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Early Modern History
Interviews with scholars of early modern history about their new books.
April 18, 2024
Responsa in a Historical Context
Debby Koren's book Responsa in a Historical Context: A View of Post-Expulsion Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Communities Through 16th- And 17th-Century Res…
April 16, 2024
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, Puerto Ricans have c…
April 16, 2024
How the Spanish Empire Was Built
Sixteenth-century Spain was small, poor, disunited and sparsely populated. Yet the Spaniards and their allies built the largest empire the world had e…
April 14, 2024
The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales
Adam Kabat’s The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales: Monster Comics from Edo Japan (Columbia UP, 2023) is an in-depth introduction to the …
April 14, 2024
The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History
In The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History (Routledge, 2015), Jeremy Black presents a compact yet comprehensive survey of slavery and its impact on …
April 10, 2024
Hume, the Epicureans, and the Origins of Liberalism
Enlightenment philosopher David Hume enjoyed a tremendous influence on intellectual history. What did Hume believe, why was it so controversial at the…
April 8, 2024
Empire of Brutality
Historians of early America, slavery, early African American history, the history of science, and environmental history have interrogated the complex …
April 6, 2024
The Jesuits
In The Jesuits: A Thematic History (Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2023), Claudio Ferlan provides an exploration of the tradition of the Society of Jesu…
April 2, 2024
Merits of the Plague
Six hundred years ago, the author of this landmark work of history and religious thought—an esteemed judge, poet, and scholar in Cairo—survived the bu…
April 2, 2024
Between Christian and Jew
In 1341 in Aragon, a Jewish convert to Christianity was sentenced to death, only to be pulled from the burning stake and into a formal religious inter…
April 2, 2024
Marie de Vignerot, Richelieu's Forgotten Advisor and Heiress
Despite being one of the most influential women of 17th century France, Marie de Vignerot has been largely forgotten. The niece, heiress, and advisor …
March 31, 2024
A Delicate Matter
Eighteenth-century France witnessed an unprecedented proliferation of materially unstable art, from oil paintings that cracked within years of their c…
March 31, 2024
Kant, Race, and Racism
Kant scholars have paid relatively little attention to his raciology. They assume that his racism, as personal prejudice, can be disentangled from his…
March 31, 2024
Montesquieu's 'The Spirit of the Laws'
The Spirit of the Laws not only systematizes the foundational ideas of “separation of powers” and “balances and checks,” it provides the decisive resp…
March 30, 2024
A Gentleman from Japan
On November 12, 1588, five young Asian men—led by a twenty-one-year-old called Christopher—traveled up the River Thames to meet Queen Elizabeth I. Chr…
March 29, 2024
Daring Exploits of Pirate Black Sam Bellamy
In 1717, the Council of Trade and Plantations received "agreeable news" from New England. "Bellamy with his ship and Company" had perished on the shoa…
March 28, 2024
The Great Defiance
It’s very easy to study the history of the British Empire from the perspective of, well, the British–and to extend the early 20th century version of t…
March 26, 2024
Political Theology of International Order
Is contemporary international order truly a secular arrangement? Theorists of international relations typically adhere to a narrative that portrays th…
March 26, 2024
Across the Green Sea
Across the Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640 (University of Texas Press, 2024) by Dr. Sanjay Subrahmanyam presents a histo…