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Volume 51 - Issue 1 - January 2012

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Book Reviews

William McCarthy. Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voice of the Enlightenment. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Pp. 792. $62.00 (cloth).
Arianne Chernock
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21 December 2012, pp. 197-198
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Linda E. Mitchell, Katherine L. French, and Douglas L. Biggs, eds. The Ties That Bind: Essays in Medieval British History in Honor of Barbara Hanawalt. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. 244. $119.95 (cloth).
Kate Kelsey Staples
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21 December 2012, pp. 198-200
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Vin Nardizzi, Stephen Guy-Bray, and Will Stockton, eds. Queer Renaissance Historiography: Backward Gaze. Queer Interventions. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. Pp. 264. $104.95 (cloth).
Harriette Andreadis
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21 December 2012, pp. 200-202
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Helen Ostovich, Holger Schott Syme, and Andrew Griffin, eds. Locating the Queen's Men, 1583–1603: Material Practices and Conditions of Playing. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. Pp. 284. $99.95 (cloth).
Andy Kesson
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21 December 2012, pp. 202-203
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Malcolm Richardson. Middle-Class Writing in Late Medieval London. The History of the Book 7. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2010. Pp. 265. $99.00 (cloth).
Barbara A. Hanawalt
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21 December 2012, pp. 203-205
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Conrad Russell, Richard Cust, and Andrew Thrush, eds. King James VI/I and His English Parliaments. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 288. $99.00 (cloth).
David L. Smith
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21 December 2012, pp. 205-206
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Lisa T. Sarasohn. The Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish: Reason and Fancy during the Scientific Revolution. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Pp. 272. $75.00.
Sara Mendelson
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21 December 2012, pp. 206-208
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Geoffrey Smith. Royalist Agents, Conspirators and Spies: Their Role in the British Civil Wars, 1640–1660. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. 296. $114.95 (cloth).
Barbara Donagan
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21 December 2012, pp. 208-209
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Sarah Tarlow. Ritual, Belief and the Dead in Early Modern Britain and Ireland. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 238. $90.00 (cloth).
Clare Gittings
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21 December 2012, pp. 209-211
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Elliott Visconsi. Lines of Equity: Literature and the Origins of Law in Later Stuart England. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. Pp. 216. $39.95 (cloth).
Paul D. Halliday
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21 December 2012, pp. 211-212
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Mark Williams and Stephen Paul Forrest, eds. Constructing the Past: Writing Irish History, 1600–1800. Irish Historical Monographs. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2010. Pp. 216. $95.00 (cloth).
Kenneth L. Campbell
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21 December 2012, pp. 212-214
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Sam Worby. Law and Kinship in Thirteenth-Century England. Royal Historical Society Studies in History, n.s. Rochester, NY: Boydell, 2010. Pp. 206. $90.00 (cloth).
Frederik Pedersen
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21 December 2012, pp. 214-215
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Natalie A. Zacek. Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670–1776. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 310. $90.00 (cloth).
Susan D. Amussen
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21 December 2012, pp. 215-217
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Nuala Zahedieh. The Capital and the Colonies: London and the Atlantic Economy, 1660–1700. New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 352. $95.00 (cloth).
Kenneth Morgan
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21 December 2012, pp. 217-218
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Timothy Alborn. Regulated Lives: Life Insurance and British Society, 1800–1914. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. Pp. 464. $80.00 (cloth).
Maura O'Connor
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21 December 2012, pp. 218-220
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Rupert Richard Arrowsmith. Modernism and the Museum: Asian, African, and Pacific Art and the London Avant-Garde. Oxford English Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 264. $110.00 (cloth).
Andrea Geddes Poole
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21 December 2012, pp. 220-221
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Alison Butler. Victorian Occultism and the Making of Modern Magic: Invoking Tradition. Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Pp. xiii+225. £55.00 (cloth).
Karl Bell
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21 December 2012, pp. 221-223
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Ewen A. Cameron. Impaled upon a Thistle: Scotland since 1880. The New Edinburgh History of Scotland 10. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv+433. $32.95 (paper); $95.00 (cloth).
Graeme Morton
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21 December 2012, pp. 223-224
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Gregory Claeys. Imperial Sceptics: British Critics of Empire, 1850–1920. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 334. $95.00 (cloth).
S. M. den Otter
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21 December 2012, pp. 224-226
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Paul J. Deveney. Callaghan's Journey to Downing Street. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Pp. 240. £57.50 (cloth).
Kevin Jefferys
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21 December 2012, pp. 226-227
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Volume 51 - Issue 1 - January 2012

Book Reviews

William McCarthy. Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voice of the Enlightenment. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Pp. 792. $62.00 (cloth).

Linda E. Mitchell, Katherine L. French, and Douglas L. Biggs, eds. The Ties That Bind: Essays in Medieval British History in Honor of Barbara Hanawalt. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. 244. $119.95 (cloth).

Vin Nardizzi, Stephen Guy-Bray, and Will Stockton, eds. Queer Renaissance Historiography: Backward Gaze. Queer Interventions. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. Pp. 264. $104.95 (cloth).

Helen Ostovich, Holger Schott Syme, and Andrew Griffin, eds. Locating the Queen's Men, 1583–1603: Material Practices and Conditions of Playing. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. Pp. 284. $99.95 (cloth).

Malcolm Richardson. Middle-Class Writing in Late Medieval London. The History of the Book 7. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2010. Pp. 265. $99.00 (cloth).

Conrad Russell, Richard Cust, and Andrew Thrush, eds. King James VI/I and His English Parliaments. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 288. $99.00 (cloth).

Lisa T. Sarasohn. The Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish: Reason and Fancy during the Scientific Revolution. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Pp. 272. $75.00.

Geoffrey Smith. Royalist Agents, Conspirators and Spies: Their Role in the British Civil Wars, 1640–1660. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. 296. $114.95 (cloth).

Sarah Tarlow. Ritual, Belief and the Dead in Early Modern Britain and Ireland. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 238. $90.00 (cloth).

Elliott Visconsi. Lines of Equity: Literature and the Origins of Law in Later Stuart England. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. Pp. 216. $39.95 (cloth).

Mark Williams and Stephen Paul Forrest, eds. Constructing the Past: Writing Irish History, 1600–1800. Irish Historical Monographs. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2010. Pp. 216. $95.00 (cloth).

Sam Worby. Law and Kinship in Thirteenth-Century England. Royal Historical Society Studies in History, n.s. Rochester, NY: Boydell, 2010. Pp. 206. $90.00 (cloth).

Natalie A. Zacek. Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670–1776. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 310. $90.00 (cloth).

Nuala Zahedieh. The Capital and the Colonies: London and the Atlantic Economy, 1660–1700. New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 352. $95.00 (cloth).

Timothy Alborn. Regulated Lives: Life Insurance and British Society, 1800–1914. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. Pp. 464. $80.00 (cloth).

Rupert Richard Arrowsmith. Modernism and the Museum: Asian, African, and Pacific Art and the London Avant-Garde. Oxford English Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 264. $110.00 (cloth).

Alison Butler. Victorian Occultism and the Making of Modern Magic: Invoking Tradition. Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Pp. xiii+225. £55.00 (cloth).

Ewen A. Cameron. Impaled upon a Thistle: Scotland since 1880. The New Edinburgh History of Scotland 10. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv+433. $32.95 (paper); $95.00 (cloth).

Gregory Claeys. Imperial Sceptics: British Critics of Empire, 1850–1920. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 334. $95.00 (cloth).

Paul J. Deveney. Callaghan's Journey to Downing Street. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Pp. 240. £57.50 (cloth).

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