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Volume 51 - January 2012

Contents

Page 7 of 12

Book Reviews

Jacob Selwood. Diversity and Difference in Early Modern London. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. 226. $119.95 (cloth).
Jeremy Boulton
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21 December 2012, pp. 1031-1032
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Erin A. Sadlack. The French Queen’s Letters: Mary Tudor Brandon and the Politics of Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Europe. Queenship and Power. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Pp. 278. $80.00 (cloth).
Sandra Bell
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21 December 2012, pp. 742-743
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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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Mark Williams and Stephen Paul Forrest, eds. Constructing the Past: Writing Irish History, 1600–1800. Irish Historical Monographs. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2010. Pp. 216. $95.00 (cloth).
Kenneth L. Campbell
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21 December 2012, pp. 212-214
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Gwen Seabourne. Imprisoning Medieval Women: The Non-judicial Confinement and Abduction of Women in England, c. 1170–1509. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. 238. $124.95 (cloth).
Sara M. Butler
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21 December 2012, pp. 743-744
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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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Sam Worby. Law and Kinship in Thirteenth-Century England. Royal Historical Society Studies in History, n.s. Rochester, NY: Boydell, 2010. Pp. 206. $90.00 (cloth).
Frederik Pedersen
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21 December 2012, pp. 214-215
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Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth. Selling Science in the Age of Newton: Advertising and the Commoditization of Knowledge. Science, Technology and Culture, 1700–1945. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. 218. $119.95 (cloth).
Louise Hill Curth
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21 December 2012, pp. 1033-1034
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Nigel Smith. Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010. Pp. 416. $45.00 (cloth).
Estelle Haan
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21 December 2012, pp. 745-746
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Samantha Williams. Poverty, Gender and Life-Cycle under the English Poor Law, 1760–1834. Royal Historical Society Studies in History, n.s. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2011. Pp. 204. $90.00 (cloth).
Paul A. Fideler
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21 December 2012, pp. 1034-1036
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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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Natalie A. Zacek. Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670–1776. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 310. $90.00 (cloth).
Susan D. Amussen
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21 December 2012, pp. 215-217
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Nuala Zahedieh. The Capital and the Colonies: London and the Atlantic Economy, 1660–1700. New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 352. $95.00 (cloth).
Kenneth Morgan
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21 December 2012, pp. 217-218
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Kate Kelsey Staples. Daughters of London: Inheriting Opportunity in the Late Middle Ages. Later Medieval Europe 8. Leiden: Brill, 2011. Pp. 240. $135.00 (cloth).
Peter L. Larson
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21 December 2012, pp. 746-748
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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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Casper Andersen. British Engineers and Africa, 1875–1914. Empires in Perspective. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011. Pp. 229. $99.00 (cloth).
Jennifer Hart
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21 December 2012, pp. 1036-1037
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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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Juliette Atkinson. Victorian Biography Reconsidered: A Study of Nineteenth-Century “Hidden” Lives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 315. $99.00 (cloth).
Sarah J. Heidt
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21 December 2012, pp. 1037-1039
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Timothy Alborn. Regulated Lives: Life Insurance and British Society, 1800–1914. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. Pp. 464. $80.00 (cloth).
Maura O'Connor
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21 December 2012, pp. 218-220
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Philip J. Stern. The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 320. $65.00 (cloth).
Paul D. Halliday
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21 December 2012, pp. 748-749
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Book Reviews

Jacob Selwood. Diversity and Difference in Early Modern London. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. 226. $119.95 (cloth).

Erin A. Sadlack. The French Queen’s Letters: Mary Tudor Brandon and the Politics of Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Europe. Queenship and Power. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Pp. 278. $80.00 (cloth).

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

Mark Williams and Stephen Paul Forrest, eds. Constructing the Past: Writing Irish History, 1600–1800. Irish Historical Monographs. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2010. Pp. 216. $95.00 (cloth).

Gwen Seabourne. Imprisoning Medieval Women: The Non-judicial Confinement and Abduction of Women in England, c. 1170–1509. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. 238. $124.95 (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).

Sam Worby. Law and Kinship in Thirteenth-Century England. Royal Historical Society Studies in History, n.s. Rochester, NY: Boydell, 2010. Pp. 206. $90.00 (cloth).

Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth. Selling Science in the Age of Newton: Advertising and the Commoditization of Knowledge. Science, Technology and Culture, 1700–1945. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. 218. $119.95 (cloth).

Nigel Smith. Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010. Pp. 416. $45.00 (cloth).

Samantha Williams. Poverty, Gender and Life-Cycle under the English Poor Law, 1760–1834. Royal Historical Society Studies in History, n.s. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2011. Pp. 204. $90.00 (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).

Natalie A. Zacek. Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670–1776. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 310. $90.00 (cloth).

Nuala Zahedieh. The Capital and the Colonies: London and the Atlantic Economy, 1660–1700. New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 352. $95.00 (cloth).

Kate Kelsey Staples. Daughters of London: Inheriting Opportunity in the Late Middle Ages. Later Medieval Europe 8. Leiden: Brill, 2011. Pp. 240. $135.00 (cloth).

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

Casper Andersen. British Engineers and Africa, 1875–1914. Empires in Perspective. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011. Pp. 229. $99.00 (cloth).

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).

Juliette Atkinson. Victorian Biography Reconsidered: A Study of Nineteenth-Century “Hidden” Lives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 315. $99.00 (cloth).

Timothy Alborn. Regulated Lives: Life Insurance and British Society, 1800–1914. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. Pp. 464. $80.00 (cloth).

Philip J. Stern. The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 320. $65.00 (cloth).

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