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imperialism

The Author’s Corner with William Riddell

Rachel Petroziello   |  August 23, 2023

William Riddell is  Assistant Professor of History at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. This interview is based on his new book, On the Waves of Empire: U.S. Imperialism and Merchant Sailors, 1872-1924 (University of Illinois Press, 2023). JF: What led...

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The Author’s Corner with Warren C. Riess

Rachel Petroziello   |  June 15, 2023

Warren C. Riess is Associate Research Professor Emeritus at the University of Maine. This interview is based on his new book, Studying the Princess Carolina: Anatomy of the Ship That Held Up Wall Street (Texas A&M University Press, 2023). JF:...

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The Author’s Corner with Tamson Pietsch

Rachel Petroziello   |  June 9, 2023

Tamson Pietsch is Associate Professor in Social and Political Sciences and Director of the Australian Centre for Public History at the University of Technology Sydney. This interview is based on her new book, The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the...

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The Author’s Corner with Kevin Kenny

Rachel Petroziello   |  April 26, 2023

Kevin Kenny is Professor of History and Glucksman Professor in Irish Studies at New York University. This interview is based on his new book, The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States (Oxford...

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The Author’s Corner with Amy Kohout

Rachel Petroziello   |  February 1, 2023

Amy Kohout is Associate Professor of History at Colorado College. This interview is based on her new book, Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers (University of Nebraska Press, 2023). JF: What led you to write Taking the...

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The Author’s Corner with Christen T. Sasaki

Rachel Petroziello   |  November 22, 2022

Christen T. Sasaki is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. This interview is based on her new book, Pacific Confluence: Fighting over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai’i (University of California Press, 2022). JF: What...

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The Author’s Corner with Jane Hooper

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 6, 2022

Jane Hooper is Associate Professor of History and Director of Undergraduate History Programs at George Mason University. This interview is based on her new book, Yankees in the Indian Ocean: American Commerce and Whaling, 1786–1860 (Ohio University Press, 2022). JF:...

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The Author’s Corner with Michael Verney

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 1, 2022

Michael Verney is Assistant Professor of History at Drury University. This interview is based on his new book, A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic (University of Chicago Press, 2022). JF: What...

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The Author’s Corner with Daniel Burge

Rachel Petroziello   |  May 13, 2022

Daniel Burge is Associate Editor of the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society and Coordinator of the KHS Research Fellowship Program at the Kentucky Historical Society. This interview is based on his new book, A Failed Vision of Empire: The Collapse...

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The Author’s Corner with Edward Pompeian

Rachel Petroziello   |  April 27, 2022

Edward Pompeian is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tampa. This interview is based on his new book, Sustaining Empire: Venezuela’s Trade with the United States during the Age of Revolutions, 1797–1828 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022). JF:...

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The Author’s Corner with Cameron Strang

John Fea   |  August 13, 2018

Cameron B. Strang is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Nevada-Reno.  This interview is based on his recently released book Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850 (Omohundro Institute/University of North Carolina Press,...

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Alfred Crosby, RIP

John Fea   |  April 5, 2018

I just learned about this today.  Crosby’s Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 was one of the first books I read in graduate school.  Later I read The Columbian Exchange.  Crosby‘s work continues to inform many of my lectures,...

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Some Historical Context for the U.S. Response to Puerto Rico

John Fea   |  October 7, 2017

As historian Marc-William Palen reminds us, Puerto Rico has always been in a “precarious position within the U.S. body politic.”  The history of the relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico is indispensable to understanding the U.S. response to...

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The Author’s Corner with Emily Conroy-Krutz

John Fea   |  September 14, 2015

Emily Conroy-Krutz is Assistant Professor, Department of History, Michigan State University.  This interview is based on her new book Christian Imperialism: Converting the World in the Early American Republic (Cornell University Press, 2015). JF: What led you to write Christian Imperialism? ECK: It...

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The Author’s Corner with Matthew McCullough

John Fea   |  August 21, 2014

Matthew McCullough is Pastor at Trinity Church in Nashville, Tennessee. This interview is based on his book The Cross of War: Christian Nationalism and U.S. Expansion in the Spanish-American War (Studies in American Thought and Culture) (University of Wisconsin Press,...

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