Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
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'Global Austria' and the League of Nations: Reframing Empire and Internationalism
Published 2022In 1945, when Karl Polanyi was in London typing up his lecture notes on Nationalism and Internationalism, the Geneva-based League of Nations, perhaps the most extraordinary institution that had yet appeared in human history, ...Open AccessBook chapter -
The International History of (International) Sovereignty
Published 2019Historians have all but dispensed with a conventional chronology that marks the Treaty of Westphalia (1648) as the origin of a modern state-centric territorial sovereignty. Instead, they are accumulating evidence that, ...Open AccessBook chapter -
“Give with One Hand and Take with the Other:” British Diplomatic Gifts to Russia, 1795–1797
Published 2022After the “Ochakov crisis” of 1791, Russia and Britain were on the verge of war. In 1788 Russia had seized the Ochakov fortress from the Ottoman Empire, and the British Prime Minister, William Pitt (1759–1806), had attempted ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Giving women history: a history of Ekaterina Dashkova through her gifts to Catherine the Great and others
Published 2021This article argues for a revisionist history of women through the lens of anthropological gift theory by analysing how Princess Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova used gifts to sustain her relationships, including a tumultuous ...Open AccessArticle -
The Year of the Unthinkable
Published 2021COVID-19 brought the ‘unthinkable’ to our doorstep. The pandemic caused a series of global, and interconnected, health, economic, social, institutional and political crises that are unprecedented in living memory. Political ...Book chapter