Priya Satia | The Other Republicans: Anti-Monarchical Movements in the World in the Era of America's Independence

In this lecture marking "America at 250," Professor Satia will examine alternative forms of republicanism prevalent in the eighteenth century that were eclipsed in the era of the American revolution and colonial conquest. Erasure of these forms from popular memory has fueled myths about the exclusively European origins of the concept of freedom and its necessarily individualistic character. Professor Satia will explore forms of British and American republicanism and their engagement with South Asian, Middle Eastern, and Indigenous American republican ideas.

About the Speaker

Priya Satia is the Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History and Professor of History at Stanford. She is the author of three multiple-prize-winning books: Time’s Monster: How History Makes History (2020); Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution (2018), and Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain’s Covert Empire in the Middle East (2008). Her academic and popular writing has appeared in American Historical Review, Technology & Culture, Financial Times, Slate, and The Nation, among others. She is currently writing a new book, The Lake of Liberation, on British colonialism in Punjab. During the 2018–19 academic year, Professor Satia was Violet Andrews Whittier Internal Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center.