Albion articles from June 2003

Albion archives from June 2003

Royalty, virtue, and adversity: the cult of King Henry VI.
June 22, 2003... In 1471, King Henry VI of England died in the Tower of London amid disputed circumstances. Between his death and Henry VIII's break with Rome in the 1530s, he was venerated as a saint and martyr. Modern historians have generally dismissed this...

Cuthbert Tunstal and heresy in Essex and London, 1528.
June 22, 2003... Lollardy, the native English heresy vigorously suppressed since the early fifteenth-century, did not die with its suppression in the wake of the rebellion of Sir John Oldcastle in 1414. A century later Lollard beliefs remained current, albeit...

The world of Alexander Campbell: an eighteenth-century Grenadian planter.
June 22, 2003... In 1763 few Europeans doubted the enormous importance of their Caribbean possessions, a fact indicated by the ready willingness of the French to cede Canada in order to regain British-occupied Martinique. The British were no different, and in...

Ananya Jahanara Kabir. Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 32.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. xi, 210. $70.00. ISBN 0-521-80600-3. This book demonstrates reassuringly that some of the most interesting topics in the field of Old English...

Ted Johnson South, ed. Historia de Sancto Cuthberto: a History of Saint Cuthbert and a Record of his Patrimony.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (Anglo-Saxon Texts 3.) Rochester, N. Y.: Boydell and Brewer. 2002. Pp. x, 158. $75.00. ISBN 0-85991-627-8. The church of Durham was one of the greatest ecclesiastical communities in northern England, holding large tracts of land in County...

Richard P. Abels and Bernard S. Bachrach, eds. The Normans and their Adversaries at War.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (Warfare in History.) Rochester, N. Y.: The Boydell Press. 2001. Pp. vii, 232. $90.00. ISBN 0-85115-847-1. Some may be disappointed that, despite its title, this volume does not offer a more focused and comparative analysis of the military...

Noel James Menuge. Medieval English Wardship in Romance and Law.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... Rochester, N. Y.: Boydell and Brewer. 2001. Pp. viii, 149. $75.00. ISBN 0-85991-632-4. Perhaps a declaration of possible bias is in order at the outset. I write this review as a legal historian, but one whose dissertation and subsequent...

Anne Duggan, ed. The Correspondence of Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury, 1162-1170.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Two Volumes. (Oxford Medieval Texts.) New York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press. 2000. Pp. clxxxii, 1490. $250.00 (Two Vol. Set). ISBN 0-19-822265-3. Imagine, if you will, a collection of the letters of a major medieval...

Robert B. Patterson. The Scriptorium of Margam Abbey and the Scribes of Early Angevin Glamorgan: Secretarial Administration in a Welsh Marcher Barony, c. 1150-1225.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Rochester, N. Y.: The Boydell Press. 2002. PP. xxxvi, 147. $110.00. ISBN 0-85115-851-X. Many studies in recent years have focused attention on English scribes and chanceries in the two centuries following the Norman Conquest. These studies...

Nicholas Vincent. The Holy Blood: King Henry III and the Westminster Blood Relic.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. xiii, 254. $50.00. ISBN 0-521-57128-6. In 1247, King Henry III of England ordered the great men of his kingdom, both lay and clerical, to assemble at Westminster on October 13, the Feast of...

Rosemary Horrox and Sarah Rees Jones, eds. Pragmatic Utopias: Ideals and Communities, 1200-1630.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. x, 286. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-65060-7. Over four decades Barrie Dobson has done much to develop and delineate the subject of later medieval and early modern English communities, both real and...

Douglas Biggs, Sharon D. Michalove, and A. Compton Reeves, eds. Traditions and Transformations in Late Medieval England.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (The Northern World.) Boston, Mass.: Brill. 2001. Pp. xvii, 268. $103.00. ISBN 90-04-12341-5. For many years historians and others were of the opinion, as E. F. Jacob once observed, that fifteenth-century England was the "gloomy...

