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Ray watching: the highly protected, British prison experience of Martin Luther King’s killer (2017)
Journal Article

The arrest of James Earl Ray at London Airport on 8 June 1968 marked the final stage of an international manhunt that had begun with the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. on 4 April. Arrested for travelling on a false passport and with an unlicensed f... Read More about Ray watching: the highly protected, British prison experience of Martin Luther King’s killer.

The political perils of Cold War foreign relations: Adlai Stevenson’s democrats and foreign policy in the 1956 presidential election (2017)
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This article uses the case of the 1956 presidential election between Adlai Stevenson and Dwight Eisenhower to highlight the ways that an obsession with foreign relations could, in fact, prove problematic to a campaign. Focusing primarily on Stevenson... Read More about The political perils of Cold War foreign relations: Adlai Stevenson’s democrats and foreign policy in the 1956 presidential election.

American scientists and their fictions: professional authorship and intellectual identity, 1870-1900 (2017)
Journal Article

Copyright © Cambridge University Press and British Association for American Studies 2017 Writers and critics in the Gilded Age United States frequently debated the relations between literature and science. A common contemporary interpretation of this... Read More about American scientists and their fictions: professional authorship and intellectual identity, 1870-1900.

The Information Research Department, British covert propaganda, and the Sino-Indian War of 1962: combating communism and courting failure? (2017)
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Britain's post-war interventions in former colonial territories remain a controversial area of contemporary history. In the case of India, recent releases of official records in the United Kingdom and South Asia have revealed details of British gover... Read More about The Information Research Department, British covert propaganda, and the Sino-Indian War of 1962: combating communism and courting failure?.

Neoliberal feminism and the future of human capital (2017)
Journal Article

Writing settlement after Idle No More: non-indigenous responses in Anglo-Canadian poetry (2017)
Journal Article

This article examines the representation of settlement in Canada in the wake of Idle No More in recent Anglo-Canadian literature. It argues that Idle No More engendered a new vocabulary for settler-invader citizens to position themselves in relation... Read More about Writing settlement after Idle No More: non-indigenous responses in Anglo-Canadian poetry.

Slum Plays, Salvation Stories, and Crook Pictures: The Gangster Regeneration Cycle and the Prehistory of the Gangster Genre (2017)
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Recent scholarship exhorts film historians to attend to production cycles in order to interrogate established conceptions of genres. This essay identifies and examines a neglected cycle of gangster regeneration films that flourished between 1910 and... Read More about Slum Plays, Salvation Stories, and Crook Pictures: The Gangster Regeneration Cycle and the Prehistory of the Gangster Genre.

“As Usual, I'll Have to Take an IOU”: W. E. B. Du Bois, the Gift of Black Music and the Cultural Politics of Obligation (2017)
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In The Souls of Black Folk (1903) W. E. B. Du Bois described African American music as a “gift” to America, contesting the tendency to regard white interest in black culture as appropriation or theft. Yet this metaphor invoked the complex circuits of... Read More about “As Usual, I'll Have to Take an IOU”: W. E. B. Du Bois, the Gift of Black Music and the Cultural Politics of Obligation.

Bush the transnationalist: a reappraisal of the unilateralist impulse in US foreign policy, 2001–2009 (2017)
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This article challenges the common characterisation of George W. Bush’s foreign policy as “unilateral.” It argues that the Bush administration developed a new post-9/11 understanding of terrorism as a transnational, networked phenomenon shaped by the... Read More about Bush the transnationalist: a reappraisal of the unilateralist impulse in US foreign policy, 2001–2009.

Pragmatism, religion, and John Foster Dulles’s embrace of Christian internationalism in the 1930s (2017)
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This article focuses on John Foster Dulles's engagement with religion and the role it played in his worldview. In doing so, it argues that his embrace of Christian internationalism should be seen as a part of an intellectual progression shaped by Pra... Read More about Pragmatism, religion, and John Foster Dulles’s embrace of Christian internationalism in the 1930s.