Articles
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The Interwar World: Where, When, and How?
This interview engages the co-editors of the new edited volume, The Interwar World (Routledge 2023), Andrew Denning and Heidi J. S. Tworek. Expansive both in its breadth as well as in methodological…
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April 15, 2024: What We’re Reading
Image Credit: BBC Matilde Cazzola, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory. Gad Heuman, “The Apprenticeship System in the Caribbean: The World of the Apprentices”, Nieuwe West-Indische Gids…
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Pax Economica: An Interview with Marc-William Palen
In his new book Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World (Princeton University Press, 2024), historian Marc-William Palen offers a counter-history of free trade as an ideology and policy. In…
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The History of Modern Sports in South America: An Interview with Matthew Brown
Two balls were brought onto the pitch in the first soccer World Cup Final, held in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1930. The two teams, Argentina, and Uruguay had been unable to agree on…
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U.S. foreign policy, Cold War history, and history of capitalism: An interview with Fritz Bartel.
It is an exciting time for Cold War historiography. Long gone are debates that were once central to the field, such as those about the origins of the Cold War and the…
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January 2024: What We’re Reading
HMS Black Joke firing on the Spanish Slaver, El Almirante,in the early 19th century. Photo credit: Historic UK Matilde Cazzola, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory. Maeve Ryan,…
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Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France: An Interview with Lewis Wade
Dr. Lewis Wade’s new book Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France: Marine Insurance, War and the Atlantic Empire under Louis XIV (Boydell and Brewer, 2023) closely analyses the rise and…
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What We’re Reading: December 2023
Damaged archival documents from Réunion examined in Sue Peabody’s Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies (Oxford University Press 2017) Matilde Cazzola, Max Planck Institute for Legal History…
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Global History and International Relations: a discussion with Ayşe Zarakol, Glenda Sluga, and Heidi Tworek
IR scholars and Historians are increasingly in dialogue these days, trying to give meaning and substance to how we think about the international order, not least what it is. This conversation between…