Reviews in History

2012

May

• Edward Adams: Liberal epic. The Victorian practice of history from Gibbon to Churchill (reviewed by Theodore Koditschek)
• Peter J. Beck: Presenting History. Past and Present (reviewed by Matt Phillpott)
• James Davis: Medieval Market Morality. Life, Law and Ethics in the English Marketplace, 1200–1500 (reviewed by Shami Ghosh)
• Ian Haywood / John Seed (eds.): The Gordon Riots. Politics, Culture and Insurrection in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain (reviewed by Katrina Navickas)
• Peter Icke: Frank Ankersmit's Lost Historical Cause. A Journey from Language to Experience (reviewed by Adam Timmins)
• Olivia Muñoz-Rojas: Ashes and Granite. Destruction and Reconstruction in the Spanish Civil War and its Aftermath (reviewed by Dacia Viejo-Rose)

April

• John A. Burnett: The making of the modern Scottish Highlands, 1939-65. Withstanding the ‘Colossus of Advancing Materialism’ (reviewed by Andrew Blaikie)
• Cesare Cuttica / Glenn Burgess (eds.): Monarchism and absolutism in early modern Europe (reviewed by R. Malcolm Smuts)
• Peter Dorey / Alexandra Kelso: House of Lords reform since 1911. Must the Lords go? (reviewed by Peter Webster)
• Robert Gerwarth: Hitler's hangman. The life of Heydrich (reviewed by Dorothy Mas)
• Ilana Löwy: A woman's disease. The history of cervical cancer (reviewed by Yolanda Eraso)
• Ilana Löwy: Preventive strikes. Women, precancer, and prophylactic surgery (reviewed by Yolanda Eraso)
• Helen McCarthy: The British people and the League of Nations. Democracy, citizenship and internationalism, c. 1918-45 (reviewed by Peter Yearwood)
• Robert Muchembled: A history of violence. From the end of the Middle Ages to the present (reviewed by Benjamin Ziemann)
• Steven Pinker: The better angels of our nature. The decline of violence in history and its causes (reviewed by Benjamin Ziemann)
• Jacqueline Rose: Godly kingship in Restoration England. The politics of the royal supremacy, 1660-1688 (reviewed by Christopher Brooks)
• Marsha Keith Schuchard: Emanuel Swedenborg, secret agent on Earth and in heaven. Jacobites, Jews, and Freemasons in early modern Sweden (reviewed by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke)
• Pamela E. Swett (ed.): Pleasure and power in Nazi Germany (reviewed by Dorothy Mas)
• Nuala Zahedieh: The Capital and the Colonies. London and the Atlantic Economy, 1660-1700 (reviewed by Thomas M. Truxes)

March

• Michael Brown: Performing medicine. Medical culture and identity in provincial England, c. 1760-1850 (reviewed by Stephanie Snow)
• David Cannadine / Jenny Keating / Nicola Sheldon: The right kind of history. Teaching the past in twentieth-century England (reviewed by Peter Mandler)
• Hugh Chignell: Public issue radio. Talks, news, and current affairs in the twentieth century (reviewed by Jason Loviglio)
• Niall Ferguson: Civilization. The West and the Rest (reviewed by Ricardo Duchesne)
• Richard Gott: Britain's Empire. Resistance, Repression and Revolt (reviewed by William Jackson)
• John A. S. Grenville: The Jews and Germans in Hamburg. The destruction of a civilization 1790-1945 (reviewed by Tim Grady)
• Michael A. Hicks: The Wars of the Roses (reviewed by John Watts)
• Matthew Hilton / James McKay (eds.): The Ages of Voluntarism. How we got to the Big Society (reviewed by Charlotte Clements)
• Daniel Laqua (ed.): Internationalism reconfigured. Transnational ideas and movements between the world wars (reviewed by Lorna Lloyd)
• Alun Munslow: The future of history (reviewed by Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth)
• W. Mark Ormrod: Edward III (reviewed by Nigel Saul)
• Jeremy Paxman: Empire. What Ruling the World Did to the British (reviewed by William Jackson)
• Hannah Spahn: Thomas Jefferson, time, and history (reviewed by Daniel Clinkman)
• Bill Williams: Jews and other foreigners. Manchester and the victims of European fascism, 1933-40 (reviewed by Jennifer Craig-Norton)

