John Brewer

John Brewerteaches in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division at the California Institute of Technology. His most recent book is A Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century. (June 2008)

From the Review

June 26, 2008: England: The Big Change

A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England 1783–1846 by Boyd Hilton

November 30, 2006: Selling the American Way

Irresistible Empire: America's Advance Through Twentieth-Century Europe by Victoria de Grazia

May 11, 2006: City Lights

Building Jerusalem:The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City by Tristram Hunt

December 1, 2005: The Irish Indian Chief

White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America by Fintan O'Toole

November 3, 2005: The Return of the Imperial Hero

Trafalgar: The Men, the Battle, the Storm by Tim Clayton and Phil Craig

Nelson: The New Letters edited by Colin White

Admiral Lord Nelson: Context and Legacy edited by David Cannadine

Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar by Adam Nicolson

April 7, 2005: The First Thatcherite?

William Pitt the Younger by William Hague

October 7, 2004: The Art of the Deal

Duveen: A Life in Art by Meryle Secrest

July 15, 2004: Big Ben

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin by Gordon S. Wood

March 25, 2004: Breaking with the Past

Crowded with Genius: The Scottish Enlightenment, Edinburgh's Moment of the Mind by James Buchan