Eighteenth-century writers built an entire literary genre mocking distant planners who assumed they could improve upon organically evolved local systems. Free soccer is exactly the …
Stephanie Curry reflects on 1700s British literature, colonialism, and understanding cultural nationalism Reading Colonial Power I study 1700s British literature. That period is foundational to …
Stephanie Curry on British colonial literature, empire, and the Farage resignation I have been working through a collection of 1700s British colonial literature this week, …
Stephanie Curry on exhaustion and resistance This week’s been like every other week, which is how I know things have genuinely broken. Nothing changes and …
Stephanie Curry on what repeat cycles reveal This week’s been like every other week, which is how I know things have genuinely broken. Nothing changes …
Stephanie Curry on honesty and institutional collapse This week’s been like every other week, which is how I know things have genuinely broken. Nothing changes …
Stephanie Curry on Colonial literature, American politics, collapse, Farage, and absurdity This week’s been like every other week, which is how I know things have …
Stephanie Curry on archive digs, eighteenth century arguments, and this week’s headlines After nearly two years of intermittent searching, I finally tracked down a complete …
A historian’s thoughts on the persistence of empire There’s a through-line from the British Empire to the American empire. The same assumptions. The same structures. …
A scholar’s thoughts on whether understanding matters I spend my time reading historical texts and writing academic papers. Thousands of hours studying the structures of …
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