February

• Brian Arthur: How Britain won the War of 1812. The Royal Navy's Blockades of the United States, 1812-1815 (reviewed by William Dudley)
• Andrew Brown: Civic ceremony and religion in medieval Bruges c. 1300-1520 (reviewed by Job Weststrate)
• Keith M. Brown: Noble Power in Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution (reviewed by Daniel MacCannell)
• Susan B. Edgington / Carol Sweetenham (eds.): The Chanson d'Antioche. An Old-French account of the First Crusade (reviewed by Simon John)
• Andrew Edwards: Labour's Crisis. Plaid Cymru, The Conservatives, and the Decline of the Labour Party in North-West Wales, 1960-1974 (reviewed by Martin Wright)
• Richard Farmer: The Food Companions. Cinema and Consumption in Wartime Britain, 1939-45 (reviewed by Robert James)
• John Fisher / Antony Best (eds.): On the fringes of diplomacy. Influences on British foreign policy, 1800-1945 (reviewed by Helen McCarthy)
• John A. Marino: Becoming Neapolitan. Citizen culture in Baroque Naples (reviewed by Helen Hills)
• Bruce R. O'Brien: Reversing Babel. Translation among the English during an age of conquests, c. 800 to c. 1200 (reviewed by Judith A. Green)
• Kim M. Phillips / Barry Reay: Sex before sexuality. A premodern history (reviewed by Katherine Crawford)
• Zachary S. Schiffman: The birth of the past (reviewed by Malin Dahlstrom)
• Zara S. Steiner: The triumph of the dark. European international history, 1933-1939 (reviewed by T. G. Otte)
• Jules Stewart: Albert. A life (reviewed by John R. Davis)

January

• Samuel J. M. M. Alberti: Morbid curiosities. Medical museums in nineteenth-century Britain (reviewed by Jennifer Wallis)
• Frances Andrews (ed.): Ritual and space in the Middle Ages. Proceedings of the 2009 Harlaxton Symposium (reviewed by Richard Braude)
• Mark Bevir: The making of British socialism (reviewed by Keith Flett)
• John Bew: Castlereagh. Enlightenment, War and Tyranny (reviewed by Philip Harling)
• Joanna Bourke: What it Means to be Human. Reflections from 1791 to the Present (reviewed by Rob Boddice)
• Patrick Collinson: This England. Essays on the English Nation and Commonwealth in the Sixteenth Century (reviewed by Sarah Waurechen)
• Patrick Benedict Finney: Remembering the Road to World War Two. International History, National Identity, Collective Memory (reviewed by Alexander Macfie)
• Rachel Rich: Bourgeois Consumption. Food, Space and Identity in London and Paris, 1850-1914 (reviewed by Jennifer Davis)
• Francis Sejersted: The Age of Social Democracy. Norway and Sweden in the Twentieth Century (reviewed by David Redvaldsen)
• Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska: Managing the body. Beauty, health, and fitness in Britain, 1880-1939 (reviewed by Ana Carden-Coyne)

2011

December

• Timothy Larsen: A People of One Book. The Bible and the Victorians (reviewed by Daniel Ritchie)
• Jutta Mühlenberg: Das SS-Helferinnenkorps. Ausbildung, Einsatz und Entnazifizierung der weiblichen Angehörigen der Waffen-SS 1942-1949 (reviewed by Rachel Century)
• Simon Szreter / Kate Fisher (eds.): Sex Before the Sexual Revolution. Intimate Life in England 1918-1963 (reviewed by Paul Atkinson)

November

• Keith Brown / Alan R. MacDonald (eds.): The History of the Scottish Parliament. 3: Parliament in Context, 1235-1707 (reviewed by Charles McKean)
• Lizzie Collingham: The Taste of War. World War Two and the Battle for Food (reviewed by Kyri Claflin)
• Shaunnagh Dorsett: Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought. Transpositions of Empire (reviewed by Jack Harrington)
• Richard Goddard / John Langdo / Miriam Müller: Survival and Discord in Medieval Society. Essays in honour of Christopher Dyer (reviewed by John Hare)
• Simon Gunn / James Vernon: The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain (reviewed by Jacob Glicklich)
• Ariel Hessayon / David Finnegan: Varieties of Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century English Radicalism in Context (reviewed by Diego Lucci)
• Tom Lawson: Debates on the Holocaust (reviewed by Dan Michman)
• Julian Rivers: The Law of Organized Religions. Between Establishment and Secularism (reviewed by Olive Barnes)
• Anne Spry Rush: Bonds of Empire. West Indians and Britishness from Victoria to Decolonization (reviewed by Elizabeth Williams)
• Patrick Russell / James Taylor (eds.): Shadows of Progress. Documentary Film in Post-War Britain (reviewed by Dafydd Sills-Jones)

