Eric G. E. Zuelow of UNE Named to ‘Britain and the World’ book series Editorial Board

Eric G. E. Zuelow, Ph.D., chair of the Department of History and Philosophy, was recently named to the editorial board of the Britain and the World book series. The series is published by the prestigious Palgrave Macmillan press.

Zuelow’s primary responsibility will be to lead work on titles covering the period from the 18th century forward, with a particular emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries when Britain was the world’s leading imperial power.

“Britain’s empire was massive and, although a tiny island, Great Britain exerted an astonishing influence on the world around it,” Zuelow commented. “This series looks at a broad range of things that are both related to the empire directly and which grew from its size and scope. It covers what happened back in Britain, as well as around the globe. No other series has such a broad remit, or attempts to consider just how important British history is to world history—right down to the present day.”

According to the series website:

"Britain's influence on the world was profound and far-reaching, touching every continent and subject, from Africa to South America and archaeology to zoology. From the sixteenth century onward, the histories of Britain and the world became increasingly intertwined. Yet mainstream British history still neglects the world's influence upon domestic developments and British overseas history remains largely confined to the study of the British Empire. This series takes a broader approach to British history, seeking to investigate the full extent of the world's influence on Britain and Britain's influence on the world."

The series has been a fixture of the Palgrave Macmillan list since 2011, and it now includes more than 20 titles, many of which, according to Zuelow, are among the most important books in the field.

Beyond his work on this editorial board, Zuelow is author of A History of Modern Tourism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and Making Ireland Irish: Tourism and National Identity Since the Irish Civil War (Syracuse Univ. Press, 2009). He is editor of Touring Beyond the Nation: A Transnational Approach to European Tourism History (Ashgate, 2011), and co-editor of Tourism Histories in Ulster and Scotland: Connections and Comparisons, 1800-1939 (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2013), and Nationalism in a Global Era: The Persistence of Nations (Routledge, 2007). Zuelow is editor-in-chief of Journal of Tourism History, which is published three times per year by Routledge.