Michael Hicks, ed. Revolution and Consumption in Late Medieval England.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (The Fifteenth Century, Volume II.) Rochester, N. Y.: Boydell and Brewer. 2001. Pp. ix, 198. $75.00. ISBN 0-85115-832-3. This book gathers together selected papers from a fifteenth-century history conference held at the University of...

Joseph Biancalana. The Fee Tail and the Common Recovery in Medieval England, 1176-1502.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (Cambridge Studies in English Legal History.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001, Pp. xix, 498. $100.00. ISBN 0-521-80646-1. This book is one of the most impressive works on English land law to have appeared in recent decades. The...

Norman Jones. The English Reformation: Religion and Cultural Adaptation.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. 2002. Pp. xv, 253. $29.95 paper. ISBN 0-631-21043-1. The focus of writing about the Reformation in England has changed significantly in the last two or three decades. Earlier works, like A. G. Dickens's classic...

Christopher Highley and John N. King, eds. John Foxe and His World.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2002. Pp. xix, 297. $99.95. ISBN 0-7546-0306-7. The St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History has published over twenty-eight manuscripts. John Foxe and His World...

Jennifer Andersen and Elizabeth Sauer, eds. Books and Readers in Early Modern England: Material Studies.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (Material Texts.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2002. Pp. vi, 305. $24.95 paper. ISBN 0-8122-1794-2. I read, therefore I am: in this excellent new collection of essays, the reader emerges as a creative and self-fashioning...

Mark Stoyle, West Britons: Cornish Identities and the Early Modern British State.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Exeter, U. K.: University of Exeter Press. 2002. Pp. xxvi, 262. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-85989-687-0. Mark Stoyle's collection of eight articles, five of them previously published elsewhere (including one, on the Gear Rout of 1648,...

Vincent P. Carey. Surviving the Tudors: the "Wizard" Earl of Kildare and English Rule in Ireland, 1537-1586.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Portland, Ore.: Four Courts Press; dist. by ISBS, Portland, Ore. 2002. Pp. 240. $55.00. ISBN 1-85182-549-5. The task of a historian who wishes to write a biography of a sixteenth-century Irish lord has always been difficult. Not only are...

Peter Lake with Michael Questier. The Antichrist's Lewd Hat: Protestants, Papists and Players in Post-Reformation England.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 2002. Pp. xxxiv, 731. $45.00. ISBN 0-300-08884-1. The word portmanteau does not usually figure in book reviews, but it came to mind often as I read The Antichrist's Lewd Hat by Peter Lake, with...

Juliet Fleming. Graffiti and the Writing Arts of Early Modern England.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (Material Texts.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2001. Pp. 224. $35.00. ISBN 0-8122-3629-7. Tattoos, graffiti, pots, poesy rings, and inscriptions on clothes and on implements were all significant and meaningful forms of...

Jon A. Quitslund. Spenser's Supreme Fiction: Platonic Natural Philosophy and "The Faerie Queene.".(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Buffalo, N. Y.: University of Toronto Press. 2001. Pp. xiv, 373. $70.00. ISBN 0-8020-3505-1. Jon A. Quitslund's book on Spenser's life and career argues that "Platonism [is] at the root and in all the branches of Spenser's laureate life"...

Cheryl A. Fury. Tides in the Affairs of Men: the Social History of the Elizabethan Seamen, 1580-1603.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (Contributions in Military Studies, Number 214.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 293. $64.95. ISBN 0-313-31948-0. Fury has selected to examine a period of great stress for English sailors. They had began enduring the...

Brian Nance. Turquet de Mayerne as Baroque Physician: the Art of Medical Portraiture.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (Clio Medica 65. The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine.) New York: Editions Ridopi B.V. 2001. Pp. xiii, 237. $23.00 paper. ISBN 90-420-1131-9. Brian Nance has scrutinized the extensive Latin casebooks of Theodore Turquet de...

Randolph Vigne and Charles Littleton, eds. From Strangers to Citizens: the Integration of Immigrant Communities in Britain, Ireland and Colonial America, 1550-1750.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Portland, Ore.: Sussex Academic Press and The Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland; dist. by ISBS, Portland, Ore. 2001. Pp. xxiv, 567. $35.00 paper. ISBN 1-902210-86-7. This volume contains the papers given at a conference...

