Angus Mitchell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3784745 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angus Mitchell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angus |
| FAMILY NAME | Mitchell |
| SIGNATURE | MITCHELL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Limerick |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4326-6629 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Great Power Diplomacy
Age of Emergency
Reviewed by: Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of Empire by Erik Linstrum Angus Mitchell Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of Empire. By Erik Linstrum. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Age of Emergency adds to a growing library of works dissecting the interlocking systems of Britain's "inner life of decolonization" and the self-serving myths structured by secrecy, deception, censorship, propaganda and history…
Author! Author
Hair-raising Adventures Loosely Organised
The HALO Trust was founded in 1988 to alleviate suffering among civilians living in hazardous areas. Today, it is the largest humanitarian de-mining charity in the world. Its earliest operations were in Afghanistan. Following the Soviet withdrawal, HALO moved into Kabul where it established a clinic for casualties of war, developed mine risk education and gradually rolled out an innovative mine clearance programme. These interventions helped to t…
Legacy of Violence
Reviewed by: Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins Angus Mitchell Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire. By Caroline Elkins. London: The Bodley Head, 2022. The display of the Imperial State Crown adorning the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II was a potent reminder that Britain still inhabits a past and present linked by symbols of empire. During the days between her death and state funeral, global news re…
Scholar-diplomats, protodiplomacy and the communication of history
The friendship between Alice Stopford Green (1847–1929) and Jean Jules Jusserand (1855–1932) can be traced across four decades, from the literary salons of Victorian London to the reconfiguring world of the 1920s. Grounded in their shared belief in the social and political purpose of History, their intellectual bond was embedded in similar progressive political and literary communities and networks bridging England, Ireland, France and America. N…
Time's Monster
Reviewed by: Time's Monster: History, conscience and the British Empire by Priya Satia Angus Mitchell Time's Monster: History, conscience and the British Empire By Priya Satia. London: Allen Lane, 2020. The essential thesis of this illuminating and timely study unpacks the complicity between historians and empire. Priya Satia considers how history as a formation of knowledge is instrumentalised to both shape and defend the reputation and conscien…
Historical revisit
The publication in 1908 of The making of Ireland and its undoing, 1200–1600 by the London-based Irish historian, Alice Stopford Green, provoked a controversy that reveals much about the deepening political tensions at the heart of historical practice in the decade before 1916. Stopford Green took a deliberately controversial approach to the rewriting of medieval Ireland that triggered a bombardment of both positive and negative reactions. Support…
The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire
The Empire of Habsburg Austria faced more enemies than any other European great power. Flanked on four sides by rivals, it possessed few of the advantages that explain successful empires. Yet somehow Austria endured, outlasting Ottoman sieges, Frederick the Great, and Napoleon. This book tells the story of how this cash-strapped, polyglot empire survived for centuries in Europe’s most dangerous neighborhood without succumbing to the pressures of …
Alice Stopford Green and Vernon Lee
Archival evidence of the connection between Alice Stopford Green (1847–1929) and Vernon Lee (1856–1935) is restricted to a handful of letters and a few scattered references in ancillary documents. Extant correspondence provides a glimpse into the conversation and concerns of these two important European intellectuals, demonstrating their nascent interest in questions of social justice. Using network theory as a lens, this essay traces the contour…
African Testimony in the Movement for Congo Reform
Reviewed by: African Testimony in the Movement for Congo Reform: The burden of proof by Robert Burroughs Angus Mitchell African Testimony in the Movement for Congo Reform: The burden of proof By Robert Burroughs. Oxford: Routledge, 2019. Who has the right to speak? It is a question posed in different ways by some of the great postcolonial theorists, notably Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in Can the Subaltern Speak?, Edward Said in Permission to Narra…
The Unquiet Frontier
From the Baltic to the South China Sea, newly assertive authoritarian states sense an opportunity to resurrect old empires or build new ones at America's expense. Hoping that U.S. decline is real, nations such as Russia, Iran, and China are testing Washington's resolve by targeting vulnerable allies at the frontiers of American power. This book explains why the United States needs a new grand strategy that uses strong frontier alliance networks t…
The Unquiet Frontier
The Unquiet Frontier
From the Baltic to the South China Sea, newly assertive authoritarian states sense an opportunity to resurrect old empires or build new ones at America's expense. Hoping that U.S. decline is real, nations such as Russia, Iran, and China are testing Washington's resolve by targeting vulnerable allies at the frontiers of American power. The Unquiet Frontier explains why the United States needs a new grand strategy that uses strong frontier alliance…
Shadows of War
Naming Colonialism, History and Collective Memory in the Congo, 1870-1960 (review)
Reviewed by: Naming Colonialism, History and Collective Memory in the Congo, 1870-1960 Angus Mitchell, Independent Scholar Naming Colonialism, History and Collective Memory in the Congo, 1870-1960. By Osumaka Likaka. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009.) An on-going challenge of writing the history of the colonial Congo is to find sources and methodologies able to articulate a counter-narrative to the official archives produced by the a…
Geographies of Empire
"Geographies of Empire: European Empires and Colonies c. 1880-1960, by Robin A. Butlin." Canadian Journal of History, 45(2), pp. 442–443
Empire by Devolution
An Irish Putumayo’
An Irish Putumayo’
Hair-raising Adventures Loosely Organised
