Albion articles from June 2004

Albion archives from June 2004

Plowshares and swords: clerical involvement in acts of violence and peacemaking in late medieval England, c. 1400-1536*.
June 22, 2004... "My men should use their swords and bucklers... but if John Stanshaw is in one alehouse then I will be in another." (1) To historians of medieval and Reformation England, these lines should not be all that surprising. Throughout the...

"Martyrs in Flames": Sir John Temple and the conception of the Irish in English martyrologies*.
June 22, 2004... In the violence over Protestant marches in Northern Ireland in the late 1990s much of the debate centered on two towns, Portadown and Drumcree. Students of seventeenth-century Irish history will note that those towns were sites of some of the...

From a Protectionist party to a Church party, 1846-48: identity crisis of the Conservative party and the Jew Bill of 1847*.
June 22, 2004... This article investigates the influence of the Maynooth and Repeal crises on Conservative politicians after 1846 and the putative maintenance of their identity as defenders of the Church after the Disruption of the party. Historians of the...

Reader's Guide to British History. Volume One A-L. Volume Two M-Z.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... David Loades, ed. Reader's Guide to British History. Volume One A-L. Volume Two M-Z. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn. 2003. Pp. xxv, 1620. $295.00. ISBN 1-57958-242-7. The two large volumes of a Reader's Guide to British History have the...

Farming in the First Millennium AD: British Agriculture between Julius Caesar and William the Conqueror.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Peter Fowler. Farming in the First Millennium AD: British Agriculture Between Julius Caesar and William the Conqueror. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xviii, 393. $38.00. ISBN 0-521-89056-X. This book, by one of the...

Leper Knights: The Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem in England, c. 1150-1544.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... David Marcombe, Leper Knights: The Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem in England, c. 1150-1544. Rochester, N. Y.: The Boydell Press. 2003. Pp. xx, 320. $75.00. ISBN 0-85115-893-5. The Order of St. Lazarus is one of the less well known (and...

The Theory and Practice of Revolt in Medieval England.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Claire Valente. The Theory and Practice of Revolt in Medieval England. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2003. Pp. viii, 276. $79.95. ISBN 0-7546-0901-4. The foundation of this book is Valente's 1997 Harvard Ph.D. dissertation, and thus slips like...

Henry IV: The Establishment of the Regime, 1399-1406.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Gwilym Dodd and Douglas Biggs, eds. Henry IV: The Establishment of the Regime, 1399-1406. Rochester, N. Y.: York Medieval Press; dist. by Boydell and Brewer, Rochester, N. Y. 2003. Pp. x, 210. $75.00. ISBN 1-903-15 3-12-3. The editors of...

Selling the Church: The English Parish in Law, Commerce and Religion, 1350-1550.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Robert C. Palmer. Selling the Church: The English Parish in Law, Commerce and Religion, 1350-1550. (Studies in Legal History.) Chapel Hill, N. C.: University of North Carolina Press. 2002. Pp. xi, 330. $49.95. ISBN 0-8078-2743-6. The theme...

Margaret of Anjou: Queenship and Power in Late Medieval England.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Helen E. Maurer. Margaret of Anjou: Queenship and Power in Late Medieval England. Rochester, N. Y.: The Boydell Press. 2003. Pp. xii, 240. $39.95. ISBN 0-85115-927-3. Late medieval English queens were meant not to be political but...

The Duel in Early Modern England: Civility, Politeness and Honour.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Markku Peltonen. The Duel in Early Modern England: Civility, Politeness and Honour New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. x, 355. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-82062-6. The principled questions raised by the issue of dueling--viewed in its...

The Church and Learning in Later Medieval Society: Essays in Honour of R. B. Dobson.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Caroline M. Barron and Jenny Stratford, eds. The Church and Learning in Later Medieval Society: Essays in Honour of R. B. Dobson. (Harlaxton Medieval Studies, XI.) Donington, Eng.: Shaun Tyas. 2002. Pp. xii, 430. [pounds sterling]49.50. ISBN...

Sir John Hawkins: Queen Elizabeth's Slave Trader.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Harry Kelsey. Sir John Hawkins: Queen Elizabeth's Slave Trader. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 2003. Pp. xiv, 402. ISBN 0-300-09663-1. Hawkins is one of the better documented Elizabethans. Unlike Drake he came of an established...

The Construction of Martyrdom in the English Catholic Community, 1535-1603.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Ann Dillon. The Construction of Martyrdom in the English Catholic Community, 1535-1603. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2002. Pp. xxiv, 474. $104.95. ISBN 0-7546-0305-9. This is an informative volume that nevertheless suffers from at least one...

