Search
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/lee180.jpg?itok=kxFqROww)
Asian American studies in which the ‘American’ refers to Latin America have seen a considerable growth in recent years.
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/9780472130863.jpg?itok=GqNLVa-z)
In her revised PhD thesis, which was written at the George Mason University, Sheila A. Brennan, combining postal history, philately, and memory studies, reconstructs the cultural history of stamp collecting in the U.S. from the end of the Civil War to 1940 and analyzes how this practice has shaped the issuance of commemorative stamps in this period.
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/0exposing.jpg?itok=SzoVfYwU)
Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America is a deeply researched book, focused on how the new medium of photography was shaped and, in turn, altered by the country’s struggle over human bondage.
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/alien_jew_1.jpg?itok=7ICRiprw)
Research on immigration to Britain at the turn of the 20th century largely conforms to historiographical conventions which privilege the nation state as a framework for investigation and which adhere to narrative chronologies relevant to nations. These conventions, Ewence contends, eclipse much from view which does not easily fit into such established categories.
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/Calderwood.jpg?itok=4fRupO8C)
In Colonial Al-Andalus, Professor Eric Calderwood explores the origin of a claim widely promoted in Moroccan tourism, arts, and literature and finds its roots in Spain’s colonial rhetoric.
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/disability2.jpg?itok=Bn53iKJL)
Danger, disaster and the loss of life are emblematic features of Britain’s cultural memory of coal mining. Netflix’s hit series, The Crown, prominently reinforced these motifs through its recent portrayal of the 1966 Aberfan disaster in South Wales.
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/blaxill_0.jpg?itok=lbrb_JmP)
Luke Blaxill’s book deserves to be seminal. Its unassuming title conceals a bracing methodological challenge: an argument for the application of specific digital techniques to the study of electoral politics.
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/AI.jpg?itok=sWUAgb3V)
‘Artificial intelligence (AI)’ is a loaded term, rife with connotative contradiction that inspires debate, disagreement, and disillusion. But what is AI, really? How have our expectations of computational capability, and even a robot Armageddon, come to be? Why does it matter how we talk about increasingly sophisticated technology, not just in expository prose, but also in fiction?
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/lakota_new.jpg?itok=jRGo69vs)
The indefinite article in the subtitle of Pekka Hämäläinen’s new book tells, to those familiar with the author’s first monograph and its professional impact, its own story. Ethnohistorians writing Native North American history in the later 20th century cast Indigenous Americans as heroic underdogs in a long, bitter struggle against Euro-American colonialism.
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/oleary.jpeg?itok=OCMUKX_3)
Paul O’Leary’s Claiming the Streets: Processions and Urban Culture in South Wales, c.1830–1880 provides a detailed and lively account of mid 19th-century processional culture. It takes us on a journey through Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil, Neath and Swansea and investigates the diversity and complexity of street procession in these towns.