October

• David Allan: A Nation of Readers. The Lending Library in Georgian England (reviewed by Richard B. Sher)
• David Allan: Making British Culture. English Readers and the Scottish Enlightenment, 1740–1830 (reviewed by Richard B. Sher)
• Michael Barnett: Empire of Humanity. A History of Humanitarianism (reviewed by Bronwen Everill)
• Stephen Conway: Britain, Ireland and Continental Europe in the Eighteenth Century. Similarities, Connections, Identities (reviewed by Patrick Walsh)
• John Foot: Pedalare! Pedalare! A History of Italian Cycling (reviewed by Carlos Caracciolo)
• Sarah Foot: Æthelstan. The First King of England (reviewed by Rory Naismith)
• C. F. Goodey: A History of Intelligence and 'Intellectual Disability'. The Shaping of Psychology in Early Modern Europe (reviewed by James W. Trent)
• Gerald Hall: Ulster Liberalism, 1778-1876. The Middle Path (reviewed by Daniel Ritchie)
• Eric Jennings: Imperial Heights. Dalat and the Making and Undoing of French Indochina (reviewed by Michael Vann)
• Paul Kershaw: Peaceful Kings. Peace, Power, and the Early Medieval Political Imagination (reviewed by Jenny Benham)
• Roland Quinault: British Prime Ministers and Democracy. From Disraeli to Blair (reviewed by Robert Saunders)
• Marie-Hélène Rousseau: Saving the Souls of Medieval London. Perpetual Chantries at St. Paul’s Cathedral, c.1200-1548 (reviewed by Cindy Wood)
• Mark Towsey: Reading the Scottish Enlightenment. Books and their Readers in Provincial Scotland, 1750-1820 (reviewed by Richard B. Sher)
• Christopher Tyerman: The Debate on the Crusades, 1099-2010 (reviewed by Simon John)

September

• Michael Bentley: The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield. History, Science and God (reviewed by Malin Dahlstrom)
• Andrew Bradstock: Radical Religion in Cromwell's England. A Concise History from the English Civil War to the End of the Commonwealth (reviewed by R. Scott Spurlock)
• Marios Costambeys / Matthew Innes / Simon MacLean: The Carolingian World (reviewed by Shami Ghosh)
• Robert Crowcroft / S. J. D. Green / Richard Whiting: The Philosophy, Politics and Religion of British Democracy. Maurice Cowling and Conservatism (reviewed by Richard Vinen)
• Mark Donnelly / Claire Norton: Doing History (reviewed by Beverley Southgate)
• Andrew Elliott: Remaking the Middle Ages. The Methods of Cinema and History in Portraying the Medieval World (reviewed by Kevin Harty)
• Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth: History in the Discursive Condition. Reconsidering the Tools of Thought (reviewed by Alexander Macfie)
• Scott Hamilton: The Crisis of Theory. E. P. Thompson, the New Left and Postwar British Politics (reviewed by Penelope Corfield)
• Deborah Lutz: Pleasure Bound. Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism (reviewed by Anna Clark)
• Ciara Meehan: The Cosgrave Party. A History of Cumann na nGaedheal, 1923-33 (reviewed by Jason Knirck)
• Jennifer Mori: The Culture of Diplomacy. Britain in Europe, c. 1750-1830 (reviewed by Andrew C. Thompson)
• Morna O'Neill / Michael Hatt: The Edwardian Sense. Art, Design, and Performance in Britain, 1901-1910 (reviewed by Ryan Linkof)
• J. Leslie Price: Dutch Culture in the Golden Age (reviewed by Henk Van Nierop)
• Sophia Rosenfeld: Common Sense. A Political History (reviewed by Marion Ledwig)
• Robert Saunders: Democracy and the vote in British politics, 1848-1867. The making of the second Reform Act (reviewed by Henry Miller)
• Michael Silvestri: Ireland and India. Nationalism, Empire and Memory (reviewed by James Lees)
• Jonathan Steinberg: Bismarck. A Life (reviewed by Matthew Jefferies)
• Andrew C. Thompson: George II. King and Elector (reviewed by Clarissa Campbell Orr)
• Andrew Thrush / John P. Ferris: The House of Commons, 1604-1629 (reviewed by Christopher Thompson)