Chris R. Kyle, ed. Parliament, Politics and Elections 1604-1648.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (Camden Fifth Series, Volume 17.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. xi, 355. $65.00. ISBN 0-521-80214-8. This volume reproduces a range of primary source material relating to English parliaments of the first half of the...

Reid Barbour. Literature and Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century England.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. viii, 282. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-00664-3. After a fruitful generation's work exfoliating the rich complexities of literary history in the Civil War and Commonwealth, and the redefinitions of the...

Jason Peacey, ed. The Regicides and the Execution of Charles I.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. x, 294. $72.00. ISBN 0-333-80259-4. This important collection of essays offers a timely reassessment of the regicide. As the editor points out, there has been surprisingly little work on this in recent years...

James Grantham Turner. Libertines and Radicals in Early Modern London: Sexuality, Politics and Literary Culture, 1630-1685.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xxii, 343. $65.00. ISBN 0-521-78279-1. Turner's book is interested in the cultural and generic "moisten[ings] and loosen[ings]" of libertinism (p. ix), and watches the social migration and...

Alan Houston and Steve Pincus, eds. A Nation Transformed: England after the Restoration.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. ix, 337. $65.00. ISBN 0-521- 80252-0. The intellectual framework for the essays in this volume is the thesis of Alan Houston and Steve Pincus that late seventeenth-century England underwent...

Timothy Morton and Nigel Smith, eds. Radicalism in British Literary Culture, 1650-1830: from Revolution to Revolution.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. x,284. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-64215-9. Radicalism in British Literary Culture follows in a tradition of historical writing that attempts to discover sources of political radicalism and its...

Todd M. Endelman. The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (Jewish Communities in the Modern World.) Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 348. $22.50 paper. ISBN 0-520-22720-4. This is the first book to deal thoroughly with the history of the Jews of Britain from the...

Lisa A. Freeman. Character's Theater: Genre and Identity on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2002. Pp. 298. $47.50. ISBN 0-8122-3639-4. One of the consolations of aging is watching the next generation continue the work of yours and supersede it. So it is with Lisa Freeman's excellent...

Isabel Rivers, ed., Books and Their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New York: Leicester University Press; dist. by Continuum. 2001. Pp. x, 294. $107.95. ISBN 0-7185-0189-6. Two decades after her Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England (1982), Isabel Rivers has edited a new collection of essays...

Jonathan Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill, eds. Samuel Johnson in Historical Context.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (Studies in Modern History.) New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. xii, 318. $78.00. ISBN 0-333-80447-3. This book of lively and provocative essays has been divided, like Gaul, into three parts. Part One, made up of three essays, addresses "The...

David Womersley. Gibbon and the "Watchmen of the Holy City": The Historian and His Reputation 1776-1815.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 452. $99.00. ISBN 0-19-818733-5. David Womersley's excellent new book is somewhat misleadingly titled; it is not exclusively or even primarily a revisiting of "Gibbon's...

Robin Nicholson. Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Making of a Myth: a Study in Portraiture, 1720-1892.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Cranbury, N. J.: Bucknell University Press. 2002. Pp. 156. $59.50. ISBN 0-8387-5495-3. Robin Nicholson is a historian who has been Curator of Drambuie's Scottish and Jacobite art collection since 1992, and is thus a scholar who has...

John Smail, ed. Woollen Manufacturing in Yorkshire: the Memorandum Books of John Brearley, Cloth Frizzer at Wakefield, 1758-62.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Record Series, Volume CLV.) Rochester, N. Y.: Boydell and Brewer for the Yorkshire Archaeological Society. 2001. Pp. xxi, 143. $90.00. ISBN 0-902122-88-6. Anyone interested in the domestic system of cloth...

Laurence Ince. Neath Abbey and the Industrial Revolution.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Charleston, S.C.: Tempus Publishing, Ltd.; dist. by Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, S. C. 2001. Pp. 192. $27.99 paper. ISBN 0-7524-2145-X. Despite the title, this is one of those studies that contributes, perhaps inadvertently, to a...

