Miller edits, authors two new books

Stephen Miller, professor and chair of the Department of History, is the editor of “Queen Victoria’s Wars: British Military Campaigns, 1857-1902,” available now from Cambridge University Press. The collection, to which Miller also contributed a chapter, is a new history of Britain’s imperial wars during the nineteenth century. Including chapters on wars fought in the hills, on the veldt, in the dense forests, and along the coast, it discusses wars waged in China, Burma, Afghanistan, and India/Pakistan; New Zealand; and, West, East and South Africa. Leading military historians from around the world situate the individual conflict in the larger context of British domestic history and British foreign policy/grand strategy and examine the background of the conflict, the war aims, the outbreak of the war, the forces and technology employed, a narrative of the war, details about one specific battle, and the aftermath of the war. In December, Miller also published “George White and the Victorian Army in India and Africa: Serving the Empire.”