Courtship and Constraint: Rethinking the Making of Marriage in Tudor England.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Diana O'Hara. Courtship and Constraint: Rethinking the Making of Marriage in Tudor England. Manchester, U. K.: Manchester University Press; dist. by Palgrave, New York. 2002. Pp. xii, 276. $74.95. ISBN 0-7190-5074-x. The most personal of...

A Biography of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (1515-1578): Niece of Henry VIII and Mother-in-Law of Mary, Queen of Scots.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Kimberly Schutte. A Biography of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (1515-1578): Niece of Henry VIII and Mother-in-Law of Mary, Queen of Scots. (Studies in British History, Volume 62.) Lewiston, N. Y.: The Edwin Mellen Press. 2002. Pp. ii,...

Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare's England.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Caroline Bicks. Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare's England. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2003. Pp. xii, 211. $69.95. ISBN 0-7546-0938-3. In this wide-ranging and compelling book, Caroline Bicks investigates the cultural contexts of midwifery...

The Anonymous Renaissance: Cultures of Discretion in Tudor-Stuart England.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Marcy L. North. The Anonymous Renaissance: Cultures of Discretion in Tudor-Stuart England. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2003. Pp. xi, 309. $37.50. ISBN 0-226-59437-8. This book is an important study of anonymity as a variety of...

King James.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Pauline Croft. King James. New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. vii, 208. $45.00. ISBN 0-333-61395-3. James I has long been the odd man out of English history. Compared to his glorious predecessor, Elizabeth, and his hapless heir, Charles I, he...

The Cult of King Charles the Martyr.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Andrew Lacey. The Cult of King Charles the Martyr. Rochester, N. Y.: Boydell Press. 2003. Pp. viii, 310. $85,00. ISBN 0-85115-922-2. A few months ago the rector of St. George's Anglican Church in Raleigh invited me to attend the service...

Puritan Iconoclasm during the English Civil War.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Julie Spraggon. Puritan Iconoclasm during the English Civil War. (Studies in Modern British Religious History.) Rochester, N. Y.: The Boydell Press. 2003. Pp. xvii, 318. $75.00. ISBN 0-85115-895-1. In his first Fast Day sermon preached...

Transformations of Love: The Friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Frances Harris. Transformations of Love: The Friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin. New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. x, 330. $35.00. ISBN 0-19-925257-2. Frances Harris successfully revises our understanding of the...

The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... John Barnard and D. F. McKenzie, eds. The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain. (Volume IV, 1557-1695.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xxvii, 891. $140.00. ISBN 0-521-66182-X. 800 words to cover as many pages is to...

The Duke of Portland: Politics and Party in the Age of George III.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... David Wilkinson. The Duke of Portland: Politics and Party in the Age of George III. New York: Palgrave. 2003. Pp. xi, 197. $60.00. ISBN 0-333-96385-7. David Wilkinson's biography of the third duke of Portland liberates his subject from the...

Britain and Ireland in the Eighteenth Century Crisis of Empire.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Martyn J. Powell. Britain and Ireland in the Eighteenth Century Crisis of Empire. New York: Palgrave. 2003. Pp. x, 280. $75.00. ISBN 0-333-99402-7. Martyn Powell's monograph is old-fashioned and unfashionable in a number of related ways....

Roles of Authority: Thespian Biography and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Britain.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Cheryl Wanko. Roles of Authority: Thespian Biography and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech University Press. 2003. Pp. xii, 258. $37.50. ISBN 0-89672-499-9. Cheryl Wanko seeks to place the development of...

English Feminists and Their Opponents in the 1790s: Unsex'd and Proper Females.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... William Stafford. English Feminists and Their Opponents in the 1790s: Unsex'd and Proper Females. Manchester, U. K.: Manchester University Press; dist. by Palgrave, New York. 2002. Pp. ix, 239. $69.95. ISBN 0-7190-6082-6. The early phases...

William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Saree Makdisi. William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2003. Pp. xviii, 394. $22.00 paper. ISBN 0-226-50260-0. In Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity...

I'll Tell You What: The Life of Elizabeth Inchbald.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Annabel Jenkins. I'll Tell You What: The Life of Elizabeth Inchbald. Lexington, Ky.: The University Press of Kentucky. 2003. Pp. 596. $39.95. ISBN 0-8131-2236-8. Scholars of women's history often complain of a paucity of materials, but the...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Barbara Taylor. Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. xvi, 331. $23.00. ISBN 0-521-66144-7. Barbara Taylor's new book on Mary Wollstonecraft is the best study to date of one of...

