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Volume 53 - Issue 4 - October 2014

Journal of British Studies Volume 53 - Issue 4 -

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Book Reviews

PRE-1800

Scott R. MacKenzie. Be It Ever So Humble: Poverty, Fiction, and the Invention of the Middle-Class Home. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013. Pp. 304. $49.50 (cloth).
Susannah Ottaway
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07 November 2014, pp. 1049-1051
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William A Pettigrew. Freedom's Debt: The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672–1752. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. Pp. 272. $45.00 (cloth).
Abigail L. Swingen
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07 November 2014, pp. 1051-1053
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Glenn Richardson. The Field of Cloth of Gold. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2014. Pp. 288. $65.00 (cloth).
Jacqueline Rose
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07 November 2014, pp. 1053-1054
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Julia Rudolph. Common Law and Enlightenment in England, 1689–1750. Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History series. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2013. Pp. 338. $115.00 (cloth).
Tim Stretton
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07 November 2014, pp. 1054-1055
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Barbara J. Shapiro. Political Communication and Political Culture in England, 1558–1688. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012. Pp. 416. $65.00 (cloth).
D. Alan Orr
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07 November 2014, pp. 1056-1057
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Brent S. Sirota. The Christian Monitors: The Church of England and the Age of Benevolence, 1680–1730. The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014. Pp. 376. $65.00 (cloth).
William J. Bulman
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07 November 2014, pp. 1057-1058
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Rachel Weil. A Plague of Informers: Conspiracy and Political Trust in William III's England. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014. Pp. 360. $40.00 (cloth).
Tony Claydon
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07 November 2014, pp. 1059-1060
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Adrian Wilson. Ritual and Conflict: The Social Relations of Childbirth in Early Modern England. The History of Medicine in Context series. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. 270. $124.95 (cloth).
Samantha Williams
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07 November 2014, pp. 1060-1061
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Margot Backus. Scandal Work: James Joyce, the New Journalism, and the Home Rule Newspaper Wars. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. Pp. 328. $37.00 (paper).
Patrick Bixby
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07 November 2014, pp. 1062-1064
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Christopher Baker, Michael L. Dockrill, and Keith Hamilton, eds. Britain in Global Politics, vol. 1, From Gladstone to Churchill. Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World series. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013. Pp. 312. $92.00 (cloth). - John W. Young, Effie G. H. Pedaliu, and Michael D. Kandiah, eds. Britain in Global Politics, vol. 2, From Churchill to Blair. Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World series. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013. Pp. 280. $85.00 (cloth).
William John Shepherd
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07 November 2014, pp. 1064-1066
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Caitríona Beaumont. Housewives and Citizens: Domesticity and the Women's Movement in England, 1928–65. Gender in History series. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. Pp. 272. $100 (cloth).
Stephen Brooke
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07 November 2014, pp. 1066-1067
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Brett Bebber. Violence and Racism in Football: Politics and Cultural Conflict in British Society, 1968–1998. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2012. Pp. 304. $99.00 (cloth).
Allison Abra
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07 November 2014, pp. 1067-1069
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David Bebbington and David Ceri Jones, eds. Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism in the United Kingdom during the Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. 409. $150.00 (cloth).
Joseph Stubenrauch
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07 November 2014, pp. 1069-1071
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Lucy Bland. Modern Women on Trial: Sexual Transgression in the Age of the Flapper. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2013. Pp. 272. $34.95 (cloth).
Julie Anne Taddeo
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07 November 2014, pp. 1071-1073
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Alyson Brown. Inter-War Penal Policy and Crime in England: The Dartmoor Convict Prison Riot, 1932. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 208. $90.00 (cloth).
Simon Devereaux
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07 November 2014, pp. 1073-1074
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John Buckley. Monty's Men: The British Army and the Liberation of Europe, 1944–5. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013. Pp. 370. $35.00
David Silbey
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07 November 2014, pp. 1074-1076
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James Burns. Cinema and Society in the British Empire, 1895–1940. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 256. $85.00 (cloth).
Richard A. Voeltz
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07 November 2014, pp. 1076-1077
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Gregory Claeys. Mill and Paternalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. 262. $95.00 (cloth).
David Stack
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07 November 2014, pp. 1077-1079
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Robert Colls. George Orwell: English Rebel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. 352. $28.30 (cloth).
Daniel Ritschel
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07 November 2014, pp. 1079-1080
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Jay P. Corrin. Catholic Progressives in England after Vatican II. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. Pp. 536. $49.00 (paper).
Adam Schwartz
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07 November 2014, pp. 1081-1082
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Book Reviews

PRE-1800

Scott R. MacKenzie. Be It Ever So Humble: Poverty, Fiction, and the Invention of the Middle-Class Home. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013. Pp. 304. $49.50 (cloth).

William A Pettigrew. Freedom's Debt: The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672–1752. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. Pp. 272. $45.00 (cloth).

Glenn Richardson. The Field of Cloth of Gold. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2014. Pp. 288. $65.00 (cloth).

Julia Rudolph. Common Law and Enlightenment in England, 1689–1750. Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History series. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2013. Pp. 338. $115.00 (cloth).

Barbara J. Shapiro. Political Communication and Political Culture in England, 1558–1688. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012. Pp. 416. $65.00 (cloth).

Brent S. Sirota. The Christian Monitors: The Church of England and the Age of Benevolence, 1680–1730. The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014. Pp. 376. $65.00 (cloth).

Rachel Weil. A Plague of Informers: Conspiracy and Political Trust in William III's England. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014. Pp. 360. $40.00 (cloth).

Adrian Wilson. Ritual and Conflict: The Social Relations of Childbirth in Early Modern England. The History of Medicine in Context series. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. 270. $124.95 (cloth).

POST-1800

Margot Backus. Scandal Work: James Joyce, the New Journalism, and the Home Rule Newspaper Wars. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. Pp. 328. $37.00 (paper).

Caitríona Beaumont. Housewives and Citizens: Domesticity and the Women's Movement in England, 1928–65. Gender in History series. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. Pp. 272. $100 (cloth).

Brett Bebber. Violence and Racism in Football: Politics and Cultural Conflict in British Society, 1968–1998. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2012. Pp. 304. $99.00 (cloth).

David Bebbington and David Ceri Jones, eds. Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism in the United Kingdom during the Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. 409. $150.00 (cloth).

Lucy Bland. Modern Women on Trial: Sexual Transgression in the Age of the Flapper. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2013. Pp. 272. $34.95 (cloth).

Alyson Brown. Inter-War Penal Policy and Crime in England: The Dartmoor Convict Prison Riot, 1932. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 208. $90.00 (cloth).

John Buckley. Monty's Men: The British Army and the Liberation of Europe, 1944–5. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013. Pp. 370. $35.00

James Burns. Cinema and Society in the British Empire, 1895–1940. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 256. $85.00 (cloth).

Gregory Claeys. Mill and Paternalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. 262. $95.00 (cloth).

Robert Colls. George Orwell: English Rebel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. 352. $28.30 (cloth).

Jay P. Corrin. Catholic Progressives in England after Vatican II. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. Pp. 536. $49.00 (paper).

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