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Volume 51 - January 2012

Contents

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Book Reviews

Petra Dierkes-Thrun. Salome’s Modernity: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011. Pp. 322. $65.00 (cloth).
Ellis Hanson
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21 December 2012, pp. 490-491
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Terence Dooley and Christopher Ridgway, eds. The Irish Country House: Its Past, Present and Future. Dublin: Four Courts, 2011. Pp. 268. €55.00 (cloth).
Vera Kreilkamp
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21 December 2012, pp. 1047-1048
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Roger Eatwell and Matthew J. Goodwin, eds. The New Extremism in 21st Century Britain. New York: Routledge, 2010. Pp. 262. $47.95 (paper).
Ryan Shaffer
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21 December 2012, pp. 227-229
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Mark Bevir. The Making of British Socialism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. 350. $39.50 (cloth).
Dennis Dworkin
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21 December 2012, pp. 756-758
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Stuart Eagles. After Ruskin: The Social and Political Legacies of a Victorian Prophet, 1870–1920. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 304. $110.00 (cloth).
Peter Garratt
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21 December 2012, pp. 491-493
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Nicholas Freeman. 1895: Drama, Disaster and Disgrace in Late Victorian Britain. Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011. Pp. 248. £65.00 (cloth).
Barry Faulk
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21 December 2012, pp. 1049-1050
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Georgina Byrne. Modern Spiritualism and the Church of England, 1850–1939. Studies in Modern British Religious History. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2010. Pp. xi+252. $95.00 (cloth).
Carol Engelhardt Herringer
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21 December 2012, pp. 758-759
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Michael Heller. London Clerical Workers, 1880–1914. Perspectives in Economic and Social History. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011. Pp. 262. $99.65 (cloth).
Tim Alborn
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21 December 2012, pp. 229-230
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Peter Garratt. Victorian Empiricism: Self, Knowledge, and Reality in Ruskin, Bain, Lewes, Spencer, and George Eliot. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010. Pp. 244. $57.50 (cloth).
Jonathan Farina
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21 December 2012, pp. 493-495
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Mary E. Daly and K. Theodore Hoppen, eds. Gladstone: Ireland and Beyond. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011. Pp. 208. $60.00 (cloth).
Michael Silvestri
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21 December 2012, pp. 759-761
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Clare V. J. Griffiths, James J. Nott, and William Whythe, eds. Classes, Cultures, and Politics: Essays on British History for Ross McKibbin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 368. $125.00 (cloth).
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21 December 2012, p. 1050
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Joanna Herbert. Negotiating Boundaries of the City: Migration, Ethnicity, and Gender in Britain. Studies in Migration and Diaspora. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. Pp. 240. $99.95 (cloth).
Charlotte Wildman
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21 December 2012, pp. 230-232
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Lesley A. Hall. The Life and Times of Stella Browne: Feminist and Free Spirit. London: I. B. Tauris, 2011. Pp. 292. $40.00 (cloth).
George Robb
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21 December 2012, pp. 495-496
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Santanu Das, ed. Race, Empire and First World War Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. 334. £58.00 (cloth).
Alice Kelly
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21 December 2012, pp. 761-763
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Ian Hesketh. The Science of History in Victorian Britain. Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011. Pp. xi+240. $99.00 (cloth).
Michael Carignan
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21 December 2012, pp. 232-233
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Thomas Hajkowski. The BBC and National Identity in Britain, 1922–1953. Studies in Popular Culture. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010. Pp. xii+252. £60.00 (cloth).
Todd Avery
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21 December 2012, pp. 1052-1053
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Jackie C. Horne. History and the Construction of the Child in Early British Children’s Literature. Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to Present. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. xiv+283. £55.00 (cloth).
Elizabeth Gargano
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21 December 2012, pp. 1053-1055
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Sandra Trudgen Dawson. Holiday Camps in Twentieth-Century Britain: Packaging Pleasure. Studies in Popular Culture. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011. Pp. 240. £60.00 (cloth).
Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska
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21 December 2012, pp. 763-764
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C. I. Hamilton. The Making of the Modern Admiralty: British Naval Policy-Making, 1805–1927. Cambridge Military Histories. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2011. Pp. 356. $99.00 (cloth).
Don Leggett
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21 December 2012, pp. 496-498
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Christine Kinealy. Daniel O’Connell and the Anti-slavery Movement. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011. Pp. viii+218. $99.00 (cloth).
David T. Gleeson
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21 December 2012, pp. 233-235
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Book Reviews

Petra Dierkes-Thrun. Salome’s Modernity: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011. Pp. 322. $65.00 (cloth).

Terence Dooley and Christopher Ridgway, eds. The Irish Country House: Its Past, Present and Future. Dublin: Four Courts, 2011. Pp. 268. €55.00 (cloth).

Roger Eatwell and Matthew J. Goodwin, eds. The New Extremism in 21st Century Britain. New York: Routledge, 2010. Pp. 262. $47.95 (paper).

Mark Bevir. The Making of British Socialism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. 350. $39.50 (cloth).

Stuart Eagles. After Ruskin: The Social and Political Legacies of a Victorian Prophet, 1870–1920. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 304. $110.00 (cloth).

Nicholas Freeman. 1895: Drama, Disaster and Disgrace in Late Victorian Britain. Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011. Pp. 248. £65.00 (cloth).

Georgina Byrne. Modern Spiritualism and the Church of England, 1850–1939. Studies in Modern British Religious History. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2010. Pp. xi+252. $95.00 (cloth).

Michael Heller. London Clerical Workers, 1880–1914. Perspectives in Economic and Social History. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011. Pp. 262. $99.65 (cloth).

Peter Garratt. Victorian Empiricism: Self, Knowledge, and Reality in Ruskin, Bain, Lewes, Spencer, and George Eliot. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010. Pp. 244. $57.50 (cloth).

Mary E. Daly and K. Theodore Hoppen, eds. Gladstone: Ireland and Beyond. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011. Pp. 208. $60.00 (cloth).

Clare V. J. Griffiths, James J. Nott, and William Whythe, eds. Classes, Cultures, and Politics: Essays on British History for Ross McKibbin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 368. $125.00 (cloth).

Joanna Herbert. Negotiating Boundaries of the City: Migration, Ethnicity, and Gender in Britain. Studies in Migration and Diaspora. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. Pp. 240. $99.95 (cloth).

Lesley A. Hall. The Life and Times of Stella Browne: Feminist and Free Spirit. London: I. B. Tauris, 2011. Pp. 292. $40.00 (cloth).

Santanu Das, ed. Race, Empire and First World War Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. 334. £58.00 (cloth).

Ian Hesketh. The Science of History in Victorian Britain. Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011. Pp. xi+240. $99.00 (cloth).

Thomas Hajkowski. The BBC and National Identity in Britain, 1922–1953. Studies in Popular Culture. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010. Pp. xii+252. £60.00 (cloth).

Jackie C. Horne. History and the Construction of the Child in Early British Children’s Literature. Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to Present. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. xiv+283. £55.00 (cloth).

Sandra Trudgen Dawson. Holiday Camps in Twentieth-Century Britain: Packaging Pleasure. Studies in Popular Culture. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011. Pp. 240. £60.00 (cloth).

C. I. Hamilton. The Making of the Modern Admiralty: British Naval Policy-Making, 1805–1927. Cambridge Military Histories. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2011. Pp. 356. $99.00 (cloth).

Christine Kinealy. Daniel O’Connell and the Anti-slavery Movement. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011. Pp. viii+218. $99.00 (cloth).

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