Notorious Muse: The Actress in British Art and Culture 1776-1812.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Robyn Asleson, ed. Notorious Muse: The Actress in British Art and Culture 1776-1812. (Studies in British Art II.) New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 2003. Pp. xix, 212. $70.00. ISBN 0-300-10005-1. The comic actress Frances Abington,...

W. B. Ferrand: "The working Man's Friend," 1809-1889.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... J. T. Ward. W. B. Ferrand: "The Working Man's Friend," 1809-1889. East Linton, U. K.: Tuckwell Press. 2002. Pp. viii, 214. $28.95. ISBN 1-898410-70-4. John Ward, the author of this biography of W. B. Ferrand, passed away in 1987. He was...

Bonds and Bondholders: British Investors and Mexico's Foreign Debt, 1824-1888.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Michael P. Costeloe. Bonds and Bondholders: British Investors and Mexico's Foreign Debt, 1824-1888. Westport, Conn.: Praeger; dist. By Greenwood Publishing Group. 2003. Pp. xxii, 359, $69.95. ISBN 0-275-97939-3. This book about Mexican...

Nineteenth-Century Britain.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Jeremy Black and Donald M. Macraild. Nineteenth-Century Britain. New York: Palgrave. 2003. Pp. xxiii. 349. $22.95 paper. ISBN 0-333-72560-3. This introductory text focuses on the "interplay of change and continuity," and its thematic...

Victorian Sensation: Or, the Spectacular, the Shocking and the Scandalous in Nineteenth-Century Britain.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Michael Diamond. Victorian Sensation: Or, the Spectacular, the Shocking and the Scandalous in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Herndon, Va.: Stylus Publishing. 2003. Pp. 328. $35.00. ISBN 1-84331-076-7. In the 1928 novel, Point Counter Point, by...

Fagin's Children: Criminal Children in Victorian England.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Jeannie Duckworth. Fagin's Children: Criminal Children in Victorian England. New York: Hambledon and London; dist. by Palgrave, New York. 2002. Pp. x, 258. $29.95. ISBN 1-85285-391-3. The social changes affecting Britain in the eighteenth...

Julia Margaret Cameron: Pioneer Photograher.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Joy Melville. Julia Margaret Cameron: Pioneer Photograher. Stroud, U. K.: Sutton Publishing; dist. by National Book Network. 2003. Pp. xiii, 130. $19.95. ISBN 0-7509-3229-5. Victoria Olsen. From Life: Julian Margaret Cameron & Victorian...

Hosiery and Knitwear: Four Centuries of Small-Scale Industry in Britain, c. 1589-2000.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Stanley Chapman. Hosiery and Knitwear: Four Centuries of Small-Scale Industry in Britain, c. 1589-2000. (Pasold Studies in Textile History, No. 12.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. xxiv, 328. $90.00. ISBN 0-19-925567-9. Today,...

A Nation of Shopkeepers: Five Centuries of British Retailing.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... John Benson and Laura Ugolini, eds. A Nation of Shopkeepers: Five Centuries of British Retailing. London: I. B. Tauris; dist. by Palgrave, New York. 2003. Pp. x, 269. $24.50 paper. ISBN 1-86064-708-1. A Nation of Shopkeepers is the product...

Palmerston and the Politics of Foreign Policy, 1846-55.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... David Brown. Palmerston and the Politics of Foreign Policy, 1846-55. Manchester, U. K.: Manchester University Press. 2002. Pp. x, 239. $24.95 paper. ISBN 0-7190-6392-2. The third Viscount Palmerston first took government office in 1809; he...

Security and Progress: Lord Salisbury at the India Office.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Paul R. Brumpton. Security and Progress: Lord Salisbury at the India Office. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Group. 2002. Pp. xii, 245. $64.95. ISBN 0-313-31752-6. This densely informed study achieves its primary aim to show how...

Manliness and the Boys' Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855-1940.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Kelly Boyd. Manliness and the Boys' Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855-1940. New York: Palgrave. 2003. Pp. x, 274. $75.00. ISBN 0-333-64172-8. In this lively, highly enjoyable work, Kelly Boyd traces the history of popular...

