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Volume 54 - Issue 1 - January 2015

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Book Reviews

PRE-1800

Richard W. Hoyle, ed. The Farmer in England, 1650–1980. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. 366. $144.95 (cloth).
Ian Whyte
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16 January 2015, p. 207
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Matthew C. Hunter. Wicked Intelligence: Visual Art and the Science of Experiment in Restoration London. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. 352, 10 color plates, 66 halftones. $55.00 (cloth).
Matthew Walker
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16 January 2015, pp. 208-209
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James Kelly. Sport in Ireland, 1600–1840. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2014. Pp. 384. €35.95 (cloth).
Paul Rouse
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16 January 2015, pp. 209-210
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Kevin Linch and Matthew McCormack, eds. Britain's Soldiers: Rethinking War and Society, 1715–1815. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2014. Pp. 225. £70.00 (cloth).
Gerard Oram
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16 January 2015, pp. 211-212
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Evelyn Lord. The Great Plague: A People's History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014. Pp. 192. $40.00 (cloth).
Andrew Wareham
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16 January 2015, pp. 212-213
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Ian Mitchell. Tradition and Innovation in English Retailing, 1700 to 1850: Narratives of Consumption. The History of Retailing and Consumption. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. 223. £63.00 (cloth).
Joyce Burnette
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16 January 2015, pp. 214-215
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Jason Peacey. Print and Public Politics in the English Revolution. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xxii + 448. $110.00 (cloth).
Alastair Bellany
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16 January 2015, pp. 215-216
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Barry Robertson. Royalists at War in Scotland and Ireland, 1638–1650. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. 228. $124.95 (cloth).
Sarah Covington
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16 January 2015, pp. 217-218
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Jane Whittle, ed. Landlords and Tenants in Britain, 1440–1660: Tawney's Agrarian Problem Revisited. Rochester, New York: Boydell & Brewer, 2013. Pp. 256. $29.95 (paperback).
John Broad
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16 January 2015, pp. 218-219
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Ellen Boucher. Empire's Children: Child Emigrants, Welfare, and the Decline of the British World, 1869–1967. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp xi + 292. $99.00 (cloth).
Geoffrey Sherington
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16 January 2015, pp. 220-221
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Miriam Elizabeth Burstein. Victorian Reformations: Historical Fiction and Religious Controversy, 1820–1900. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014. Pp. 312. $30.00 (paper).
Timothy Larsen
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16 January 2015, pp. 222-223
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Gowan Dawson and Bernard V. Lightman, eds. Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Community, Identity, Continuity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. 368. $45.00 (cloth).
Miguel DeArce
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16 January 2015, pp. 223-225
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Andrea Geddes Poole. Philanthropy and the Construction of Victorian Women's Citizenship: Lady Frederick Cavendish and Miss Emma Cons. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. Pp. 295. $65.00 (cloth).
Kathryn Gleadle
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16 January 2015, pp. 225-226
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Harriet Guest. Unbounded Attachment: Sentiment and Politics in the Age of the French Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. 212. £50.00 (cloth).
Lynn Hunt
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16 January 2015, pp. 227-228
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Piers J. Hale. Political Descent: Malthus, Mutualism, and the Politics of Evolution in Victorian England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. v + 442. $45.00 (cloth).
Frank N. Egerton
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16 January 2015, pp. 228-230
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Christian Høgsbjerg. C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. 281. $23.95 (paper).
Kent Worcester
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16 January 2015, pp. 230-231
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Rosie Kennedy. The Children's War: Britain, 1914–1918. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. 208. $85.00 (cloth).
Michal Shapira
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16 January 2015, pp. 231-232
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John Laband. Zulu Warriors: The Battle for the South African Frontier. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014. Pp. 345. $40.00 (cloth).
Jeff Guy
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16 January 2015, pp. 233-234
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John F. Lyons. America in the British Imagination: 1945 to the Present. New York: Palgrave, 2013. Pp. 266. $100.00 (cloth).
Alan P. Dobson
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16 January 2015, pp. 234-235
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Emily Manktelow. Missionary Families: Race, Gender and Generation on the Spiritual Frontier. Studies in Imperialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. Pp. 288. £70.00 (cloth).
Jessica Thurlow
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16 January 2015, pp. 236-237
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Volume 54 - Issue 1 - January 2015

Book Reviews

PRE-1800

Richard W. Hoyle, ed. The Farmer in England, 1650–1980. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. 366. $144.95 (cloth).

Matthew C. Hunter. Wicked Intelligence: Visual Art and the Science of Experiment in Restoration London. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. 352, 10 color plates, 66 halftones. $55.00 (cloth).

James Kelly. Sport in Ireland, 1600–1840. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2014. Pp. 384. €35.95 (cloth).

Kevin Linch and Matthew McCormack, eds. Britain's Soldiers: Rethinking War and Society, 1715–1815. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2014. Pp. 225. £70.00 (cloth).

Evelyn Lord. The Great Plague: A People's History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014. Pp. 192. $40.00 (cloth).

Ian Mitchell. Tradition and Innovation in English Retailing, 1700 to 1850: Narratives of Consumption. The History of Retailing and Consumption. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. 223. £63.00 (cloth).

Jason Peacey. Print and Public Politics in the English Revolution. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xxii + 448. $110.00 (cloth).

Barry Robertson. Royalists at War in Scotland and Ireland, 1638–1650. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. 228. $124.95 (cloth).

Jane Whittle, ed. Landlords and Tenants in Britain, 1440–1660: Tawney's Agrarian Problem Revisited. Rochester, New York: Boydell & Brewer, 2013. Pp. 256. $29.95 (paperback).

POST-1800

Ellen Boucher. Empire's Children: Child Emigrants, Welfare, and the Decline of the British World, 1869–1967. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp xi + 292. $99.00 (cloth).

Miriam Elizabeth Burstein. Victorian Reformations: Historical Fiction and Religious Controversy, 1820–1900. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014. Pp. 312. $30.00 (paper).

Gowan Dawson and Bernard V. Lightman, eds. Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Community, Identity, Continuity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. 368. $45.00 (cloth).

Andrea Geddes Poole. Philanthropy and the Construction of Victorian Women's Citizenship: Lady Frederick Cavendish and Miss Emma Cons. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. Pp. 295. $65.00 (cloth).

Harriet Guest. Unbounded Attachment: Sentiment and Politics in the Age of the French Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. 212. £50.00 (cloth).

Piers J. Hale. Political Descent: Malthus, Mutualism, and the Politics of Evolution in Victorian England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. v + 442. $45.00 (cloth).

Christian Høgsbjerg. C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. 281. $23.95 (paper).

Rosie Kennedy. The Children's War: Britain, 1914–1918. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. 208. $85.00 (cloth).

John Laband. Zulu Warriors: The Battle for the South African Frontier. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014. Pp. 345. $40.00 (cloth).

John F. Lyons. America in the British Imagination: 1945 to the Present. New York: Palgrave, 2013. Pp. 266. $100.00 (cloth).

Emily Manktelow. Missionary Families: Race, Gender and Generation on the Spiritual Frontier. Studies in Imperialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. Pp. 288. £70.00 (cloth).

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