Katherine Turner. British Travel Writers in Europe 1750-1800: Authorship, Gender and National Identity.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (Studies in European Cultural Transition, Vol. 10.) Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2001. Pp. vii 276. $79.95. ISBN 0-7546-0242-7. Katherine Turner's stated aim in this study is "to recreate the world of eighteenth-century travel writing in order...

Susan Wollenberg. Music at Oxford in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New York: Oxford University Press. 2001. Pp. xxiii, 250. $95.00. ISBN 0-19-316408-6. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have not been a highly esteemed period of British music, because of the absence of a top-flight composer between...

J. C. S. Mason. The Moravian Church and the Missionary Awakening in England 1760-1800.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (The Royal Historical Society Studies in History.) Rochester, N.Y.: The Boydell Press for The Royal Historical Society. 2001. Pp. xv, 229. $75.00. ISBN 0-86193-251-X. Mason provides us with another in a spate of recent monographs focusing...

Terry Coleman. The Nelson Touch: the Life and Legend of Horatio Nelson.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. xix, 424. $35.00. ISBN 0-19-514741-3. This fascinating scholarly book is a most comprehensive and critical biography of Horatio Nelson, one of Britain's best known sea heroes. The aim of the...

Anne K. Mellor. Mothers of the Nation. Women's Political Writing in England, 1780-1830.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (Women of Letters.) Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 173. $17.95 paper. ISBN 0-253-21369-X. In this ambitious and clearly written monograph Anne Mellor discusses a range of "political" writing by English women...

Derek E. Ostergard, ed. William Beckford, 1760-1844: an Eye for the Magnificent.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press for The Bard Graduate Center. 2001. Pp. 448. $75.00. ISBN 0-300-09068-4. This book was designed as the catalogue for an exhibition of the same name organized by The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in...

. National Character and Public Spirit in Britain and France, 1750-1914.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. ix, 348. $65.00. ISBN 0-521-81000-0. At a time when historians wield the term "national identity" with great promiscuity and looseness, it is particularly welcome that historians of political...

Stewart J. Brown. The National Churches of England, Ireland, and Scotland 1801-1846.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New York: Oxford University Press. 2001. Pp. xi, 459. $95.00. ISBN 0-19-924235-6. This is an ambitious work and an impressive achievement, bringing together in one story the established churches of the three nations that in 1801 became the...

Sabine Freitag and Peter Wende, eds. British Envoys to Germany: 1816-1866.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (Volume I: 1816-1829. Camden Fifth Series, Volume 15.) New York: Cambridge University Press for The Royal Historical Society. 2000. Pp. xxi, 592. $64.95. ISBN 0-521-79066-2. One's first responsibility on reviewing this book is to disabuse...

John M. Ulrich. Signs of Their Times: History, Labour and the Body in Cobbett, Carlyle, and Disraeli.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. 2002. Pp. xi, 221. $44.95. ISBN 0-8214-1401-1. As its subtitle indicates, John Ulrich's Signs of Their Times explores how analyses of the "condition of England question" by Cobbett (History of the...

Klaus Gallo. Great Britain and Argentina: from Invasion to Recognition, 1806-26.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (St. Antony's Series.) New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. vi, 195. $55.00. ISBN 0-333-92099-6. This book examines the evolution of political and diplomatic relations between the two countries from the collapse of Iberian authority in the River...

Nicholas Dames. Amnesiac Selves: Nostalgia, Forgetting and British Fiction, 1810-1870.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New York: Oxford University Press. 2001. Pp. viii, 298. $49.95. ISBN 0-195-14357-4. Nicholas Dames' excellent study of nostalgia and forgetting in nineteenth-century British literature, psychology, and culture has at its center a...

Jonathan Smith and Christopher Stray, eds. Teaching and Learning in Nineteenth-Century Cambridge.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (The History of the University of Cambridge: Texts and Studies, Volume 4.) Rochester, N. Y.: Boydell and Brewer. 2001. Pp. vi, 229. $90.00. ISBN 0-85115-783-1. In this book Jonathan Smith and Christopher Stray present a broad-based series...

