John Broich

John Broich holds a PhD in British History from Stanford University, and is a professor of British Empire history at Case Western Reserve University. His writing regularly appears in the Guardian, Smithsonian Magazine, and Newsweek. He is the author of Squadron: Ending the African Slave Trade. He lives in Ohio and Minnesota.

John Broich's Titles

Blood, Oil and the Axis The Allied Resistance Against a Fascist State in Iraq and the Levant, 1941

Blood, Oil and the Axis

An “almost absurdly colorful” history of the WWII battle for the Levant: “In places . . . the material is like Casablanca meets The English...


Squadron Ending the African Slave Trade

Squadron

Despite the British being early abolitionists, a significant slave trade remained down the east coast of Africa through the mid-1800s, even...