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British Studies May 16, 2019

The New Map of Empire

How Britain Imagined America before Independence

Max Edelson

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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, 2020

The Common Freedom of the People

John Lilburne and the English Revolution

Michael Braddick

Hosted by 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 May 29, 2019

Beyond Slavery and Abolition

Black British Writing, c. 1770 -1830

Ryan Hanley

Hosted by 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 July 15, 2019

Subjects and Sovereign

Bonds of Belonging in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire

Hannah Weiss Muller

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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 …
General History November 22, 2021

State Surveillance, Political Policing and Counter-Terrorism in Britain, 1880-1914

Vlad Solomon

Hosted by 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 …
National Security May 2, 2018

Anatomy of Failure

Why America Loses Every War It Starts

Harlan Ullman

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
Since 1945, the United States has lost every war it started. Why? A Vietnam War veteran, Tufts University Ph. D. and intimate of many of the leading figures in the …