While public debates over America's current foreign policy often treat American empire as a new phenomenon, this lively collection of essays offers a pointed re

The essays in this collection show how histories written in the past, in different political times, dealt with, considered, or avoided and disavowed Britain’s

In the late nineteenth century, in an age of ascendant racism and imperial expansion, there emerged in Cuba a movement that unified black, mulatto, and white me

"... a lively and interesting book... " -- American Historical Review These writers reveal the power relations of gender, class, race, and sexuality at the hear

Inspired by Hannah Arendt's discussion of the Victorian Tory politician and novelist Benjamin Disraeli as a Jew who fought back, this book explores the complex