“I'm struck by how impressively John Elliott assimilated new work on ea...” — Linda Colley Quote

“I'm struck by how impressively John Elliott assimilated new work on early modern England and colonial America, as well as keeping abreast with his own Hispanic studies, so as to write his recent 'Empires of the Atlantic World.'”

“Postcolonial critics are, I suspect, wrong when they argue that the mass of British people still mourn the loss of empire. But Britain's politicians - and its Foreign Office - have found it hard to adjust to the loss, not so much of onetime colonies as of the global clout the colonies once afforded.”

“Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.”

“At the start of my career, I fought to prevent offshore drilling along the Atlantic Coast.”

“If Mother Theresa went to Atlantic City, I don't think she'd start playing Blackjack.”