In this remarkable reconstruction of an eighteenth-century woman's extraordinary and turbulent life, historian Linda Colley not only tells the story of Elizabeth Marsh, one of the most distinctive travelers of her time, but also opens a window onto a radically transforming world.Marsh was conceived in Jamaica, lived in London, Gibraltar, and Menorca, visited the Cape of Africa and Rio de Janeiro, explored eastern and southern India, and was held captive at the court of the sultan of Morocco. She was involved in land speculation in Florida and in international smuggling, and was caught up in three different slave systems. She was also a part of far larger histories. Marsh's lifetime saw new connections being forged across nations, continents, and oceans by war, empire, trade, navies, slavery, and print, and these developments shaped and distorted her own progress and the lives of those close to her. Colley brilliantly weaves together the personal and the epic in this compelling story of a woman in world history.

The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History

linda-colley

Biographies & Memoirs

HarperPress

Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837

Yale University Press

How was Great Britain made? And what does it mean to be British? This brilliant and seminal book examines how a more cohesive British nation was invented after 1707 and how this new national identity was nurtured through war, religion, trade, and empire. Lavishly illustrated and powerful, Britons remains a major contribution to our understanding of Britain’s past, and continues to influence ongoing controversies about this polity’s survival and future. This edition contains an extensive new preface by the author.
“A sweeping survey, . . . evocatively illustrated and engagingly written.”―Harriet Ritvo, New York Times Book Review 
“Challenging, fascinating, enormously well informed.”―John Barrell, London Review of Books 
“Linda Colley writes with clarity and grace...Her stimulating book will be, and deserves to be influential”―E. P. Thompson, Dissent
Linda Colley is Shelby M. C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University.
 Winner of the Wolfson History Prize 
 A New York Times NotableBook

Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837

History

Europe

Pimlico

Another Making of the English Working Class: The Lash and the Imperial Soldiery

Socialist History Society

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