Nationalism has become the most prevalent source of political conflict and violence in the
world. Scholarship has provided scant guidance about the prospects of containing the dark …

In this paper I examine the reorganization of border controls associated with the Schengen
process in the European Union and some of its close neighbours. Rather than asking the …

With this sweeping reinterpretation of early cultural encounters between the English and
American natives, Joyce E. Chaplin thoroughly alters our historical view of the origins of …

Portraits of aristocratic women from the Yorkist and Tudor periods reveal elaborately clothed
and bejeweled nobility, exemplars of their families' wealth. Unlike their male counterparts …

While state borders remain the pre-eminent frontiers within geopolitics, regional blocs are
also acquiring frontier characteristics. How might we understand the function and identity of …

The second edition of Steven Ellis's formidable work represents not only a survey, but also a
critique of traditional perspectives on the making of modern Ireland. It explores Ireland both …

This book demonstrates that if we treat sixteenth-and seventeenth-century erotic literature as
part of English political history, both fields of study will look rather different. This important …

Much has been written about the decline of the United Kingdom. The Two Unions looks
instead at the lengthy survival of the Union, examining the institutions, structures, and …

This work offers the first full-length study of the only armed rebellion in Elizabethan England.
Addressing recent scholarship on the Reformation and popular politics, it highlights the …

This essay investigates the first century of English colonization of the North American
mainland, concentrating on the charters and letters patent that proponents of western …