This volume examines the various ways in which islands (and groups of islands) contributed to the establishment, extension, and maintenance of the British Empir

When the USS Maine mysteriously exploded in Havana's harbor on February 15, 1898, the United States joined local rebel forces to avenge the Maine and "liberate"

Islands and Empire: A History of Modern Britain situates the United Kingdom within a local, European, and global historical context. It examines the forces of i

Imperial Island: A History of Britain and its Empire, 1660-1837 is a comprehensive account of Great Britain's imperial path from the Stuart Restoration of 1660

A pioneering examination of the role smuggling played in the transformation of Spanish Caribbean society and culture in the seventeenth century.