Fields
Britain and the British Empire, 18th and 19th c.
Cultural History
Cultural history of warfare and violence
Memory and Commemoration
Histories of Visual Culture, Collecting, and Archaeology
Education & Training
- DPhil, Oxford University, 2001
Representative Publications
Scars of Independence: America's Violent Birth (New York: Crown/Penguin Random House, 2017).
Empires of the Imagination: Politics, War, and the Arts in the British World, 1750-1850 (London: Profile Books, 2010)