# overview
Dr. Bickham  is interested primarily in the cultural and economic history of Britain and its empire before 1815 including colonial North America and the early United States. He has taught numerous courses on the history of Britain and the United States.

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16 Peace, Justice And Strong Institutions

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University of Oxford - (Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom)

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Association of Former Students University-Level Distinguished Achievement Award, The

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"A conviction of the reality of things: Material culture, North American Indians and empire in eighteenth-century Britain

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How the Christmas pudding, with ingredients taken from the colonies, became an iconic British food

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Preparing for an Imperial Inheritance: Children, Play, and Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain

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Imprinting Britain: Newspapers, Sociability, and the Shaping of British North America

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Why Communications Mattered in the War of 1812

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Travellers through Empire: Indigenous Voyages from Early Canada.

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Occupied America: British Military Rule and the Experience of Revolution.

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The Papers of George Washington: Revolutionary War Series, vol 25, 10 March-12 May 1780

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The Weight of Vengeance The United States, the British Empire, and the War of 1812

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The Papers of George Washington: Revolutionary War Series. Volume 25: 10 March12 May 1780 ed. by William M. Ferraro, and: The Papers of George Washington: Revolutionary War Series. Volume 26: 13 May4 July 1780 ed. by Benjamin L. Huggins and Adrina Garbooshian-Huggins (review)

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Indian Captive, Indian King: Peter Williamson in America and Britain

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The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire

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The American Revolution through British Eyes: A Documentary Collection

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Savages Within the Empire Representations of American Indians in Eighteenth-Century Britain

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The creation of the British Atlantic World.

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'I shall tear off their scalps, and make cups of their skulls': American Indians in the eighteenth-century British press

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Old World, New World: America and Europe in the Age of Jefferson

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Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to the Present.

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Eating the Empire FOOD AND SOCIETY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN

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A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World.

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Possible pasts: Becoming colonial in early America.

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Eating the empire: Intersections of food, cookery and imperialism in eighteenth-century Britain

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"The Greatest Encouragement to Seamen": Pay, Families, and the State in Britain during the French Wars, 1793-1815

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Faces of Perfect Ebony: Encountering Atlantic Slavery in Imperial Britain

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Diet for a Large Planet: Industrial Britain, Food Systems, and World Ecology

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Cathy Matson, ed.. The Economy of Early America: Historical Perspectives and New Directions. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, Co-published with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 2006. vii + 380 pp. ISBN: 0-271-02711-8 (hbk.).

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P.J. Marshall, A Free Though Conquering People: Eighteenth-Century Britain and Its Empire. Aldershot, Hampshire, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2003. 316 pp. ISBN 0-86078-913-6 (hbk.).

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Making Headlines The American Revolution as Seen Through the British Press

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Sympathizing with sedition? George Washington, the British press, and British attitudes during the American War of Independence

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India

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The Papers of George Washington: Revolutionary War Series, vol 26, 13 May-4 July 1780

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Challenging the profiles of a plagiarist: a study of abstracts submitted to an international interdisciplinary conference

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Revolutionary Negotiations: Indians, Empires, and Diplomats in the Founding of America

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Defining Good Food: Cookery-Book Illustrations in England

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American Indians in the British Imperial Imagination, 17071815

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White People, Indians, and Highlanders: Tribal Peoples and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America

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Why is turkey the main dish on Thanksgiving?

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Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire

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The Christmas tree is a tradition older than Christmas

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Aristocratic encounters: European travelers and North American Indians

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Texas A&M University; Department of History; TAMU 4236

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Willis, Aaron Lukefahr (2009-05). Liberty and British identity: printed reactions to the Quebec Act 1774-1775. Master's Thesis.

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Creel, Walter Brady (2016-11). Rhetoric of Heroic Loyalty: Portrayals of Scottish Jacobites as Rebels, Reprobates and Romantics. Doctoral Dissertation.