My research is on nineteenth century British political and intellectual history, in international perspective. It also deals more broadly with the histories of imperial, international, and legal thought after 1750. There is a fuller description of my interests on my Faculty webpage.
I teach papers across British, European, and world history, as well as intellectual history options. I supervise dissertations on modern Britain, its empire, and aspects of modern political thought.
Major publications are listed on my Faculty webpage. To avoid clutter there, I have listed my book reviews and review essays here. These have appeared in the English Historical Review, History, History of European Ideas, History of Political Thought, Irish Historical Studies, the Journal of British Studies, the Journal of Ecclesiastical History, the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, the Journal of Modern History, the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Parliamentary History, the Pelican Record, Reviews in History, Twentieth Century British History, and Victorian Studies.
– William C. Lubenow, Secular Foundations of the Liberal State in Victorian Britain (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2024) – for History of European Ideas (2025).
– Lauren Benton, They Called it Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024) – for the English Historical Review (2025).
– Eduardo Posada-Carbo, Joanna Innes, and Mark Philp, ed., Re-imagining Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1780-1870 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023) – for the English Historical Review (2024).
– Henry J. Miller, A Nation of Petitioners: Petitions and Petitioning in the United Kingdom, 1780-1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023) – for the English Historical Review (2024).
– Charles Read, The Great Famine in Ireland and Britain’s Financial Crisis (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2022) – for Irish Historical Studies (2023).
– Jessica Patterson, Religion, Enlightenment, and Empire: British Interpretations of Hinduism in the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021) – for the Journal of Ecclesiastical History (2023).
– Alan Lester, Kate Boehme, and Peter Mitchell, Ruling the World: Freedom, Civilisation and Liberalism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020) – for the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (2023).
– Jay R. Roszman, Outrage in the Age of Reform: Irish Agrarian Violence, Imperial Insecurity, and British Governing Policy, 1830–1845 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022) – for the English Historical Review (2023).
– Jonathan Parry, Promised Lands: the British and the Ottoman Middle East (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022) – for the English Historical Review, 138:592 (2023), 675-7.
– Callum Barrell, History and Historiography in Classical Utilitarianism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021) – for History of Political Thought, 44:1 (2023), pp. 197-200.
– Lawrence Goldman, Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022) – for the English Historical Review, 137:589 (2022), 1864-6.
– Zoë Laidlaw, Protecting the Empire’s Humanity: Thomas Hodgkin and British Colonial Activism, 1830-1870 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021) – for the English Historical Review, 137:588 (2022), 1545-7.
– Bruce Kinzer, Molly Baer Kramer, and Richard Trainor, ed., Reform and its Complexities in Modern Britain: Essays Inspired by Sir Brian Harrison (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022) – for the Pelican Record, 58 (2022), 59-61.
– James Stafford, The Case of Ireland: Commerce, Empire and the European Order, 1750–1848 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022) – for Irish Historical Studies, 46:170 (2022), 366-7.
– R.A. Gaunt, ed., ‘The Last of the Tories’: Political Selections from the Diaries of the Fourth Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, 1839-1850 (Parliamentary History Texts and Studies 17, 2021) – for Parliamentary History, 41:3 (2022), 512-4.
– Graciela Iglesias-Rogers, ed., The Hispanic-Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century: an Introduction (Abingdon: Routledge, 2021) – for the English Historical Review, 137:585 (2022), 616-8.
– William Anthony Hay, Lord Liverpool: a Political Life (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2018) – for the Journal of Modern History, 93:3 (2021), 694-6.
– Jeremy Adelman, ed., Empire and the Social Sciences: Global Histories of Knowledge (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) – for History: the Journal of the Historical Association, 106:370 (2021), 347-8.
– Luxe Blaxill, The War of Words: the Language of British Elections, 1880-1914 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press and the Royal Historical Society, 2019) – for Reviews in History, no. 2432 (2020).
– Jeffrey A. Auerbach, Imperial Boredom: Monotony and the British Empire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018) – for the English Historical Review, 135:575 (2020), 1053-5.
– Gregory Conti, Parliament the Mirror of the Nation: Representation, Deliberation, and Democracy in Victorian Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019) – for History of Political Thought, 41:3 (2020), 510-13.
– Josep M. Fradera, The Imperial Nation: Citizens and Subjects in the British, French, Spanish, and American Empires (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018) – for the English Historical Review, 135:573 (2020), 504-6.
– Gareth Atkins, Converting Britannia: Evangelicals and British Public Life, 1770-1840 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2019) – for History: the Journal of the Historical Association, 105:365 (2020), 340-2.
– Amanda Behm, Imperial History and the Global Politics of Exclusion: Britain, 1880-1940 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) – for Twentieth Century British History, 31:1 (2020), 125-7.
– Dane Kennedy, The Imperial History Wars: Debating the British Empire (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018) – for the English Historical Review, 134:568 (2019), 773-5.
– Miles Taylor, Empress: Queen Victoria and India (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018) – for the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 29:3 (2019), 547-9.
– Krishan Kumar, Visions of Empire: How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped the World (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017) – for the English Historical Review, 134:566 (2019), 268-70.
– Jennifer Pitts, Boundaries of the International: Law and Empire (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018) – for the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 47:1 (2019), 195-7.
– Gareth Stedman Jones and Douglas Moggach, ed., The 1848 Revolutions and European Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018) – for Reviews in History, no. 2280 (2018).
– James Heartfield, The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1838-1956: a History (London: Hurst Publishers, 2016) – for the English Historical Review, 133:563 (2018), 984-6.
– Philip Williamson et al., ed., National Prayers: Special Worship since the Reformation. Volume 2, 1689-1870 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2017) – for Parliamentary History, 37:2 (2018), 308-10.
– Jörg Neuheiser, Crown, Church and Constitution: Popular Conservatism in England, 1815-1867 (Oxford: Berghahn, 2016) – for Victorian Studies, 60:2 (2018), 296-8.
– Kathryn Rix, Parties, Agents, and Electoral Culture in England, 1880-1910 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press and the Royal Historical Society, 2016) – for the English Historical Review, 133:560 (2018), 213-5.
– Martin Thomas and Richard Toye, Arguing about Empire: Imperial Rhetoric in Britain and France, 1882-1956 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017) – for Twentieth Century British History, 29:1 (2018), 161-3.
– Emily Jones, Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830-1914: an Intellectual History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017) – for the Journal of British Studies, 57:1 (2018), 200-201.
– Mark Bevir, ed., Historicism and the Human Sciences in Victorian Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017) – for Reviews in History, no. 2187 (2017).
– Lauren Benton and Lisa Ford, Rage for Order: the British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800-1850 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016) – for Reviews in History, no. 2084 (2017).
– Duncan Bell, Reordering the World: Essays on Liberalism and Empire (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016) – for the English Historical Review, 132:556 (2017), 744-5.
– James Kirby, Historians and the Church of England: Religion and Historical Scholarship, 1870-1920 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016) – for Twentieth Century British History, 27:4 (2016), 647-9.
– Bernard Porter, Empire Ways: Aspects of British Imperialism, and Bernard Porter, British Imperial: what the Empire Wasn’t (London: I.B. Tauris, 2016) – for Twentieth Century British History, 27:3 (2016), 482-5.
– Ryan A. Vieira, Time and Politics: Parliament and the Culture of Modernity in Britain and the British World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015) – for Parliamentary History, 35:3 (2016), 378-9.
– Philip Eade, Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters: an Outrageous Englishwoman and her Lost Kingdom (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2007) – for the English Historical Review, 123:503 (2008), 1083.