August

• Julia Clancy-Smith: Mediterraneans. North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration, c. 1800-1900 (reviewed by Kay Adamson)
• David Edgerton: Britain's War Machine. Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War (reviewed by Mark Crowley)
• Rachel Hewitt: Map of a Nation. A Biography of the Ordnance Survey (reviewed by John Henry)
• John R. McNeill / Mahesh Rangarajan / Jose Augusto Padua: Environmental History. As if Nature Existed (reviewed by Lise Sedrez)
• Matthew Perry: Memory of War in France, 1914-45. César Fauxbras, the Voice of the Lowly (reviewed by Gearóid Barry)
• Deborah Simonton: Women in European Culture and Society. Gender, Skill and Identity from 1700 (reviewed by Eve Colpus)
• Susanna Throop: Crusading as an Act of Vengeance, 1095-1216 (reviewed by Brett Edward Whalen)
• Patrick Wright: Passport to Peking. A very British mission to Mao's China (reviewed by Chris Connolly)

July

• Frances Bernstein / Christopher Burton / Dan Healey: Soviet medicine. Culture, practice, and science (reviewed by Tricia Starks)
• Asher Hoyles / Martin Hoyles: Caribbean Publishing in Britain. A Tribute to Arif Ali (reviewed by Marika Sherwood)
• Leif Jerram: Streetlife. The Untold History of Europe's Twentieth Century (reviewed by Joanna Marchant)
• Sheilagh Ogilvie: Institutions and European Trade. Merchant Guilds, 1000-1800 (reviewed by Shami Ghosh)
• Marios Philippides / Walter Hanak: The Siege and the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. Historiography, Topography, and Military Studies (reviewed by Michael Angold)
• Ulinka Rublack: A Concise Companion to History (reviewed by Alix Green)
• Mark Traugott: The Insurgent Barricade (reviewed by Pamela Pilbeam)
• David Wilson: Thomas D'Arcy McGee. 1: Passion, Reason, and Politics, 1825-1857: The early Irish and American career of Thomas D'Arcy McGee (reviewed by Andrew Smith)

June

• Anthony Bale: Feeling Persecuted. Christians, Jews and Images of Violence in the Middle Ages (reviewed by David Biale)
• Peter Dorey: British Conservatism. The Politics and Philosophy of Inequality (reviewed by Jules Gehrke)
• Christopher Frank: Master and Servant Law. Chartists, Trade Unions, Radical Lawyers and the Magistracy in England, 1840-1865 (reviewed by James Jaffe)
• John Horne: A Companion to World War I (reviewed by Matthew Hughes)
• Arnold Hunt: The Art of Hearing. English Preachers and their Audiences (1590-1640) (reviewed by Sarah Mortimer)
• John Law / Bernadette Paton: Communes and Despots in Medieval and Renaissance Italy (reviewed by Alexander Lee)
• Ian Morris: Why The West Rules - For Now. The Patterns of History and What they Reveal about the Future (reviewed by Ricardo Duchesne)
• Cynthia Neville: Land, Law and People in Medieval Scotland (reviewed by Dauvit Broun)
• Todd Porterfield: The Efflorescence of Caricature. 1759-1838 (reviewed by James Baker)
• Jean-Louis Quantin: The Church of England and Christian Antiquity. The Construction of a Confessional Identity in the 17th Century (reviewed by Peter Webster)
• Mike Savage: Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940. The Politics of Method (reviewed by Oliver Blaiklock)
• Colin Storer: Britain and the Weimar Republic. The History of a Cultural Relationship (reviewed by Tara Windsor)
• Nicholas Terpstra: Lost Girls. Sex and Death in Renaissance Florence (reviewed by Jonathan Davies)

