Deptford Stones: London, the River Thames and the Circulation of Ballast in the Age of Sail, c.1750–c.1850*

Abstract. In the Age of Sail, ships required ballast to ensure buoyancy at sea, pulling the vessel down in the water and stabilising it against lateral for

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Sample of "History of South Africa" by Thula Simpson

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Deptford Stones: London, the River Thames and the Circulation of Ballast in the Age of Sail, c.1750–c.1850*

Abstract. In the Age of Sail, ships required ballast to ensure buoyancy at sea, pulling the vessel down in the water and stabilising it against lateral for

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Curran Index User Survey

Thanks for being willing to complete this short survey. Whether or not you have used the Curran Index recently (or at all) we are looking for opinions on how the Curran can best be improved and develo...

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The Destruction of Jerusalem and Anti-Jewish Commonplaces in Model Sermon Collections (1100–1350), by Jussi Hanska

In this book, Jussi Hanska offers a detailed study of model sermon collections from the later twelfth to the fourteenth century that were delivered on the

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Labors of Division: Global Capitalism and the Emergence of the Peasant in Colonial Panjab, by Navyug Gill

In this provocative and thoughtful book, Navyug Gill provides a broad reconsideration of the peasant under capitalism, taking colonial Panjab as his site;

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Seditious Spaces: Race, Freedom, and the 1798 Tailors’ Conspiracy in Bahia, Brazil, by Greg L. Childs

‘If you heard the voice of liberty cry out in this land, would you appreciate it and embrace it?’ (p. 120). This affecting question, posed by the soldier L

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Saints’ Lives for Medieval English Nuns, I: A Study of the ‘Lyves and Dethes’ in Cambridge University Library, MS Additional 2604; and Saints’ Lives for Medieval English Nuns, II: An Edition of the ‘L...

This two-volume edition and commentary from Veronica O’Mara and Virginia Blanton brings a little-known manuscript, Cambridge, CUL Additional MS 2604, to a

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Policing and Urban Society in Eighteenth-Century Paris, ed. Pascal Bastien

Critics of the Ancien Régime before and after 1789 implied that the French monarchy operated like a relentless steamroller with reckless and ruthless drive

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Courtiers and Court Life in Poland, 1386–1795, ed. Bożena Czwojdrak

This collection of essays by a team of Polish authors edited by Bożena Czwojdrak offers a clear and fairly comprehensive insight into the courtiers and the

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Agriculture, Economy and Society in Early Modern Scotland, ed. Harriet Cornell, Julian Goodare and Alan R. MacDonald

Dedicated to the late historical geographer Ian Whyte (1948–2019), this engrossing volume provides an important addition to scholarship in several themes,

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Fuel and Power: Energy, Trade, and Russian Foreign Relations from Lenin to Putin, by Jeronim Perović

The question of the interdependence between Europe and Russia in the field of oil and gas is highly topical. Jeronim Perović offers here a comprehensive an

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Diplomatie als kollektive Praxis: Botschaftssekretäre und diplomatischer Alltag im frühneuzeitlichen Istanbul, by Florian Kühnel

Istanbul as a hub of intercultural diplomacy has attracted the interest of the New Diplomatic History in recent decades. Florian Kühnel’s postdoctoral thes

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Reconnoitring Russia: Mapping, Exploring and Describing Early Modern Russia, 1613–1825, by Denis J.B. Shaw

Reconnoitring Russia is the culminating work of Denis J.B. Shaw’s distinguished career in the field of Russian geography. The book was clearly a labour of

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Pahlavi Iran’s Relations with Africa: Cultural and Political Connections in the Cold War, by Robert Steele

Robert Steele’s distinctive and rigorous work details the expanding relations between Africa and Iran in the 1970s. The book begins with anecdotes about Id

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The Lure of the South: Health, the Victorians and the Continent, by Richard Aspin

Scholars of nineteenth-century history and culture are familiar with Victorian travellers’ quest for health in warmer climes. The Victorians followed previ

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Advance articles | The English Historical Review | Oxford Academic

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Volume 139 Issue 600 | The English Historical Review | Oxford Academic

The oldest journal of historical scholarship in the English-speaking world. Publishes original and exciting research relating to all parts of the world and all forms of historical inquiry from the Cla...

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Britain’s ‘Big Gun’: Queen Elizabeth II and the Anglo-American Special Relationship

Abstract. There have been few people more famous and instantly recognisable than Queen Elizabeth II, who served as Britain’s longest-reigning monarch from

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Dreams and Nightmares: Imagining the Aftermath of War, 1815–1945*

Abstract. Thinking about and planning for the end of war generally begins as soon as fighting breaks out, if not long before. Yet few studies analyse how p

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British Imperialism and the Decline of Trust in the International Order, 1840–1848*

Abstract. During the 1840s, international crises and territorially limited armed conflicts in Europe and overseas gave rise to or at least fuelled feelings

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(Re-)Making the ‘Stateless Capital’: Edinburgh and Dublin in European Context, c.1820–1850*

Abstract. This article revisits and complicates the idea of the ‘stateless capital’, a city that (through absorption into a larger political entity) was no

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All the Governments of India: Intra-Imperial Contests and the Makings of a British Imperial State in the Indian Ocean, 1750–1800*

Abstract. This article examines routine competition and co-ordination among the multiple governing bodies or Presidencies of each major British settlement

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