John Garrard. Democratisation in Britain: Elites, Civil Society and Reform since 1800.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (British Studies Series.) New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. xv, 317. $69.95. ISBN 0-333-6639-8. Democracy is now the ideal polity, the shibboleth by which we judge all other countries, the perfect form of government to which we all aspire. Yet...

Fabrice Bensimon. Les Britanniques Face a la Revolution francaise de 1848.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Paris: L'Harmattan. 2000. Pp. 452. n.p. paper. ISBN 2-7384-9787-X. This work is an important testimony to the value of current French scholarship on British history. During the years when the Annales school was dominant, this interest was...

Joy Dixon. Divine Feminine: Theosophy and Feminism in England.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science 119th Series.) Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2001. Pp. xx, 293. $46.00. ISBN 0-8018-6499-2. Joy Dixon in this book, writes about a culture that...

L. Perry Curtis, Jr., Jack the Ripper and the London Press.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 200l. Pp. Viii, 354. $35.00. ISBN 0-300-08872-8. This solid and highly accessible work summarizes, analyzes, and contextualizes contemporary press reports of the Ripper murders, which galvanized...

Michael Bentley. Lord Salisbury's World: Conservative Environments in Late-Victorian Britain.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. viii, 334. $45.00. ISBN 0-521-44506-X. This is a book to savor as a true Tory author revels in the company of the great exemplar of Toryism. After half a century of comparative neglect, three...

Eilidh Garrett, Alice Reid, Kevin Schurer, and Simon Szreter. Changing Family Size in England and Wales: Place, Class and Demography, 1891-1911.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. xxiii, 528. $90.00. ISBN 0-521-80153-2. With the publication of this collaborative volume, the latest in the series...

Ian Carter. Railways and Culture in Britain: the Epitome of Modernity.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (Studies in Popular Culture.) New York: Manchester University Press; dist. by Palgrave, New York, N.Y. 2001. Pp. xiv, 338. $74.95. ISBN 0-7190-5965-8. In Manchester University Press's promising series Studies in Popular Culture, edited by...

Andrew Popp. Business Structure, Business Culture and the Industrial District: the Potteries, c.1850-1914.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (Modern Economic and Social History.) Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2001. Pp. viii, 288. $79.95. ISBN 0-7546-0176-5. The aim of this book is, in the author's words, to "offer fresh and robust insights into the relationship between clustering...

Paul Laity. The British Peace Movement 1870-1914.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (Oxford Historical Monographs.) New York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press. 2001. Pp. ix, 270. $65.00. ISBN 0-19-924835-4. Laity's introduction argues that peace was frequently an important public issue during the half century...

Ian Packer. Lloyd George, Liberalism and the Land: the Land Issue and Party Politics in England, 1906-1914.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (Royal Historical Society Studies in History, New Series.) Rochester, N. Y.: Boydell and Brewer for the Royal Historical Society. 2001. Pp. xii, 222. $60.00. ISBN 0-86193-252-8. This little book, not quite 200 pages, began life as an Oxford...

Nicholas Mansfield. English Farmworkers and Local Patriotism, 1900-1930.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (Studies in Labour History.) Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2001. Pp. xiii, 227. $69.95. ISBN 0-7546-0297-4. The first thirty years of the twentieth century witnessed marked changes in the English countryside, as the pressures of the First World...

Mark Connelly. The Great War Memory and Ritual: Commemoration in the City and East London, 1916-1939.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (Royal Historical Society Studies in History.) Rochester, N. Y.: Boydell and Brewer for the Royal Historical Society. 2002. Pp. xii, 259. $75.00. ISBN 0-86193-253-6. This book provides a point of entry into communal efforts to commemorate...

Gordon Martel, ed. The Times and Appeasement: the Journals of A. L. Kennedy, 1932-1939.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (Camden Fifth Series Volume 16.) New York: Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society. 2000. Pp. xvii, 312. $64.95. ISBN 0-521-79354-8. The Times and appeasement, like the Astors and the Cliveden set, appear synonymously...

