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Ezequiel Mercau, “The Falklands War: An Imperial History” (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Ezequiel Mercau
The Falklands War
An Imperial History
Cambridge University Press, 2019

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society March 25, 2020 Charles Coutinho

The Falklands War was in many ways the defining event in the premiership of Margaret Thatcher. In many ways it was also the last roar of the British Lion. An event shrouded in both nostalgia and patriotism, at the time and subsequently. In his book, The Falklands War: An Imperial... Read More
Great Books: Julie Carlson on Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”
Julie Carlson
Great Books: Julie Carlson on Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'

Think About It, 2019

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and Society March 24, 2020 Uli Baer

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley wrote Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus when she was nineteen years old, on a bet. The novel spawned two centuries of creatures that turn against their makers. It examines the limits of scientific innovation, whether the quest for knowledge must be tempered by morality, and why... Read More
Christopher J. Lee, “Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa” (Duke UP, 2014)
Christopher J. Lee
Unreasonable Histories
Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa
Duke University Press, 2014

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network March 19, 2020 Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia

In Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa (Duke University Press, 2014), Christopher J. Lee recovers the forgotten experiences of multiracial peoples in the British colonies of Nyasaland, Southern and Northern Rhodesia. By carefully reading fragmented correspondence, colonial reports, periodicals and oral testimonies, the author... Read More
Jonathan Scott, “How the Old World Ended: The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution, 1500-1800” (Yale UP, 2019)
Jonathan Scott
How the Old World Ended
The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution, 1500-1800
Yale University Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network March 19, 2020 Charles Prior

Jonathan Scott is one of the most original interpreters of the early modern world. How the Old World Ended: The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution, 1500-1800 (Yale University Press, 2019) is a deft and cogent synthesis in which Scott returns to the turbulent seventeenth century in Britain, and examines how a period of political... Read More
Mathias Haeussler, “Helmut Schmidt and British-German Relations: A European Misunderstanding” (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Mathias Haeussler
Helmut Schmidt and British-German Relations
A European Misunderstanding
Cambridge University Press, 2019

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society March 19, 2020 Charles Coutinho

The former West German chancellor Helmut Schmidt grew up as a devout Anglophile, yet he clashed heavily and repeatedly with his British counterparts Wilson, Callaghan, and Thatcher during his time in office between 1974 and 1982. Helmut Schmidt and British-German Relations: A European Misunderstanding (Cambridge University Press, 2019) looks at... Read More
Elizabeth Goldring, “Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist” (Yale UP, 2019)
Elizabeth Goldring
Nicholas Hilliard
Life of an Artist
Yale University Press, 2019

New Books in ArtNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in BiographyNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network March 12, 2020 Mark Klobas

Limning – the painting of miniature portraits – was an important art form in 16th-century Europe. Among its greatest practitioners was Nicholas Hilliard, who enjoyed an international reputation for his skill in crafting the finely wrought images. In Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist (Yale University Press, 2019), Elizabeth Goldring... Read More
Jamie L. H. Goodall, “Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay: From the Colonial Era to the Oyster Wars” (The History Press, 2020)
Jamie L. H. Goodall
Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay
From the Colonial Era to the Oyster Wars
The History Press, 2020

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in the American SouthNew Books Network March 11, 2020 Rob Denning

The story of Chesapeake pirates and patriots begins with a land dispute and ends with the untimely death of an oyster dredger at the hands of the Maryland Oyster Navy. From the golden age of piracy to Confederate privateers and oyster pirates, the maritime communities of the Chesapeake Bay are... Read More

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