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