In an empire built on racial slavery, what roles do blood purity and citizenship play in the creation of subject citizens?

In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...

Professor Fede’s account traces the variations in restrictions on slave owners and third parties’ treatment upon the murder of a slave.

The Indian caste system is an ancient, pervasive institution of social organization within the subcontinent – or is it?

Slate paints a picture of the two countries as learning perpetually from each other...

The Westminster Assembly (1643-53) was one of the most important ecclesiastical councils in the history of Reformed Protestantism, but until very recently it had received little in the way of scholarly attention...

There can be little doubt that Hong Kong has stood out as a particularly intense East Asian news hotspot in recent years...

Though not as well known today as some of her literary contemporaries, Charlotte Lennox wrote numerous works during the mid-18th century that won her critical acclaim...

What are the characteristics of the 21st Century arts leader?

How can insights from psychoanalysis help us understand digital culture?

In creating a detailed impression of the medieval race-making that would be reconfigured into the biological racism of the modern era, Heng reaches beyond medievalists and race-studies scholars to anyone interested in the long history of race.

Bingham argues against several centuries of historical interpretation of the new religious movement that emerged in London in the late 1630s and now numbers around 35 million adherents worldwide...

In the aftermath of the Second World War, Great Britain was forced to give up the bulk of its vast, globe-spanning empire...

The current debate about Brexit has shown how important historical arguments can be in public discourse

This book, which unpacks the census itself, leads the reader to consider how this mundane tool actually translates the abstraction of the state into a concrete entity...

Andrew surveys the period in which Irish Presbyterians came together as a community, to debate different ways of being conservative...

Who gets in to top professions? Find out...

The creation of the postwar welfare state in Great Britain did not represent the logical progression of governmental policy over a period of generations...

Experiencing a major crisis from different viewpoints, step by step:  the Suez crisis of 1956— one of the major crises of the 1950s offers a potential master class in statecraft and the politics of strategy.

This book offers added insight into not only the prison system as a place of employment, but also for any white-male-dominated organization...

Dr. Hirota’s book focuses on state legislation policies of immigration control in New York and Massachusetts...

How has the council estate been represented on stage?

Unpersuaded by the common assumption that James Fort had long ago been washed away by the James River, William Kelso and his collaborators...

In November 2013, two mass burials were discovered unexpectedly on a construction site in the city of Durham in northeast England....

This text brings together a number of lenses through which to consider the writings and ideas of British liberal thinkers, especially John Locke, Edmund Burke, and Edward Gibbon Wakefield...