culture...

From its humble beginnings as a crossing point over the river Thames Londinium grew into the largest city in Roman Britain...

Who is excluded from science?

Pullin reconstructs the Meetings that monitored the lives of Quaker women...

Eighteenth-century England was a place of both the enlightenment and progress: new ideas abounded in science, politics, transportation, commerce, philosophy, religion, and the arts...

Throughout modern history, British and American rivalry has gone hand in hand with common interests...

Histories of the British occupation of Havana in 1762 have focused on imperial rivalries and the actions and decisions of European planters, colonial officials, and military officers...

Kupperman shifts the lens on the well-known narrative of Virginia’s founding to reveal the previously untold and utterly compelling story of the youths who, often unwillingly, entered into cross-cultural relationships...