Alan Warren. Singapore 1942: Britain's Greatest Defeat.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New York: Hambledon and London; dist. by New York University Press, New York, N. Y. 2002. Pp. ix, 370. $29.95. ISBN 1-85285-328-X. Alan Warren, a Lecturer at Monash University in Australia, is very interested in the army--his previous work...

Peter Mangold. Success and Failure in British Foreign Policy: Evaluating the Record, 1900-2000.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (St. Anthony's Series.) New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. vii, 243. $65.00. ISBN 0-333-80448-1. Peter Mangold, whose career has been in the Research Department of the Foreign Office and the BBC World Service, offers a diagnosis, based on...

David Morley and Kevin Robins, eds. British Cultural Studies: Geography, Nationality, and Identity.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New York: Oxford University Press. 2001. Pp. xv, 522. $24.95 paper. ISBN 0-19-874206-1. British Cultural Studies represents an ambitious attempt to assess the impact of both long term trends (decolonization, industrial decline,...

Jane Lewis. The End of Marriage? Individualism and Intimate Relations.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar. 2001. Pp. viii, 235. $75.00. ISBN 1-84064-287-4. The End of Marriage is a sociological study of marriage in England in the twentieth century, stressing the recent past. Lewis poses a central question about...

John McIlroy, Kevin Morgan, and Alan Campbell, eds. Party People, Communist Lives: Explorations in Biography.(reviews of two books)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... John McIlroy, Kevin Morgan, and Alan Campbell, eds. Party People, Communist Lives: Explorations in Biography. London: Lawrence and Wishart. 2001, Pp. 256. 19.99 [pounds sterling] paper. ISBN 0-85315-936-X. Matthew Worley. Class Against...

Roland Tanner. The Late Medieval Scottish Parliament: Politics and the Three Estates, 1424-1488.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (Scottish Historical Review Monographs Series, No. 12.) East Linton, U.K.: Tuckwell Press. 2001. Pp. xii, 316. $31.95 paper. ISBN 1-86232-174-4. Roland Tanner's book is a major contribution to Scottish historiography. He continues a half...

Charles W. J. Withers. Geography, Science and National Identity: Scotland Since 1520.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography 33.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. xvii, 310. $69.95. ISBN 0-521-64202-7. The aims of this book are clearly stated: "to understand the connections between geography, science and...

David Stevenson. The Beggar's Benison: Sex Clubs of Enlightenment Scotland and their Rituals.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... East Lothian, U.K.: Tuckwell Press. 2001. Pp. xviii, 265. 18.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-86232-134-5. Though specialists in eighteenth-century Scotland have long been aware that there were at least two sex clubs in Scotland in the...

L. A. Clarkson and E. Margaret Crawford. Feast and Famine: Food and Nutrition in Ireland 1500-1920.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New York: Oxford University Press. 2001. Pp. x, 325. $39.95. ISBN 0-19-822751-5. The authors begin with a disclaimer that this book is a "cultural history of food, although not in a systematic fashion" (p. 8). Indeed its arrangement,...

Marcus Tanner. Ireland's Holy Wars: the Struggle for a Nation's Soul, 1500-2000.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 2001. Pp. xiii, 498. $29.95. ISBN 0-300-09072-2. In the Northern Ireland "troubles," political convictions have become so intertwined with denominational differences that the specifically religious...

Christine Kinealy. The Great Irish Famine: Impact, Ideology and Rebellion.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... (British History in Perspective.) New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. xi, 268. $19.95 paper. ISBN 0-333-67773-0. Nationalism is the natural adversary of historical revisionism. It is the business of nationalism to invent a past that will serve...

A. T. Q. Stewart. The Shape of Irish History.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Ithaca, N. Y.: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2001. Pp. xii, 209. $44.95. ISBN 0-7735-2334-0. A. T. Q. Stewart has penned some of the most quotable quotes on Irish history. In The Narrow Ground." Patterns of Ulster History (1977) he...