The HALO Trust was founded in 1988 to alleviate suffering among civilians living in hazardous areas. Today, it is the largest humanitarian de-mining charity in the world. Its earliest operations were in Afghanistan. Following the Soviet withdrawal, HALO moved into Kabul where it established a clinic for casualties of war, developed mine risk education and gradually rolled out an innovative mine clearance programme. These interventions helped to t…
An Irish Putumayo’
Empire by Devolution
Naming Colonialism, History and Collective Memory in the Congo, 1870-1960 (review)
Reviewed by: Naming Colonialism, History and Collective Memory in the Congo, 1870-1960 Angus Mitchell, Independent Scholar Naming Colonialism, History and Collective Memory in the Congo, 1870-1960. By Osumaka Likaka. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009.) An on-going challenge of writing the history of the colonial Congo is to find sources and methodologies able to articulate a counter-narrative to the official archives produced by the a…
Geographies of Empire
"Geographies of Empire: European Empires and Colonies c. 1880-1960, by Robin A. Butlin." Canadian Journal of History, 45(2), pp. 442–443
Shadows of War
The Unquiet Frontier
From the Baltic to the South China Sea, newly assertive authoritarian states sense an opportunity to resurrect old empires or build new ones at America's expense. Hoping that U.S. decline is real, nations such as Russia, Iran, and China are testing Washington's resolve by targeting vulnerable allies at the frontiers of American power. The Unquiet Frontier explains why the United States needs a new grand strategy that uses strong frontier alliance…
The Unquiet Frontier
From the Baltic to the South China Sea, newly assertive authoritarian states sense an opportunity to resurrect old empires or build new ones at America's expense. Hoping that U.S. decline is real, nations such as Russia, Iran, and China are testing Washington's resolve by targeting vulnerable allies at the frontiers of American power. This book explains why the United States needs a new grand strategy that uses strong frontier alliance networks t…
The Unquiet Frontier
The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire
The Empire of Habsburg Austria faced more enemies than any other European great power. Flanked on four sides by rivals, it possessed few of the advantages that explain successful empires. Yet somehow Austria endured, outlasting Ottoman sieges, Frederick the Great, and Napoleon. This book tells the story of how this cash-strapped, polyglot empire survived for centuries in Europe’s most dangerous neighborhood without succumbing to the pressures of …
Alice Stopford Green and Vernon Lee
Archival evidence of the connection between Alice Stopford Green (1847–1929) and Vernon Lee (1856–1935) is restricted to a handful of letters and a few scattered references in ancillary documents. Extant correspondence provides a glimpse into the conversation and concerns of these two important European intellectuals, demonstrating their nascent interest in questions of social justice. Using network theory as a lens, this essay traces the contour…
African Testimony in the Movement for Congo Reform
Reviewed by: African Testimony in the Movement for Congo Reform: The burden of proof by Robert Burroughs Angus Mitchell African Testimony in the Movement for Congo Reform: The burden of proof By Robert Burroughs. Oxford: Routledge, 2019. Who has the right to speak? It is a question posed in different ways by some of the great postcolonial theorists, notably Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in Can the Subaltern Speak?, Edward Said in Permission to Narra…
Historical revisit
The publication in 1908 of The making of Ireland and its undoing, 1200–1600 by the London-based Irish historian, Alice Stopford Green, provoked a controversy that reveals much about the deepening political tensions at the heart of historical practice in the decade before 1916. Stopford Green took a deliberately controversial approach to the rewriting of medieval Ireland that triggered a bombardment of both positive and negative reactions. Support…
Time's Monster
Reviewed by: Time's Monster: History, conscience and the British Empire by Priya Satia Angus Mitchell Time's Monster: History, conscience and the British Empire By Priya Satia. London: Allen Lane, 2020. The essential thesis of this illuminating and timely study unpacks the complicity between historians and empire. Priya Satia considers how history as a formation of knowledge is instrumentalised to both shape and defend the reputation and conscien…
Scholar-diplomats, protodiplomacy and the communication of history
The friendship between Alice Stopford Green (1847–1929) and Jean Jules Jusserand (1855–1932) can be traced across four decades, from the literary salons of Victorian London to the reconfiguring world of the 1920s. Grounded in their shared belief in the social and political purpose of History, their intellectual bond was embedded in similar progressive political and literary communities and networks bridging England, Ireland, France and America. N…
Hair-raising Adventures Loosely Organised
The HALO Trust was founded in 1988 to alleviate suffering among civilians living in hazardous areas. Today, it is the largest humanitarian de-mining charity in the world. Its earliest operations were in Afghanistan. Following the Soviet withdrawal, HALO moved into Kabul where it established a clinic for casualties of war, developed mine risk education and gradually rolled out an innovative mine clearance programme. These interventions helped to t…
Legacy of Violence
Reviewed by: Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins Angus Mitchell Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire. By Caroline Elkins. London: The Bodley Head, 2022. The display of the Imperial State Crown adorning the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II was a potent reminder that Britain still inhabits a past and present linked by symbols of empire. During the days between her death and state funeral, global news re…
Age of Emergency
Reviewed by: Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of Empire by Erik Linstrum Angus Mitchell Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of Empire. By Erik Linstrum. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Age of Emergency adds to a growing library of works dissecting the interlocking systems of Britain's "inner life of decolonization" and the self-serving myths structured by secrecy, deception, censorship, propaganda and history…
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