Duncan Bell (Cambridge): Beyond the Sovereign State: Isopolitan Citizenship, Race and Anglo-American Union. Marc-William Palen (Exeter): Adam Smith as Advocate of Empire, c. 1870-1932. Irene Bloemraad (UC-Berkeley) and Matthew Wright (American): Second Generation Immigrants Attitudes and Behavior under Multiculturalist Policies. John L. Simpson (CUT): The Economics of Constitutional Monarchy: The Antipodean Anachronism? From the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Alecia Simmonds (UTS): Friendship, Imperial Violence and the Law of Nations: The Case of Late-Eighteenth Century British Oceania. Cris Shore (Auckland) and Margaret Kawharu (Massey): The Crown in New Zealand: Anthropological Perspectives on an Imagined Sovereign. Bernard Porter reviews The Great Race: The Race Between the English and the French to Complete the Map of Australia by David Hill. Graham Maddox (UNE): America and Australia: Americanization and Political Culture. Ben Wilson reviews Ten Cities that Made an Empire by Tristram Hunt. Adam Dahl (Minnesota): Empire of the People: The Ideology of Democratic Empire in the Antebellum United States. America is best understood not as the first post-colonial republic, but as an expansionist nation built on slavery and native expropriation: Nikhil Pal Singh interviews Aziz Rana, author of The Two Faces of American Freedom. Aziz Rana (Cornell): Colonialism and Constitutional Memory. Nina Caplan on how gin made British colonialism possible. In foreign fields: How Britain’s former dominions remember the war that propelled them to independence. Alexander Davis on decolonising the Anglosphere. Robyn Carroll (UWA): When “Sorry” is the Hardest Word to Say, How Might Apology Legislation Assist? Meet earth's worst climate villains: Australia’s Tony Abbott and Canada’s Stephen Harper, world leaders laughing while the planet burns up (and more).
