H-Empire seeks to bring together scholars and others interested in sharing resources, research and questions concerning the origin, development, working and decline of empires, rather broadly defined across academic disciplines and professional interests, chronological time periods, and geographical regions.
YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies invites contributions for its fifth and sixth volumes to be published in December 2023 and December 2024. YILLIK is a peer-reviewed, open access, international academic journal featuring cutting-edge research on Istanbul’s past and present, published by the Istanbul Research Institute in print and online (via
The Midwest Conference for British Studies is proud to announce that its 70th Annual Meeting will be held at Bowling Green State University on October 13-14, 2023.
The Society for the History of Discoveries announces its 2023 Student Prizes for best graduate and undergraduate student research papers in the history of geographic discoveries.
Seminar: History(ies) of the Present. The formation of the contemporary world
Judith Surkis.
Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. xv + 335 pp.
$95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-3949-1; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5017-3950-7. 
Shana Elizabeth Minkin. Imperial Bodies: Empire and Death in Alexandria, Egypt. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. xiii + 199 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-0892-4.
Reviewed by Christopher S. Rose (University of Texas at Austin) Published on H-Empire (June, 2020) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed (Elizabeth City State University)
Tom Shachtman.
The Founding Fortunes: How the Wealthy Paid for and Profited from America's Revolution.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2020. 352 pp.
$29.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-250-16476-6.
Reviewed by G. Patrick O'Brien (Ave Maria University) Published on H-Empire (June, 2020) Commissioned by Gemma Masson (University of Birmingham)
Robert McGreevey, Christopher T. Fisher, Alan Dawley.
Global America: The United States in the Twentieth Century.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xxxii + 446 pp.
$44.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-027990-5.
Reviewed by Jingbin Wang (Elizabeth City State University) Published on H-Empire (May, 2020) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed (Elizabeth City State University)
