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Murphy examines race and borders in the colonial Caribbean in new book

Tessa Murphy
In her new book, "The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean" (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021), Tessa Murphy, assistant professor of history, traces how generations of Indigenous Kalinagos, free and enslaved Africans and settlers from a variety of European nations used maritime routes to forge connections that spanned the eastern Caribbean.
December 18, 2021

See related: Colonialism, Latin America & the Caribbean, Migration, Race & Ethnicity

Diem provides a new view on monastic discipline in recent book

Albrecht Diem
In his new book, “The Pursuit of Salvation. Community, Space, and Discipline in Monasticism” (Brepolis Publishers, 2021), Maxwell School faculty member Albrecht Diem provides a new view on the emergence of monastic life in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages–an institution and form of life that had a deep impact on Western culture.
November 12, 2021

Tuscany in the Age of Empire

Brian Brege
June 21, 2021

See related: Europe

Takeda narrates early French-Persian trade relations

Junko Takeda
January 31, 2021

See related: Trade

Lasch-Quinn explores the meaning of life in new book

Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
December 31, 2020

Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War: 1938-1941

Alan Allport
December 31, 2020

See related: Europe

Kallander authors book on 17th century Qing Manchu invasion of Korea

George L. Kallander
December 31, 2020

See related: East Asia

Hagiography and the History of Latin Christendom, 500-1500

Samantha Kahn Herrick
December 31, 2020

See related: Religion

Connecting centre and locality: Political communication in early modern England

Edited by Chris R. Kyle
June 24, 2020

See related: Europe

Unfaithful: Love, Adultery, and Marriage Reform in Nineteenth-Century America

Carol Faulkner
December 31, 2019

See related: Civil Rights, Gender and Sex

United States Relations with China and Iran: Towards the Asian Century

Osamah F. Khalil
December 31, 2019

See related: East Asia, Middle East & North Africa

Eunuch and Emperor in the Great Age of Qing Rule

Norman Kutcher
December 31, 2018

The Palgrave Handbook of African Colonial and Postcolonial History

Martin S. Shanguhyia
December 31, 2018

The Politics of Everyday Life in Fascist Italy: Outside the State?

Michael R. Ebner
December 31, 2017

The Peace of the Gods: Elite Religious Practices in the Middle Roman Republic

Craige B. Champion
December 31, 2017

See related: Europe, Religion

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