James VernonJames Vernon is the Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Politics and the People (1993), Hunger. A Modern History (2007), Distant Strangers. How Britain ecame Modern (2014), and the last volume of the Cambridge History of Britain, Britain since 1750 to the Present (2017). He is editor of Rereading the Constitution (1996) and 'The Berkeley Series in British Studies' with University of California Press, as well as co-editor (with Simon Gunn) of The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain (2011) and (with Colleen Lye and Christopher Newfield) "The Humanities and the Crisis of the Public University" in Representations (2011). His work has been supported by the British Academy, the ESRC, the ACLS, the NEH and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is currently writing a book about the racialized and globalized formation of neoliberalism in Britain after empire told though Heathrow Airport. Read More Read Less