Chartwell Lecture: Professor James Muller presents 'Churchill at War on the Nile'
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Chartwell Lecture: Churchill at War on the Nile
Presented by James W. Muller
Thursday, Nov. 30, 7:30 p.m.
Online: (Zoom ID: 880 6516 5257 | Zoom Passcode: Chartwell)
In-person: ConocoPhillips Integrated Science Building, Room 120 (Limited in-person audience
of up to 42 people)
The River War, Winston Churchill鈥檚 second book, describes the reconquest of the Sudan from the Islamist regime of the Dervishes by an Anglo-Egyptian army commanded by General Herbert Kitchener, 1896-99. Churchill participated in the campaign as an officer and a war correspondent, charging with the cavalry at the climactic battle of Omdurman. His book, published in two volumes in 1899, is the most impressive of five books he wrote before he entered Parliament in 1901 at the age of 26. Abridged into a single volume three years later, it has been out of print in its unabridged version for more than 120 years. After 32 years of work, Professor James W. Muller has edited the definitive edition of the book, published by St. Augustine鈥檚 Press, which won the 2021 Literary Award from the International Churchill Society. Professor Muller will tell the story of preparing the new edition and speak about the significance of the book for understanding Churchill鈥檚 thoughts on empire, war, race and religion.
About the speaker
James W. Muller is Professor of Political Science at the 老澳门六合彩开奖记录,
where he has taught since 1983, and Chairman of the Board of Academic Advisers of
the International Churchill Society. Educated at Harvard University and the Ecole
Normale Sup茅rieure, Paris, he is a by-fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and
served as a White House Fellow in 1983鈥�84 and an Academic Visitor at the London School
of Economics and Political Science in 1988鈥�89. Professor Muller is editor of The Revival of Constitutionalism (University of Nebraska Press, 1988), Churchill as Peacemaker (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Churchill鈥檚 鈥淚ron Curtain鈥� Speech Fifty Years
Later (University of Missouri Press, 1999), of Churchill鈥檚 interwar books of essays, Thoughts and Adventures (ISI Books, 2009) and Great Contemporaries (ISI Books, 2012), and of Churchill鈥檚 earlier book, The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan, 2 vols. (St. Augustine鈥檚 Press, 2021). He is at work on a new edition of Churchill鈥檚 autobiography, My Early Life: A Roving Commission.