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Linda Colley is the Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton. Her latest book is The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World. (September 2021)
How British Is It?
The Met’s reinstalled British Galleries take a new approach to the question: What is British art and design?
The British Galleries
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
The New British Galleries
by Wolf Burchard, Max Bryant, and Elizabeth St. George
September 23, 2021 issue
What Gets Called ‘Civil War’?
David Armitage’s ‘Civil Wars: A History in Ideas’
Civil Wars: A History in Ideas
by David Armitage
June 8, 2017 issue
Facing Napoleon’s Own EU
In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon’s Wars, 1793–1815
by Jenny Uglow
November 5, 2015 issue
A Tale of Two Empires
Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492–1830
by J.H. Elliott
July 17, 2008 issue
The Sea Around Us
Atlantic History: Concept and Contours
by Bernard Bailyn
The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640–1661
by Carla Gardina Pestana
June 22, 2006 issue
Tough Guys
From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity
by Leo Braudy
May 13, 2004 issue
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