NEW BOOK: Empires of the Imagination: Politics, War, & the Arts in the British World, 1750-1850 is now available in all good bookshops and through Amazon and other websites. Click on the book’s title above (or on it’s cover image anywhere on this website) for a summary, reviews, rich media content, and links to the publisher and Amazon.
Some recent reviews of Empires of the Imagination: Simon Schama in the Financial Times, Maya Jasanoff in the Guardian, Denis Judd in BBC History Magazine.
In academic year 2010/11, I will be a Fellow at the Konstanz Institute for Advanced Study to work on a book tentatively entitled Civil War in the British Empire: Practices and Representations of Violence and Terror in the American Revolutionary War.
CFP: I’ve joined the Editorial Board of the Journal for Maritime Research ahead of its exciting relaunch as a print and electronic journal for research in British maritime history in oceanic and world history contexts. We’re now inviting papers for the inaugural issue.