by Christopher Hartshorn | Publication
Our Subversive Voice: The History and Politics of English Protest Songs, 1600–2020 (McGill-Queen’s Studies in Protest, Power, and Resistance) by John Street , Oskar Cox Jensen , Alan Finlayson, Angela McShane, and Matthew Worley Whether accompanying a march, a...
by Christopher Hartshorn | Publication
Silk Roads: Peoples, Cultures, Landscapes by Susan Whitfield As world powers realign their cultural, economic and political outlooks, there is no better time to consider how Afro-Eurasia’s complex network of ancient trade routes – which spanned the vastness of the...
by Christopher Hartshorn | Publication
Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy Edited by Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the rise of its author as a media personality, J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy: A...
by Christopher Hartshorn | Publication
The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective by Sara Lodge A revelatory history of the women who brought Victorian criminals to account—and how they became a cultural sensation From Wilkie Collins to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the traditional image of...
by Christopher Hartshorn | Publication
THE END OF ENLIGHTENMENT Empire, Commerce, Crisis by Richard Whatmore ‘A brilliant work of intellectual interpretation by our foremost historian of Enlightenment ideas. Whatmore rescues the Enlightenment from today’s circular debates and places it where it...
by Christopher Hartshorn | Publication
THE AFRICAN EMPEROR The Life of Septimus Severus by Simon Elliot Septimius Severus was Rome’s black emperor. Born in the blistering heat of a North African spring in Leptis Magna, AD 145, he died in the freezing cold of a northern British winter in York in AD...