May

• Judith Allen / Peter Bailey / Sean Shesgreen: London Low Life. Street Culture, Social Reform and the Victorian Underworld (reviewed by Rosalind Crone)
• Sverre Bagge: From Viking Stronghold to Christian Kingdom. State Formation in Norway, c. 900-1350 (reviewed by Haki Antonsson)
• Jenny Benham: Peacemaking in the Middle Ages. Principles and practice (reviewed by John France)
• Vera Fast: Children's exodus. A history of the Kindertransport (reviewed by Phyllis Lassner)
• David Feldman / Jon Lawrence: Structures and transformations in modern British history (reviewed by Katrina Navickas)
• Polly Ha: English Presbyterianism. 1590 - 1640 (reviewed by Elliot Vernon)
• Thomas Hajkowski: The BBC and national identity in Britain. 1922 - 53 (reviewed by Hugh Chignell)
• Iftekhar Iqbal: The Bengal Delta. Ecology, state and social change, 1840 - 1943 (reviewed by Peter Robb)
• S. Karly Kehoe: Creating a Scottish Church. Catholicism, Gender and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century Scotland (reviewed by Alana Harris)
• Frédérique Lachaud: L' éthique du pouvoir au Moyen Age. L'office dans la culture politique (Angleterre, vers 1150 - vers 1330) (reviewed by John Hudson)
• Tony Mason / Eliza Riedi: Sport and the Military. The British Armed Forces, 1880 - 1960 (reviewed by Erica Munkwitz)
• Sarah Mortimer: Reason and Religion in the English Revolution. The Challenge of Socinianism (reviewed by Richard Bell)
• Robin Mundill: The King's Jews. Money, Massacre and Exodus in Medieval England (reviewed by Robert Stacey)
• Dan Stone: Histories of the Holocaust (reviewed by Florin Lobont)
• David Wootton: Galileo. Watcher of the skies (reviewed by Matteo Valleriani)

April

• Charles F. Briggs: The Body Broken. Medieval Europe 1300 - 1520 (reviewed by Robert Swanson)
• Louis I. Hamilton: A Sacred City. Consecrating churches and reforming society in eleventh-century Italy (reviewed by Leidulf Melve)
• Ronald Hyam: Understanding the British Empire (reviewed by Harshan Kumarasingham)
• Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon: Wasteland with words. A social history of Iceland (reviewed by Chris Callow)
• Paul Mulvey: The political life of Josiah C. Wedgwood. Land, liberty and empire, 1872-1943 (reviewed by Antony Taylor)
• Julia Torrie: For their own good. Civilian evacuations in Germany and France, 1939-1945 (reviewed by Lindsey Dodd)

March

• Laura Beers: Your Britain. Media and the Making of the Labour Party (reviewed by Adrian Bingham)
• Ian Coller: Arab France. Islam and the Making of Modern Europe, 1798-1831 (reviewed by Minayo Nasiali)
• George Hill: A History of Cyprus. Volume 4, The Ottoman Province. The British Colony, 1571-1948 (reviewed by Andrekos Varnava)
• John N. King: Tudor Books and Readers. Materiality and the Construction of Meaning (reviewed by Meraud Ferguson Hand)
• Jerzy Lukowski: Disorderly Liberty. The Political Culture of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Eighteenth Century (reviewed by Robert Frost)
• William David McIntyre: The Britannic Vision. Historians and the Making of the British Commonwealth of Nations, 1907-48 (reviewed by Andrew Ladley)
• Gerard Murphy: The Year of Disappearances. Political Killings in Cork 1921-1922 (reviewed by Eugenio Biagini)
• Eric Nelson: The Hebrew Republic. Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought (reviewed by Charles Prior)
• Felicity Nussbaum: Rival Queens. Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater (reviewed by Aurora Barsalou)
• Alastair J. Reid: The Tide of Democracy. Shipyard Workers and Social Relations in Britain, 1870 - 1950 (reviewed by Jo McBride)
• Stephen Henry Rigby: Wisdom and Chivalry. Chaucer's Knight's Tale and Medieval Political Theory (reviewed by Christine Carpenter)

February

• Joan Allen / Alan Campbell / John McIlroy: Histories of Labour: National and International Perspectives (reviewed by Paul Pickering)
• Sarah Blanshei: Politics and Justice in Late Medieval Bologna (reviewed by Mario Ascheri)
• Thomas N. Corns / Ann Hughes / David Loewenstein: The Complete Works of Gerrard Winstanley (reviewed by Ariel Hessayon)