"In 1976, Ronald Reagan hit the campaign trail with an extraordinary account of a woman committing massive welfare fraud. The story caught fire and a devastating symbol of the misuse government programs was born: the Welfare Queen. Overthrowing the Queen examines these legends of fraud and abuse...

Introduction: Promises and predicaments of the long eighteenth-century transatlantic world / Seohyon Jung -- Pirates, slaves, and profligate rogues : sailors of color in the eighteenth-century maritime world / Victoria Barnett-Woods -- "Commencing merchant" : forms of feeling and logics of...

"Davies's book examines the financial panics of 1873, considering both the financial speculations born of exuberance that led to these panics and the interpretative speculations born of the crises, and exploring what this in turn reveals about contemporary notions of the world economy and...