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Your search for charles prior returned 36 results:
British Studies
May 16, 2019
The New Map of Empire
How Britain Imagined America before Independence
Max Edelson
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Charles Prior
When we think of the history of the British Empire we tend to think big: oceans were crossed; colonies grew from small settlements to territories many times larger than England; entire Continents, each with substantial indigenous populations, were brought under British rule. Maps were an important part of rule in America, but from the point of view of the Board of Trade, the lack of ‘exact Surveys’ meant that a …
British Studies
March 19, 2020
How the Old World Ended
The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution, 1500-1800
Jonathan Scott
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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 …
General History
September 29, 2020
Atlantic Wars
From the Fifteenth Century to the Age of Revolution
Geoffrey Plank
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Charles Prior
For the people of the Dawnland, they were floating islands. The sails resembled clouds, and the men gathered on deck looked like bears. When Europeans came ashore, whether Danes in …
British Studies
June 20, 2019
Loyalty, Memory and Public Opinion in England, 1658-1727
Edward Vallance
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Charles Prior
People value loyalty. We prize it in our dogs. We loyally carry loyalty cards to claim discounts at our favourite stores and coffee shops. We follow sports teams, even when …
British Studies
October 8, 2019
Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth
The Rise of Plantation Society in the Chesapeake
Paul Musselwhite
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Charles Prior
Early American colonialism is often distinguished by an urban and rural divide. Urban development was a sign of imperial progress. British writers frequently boasted about the size of early Boston …
British Studies
October 28, 2020
The Formation of the Colonial State in India
Scribes, Paper and Taxes, 1760-1860
Hayden J. Bellenoit
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Charles Prior
When he appeared before the British House of Commons in the wake of the Stamp Act crisis, Benjamin Franklin reminded his audience that the American colonies were governed ‘at the …
British Studies
January 22, 2020
The Making of an Imperial Polity
Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis
Lauren Working
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Charles Prior
In his Relation of the second voyage to Guiana, published in 1596, George Chapman put the imperial ambitions of England into a telling verse couplet. ‘Riches, and Conquest, and Renowne …
British Studies
May 29, 2019
Beyond Slavery and Abolition
Black British Writing, c. 1770 -1830
Ryan Hanley
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Charles Prior
To our eyes, eighteenth-century Britain can look like a world of opposites. On one hand everything was new: political parties and a ‘prime’ minister emerged in parliament; their sometime unruly …
British Studies
May 29, 2020
The Common Freedom of the People
John Lilburne and the English Revolution
Michael Braddick
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Charles Prior
As historical topics, political revolutions come in and out of fashion. At the moment the American Revolution as an ideological struggle engages the public, but historians are less sure. Books …
British Studies
July 15, 2019
Subjects and Sovereign
Bonds of Belonging in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
Hannah Weiss Muller
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Charles Prior
There is no denying that the public remains fascinated with monarchy. In the United Kingdom, the royal family commands the headlines, but paradoxically they are distant and knowable all at …
British Studies
July 22, 2019
No Useless Mouth
Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution
Rachel B. Herrmann
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Charles Prior
When the British explored the Atlantic coast of America in the 1580s, their relations with indigenous peoples were structured by food. The newcomers, unable to sustain themselves through agriculture, relied …
British Studies
February 6, 2020
A Biography of a Map in Motion
Augustine Herrman’s Chesapeake
Christian J. Koot
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Charles Prior
Labels on a map: Surrey. Lower Norfolk. The Isle of Wight. Northumberland. Middlesex. Not a map England, but of the British colonies of Virginia and Maryland published in 1673. This …
British Studies
June 4, 2019
The Savage and Modern Self
North American Indians in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture
Robbie Richardson
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Charles Prior
As they explored and struggled to establish settlements in what they called ‘new found lands’, the encounter with the peoples of those lands deeply affected how the British saw themselves …
British Studies
December 23, 2019
The Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III
The East India Company and the Crisis and Transformation of Britain’s Imperial State
James M. Vaughn
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Charles Prior
In his notes for a speech to be delivered in the House of Commons in the wake of American Independence, the MP and imperial reformer Edmund Burke observed that ‘Some …
General History
July 22, 2020
A Concise History of History
Global Historiography from Antiquity to the Present
Daniel Woolf
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Charles Prior
‘THOSE THAT DENY THEIR HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT!’ So Tweeted the 45th President of the United States to his 80 million followers in June, as American streets once …
Intellectual History
December 15, 2020
Pragmatism's Evolution
Organism and Environment in American Philosophy
Trevor Pearce
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Alec Kacew
In Pragmatism’s Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy(University of Chicago Press, 2020), Trevor Pearce demonstrates that the philosophical tradition of pragmatism owes an enormous debt to specific biological debates in …
General History
January 31, 2018
Russia in Flames
War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914-1921
Laura Engelstein
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Charles Coutinho
Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914-1921 (Oxford University Press, 2017) is a masterful account of the Russian revolutionary era by Laura Engelstein, Professor Emerita at Yale University. Spanning …
British Studies
December 7, 2020
Imperial Culture and the Sudan
Authorship, Identity and the British Empire
Lia Paradis
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Charles Prior
In The Empty House, Sherlock Holmes makes a dramatic reappearance in the surgery of his friend Dr Watson. Presumed dead at the bottom of the Reichenbach Falls, Holmes recounts his …
Russian and Eurasian Studies
April 29, 2022
Ivan the Terrible in Russian Historical Memory Since 1991
Charles J. Halperin
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Aaron Weinacht
Dr. Charles Halperin's latest work on Ivan the Terrible analyzes Ivan's image in post-Soviet Russian memory. Halperin addresses a wide variety of sources: textbooks, popular histories, conspiracy theories, and scholarly …
General History
November 22, 2021
State Surveillance, Political Policing and Counter-Terrorism in Britain, 1880-1914
Vlad Solomon
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Mark Klobas
In 1850 Charles Dickens wrote that Great Britain had “no political police,” adding that “the most rabid demagogue” could speak out “without the terror of an organised spy system.” In …
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