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New Books in British Studies
David Green, “The Hundred Years War: A People’s History” (Yale UP, 2014)
David Green
The Hundred Years War
A People’s History
Yale University Press, 2014

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in French StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network June 19, 2019 Al Zambone

The year 1453 marked the end of an intermittent yet seemingly endless series of wars between the Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of England that, some four hundred years later, was dubbed the Hundred Years War. Depending on how you count even the most conservative estimate of its beginnings... Read More
Jonathan Fennell, “Fighting the People’s War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War” (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Jonathan Fennell
Fighting the People's War
The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War
Cambridge University Press, 2019

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network June 18, 2019 Charles Coutinho

Jonathan Fennell’s new book, Fighting the People’s War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War (Cambridge University Press, 2019) is an unprecedented, panoramic history of the ‘citizen armies’ of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa, the core of the British and Commonwealth... Read More
Mark Peterson, “The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power” (Princeton UP, 2019)
Mark Peterson
The City-State of Boston
The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power
Princeton University Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in EconomicsNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network June 14, 2019 Ryan Tripp

In the vaunted annals of America’s founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary “city upon a hill” and the “cradle of liberty” for an independent United States. Wresting this iconic urban center from these misleading, tired clichés, The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic... Read More
Jeremy Black, “The English Press: A History” (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Jeremy Black
The English Press
A History
Bloomsbury, 2019

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in HistoryNew Books in JournalismNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network June 13, 2019 Charles Coutinho

In this succinct and brilliantly written one-volume account of the rise and fall of the English press, premier historian Jeremy Black, the most prolific historian writing in the Anglophone world, if not on the entire planet, traces the English press’s history from the 17th century to the Internet age. The... Read More
Danell Jones, “An African in Imperial London: The Indomitable Life of A.B.C. Merriman-Labor” (Hurst, 2018)
Danell Jones
An African in Imperial London
The Indomitable Life of A.B.C. Merriman-Labor
Hurst, 2018

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in BiographyNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network June 12, 2019 Al Zambone

In 1919 a man named Ohlohr Maigi died of tuberculosis in London, in deep poverty. He had arrived over a decade before in the imperial capital bearing different name, seeking education, fame and fortune. Some of these he had found, but ultimately he had found much more adversity than success.... Read More
Kirsteen M. MacKenzie, “The Solemn League and Covenant of the Three Kingdoms and the Cromwellian Union 1643-1663” (Routledge, 2018)
Kirsteen M. MacKenzie
The Solemn League and Covenant of the Three Kingdoms and the Cromwellian Union 1643-1663

Routledge, 2018

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network June 12, 2019 Crawford Gribben

Kirsteen M. MacKenzie, an historian who has taught for many years at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, has published a definitive account of the relationships between England, Scotland and Ireland during the Cromwellian republic of the 1650s. The Solemn League and Covenant of the Three Kingdoms and the Cromwellian Union... Read More
Ian Saxine, “Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier” (NYU Press, 2019)
Ian Saxine
Properties of Empire
Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier 
New York University Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in LawNew Books in Native American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network June 6, 2019 Ryan Tripp

In Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (NYU Press, 2019), Ian Saxine, Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Bridgewater State University, shows the dynamic relationship between Native and English systems of property on the turbulent edge of Britain’s empire, and how so many colonists came... Read More