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British Studies
November 21, 2018
Almost Home
Maroons between Slavery and Freedom in Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone
Ruma Chopra
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Tyler Yank
After being exiled from their native Jamaica in 1795, the Trelawney Town Maroons endured in Nova Scotia and then in Sierra Leone. In Almost Home: Maroons between Slavery and Freedom …
British Studies
November 2, 2018
Black Tudors
The Untold Story
Miranda Kaufmann
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Tyler Yank
A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptized in a London church. Henry VIII dispatches a Mauritanian …
British Studies
October 24, 2018
Reformation Without End
Religion, Politics and the Past in Post-Revolutionary England
Robert G. Ingram
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Tyler Yank
Robert G. Ingram's Reformation Without End: Religion, Politics and the Past in Post-Revolutionary England (Manchester University Press, 2018) radically reinterprets the English Reformation. Subjects in eighteenth-century England didn't know they …
British Studies
April 20, 2018
The Mulatta Concubine
Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic
Lisa Ze Winters
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Tyler Yank
Popular and academic representations of the free mulatta concubine repeatedly depict women of mixed black African and white racial descent as defined by their sexual attachment to white men, and …
British Studies
April 17, 2018
Schooling Diaspora
Women, Education, and the Overseas Chinese in British Malaya and Singapore, 1850s to 1960s
Karen Teoh
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Tyler Yank
In Schooling Diaspora: Women, Education, and the Overseas Chinese in British Malaya and Singapore, 1850s to 1960s (Oxford University Press, 2018), Karen Teoh relates the history of English and Chinese …
British Studies
March 1, 2018
Squadron
Ending the African Slave Trade
John Broich
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Tyler Yank
Despite the British being early abolitionists, a significant slave trade remained in the western Indian Ocean through the mid-1800s, even after the cessation of most imperial slave trading activities in …
British Studies
February 8, 2018
Contested Bodies
Pregnancy, Child-Rearing, and Slavery in Jamaica
Sasha Turner
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Tyler Yank
Sasha Turner's Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Child-Rearing, and Slavery in Jamaica (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017) reveals enslaved women's contrasting ideas about maternity and raising children in plantation-era Jamaica. Turner argues …
British Studies
January 19, 2018
Becoming Centaur
Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship
Monica Mattfeld
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Tyler Yank
Monica Mattfeld's Becoming Centaur: Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship (Penn State University Press, 2017) explores the complex relationship between men and their horses, and reflects upon how these interactions defined …