By Jim Walvin, author of A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power Like most apprentice historians, I learned my trade on a specific, narrow area of …
By Amy Edwards, author of Are We Rich Yet? The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain My friends and family sometimes ask me why I have chosen to spend the …
By Stephen Tuffnell, author of Made in Britain: Emigration and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America London’s underground map is now globally ubiquitous. Part electrical schematic, part Mondrian neo-plasticism it is perhaps one of …
This guest post is published around the Joint Annual Meeting of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society in Madison, WI, occurring June …