From Stalin to Gorbachev: The Cold War, ‘New Thinking’, the Balts, and the Soviet Breakup*

If the Cold War is seen primarily as a struggle by all means short of direct military conflict between the United States and its allies, on the one hand, a

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Declarations of Independence: New Histories of the Atlantic Republics on the 250th Anniversary of 1776*

This year, President Donald Trump will lead celebrations of the sepquentenniel (250th) anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence. A showman with a

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Thatcherism and the Picket Line*

Abstract. This article explores the relationship between Thatcherism and the picket line. The picket line in late twentieth-century Britain was a space in

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‘Public Opinion in England Is Seriously Roused’: Popular Attitudes and National Stereotypes during the Metropolitan-Vickers Crisis of 1933*

Abstract. When six British engineers working in the Soviet Union, along with several local contractors, were arrested, interrogated and tried for the crime

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Hierarchies of Desirable Demise: Cholera and (In)Glorious Death in Romania’s Bloodless Balkan War, 1913*

Abstract. What happens when war fails to offer the opportunity for a glorious death? And what if the enemy you set out to fight fails to show up, only for

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An O’Connellite Empire? Irish Nationalism, British Imperial Trouble, and the Limits of Anti-Imperialism in the Age of Reform *

Abstract. This article explores the way Irish nationalists in the 1830s and 1840s understood and condemned British imperial policy in times of trouble, whi

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Imagining the ‘Happy Valley’: Paraguayan Isolation and the British Periodical Press, 1814–1840*

Abstract. This article considers British interest in Paraguay during the rule of its first dictator Dr José Gaspar Rodriguez de Francia (1814–1840). At Fra

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Selling Education in England, 1650–1715*

Abstract. In the period 1650–1715, a growing consensus emerged that educational culture in England did not meet the needs of the population, and that chang

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Issues | 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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Gender in Scotland, 1200–1800, ed. Janay Nugent, Cathryn Spence and Mairi Cowan

This book marks an important contribution to the fields of women’s and gender history in Scotland. Encompassing an ambitious chronological sweep, it demons

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The Capitalist Self: The Social Origins of Financial Capitalism in Early Modern England, by Craig Muldrew

In 1998, with the publication of his first book The Economy of Obligation, Craig Muldrew transformed our understanding not only of early modern debt and cr

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The Road to Empire: The Political Education of Khalsa Sikhs in the Late 1600s, by Satnam Singh

Satnam Singh’s study focuses on the intellectual production of the court of Guru Gobind Singh, the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs, and the founder of the Khalsa c

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Officers, Entrepreneurs, Career Migrants, and Diplomats: Military Entrepreneurs in the Early Modern World, ed. Philippe Rogger and André Holenstein

Military entrepreneurship, the business of war and the privatisation of state functions in early modern Europe have been the focus of much scholarly attent

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Being the Heart of the World: The Pacific and the Fashioning of the Self in New Spain, 1513–1641, by Nuno Vallen

Covering the period from the sighting of the Pacific in 1513 until the resumption of transoceanic trade in 1641, Being the Heart of the World analyses how

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Converting Rulers: Global Patterns, 1450–1850, by Alan Strathern

In this book, Alan Strathern follows up on his 2019 Unearthly Powers, a work which set out to develop a model for understanding how religion and political

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The Marital Knot: Agunot in the Ashkenazi Realm, 1648–1850, by Noa Shashar, tr. Sara Friedman

Noa Shashar examines an early modern legal scenario that might initially appear marginal to historians outside the field of Jewish studies: Jewish women wh

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Venice and the Dalmatian Hinterland: Spalato, Poglizza, Almissa and Clissa (Late 15th–Early 16th Century), by Lena Sadovski

Despite innumerable studies of the history of the Republic of Venice produced during some two centuries of professional historiography, this topic does not

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Languages, Identities and Communication in the Age of Bede*

Abstract. This article seeks to address the underexplored role of language as a marker of identity in the early medieval period by focusing on England in t

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Advance articles | The English Historical Review | Oxford Academic

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Print Magic and Secularisation in Late Colonial India*

Abstract. A new genre of magic publications became prominent in the vernacular print culture of India in the aftermath of the First World War. It consisted

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‘Aryan Ararat’: ‘Racial Humanitarianism’ for the Armenians in Late Victorian Discourse (1876–1901)*

Abstract. This essay shows that, during the concluding decades of the nineteenth century (1876–1901), various Victorian writers, scholars and politicians s

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Ferdinandus Rex Belgarum Primus: The Imaginary Succession of the Infante Don Fernando de Austria (1529–1530)*

Abstract. This article analyses the genealogical process that turned Charles V’s second-born son Fernando (1529–30), who died in infancy, into the bearer o

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İbrahim Pasha (c.1495–1536) as Ser‘asker and Ser‘asker-Sultan: The Ottoman–Habsburg Rivalry for the Roman Imperial Dignity in Ideology and Diplomacy*

Abstract. The early sixteenth century saw the simultaneous rise of two empires in the Mediterranean: one Christian, ruled by the Habsburgs, based in Spain

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The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom, by David Woodman

Æthelstan is proclaimed as ‘the first king of England’ in the titles of both scholarly biographies of the tenth-century monarch published since 2010: Sarah

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Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History, 1760–1820, by Edwin D. Rose

Nestled neatly within the cross-disciplinary world of the history of science, ­eighteenth- (and early nineteenth-) century studies, and the history of the

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