Shammas (history, U. of Southern California) argues that the role of the heads of households in the supervision and disciplining of the population is generally under appreciated in general political h
Today the bulk of tangible wealth around the globe resides in buildings and physical infrastructure rather than moveable goods. This situation was not always the case. "Investing in the Early Modern B
US and British historians, nearly all of whom received a doctorate degree from Johns Hopkins University, consider what difference crossing the Atlantic made in the status and identities of groups and
The Creation of the British Atlantic World provides insight into the competing forces that forged the Atlantic world as well as the reciprocal relationships between the growing British Empire and the
