History: Recent submissions
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Rethinking Decolonization: A New Research Agenda for the Twenty-First Century
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 30 September 2018)The book’s Introduction reflects on precisely what we understand by decolonization and considers its relevance in light of the more recent and growing interest in global history, as well as the history of globalization. ... -
Europe, the War, and the Colonial World
(Oxford University Press, 2 September 2014)The fact that we know the end points of formal colonial rule may lead us to forget that, for those involved, the process appeared less determined and more contingent. It is deceptively easy to trip over the supposed ... -
An Effortless Empire: John Law and the Imagery of French Louisiana, 1683-1735
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2019 Labour History Review Essay Prize Winner: Navigating deindustrialization in 1970s Britain: the closure of Bilston Steel Works and the politics of work, place, and belonging
(Liverpool University Press, 1 December 2020)This article examines the impact of industrial decline on popular constructions of selfhood and place during the 1970s through a case study of the Bilston Steel Works in the West Midlands, which closed in May 1979. Following ... -
The Death and Subsequent Revival of the Cornish Language
(South West Doctoral Training Partnership, 2020)Cornish is the vernacular language of Cornwall, the most South-Western part of Great Britain. It is widely believed the language died out in the eighteenth century with the death of Dolly Pentreath, the so-called last ...