Island Refuge

A two-thousand-year history of the exiles and refugees who have shaped modern Britain

About the author

Matthew Lockwood is the author of The Conquest of Death: Violence and the Birth of the Modern English State (Yale, 2017) and To Begin the World Over Again: How the American Revolution Devastated the Globe (Yale, 2019).
He received his PhD from Yale University in 2014, where his dissertation won the Hans Gatzke Prize for outstanding dissertation in European history. He held posts at the Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions and at the University of Warwick before moving to the University of Alabama where he is currently Assistant Professor of History.

Summary

A two-thousand-year history of the exiles and refugees who have shaped modern Britain

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Lockwood, Lockwood Matthew
• Publisher: William Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 20.06.2024, delayed
• EAN: 9780008442576
• ISBN: 978-0-00-844257-6
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; World, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Belgium, Germany, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Historical Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, North Africa, Slavery & abolition of slavery, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Historical Geography, National liberation and independence, Slavery and abolition of slavery, Violence, intolerance and persecution in history