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Volume 50 - Issue 2 - April 2011

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Elizabeth A. Fay. Fashioning Faces: The Portraitive Mode in British Romanticism. Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies. Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, 2010. Pp. 340. $55.00 (cloth).
Anca Munteanu
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21 December 2012, pp. 511-512
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Kelly Hager. Dickens and the Rise of Divorce: The Failed-Marriage Plot and the Novel Tradition. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. 206. $89.95 (cloth).
Maia McAleavey
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21 December 2012, pp. 513-514
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Liam Harte. The Literature of the Irish in Britain: Autobiography and Memoir, 1725–2001. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. xl+301. $75.00 (cloth).
James H. Murphy
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21 December 2012, pp. 514-516
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Jane Humphries. Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution. Cambridge Studies in Economic History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 439. £60.00/$99.00 (cloth).
Ginger Frost
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21 December 2012, pp. 516-517
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Deborah Logan. Harriet Martineau, Victorian Imperialism, and the Civilizing Mission. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. 280. $99.95 (cloth).
Susan Hamilton
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21 December 2012, pp. 517-519
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Maureen M. Martin. The Mighty Scot: Nation, Gender, and the Nineteenth-Century Mystique of Scottish Masculinity. Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2009. Pp. 220. $71.50 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).
Kenneth McNeil
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21 December 2012, pp. 519-521
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Ross McKibbin. Parties and People: England, 1914–1951.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. viii+207. £20.00/$37.95 (cloth).
Peter Weiler
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21 December 2012, pp. 521-522
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Kirsten McKenzie. A Swindler’s Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. 386. $29.95 (cloth).
Kirsty Reid
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21 December 2012, pp. 522-524
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Frank Mort. Capital Affairs: London and the Making of the Permissive Society. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010. Pp. 508. $40.00 (cloth).
Julie Anne Taddeo
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21 December 2012, pp. 524-525
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James L. Newman. Paths without Glory: Richard Francis Burton in Africa. Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2010. Pp. xi+303. $29.95 (cloth).
Adrian S. Wisnicki
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21 December 2012, pp. 526-527
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Sean O’Connell. Credit and Community: Working-Class Debt in the UK since 1880. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. 280. $110.00 (cloth).
Melanie Tebbutt
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21 December 2012, pp. 527-528
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Roy Parker. Uprooted: The Shipment of Poor Children to Canada, 1867–1917. Bristol: Policy Press, 2010. Pp. xiv+376. £19.99 (paper).
Lynne Clark
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21 December 2012, pp. 528-530
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Elizabeth E. Prevost. The Communion of Women: Missions and Gender in Colonial Africa and the British Metropole. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 312. $120.00 (cloth).
Clare Midgeley
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21 December 2012, pp. 530-531
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Andrea Geddes Poole. Stewards of the Nation’s Art: Contested Cultural Authority, 1890–1939. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. Pp. 304. $65.00 (cloth).
Amy Woodson-Boulton
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21 December 2012, pp. 532-533
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Nicole Robertson. The Co-operative Movement and Communities in Britain, 1914–1960: Minding Their Own Business. Studies in Labour History. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. 251. £55.00 (cloth).
Jules Gehrke
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21 December 2012, pp. 533-535
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Michael J. K. Walsh, ed. London, Modernism, and 1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 314. £50.00/$85.00 (cloth).
Peter Stansky
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21 December 2012, pp. 535-536
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James C. Whorton. The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work and Play. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 359. $29.95 (cloth).
Catherine Mills
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21 December 2012, pp. 536-537
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Clair Wills. Dublin 1916: The Siege of the GPO. Profiles in History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. 272. $23.95 (cloth).
Eric G. E. Zuelow
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21 December 2012, pp. 537-539
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Ian S. Wood. Britain, Ireland and the Second World War. Societies at War. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. Pp. vii–238. $95.00 (cloth).
Robert Cole
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21 December 2012, pp. 539-540
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Elizabeth A. Fay. Fashioning Faces: The Portraitive Mode in British Romanticism. Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies. Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, 2010. Pp. 340. $55.00 (cloth).

Kelly Hager. Dickens and the Rise of Divorce: The Failed-Marriage Plot and the Novel Tradition. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. 206. $89.95 (cloth).

Liam Harte. The Literature of the Irish in Britain: Autobiography and Memoir, 1725–2001. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. xl+301. $75.00 (cloth).

Jane Humphries. Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution. Cambridge Studies in Economic History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 439. £60.00/$99.00 (cloth).

Deborah Logan. Harriet Martineau, Victorian Imperialism, and the Civilizing Mission. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. 280. $99.95 (cloth).

Maureen M. Martin. The Mighty Scot: Nation, Gender, and the Nineteenth-Century Mystique of Scottish Masculinity. Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2009. Pp. 220. $71.50 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).

Ross McKibbin. Parties and People: England, 1914–1951.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. viii+207. £20.00/$37.95 (cloth).

Kirsten McKenzie. A Swindler’s Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. 386. $29.95 (cloth).

Frank Mort. Capital Affairs: London and the Making of the Permissive Society. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010. Pp. 508. $40.00 (cloth).

James L. Newman. Paths without Glory: Richard Francis Burton in Africa. Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2010. Pp. xi+303. $29.95 (cloth).

Sean O’Connell. Credit and Community: Working-Class Debt in the UK since 1880. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. 280. $110.00 (cloth).

Roy Parker. Uprooted: The Shipment of Poor Children to Canada, 1867–1917. Bristol: Policy Press, 2010. Pp. xiv+376. £19.99 (paper).

Elizabeth E. Prevost. The Communion of Women: Missions and Gender in Colonial Africa and the British Metropole. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 312. $120.00 (cloth).

Andrea Geddes Poole. Stewards of the Nation’s Art: Contested Cultural Authority, 1890–1939. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. Pp. 304. $65.00 (cloth).

Nicole Robertson. The Co-operative Movement and Communities in Britain, 1914–1960: Minding Their Own Business. Studies in Labour History. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. 251. £55.00 (cloth).

Michael J. K. Walsh, ed. London, Modernism, and 1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 314. £50.00/$85.00 (cloth).

James C. Whorton. The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work and Play. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 359. $29.95 (cloth).

Clair Wills. Dublin 1916: The Siege of the GPO. Profiles in History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. 272. $23.95 (cloth).

Ian S. Wood. Britain, Ireland and the Second World War. Societies at War. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. Pp. vii–238. $95.00 (cloth).

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