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Volume 50 - Issue 1 - January 2011

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Book Reviews

Patrick Little, ed. Oliver Cromwell: New Perspectives. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. 278. $33.00 (paper).
Victor Stater
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21 December 2012, pp. 198-199
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David Loewenstein and Paul Stevens, eds. Early Modern Nationalism and Milton's England. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. Pp. xii+470. $80.00 (cloth).
Susanne Woods
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21 December 2012, pp. 200-201
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Nabil Matar. Europe through Arab Eyes, 1578–1727. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. Pp. xxviii+313. $50.00 (cloth).
Claire Schen
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21 December 2012, pp. 202-203
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Anne L. Murphy. The Origins of Financial Markets: Investment and Speculation before the South Sea Bubble. Cambridge Studies in Economic History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 298. $99.00 (cloth).
Helen Julia Paul
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21 December 2012, pp. 203-204
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Karen O’Brien. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. viii+310. $33.99 (paper).
Harriet Guest
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21 December 2012, pp. 205-206
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Steve Pincus. 1688: The First Modern Revolution. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. 647. $40.00 (cloth).
Melinda Zook
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21 December 2012, pp. 206-208
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Nicholas Rogers.The Press Gang: Naval Impressment and Its Opponents in Georgian Britain. Hambledon: Continuum, 2007. Pp. 184. $34.95 (cloth). - David Syrett.Shipping and Military Power in the Seven Years’ War: The Sails of Victory. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2008. Pp. 160. $69.95 (cloth).
Brian Refford
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21 December 2012, pp. 208-210
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Susanna A. Throop and Paul R. Hyams, eds. Vengeance in the Middle Ages: Emotion, Religion and Feud. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. 232. $99.95 (cloth).
Andrea Ruddick
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21 December 2012, pp. 210-211
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Amanda Vickery. Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. xviii+382. $45.00 (cloth).
Tillman W. Nechtman
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21 December 2012, pp. 211-213
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Sascha Auerbach. Race, Law and “The Chinese Puzzle” in Imperial Britain. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. xii+268. $85.00; £50.00 (cloth).
Nicoletta F. Gullace
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21 December 2012, pp. 213-214
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Kristin Bluemel, ed. Intermodernism: Literary Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. Pp. 254. $95.00 (cloth).
Marina MacKay
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21 December 2012, pp. 214-215
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Anthony Brandt. The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage. New York: Knopf, 2010. Pp. 441. $28.95 (cloth).
Stephanie Barczewski
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21 December 2012, pp. 216-217
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John Darwin. The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 814. $38.00 (cloth).
Kevin Grant
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21 December 2012, pp. 217-218
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Nicholas Draper. The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery. Cambridge Studies in Economic History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 416. $95.00 (cloth).
David B. Ryden
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21 December 2012, pp. 218-220
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Martin Francis. The Flyer: British Culture and the Royal Air Force, 1939–1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. 266. $60.00 (cloth).
Craig C. Felker
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21 December 2012, pp. 220-221
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Ian Hesketh. Of Apes and Ancestors: Evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford Debate. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. Pp. viii+144. $29.95 (cloth).
Gowan Dawson
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21 December 2012, pp. 221-222
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Sheryllyne Haggerty, Anthony Webster, and Nicholas J. White, eds. The Empire in One City? Liverpool's Inconvenient Imperial Past. Studies in Imperialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv+237. £55.00 (cloth).
Stephen D. Behrendt
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21 December 2012, pp. 222-224
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Kay Heath. Aging by the Book: The Emergence of Midlife in Victorian Britain. Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2009. Pp. xii+247. $75.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper and electronic).
Lisa Niles
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21 December 2012, pp. 224-225
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James Hinton. Nine Wartime Lives: Mass-Observation and the Making of the Modern Self.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 272. $45.00 (cloth).
Nick Hubble
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21 December 2012, pp. 225-227
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Jenny Holt. Public School Literature, Civic Education and the Politics of Male Adolescence. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. Pp. 270. $89.96 (cloth).
Maureen M. Martin
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21 December 2012, pp. 227-228
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Book Reviews

Patrick Little, ed. Oliver Cromwell: New Perspectives. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. 278. $33.00 (paper).

David Loewenstein and Paul Stevens, eds. Early Modern Nationalism and Milton's England. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. Pp. xii+470. $80.00 (cloth).

Nabil Matar. Europe through Arab Eyes, 1578–1727. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. Pp. xxviii+313. $50.00 (cloth).

Anne L. Murphy. The Origins of Financial Markets: Investment and Speculation before the South Sea Bubble. Cambridge Studies in Economic History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 298. $99.00 (cloth).

Karen O’Brien. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. viii+310. $33.99 (paper).

Steve Pincus. 1688: The First Modern Revolution. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. 647. $40.00 (cloth).

Nicholas Rogers.The Press Gang: Naval Impressment and Its Opponents in Georgian Britain. Hambledon: Continuum, 2007. Pp. 184. $34.95 (cloth). - David Syrett.Shipping and Military Power in the Seven Years’ War: The Sails of Victory. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2008. Pp. 160. $69.95 (cloth).

Susanna A. Throop and Paul R. Hyams, eds. Vengeance in the Middle Ages: Emotion, Religion and Feud. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. 232. $99.95 (cloth).

Amanda Vickery. Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. xviii+382. $45.00 (cloth).

Sascha Auerbach. Race, Law and “The Chinese Puzzle” in Imperial Britain. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. xii+268. $85.00; £50.00 (cloth).

Kristin Bluemel, ed. Intermodernism: Literary Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. Pp. 254. $95.00 (cloth).

Anthony Brandt. The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage. New York: Knopf, 2010. Pp. 441. $28.95 (cloth).

John Darwin. The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 814. $38.00 (cloth).

Nicholas Draper. The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery. Cambridge Studies in Economic History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 416. $95.00 (cloth).

Martin Francis. The Flyer: British Culture and the Royal Air Force, 1939–1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. 266. $60.00 (cloth).

Ian Hesketh. Of Apes and Ancestors: Evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford Debate. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. Pp. viii+144. $29.95 (cloth).

Sheryllyne Haggerty, Anthony Webster, and Nicholas J. White, eds. The Empire in One City? Liverpool's Inconvenient Imperial Past. Studies in Imperialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv+237. £55.00 (cloth).

Kay Heath. Aging by the Book: The Emergence of Midlife in Victorian Britain. Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2009. Pp. xii+247. $75.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper and electronic).

James Hinton. Nine Wartime Lives: Mass-Observation and the Making of the Modern Self.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 272. $45.00 (cloth).

Jenny Holt. Public School Literature, Civic Education and the Politics of Male Adolescence. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. Pp. 270. $89.96 (cloth).

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