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Volume 51 - Issue 2 - April 2012

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Book Reviews

Mark Harrison. Medicine in an Age of Commerce and Empire: Britain and Its Tropical Colonies, 1660–1830. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 384. $115.00 (cloth).
Harold J. Cook
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21 December 2012, pp. 461-462
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R. A. Houston. Punishing the Dead? Suicide, Lordship, and Community in Britain, 1500–1830. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 528. $150.00 (cloth).
Randall McGowen
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21 December 2012, pp. 462-464
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Rachel Koopmans. Wonderful to Relate: Miracle Stories and Miracle Collecting in High Medieval England. Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. Pp. 328. $65.00 (cloth).
Virginia Blanton
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21 December 2012, pp. 464-465
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Laura Linker. Dangerous Women, Libertine Epicures, and the Rise of Sensibility, 1670–1730. British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. 184. $99.95 (cloth).
Alison Conway
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21 December 2012, pp. 465-466
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Christopher Marsh. Music and Society in Early Modern England. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 624. $110.00 (cloth).
Andrew Ashbee
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21 December 2012, pp. 467-468
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Ted McCormick. William Petty and the Ambitions of Political Arithmetic. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. 352. $99.00 (cloth).
Johann Sommerville
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21 December 2012, pp. 468-469
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Cathryn J. Pearce. Cornish Wrecking, 1700–1860: Reality and Popular Myth. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2010. Pp. 278. $80.00 (cloth).
Helen Doe
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21 December 2012, pp. 469-471
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Seymour Phillips. Edward II. The English Monarchs Series. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010. Pp. 704. $45.00 (cloth).
Mark Buck
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21 December 2012, pp. 471-472
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David Porter. The Chinese Taste in Eighteenth-Century England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 240. $90.00 (cloth).
Robert Batchelor
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21 December 2012, pp. 472-474
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Jonathan Scott. When the Waves Ruled Britannia: Geography and Political Identities, 1500–1800. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. 236. $90.00 (cloth).
Glen O’Hara
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21 December 2012, pp. 474-475
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Juliet Shields. Sentimental Literature and Anglo-Scottish Identity, 1745–1820. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 238. $85.00 (cloth).
Janet Sorensen
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21 December 2012, pp. 475-477
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Jean Sutton. The East India Company’s Maritime Service, 1746–1834: Masters of the Eastern Seas. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2010. Pp. 324. $99.00 (cloth).
Tony Webster
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21 December 2012, pp. 477-478
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Dewey D. Wallace. Shapers of English Calvinism, 1660–1714: Variety, Persistence, and Transformation. Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 368. $74.00 (cloth).
William Gibson
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21 December 2012, pp. 478-480
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John E. Archer. The Monster Evil: Policing and Violence in Victorian Liverpool. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2011. Pp. 281. £18.99 (paper).
Phillip Smith
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21 December 2012, pp. 480-481
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Nina Attwood. The Prostitute’s Body: Rewriting Prostitution in Victorian Britain; The Body, Gender and Culture. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011. Pp. 224. £60.00 (cloth).
Julia Laite
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21 December 2012, pp. 481-483
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Stephen Banks. A Polite Exchange of Bullets: The Duel and the English Gentleman, 1750–1850. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2010. Pp. 330. $99.00 (cloth).
Philip Carter
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21 December 2012, pp. 483-484
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Hilary M. Carey. God’s Empire: Religion and Colonialism in the British World, ca. 1801–1908. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. 448. £60.00 (cloth).
Elizabeth Prevost
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21 December 2012, pp. 484-486
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Travis L. Crosby. Joseph Chamberlain: A Most Radical Imperialist. London: I. B. Tauris, 2011. Pp. xii+271. $99.00 (cloth).
R. J. Q. Adams
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21 December 2012, pp. 486-487
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Virginia Crossman and Peter Gray, eds. Poverty and Welfare in Ireland, 1838–1948. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2011. Pp. 256. $79.95 (cloth).
Moira J. Maguire
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21 December 2012, pp. 487-489
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Phillip A. Dehne. On the Far Western Front: Britain’s First World War in South America. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii+280. $89.95 (cloth).
Eric W. Osborne
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21 December 2012, pp. 489-490
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Book Reviews

Mark Harrison. Medicine in an Age of Commerce and Empire: Britain and Its Tropical Colonies, 1660–1830. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 384. $115.00 (cloth).

R. A. Houston. Punishing the Dead? Suicide, Lordship, and Community in Britain, 1500–1830. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 528. $150.00 (cloth).

Rachel Koopmans. Wonderful to Relate: Miracle Stories and Miracle Collecting in High Medieval England. Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. Pp. 328. $65.00 (cloth).

Laura Linker. Dangerous Women, Libertine Epicures, and the Rise of Sensibility, 1670–1730. British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. 184. $99.95 (cloth).

Christopher Marsh. Music and Society in Early Modern England. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 624. $110.00 (cloth).

Ted McCormick. William Petty and the Ambitions of Political Arithmetic. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. 352. $99.00 (cloth).

Cathryn J. Pearce. Cornish Wrecking, 1700–1860: Reality and Popular Myth. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2010. Pp. 278. $80.00 (cloth).

Seymour Phillips. Edward II. The English Monarchs Series. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010. Pp. 704. $45.00 (cloth).

David Porter. The Chinese Taste in Eighteenth-Century England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 240. $90.00 (cloth).

Jonathan Scott. When the Waves Ruled Britannia: Geography and Political Identities, 1500–1800. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. 236. $90.00 (cloth).

Juliet Shields. Sentimental Literature and Anglo-Scottish Identity, 1745–1820. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 238. $85.00 (cloth).

Jean Sutton. The East India Company’s Maritime Service, 1746–1834: Masters of the Eastern Seas. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2010. Pp. 324. $99.00 (cloth).

Dewey D. Wallace. Shapers of English Calvinism, 1660–1714: Variety, Persistence, and Transformation. Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 368. $74.00 (cloth).

John E. Archer. The Monster Evil: Policing and Violence in Victorian Liverpool. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2011. Pp. 281. £18.99 (paper).

Nina Attwood. The Prostitute’s Body: Rewriting Prostitution in Victorian Britain; The Body, Gender and Culture. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011. Pp. 224. £60.00 (cloth).

Stephen Banks. A Polite Exchange of Bullets: The Duel and the English Gentleman, 1750–1850. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2010. Pp. 330. $99.00 (cloth).

Hilary M. Carey. God’s Empire: Religion and Colonialism in the British World, ca. 1801–1908. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. 448. £60.00 (cloth).

Travis L. Crosby. Joseph Chamberlain: A Most Radical Imperialist. London: I. B. Tauris, 2011. Pp. xii+271. $99.00 (cloth).

Virginia Crossman and Peter Gray, eds. Poverty and Welfare in Ireland, 1838–1948. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2011. Pp. 256. $79.95 (cloth).

Phillip A. Dehne. On the Far Western Front: Britain’s First World War in South America. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii+280. $89.95 (cloth).

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