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Volume 52 - Issue 2 - April 2013

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Book Reviews

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Susan R. Grayzel. At Home and Under Fire: Air Raids and Culture in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. 334. $99.00 (cloth).
Stephen Heathorn
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02 May 2013, pp. 539-540
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Shawn T. Grimes. Strategy and War Planning in the British Navy, 1887–1918. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2012. Pp. 278. $115.00 (cloth).
John Beeler
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02 May 2013, pp. 540-542
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Jo Guldi. Roads to Power: Britain Invents the Infrastructure State. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. Pp. 320. $39.95 (cloth).
Gerard M. Koot
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02 May 2013, pp. 542-544
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Gerald R. Hall. Ulster Liberalism, 1778–1876. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011. Pp. 272. €55.00 (cloth).
Anthony Daly
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02 May 2013, pp. 544-545
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Carol Helmstadter and Judith Godden. Nursing before Nightingale, 1815–1899. The History of Medicine in Context. Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. 242. $119.95 (cloth).
Arlene Young
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02 May 2013, pp. 546-547
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Martin Hipsky. Modernism and the Women's Popular Romance in Britain, 1885–1925. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2011. Pp. 324. $59.95 (cloth).
Lise Shapiro Sanders
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02 May 2013, pp. 547-548
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Timothy Larsen. A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 336. $55.00 (cloth).
Jacqueline R. deVries
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02 May 2013, pp. 548-550
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John M. MacKenzie and T. M. Devine, eds. Scotland and the British Empire. Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. 336. $65.00 (cloth).
Katherine Haldane Grenier
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02 May 2013, pp. 550-551
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Jane G. V. McGaughey. Ulster's Men: Protestant Unionist Masculinities and Militarization in the North of Ireland, 1912–1923. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012. Pp. 272. $95.00 (cloth).
Jason Knirck
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02 May 2013, pp. 552-553
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Adam Parkes. A Sense of Shock: The Impact of Impressionism on Modern British and Irish Writing. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 304. $65.00 (hardback).
Janice Ho
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02 May 2013, pp. 553-555
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Simon Prince and Geoffrey Warner. Belfast and Derry in Revolt: A New History of the Start of the Troubles. Dublin and Portland, OR: Irish Academic Press, 2012. Pp. 271. $79.95 (cloth).
David Brundage
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02 May 2013, pp. 555-557
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Ann Rigney. The Afterlives of Walter Scott: Memory on the Move. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. 328. $99.99 (cloth).
Evan Gottlieb
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02 May 2013, pp. 557-558
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Peder Roberts. The European Antarctic: Science and Strategy in Scandinavia and the British Empire. Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011. Pp. 284. $90.00 (cloth).
Adrian Howkins
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02 May 2013, pp. 558-559
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Andrew Sanders. Inside the IRA: Dissident Republicans and the War for Legitimacy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011. Pp. 288. £65.00 (cloth).
Margaret Keiley-Listermann
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02 May 2013, pp. 559-561
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Haia Shpayer-Makov. The Ascent of the Detective: Police Sleuths in Victorian and Edwardian England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 448. £30.00 (cloth).
Dagni Bredesen
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02 May 2013, pp. 561-562
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Peter Stansky and William Abrahams. Julian Bell: From Bloomsbury to the Spanish Civil War. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. Pp. 328. $45.00 (cloth).
William C. Lubenow
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02 May 2013, pp. 562-564
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Charles Townshend. When God Made Hell: The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914–1921. London: Faber and Faber, 2010. Pp. 624. £10.99 (paper).
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
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02 May 2013, pp. 564-565
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Judith R. Walkowitz. Nights Out: Life in Cosmopolitan London. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012. Pp. 432. $40.00 (cloth).
Paul R. Deslandes
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02 May 2013, pp. 565-567
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Amy Woodson-Boulton. Transformative Beauty: Art Museums in Industrial Britain. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. Pp. 288. $55.00 (cloth).
Pamela Fletcher
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02 May 2013, pp. 567-569
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Book Reviews

POST-1800

Susan R. Grayzel. At Home and Under Fire: Air Raids and Culture in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. 334. $99.00 (cloth).

Shawn T. Grimes. Strategy and War Planning in the British Navy, 1887–1918. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2012. Pp. 278. $115.00 (cloth).

Jo Guldi. Roads to Power: Britain Invents the Infrastructure State. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. Pp. 320. $39.95 (cloth).

Gerald R. Hall. Ulster Liberalism, 1778–1876. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011. Pp. 272. €55.00 (cloth).

Carol Helmstadter and Judith Godden. Nursing before Nightingale, 1815–1899. The History of Medicine in Context. Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. 242. $119.95 (cloth).

Martin Hipsky. Modernism and the Women's Popular Romance in Britain, 1885–1925. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2011. Pp. 324. $59.95 (cloth).

Timothy Larsen. A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 336. $55.00 (cloth).

John M. MacKenzie and T. M. Devine, eds. Scotland and the British Empire. Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. 336. $65.00 (cloth).

Jane G. V. McGaughey. Ulster's Men: Protestant Unionist Masculinities and Militarization in the North of Ireland, 1912–1923. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012. Pp. 272. $95.00 (cloth).

Adam Parkes. A Sense of Shock: The Impact of Impressionism on Modern British and Irish Writing. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 304. $65.00 (hardback).

Simon Prince and Geoffrey Warner. Belfast and Derry in Revolt: A New History of the Start of the Troubles. Dublin and Portland, OR: Irish Academic Press, 2012. Pp. 271. $79.95 (cloth).

Ann Rigney. The Afterlives of Walter Scott: Memory on the Move. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. 328. $99.99 (cloth).

Peder Roberts. The European Antarctic: Science and Strategy in Scandinavia and the British Empire. Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011. Pp. 284. $90.00 (cloth).

Andrew Sanders. Inside the IRA: Dissident Republicans and the War for Legitimacy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011. Pp. 288. £65.00 (cloth).

Haia Shpayer-Makov. The Ascent of the Detective: Police Sleuths in Victorian and Edwardian England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 448. £30.00 (cloth).

Peter Stansky and William Abrahams. Julian Bell: From Bloomsbury to the Spanish Civil War. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. Pp. 328. $45.00 (cloth).

Charles Townshend. When God Made Hell: The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914–1921. London: Faber and Faber, 2010. Pp. 624. £10.99 (paper).

Judith R. Walkowitz. Nights Out: Life in Cosmopolitan London. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012. Pp. 432. $40.00 (cloth).

Amy Woodson-Boulton. Transformative Beauty: Art Museums in Industrial Britain. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. Pp. 288. $55.00 (cloth).

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