Black's History Week

In this concluding episode of his four part history of the Caribbean, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about how the nations of the Caribbean have adapted to modern times.

In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of A Brief History of the Caribbean talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the Caribbean in the nineteenth century as it adapts to an economy no longer dependent upon slavery and responds to the growing regional influence of the United States of America.

In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of A Brief History of the Caribbean, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the reality of the slave economy created by the Caribbean's European colonisers as well as the processes that drove its expansion and ultimately its dismantlement.

In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of A Brief History of the Caribbean, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about Caribbean society before Columbus and whether the European colonisers were primarily driven by religious, economic or strategic interests.

In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of A Short History of War, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about how wars are brought to a conclusion.

In this episode of Black’s History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Geopolitics and the Quest for Dominance talks to The Critic’s deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about where Russia’s invasion of Ukraine leaves American and European strategic priorities.  

In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Geopolitics and the Quest for Dominance, sets out the lessons Russia's invasion of Ukraine has for the study of geopolitics.

In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Forts and also Fortifications and Siegecraft, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the fortified palaces and manor houses of the sixteenth century.

What prompted the Tsars to create a Russian Empire that colonised Ukraine, eastern Poland, the Baltic States and other lands in Eastern Europe? Was Moscow seeking greater security or fulfilling a sense of religious mission, or was Russia's western expansion simply naked nationalism and greed? 

In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black discusses with The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart,  the lessons that this history holds today as Putin's forces threaten Ukraine.  

In this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about The Great Game and whether Tsarist Russia's expansion through Central Asia posed the challenge to India that British soldiers and diplomats feared.