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)
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England: The Big Change
June 26, 2008
A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England 1783–1846
by Boyd Hilton
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Selling the American Way
November 30, 2006
Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance Through Twentieth-Century Europe
by Victoria de Grazia
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City Lights
May 11, 2006
Building Jerusalem:The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City
by Tristram Hunt
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The Irish Indian Chief
December 1, 2005
White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America
by Fintan O'Toole
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The Return of the Imperial Hero
November 3, 2005
Trafalgar: The Men, the Battle, the Storm by Tim Clayton and Phil Craig
Nelson: The New Letters
edited by Colin White
Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar
by Adam Nicolson
Admiral Lord Nelson: Context and Legacy
edited by David Cannadine
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The First Thatcherite?
April 7, 2005
William Pitt the Younger
by William Hague
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The Art of the Deal
October 7, 2004
Duveen: A Life in Art
by Meryle Secrest
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Big Ben
July 15, 2004
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
by Gordon S. Wood
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Breaking with the Past
March 25, 2004
Crowded with Genius: The Scottish Enlightenment, Edinburgh’s Moment of the Mind
by James Buchan