Linda Colley

Linda Colley is the Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton. Her most recent book is Captives: Britain, Empire, and the World, 1600-1850 (Pantheon).

Foreign PolicyJuly 13, 2006

Empire as a Way of Life

Two new histories of British imperial rule in India take the narrow view. In fact, the scandal of empire can be isolated neither to Europe nor to the past.

Linda Colley
HistoryMay 26, 2005

An Acquired Taste

The story of the American products, producers and salesman that took over Europe in the last century.

Linda Colley
HistorySeptember 2, 2004

The Poverty of Theory

Gertrude Himmelfarb is a remarkable woman. Remarkable, first, because in some respects she is a pioneer.

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Linda Colley

Foreign PolicyJuly 13, 2006

Two new histories of British imperial rule in India take the narrow view. In fact, the scandal of empire can be isolated neither to Europe nor to the past.

HistoryMay 26, 2005

The story of the American products, producers and salesman that took over Europe in the last century.

HistorySeptember 2, 2004

Gertrude Himmelfarb is a remarkable woman. Remarkable, first, because in some respects she is a pioneer.