The Spectacular Failure of an Early English Vision of Global Empire
My blog for MEMOs on the career of the Anglo-Dutch merchant, Sir William Courteen, arguably the founder of the British Empire (notwithstanding the collapse of his endeavours): https://memorients.com/articles/the-spectacular-failure-in-the-early-modern-orient-from-which-english-success-in-asia-was-snatched
The Global Ambitions of the Guinea Company and the Early Modern Orient
My blog on the rise and crash of the imperial aspirations of a group of London merchants for Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs): https://memorients.com/articles/the-global-ambitions-of-the-guinea-company-and-the-early-modern-orient
How to Run an Empire Early Modern Style (blog for the History Association, UK)
My blog for the History Association on the character of Anglo-America prior to the independence of the United States: https://historyjournal.org.uk/2020/07/20/how-to-run-an-empire-early-modern-style/
Conversation with ‘The Junto’ about ‘Advancing Empire’
Q&A with L.H. Roper
Conversation with John Fea about ‘The Torrid Zone’
The Author’s Corner With L.H. Roper
Academic Minute
My ‘appearance’ on WAMC’s Academic Minute in June 2018 provides a quick introduction to my recent scholarship: https://academicminute.org/2018/06/lou-roper-suny-new-paltz-slavery-and-the-british-empire/
The Fall of New Netherland and Seventeenth-Century Anglo-American Imperial Formation, 1654-1676
This article, which appeared in The New England Quarterly 87, no. 4 (December 2014): 666-708, considers the seizure of the Dutch colony of New Netherland and the establishment of New York by the English within a global context. It received…
The Torrid Zone: Caribbean Colonization and Cultural Interaction in the Long Seventeenth Century
This collection of essays, with contributions from an array of international scholars, came out in May 2018. It provides the first comparative treatment of Native, Danish, Dutch, English, and French activities in the seventeenth-century Caribbean. This link provides further information…
Advancing Empire: English Interests and Overseas Expansion, 1613-1688 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017)
I have some doubts about this whole self-promotion thing, but I would like to talk a little about my new book from Cambridge, Advancing Empire: English Interests and Overseas Expansion, 1613-1688, for those who might be interested in the issues that…
Welcome Page
Thank you for visiting my site. Here you will find my office hours for the term, links to the ever-popular ‘Quick and Dirty Guide to Effective Prose’, and details on my scholarship. You will also find information on The Journal…