Effervescent Adventures with Britannia

Wm. Roger Louis is Kerr Professor of English History and Culture and Distinguished Teaching Professor at The University of Texas at Austin. He is an Honorary Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford. His books include Imperialism at Bay (1976) The British Empire in the Middle East (1984), and Ends of British Imperialism (2006). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford History of the British Empire. In 2001 he was President of the American Historical Association and in 2013 he was awarded the Benson Medal by the Royal Society of Literature.

List of Authors
Introduction
Wm. Roger Louis
1Jack the Ripper
Richard Davenport-Hines
2George Bernard Shaw and Physical Culture
John D. Fair
3Evelyn Waugh in North America
Martin Stannard
4V. S. Naipaul and the British Tradition in Biography
Patrick French
5Where Shall We Adventure? Hayao Miyazaki Meets Robert Louis Stevenson
Susan Napier
6Newer Images of Women and Men in the Interwar Decades
Reba Soffer
7Encyclopaedia Britannica
Joseph Epstein
8Current American and British Newspapers
Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr.
9The Anglo-American Special Relationship in Intelligence
John Prados
10The Quest for Stalin’s Englishman: Guy Burgess
Andrew Lownie
11John Banville’s The Untouchable
Steven Isenberg
12All Souls College
S. J. D. Green
13Guglielmo Marconi and England
Paul Kennedy
14Harold Nicolson and Royal Biography
Jane Ridley
15Keeping an Eye on the Present: Whig History of Science
Steven Weinberg
16Re-illustrating the History of the British Empire
Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes
17Britain Is Your Friend: Propaganda during the Second World War
Rosemary Hill
18Ernest Bevin and Palestine: Bevingrads and Demonologies
Wm. Roger Louis
19Britain’s Egyptian Allies and the Suez Crisis
Barnaby Crowcroft
20Limitless Violence in Palestine
Caroline Elkins
21Rudyard Kipling and Mrs. Ewing
Michael Holroyd
22The British Empire: Ramshackle or Rampaging?
John M. MacKenzie
23The Falklands Conflict: A Worm’s-Eye View
Sarah Beaver
24How to “Fix” a War: Tony Blair and Iraq
Geoffrey Wheatcroft
25Seeking a Role: Britain after Brexit
Kenneth O. Morgan
26British Studies at the University of Texas, 1975–2017