The title of the volume captures the stark absence of the acknowledgement of Whiteness at the core of Anglophone Modernism and in Modernist Studies. What happens when a nation suddenly has “too many women”? After World War I, Britain’s 1921 census indicated there were two million more women than men in the population. Newspapers quickly … Continue reading
The Healing Power of Storytelling: Exploring Black Women’s Literature in Womb Work
Black women writers and scholars have been engaged in the process of repairing and restoring history especially as it documents the experiences of Black women in America. This Black History Month, we spotlight Womb Work, a novel that powerfully asserts the importance of Black women’s stories in shaping a fuller, more critical understanding of American … Continue reading
Slavery and arms: Britain and America’s Civil War – In Conversation with Jim Powell & Meredith Wheeler
Before its civil war, America supplied 80 per cent of the raw material for Britain’s largest industry, the cotton trade. During the war, this fell to almost zero. Jim Powell’s new book Losing the Thread: Cotton, Liverpool and the American Civil War examines what happened to this trade and to the Liverpool cotton market, its beneficiaries and … Continue reading
How British cotton affected America’s Civil War – In Conversation with Jim Powell & Meredith Wheeler
Before its civil war, America supplied 80 per cent of the raw material for Britain’s largest industry, the cotton trade. During the war, this fell to almost zero. Jim Powell’s new book Losing the Thread: Cotton, Liverpool and the American Civil War examines what happened to this trade and to the Liverpool cotton market, its beneficiaries and … Continue reading
Liverpool and the American Civil War – In Conversation with Jim Powell & Meredith Wheeler
Before its civil war, America supplied 80 per cent of the raw material for Britain’s largest industry, the cotton trade. During the war, this fell to almost zero. Jim Powell’s new book Losing the Thread: Cotton, Liverpool and the American Civil War examines what happened to this trade and to the Liverpool cotton market, its beneficiaries and … Continue reading
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