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Volume 51 - January 2012

Contents

Page 8 of 12

Book Reviews

Carolyn Betensky. Feeling for the Poor: Bourgeois Compassion, Social Action and the Victorian Novel. Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010. Pp. 240. $39.50 (cloth).
Christine DeVine
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21 December 2012, pp. 1039-1040
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Katie Whitaker. A Royal Passion: The Turbulent Marriage of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France. New York: W. W. Norton, 2010. Pp. 374. $26.95 (cloth).
Charles Beem
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21 December 2012, pp. 749-750
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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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Rupert Richard Arrowsmith. Modernism and the Museum: Asian, African, and Pacific Art and the London Avant-Garde. Oxford English Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 264. $110.00 (cloth).
Andrea Geddes Poole
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21 December 2012, pp. 220-221
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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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Edward Adams. Liberal Epic: The Victorian Practice of History from Gibbon to Churchill. Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011. Pp. x+322. $39.50 (cloth).
Ian Hesketh
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21 December 2012, pp. 750-752
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Alison Butler. Victorian Occultism and the Making of Modern Magic: Invoking Tradition. Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Pp. xiii+225. £55.00 (cloth).
Karl Bell
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21 December 2012, pp. 221-223
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Mark Bradley, ed. Classics and Imperialism in the British Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 350. $125.00 (cloth).
Theodore Koditschek
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21 December 2012, pp. 1040-1042
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Brian Arthur. How Britain Won the War of 1812: The Royal Navy’s Blockades of the United States, 1812–1815. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2011. Pp. 328. $99.00 (cloth).
Kevin D. McCranie
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21 December 2012, pp. 752-753
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Ewen A. Cameron. Impaled upon a Thistle: Scotland since 1880. The New Edinburgh History of Scotland 10. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv+433. $32.95 (paper); $95.00 (cloth).
Graeme Morton
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21 December 2012, pp. 223-224
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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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Kathryn Chittick. The Language of Whiggism: Liberty and Patriotism, 1802–1830. The Enlightenment World: Political and Intellectual History of the Long Eighteenth Century. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2010. Pp. 243. $99.00 (cloth).
William Anthony Hay
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21 December 2012, pp. 1042-1043
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Gregory Claeys. Imperial Sceptics: British Critics of Empire, 1850–1920. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 334. $95.00 (cloth).
S. M. den Otter
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21 December 2012, pp. 224-226
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Tom Crook, Rebecca Gill, and Bertrand Taithe, eds. Evil, Barbarism and Empire: Britain and Abroad, ca. 1830–2000. Houndsmills: Macmillan, 2011. Pp. x+290. $85.00 (cloth).
Michelle Tusan
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21 December 2012, pp. 1043-1045
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Colin Barr. The European Culture Wars in Ireland: The Callan Schools Affair, 1868–81. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2010. Pp. 320. $89.95 (cloth).
Paul Townend
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21 December 2012, pp. 753-755
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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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Leonore Davidoff. Thicker than Water: Siblings and Their Relations, 1780–1920. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. 449. £35.00 (cloth).
Ginger Frost
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21 December 2012, pp. 1045-1047
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Michael Bentley. The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield: History, Science and God. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. 398. $85.00 (cloth).
James Lothian
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21 December 2012, pp. 755-756
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Paul J. Deveney. Callaghan's Journey to Downing Street. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Pp. 240. £57.50 (cloth).
Kevin Jefferys
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21 December 2012, pp. 226-227
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Book Reviews

Carolyn Betensky. Feeling for the Poor: Bourgeois Compassion, Social Action and the Victorian Novel. Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010. Pp. 240. $39.50 (cloth).

Katie Whitaker. A Royal Passion: The Turbulent Marriage of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France. New York: W. W. Norton, 2010. Pp. 374. $26.95 (cloth).

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

Rupert Richard Arrowsmith. Modernism and the Museum: Asian, African, and Pacific Art and the London Avant-Garde. Oxford English Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 264. $110.00 (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).

Edward Adams. Liberal Epic: The Victorian Practice of History from Gibbon to Churchill. Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011. Pp. x+322. $39.50 (cloth).

Alison Butler. Victorian Occultism and the Making of Modern Magic: Invoking Tradition. Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Pp. xiii+225. £55.00 (cloth).

Mark Bradley, ed. Classics and Imperialism in the British Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 350. $125.00 (cloth).

Brian Arthur. How Britain Won the War of 1812: The Royal Navy’s Blockades of the United States, 1812–1815. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2011. Pp. 328. $99.00 (cloth).

Ewen A. Cameron. Impaled upon a Thistle: Scotland since 1880. The New Edinburgh History of Scotland 10. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv+433. $32.95 (paper); $95.00 (cloth).

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

Kathryn Chittick. The Language of Whiggism: Liberty and Patriotism, 1802–1830. The Enlightenment World: Political and Intellectual History of the Long Eighteenth Century. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2010. Pp. 243. $99.00 (cloth).

Gregory Claeys. Imperial Sceptics: British Critics of Empire, 1850–1920. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 334. $95.00 (cloth).

Tom Crook, Rebecca Gill, and Bertrand Taithe, eds. Evil, Barbarism and Empire: Britain and Abroad, ca. 1830–2000. Houndsmills: Macmillan, 2011. Pp. x+290. $85.00 (cloth).

Colin Barr. The European Culture Wars in Ireland: The Callan Schools Affair, 1868–81. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2010. Pp. 320. $89.95 (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).

Leonore Davidoff. Thicker than Water: Siblings and Their Relations, 1780–1920. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. 449. £35.00 (cloth).

Michael Bentley. The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield: History, Science and God. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. 398. $85.00 (cloth).

Paul J. Deveney. Callaghan's Journey to Downing Street. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Pp. 240. £57.50 (cloth).

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