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Volume 51 - January 2012

Contents

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Book Reviews

Jane Hamlett. Material Relations: Domestic Interiors and Middle-Class Families in England, 1850–1910. Studies in Design. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010. Pp. 288. $89.95 (cloth).
Sandra Trudgen Dawson
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21 December 2012, pp. 498-499
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Roger Knight and Martin Wilcox. Sustaining the Fleet, 1793–1815: War, the British Navy and the Contractor State. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2010. Pp. 262. $99.00 (cloth).
Stephen Moore
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21 December 2012, pp. 235-236
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Lucy Delap. Knowing Their Place: Domestic Service in Twentieth-Century Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 260. $115.56 (cloth).
Jamie Bronstein
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21 December 2012, pp. 764-766
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Heather Jones. Violence against Prisoners of War in the First World War: Britain, France, and Germany, 1914–1920. Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Warfare 34. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. 451. £65.00 (cloth).
Caroline Shaw
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21 December 2012, pp. 1055-1056
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Milos̄ Ković. Disraeli and the Eastern Question. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 368. $115.00 (cloth).
Sam Johnson
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21 December 2012, pp. 236-237
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Richard Hornsey. The Spiv and the Architect: Unruly Life in Postwar London. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. Pp. 310. $24.95 (paper).
Frank Mort
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21 December 2012, pp. 499-501
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Tamara Ketabgian. The Lives of Machines: The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011. Pp. 237. $35.00 (paper).
Clare Pettitt
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21 December 2012, pp. 1056-1058
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David Edgerton. Britain’s War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 445. $34.95 (cloth).
Gavin Bailey
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21 December 2012, pp. 766-767
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Charles LaPorte. Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible. Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011. Pp. 284. $45.00 (cloth).
Kirstie Blair
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21 December 2012, pp. 1058-1059
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Annmarie Hughes. Gender and Political Identities in Scotland, 1919–1939. Scottish Historical Review Monograph no. 17. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. Pp. 235. £45.00 (cloth).
James J. Smyth
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21 December 2012, pp. 501-502
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Mira Matikkala. Empire and Imperial Ambition: Liberty, Englishness and Anti-Imperialism in Late-Victorian Britain. Library of Victorian Studies. London: I. B. Tauris, 2011. Pp. x+288. £59.60 (cloth).
Georgios Varouxakis
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21 December 2012, pp. 238-239
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David Feldman and Jon Lawrence, eds. Structures and Transformations in Modern British History: Essays for Gareth Stedman Jones. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. 344. £40.00 (cloth).
Laura Beers
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21 December 2012, pp. 767-769
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Sydney Janet Kaplan. Circulating Genius: John Middleton Murry, Katherine Mansfield and D. H. Lawrence. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. Pp. 228. $105.00 (cloth).
Alice Kelly
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21 December 2012, pp. 502-504
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D. M. Leeson. The Black and Tans: British Police and Auxiliaries in the Irish War of Independence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 294. $55.00 (cloth).
Mark Doyle
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21 December 2012, pp. 1059-1061
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Shane McCorristine. Spectres of the Self: Thinking about Ghosts and Ghost-Seeing in England, 1750–1920. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 275. $33.99 (paper).
Sasha Handley
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21 December 2012, pp. 239-240
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S. J. D. Green. The Passing of Protestant England: Secularisation and Social Change, c. 1920–1960. Cambridge Studies in Economic History, 2nd Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 342. £60.00 (cloth).
Stephen G. Parker
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21 December 2012, pp. 769-770
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Ruth Hoberman. Museum Trouble: Edwardian Fiction and the Emergence of Modernism. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011. Pp. 236. $39.50 (cloth).
Susan David Bernstein
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21 December 2012, pp. 770-772
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David McLean. Surgeons of the Fleet: The Royal Navy and Its Medics from Trafalgar to Jutland. London: I. B. Tauris, 2010. Pp. xiv+296. $55.00 (cloth).
Mary Conley
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21 December 2012, pp. 241-242
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Caroline McCracken-Flesher. The Doctor Dissected: A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Murders. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. 288. $65.00 (cloth).
Matthew L. Newsom Kerr
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21 December 2012, pp. 1061-1062
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Theodore Koditschek. Liberalism, Imperialism, and the Historical Imagination: Nineteenth Century Visions of a Greater Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. 368. $99.99 (cloth).
Jeffrey Auerbach
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21 December 2012, pp. 504-506
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Book Reviews

Jane Hamlett. Material Relations: Domestic Interiors and Middle-Class Families in England, 1850–1910. Studies in Design. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010. Pp. 288. $89.95 (cloth).

Roger Knight and Martin Wilcox. Sustaining the Fleet, 1793–1815: War, the British Navy and the Contractor State. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2010. Pp. 262. $99.00 (cloth).

Lucy Delap. Knowing Their Place: Domestic Service in Twentieth-Century Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 260. $115.56 (cloth).

Heather Jones. Violence against Prisoners of War in the First World War: Britain, France, and Germany, 1914–1920. Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Warfare 34. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. 451. £65.00 (cloth).

Milos̄ Ković. Disraeli and the Eastern Question. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 368. $115.00 (cloth).

Richard Hornsey. The Spiv and the Architect: Unruly Life in Postwar London. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. Pp. 310. $24.95 (paper).

Tamara Ketabgian. The Lives of Machines: The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011. Pp. 237. $35.00 (paper).

David Edgerton. Britain’s War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 445. $34.95 (cloth).

Charles LaPorte. Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible. Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011. Pp. 284. $45.00 (cloth).

Annmarie Hughes. Gender and Political Identities in Scotland, 1919–1939. Scottish Historical Review Monograph no. 17. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. Pp. 235. £45.00 (cloth).

Mira Matikkala. Empire and Imperial Ambition: Liberty, Englishness and Anti-Imperialism in Late-Victorian Britain. Library of Victorian Studies. London: I. B. Tauris, 2011. Pp. x+288. £59.60 (cloth).

David Feldman and Jon Lawrence, eds. Structures and Transformations in Modern British History: Essays for Gareth Stedman Jones. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. 344. £40.00 (cloth).

Sydney Janet Kaplan. Circulating Genius: John Middleton Murry, Katherine Mansfield and D. H. Lawrence. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. Pp. 228. $105.00 (cloth).

D. M. Leeson. The Black and Tans: British Police and Auxiliaries in the Irish War of Independence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 294. $55.00 (cloth).

Shane McCorristine. Spectres of the Self: Thinking about Ghosts and Ghost-Seeing in England, 1750–1920. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 275. $33.99 (paper).

S. J. D. Green. The Passing of Protestant England: Secularisation and Social Change, c. 1920–1960. Cambridge Studies in Economic History, 2nd Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 342. £60.00 (cloth).

Ruth Hoberman. Museum Trouble: Edwardian Fiction and the Emergence of Modernism. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011. Pp. 236. $39.50 (cloth).

David McLean. Surgeons of the Fleet: The Royal Navy and Its Medics from Trafalgar to Jutland. London: I. B. Tauris, 2010. Pp. xiv+296. $55.00 (cloth).

Caroline McCracken-Flesher. The Doctor Dissected: A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Murders. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. 288. $65.00 (cloth).

Theodore Koditschek. Liberalism, Imperialism, and the Historical Imagination: Nineteenth Century Visions of a Greater Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. 368. $99.99 (cloth).

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