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Indians, their former British rulers asserted, were unfit to rule themselves. Behind this assertion
Plot elements such as adventure, travel to far-flung regions, the criminal underworld, and embezzlem
After John A. Macdonald’s death, four Tory prime ministers — each remarkable but all little known —
In 2003, in a ruling that bordered on poetic, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in Lawrenc
Nearly 50 years since the European Foreign Ministers issued their first declaration on the conflict
Princess Izabela Czartoryska was a towering figure of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century
In the late nineteenth century, Chinese reformers and revolutionaries believed that there was someth
A Twist in the Tail: How the Humble Anchovy Flavoured Western Cuisine (Hurst, 2024) by Christopher B
In the first two decades of the twentieth century, New York State was a hotbed of change. Cities gre
The first comprehensive, comparative study of the 'Jewish Councils' in the Netherlands, Belgium and
In the early nineteenth century, as slavery gradually ended in the North, a village in New York Stat
In 330 BC, Alexander the Great conquers the city of Persepolis, the ceremonial capital of the Persia
How did ideas of masculinity shape the British legal profession and the wider expectations of the wh
In The Enslaved and Their Enslavers: Power, Resistance, and Culture in South Carolina, 1670-1825 (U
In what has become perhaps the most infamous example of modern anti-Jewish violence prior to the Hol
In post-war Europe, protest was everywhere. On both sides of the Iron Curtain, from Paris to Prague,
The problems that gave rise to the widespread desire to introduce a common currency were myriad. Whi
Provincial Democracy: Political Imaginaries at the End of Empire in Twentieth-century South India (C
In historical writing on World War I, Czech-speaking soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian milita
From Schmelt Camp to "Little Auschwitz" Blechhammer's Role in the Holocaust (Purdue UP, 2024) is the