The British General Staff: Reform and Innovation, c. 1890-1929.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... David French and Brian Holden Reid, eds. The British General Staff: Reform and Innovation, c. 1890-1929. London: Frank Cass Publishers. 2003. Pp. ix, 246. [pounds sterling]39.50. ISBN 0-7146-5325-X. This series of essays, a volume in the...

Nationalism, Imperialism and Identity in Late Victorian Culture: Civil and Military Worlds.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Steve Attridge. Nationalism, Imperialism and Identity in Late Victorian Culture: Civil and Military Worlds. New York: Palgrave. 2003. Pp. ix, 229. $62.00. ISBN 0-333-80251-9. Steve Attridge's Civil and Military Worlds is an intellectual...

The Boer War.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Denis Judd and Keith Surridge. The Boer War. New York: Palgrave. 2003. Pp. xvi, 352. $29.95. ISBN 1-4039-6150-6. The centenary of the Boer War has stimulated the production of a number of useful reconsiderations of the overall conflict and...

Mass Conservatism: The Conservatives and the Public since the 1880s.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Stuart Ball and Ian Holliday, eds. Mass Conservatism: The Conservatives and the Public since the 1880s. London: Frank Cass Publishers; dist. By ISBS, Portland, Ore. 2002. Pp. xiv, 248. $26.50 paper. ISBN 0-7146-8208-X. Recent years have...

Depictions and Images of War in Edwardian Newspapers, 1899-1914.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Glenn R. Wilkinson. Depictions and Images of War in Edwardian Newspapers, 1899-1914. New York: Palgrave. 2003. Pp. xiv, 185. $65.00. ISBN 0-333-71743-0. This small, but not insubstantial, book contributes to the debate on how far cultural...

The Censorship of British Drama 1900-1968.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Steve Nicholson. The Censorship of British Drama 1900-1968. (Volume One: 1900-1932.) Exeter, U. K.: University of Exeter Press. 2003. Pp. ix, 350. $64.95. ISBN 0-85989-638-2. It is an irony that although theater historians understandably...

Working Class Credit and Community Since 1918.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Avram Taylor. Working Class Credit and Community Since 1918. New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. x, 218. $65.00. ISBN 0-333-96232-X. The economic function and social significance of working-class credit has been explored for the late nineteenth...

Gilbert and Sullivan: A Dual Biography.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Michael Ainger. Gilbert and Sullivan: A Dual Biography. New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. xxii, 504. ISBN 0-19-514769-3. The partnership of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan that produced the Savoy comic operas is embedded...

Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science: The Aesthetics of Astronomy.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Holly Henry. Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science: The Aesthetics of Astronomy. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. xiii, 207. $55.00. ISBN 0-521-81297-6. In this thin but important volume, Holly Henry offers us another...

Lancashire Cotton Operatives and Work, 1900-1950: A Social History of Lancashire Cotton Operatives in the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Alan Fowler. Lancashire Cotton Operatives and Work, 1900-1950: A Social History of Lancashire Cotton Operatives in the Twentieth Century. Ashgate. 2003. Pp. xv, 236. $84.95. ISBN 0-7546-0116-1. Regional history, we all know, runs the risk...

Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Tammy M. Proctor. Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War. New York: New York University Press. 2003. Pp. xvi, 205. $26.95. ISBN 0-8147-6693-5. James Bond--or at least his image--was born in World War I: the suave,...

Great Britain, Germany and the Soviet Union: Rapallo and After, 1922-1934.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Stephanie C. Salzmann. Great Britain, Germany and the Soviet Union: Rapallo and After, 1922-1934. Rochester, N. Y.: The Boydell Press. 2003. Pp. x, 201. $75.00. ISBN 0-86193-260-9. The Rapallo Treaty signed by the Soviet Union and Germany...

British Strategy and Politics during the Phony War: Before the Balloon Went Up.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Nick Smart. British Strategy and Politics during the Phony War: Before the Balloon Went Up. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishers. 2003. Pp. vii, 267. $67.95. ISBN 0-275-97296-8. This reviewer has struggled long to come to a firm conclusion...

Women, Social Leadership, and the Second World War: Continuities of Class.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... James Hinton. Women, Social Leadership, and the Second World War: Continuities of Class. New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 267. $65.00. ISBN 0-19-924329-8. Recent writing on the British Second World War home front has...

MacDonald's Party: Labour Identities and Crisis, 1922-1931.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... David Howell. MacDonald's Party: Labour Identities and Crisis, 1922-1931. New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 452. $85.00. ISBN 0-19-820304-7. David Howell's important new book examines the formative moment in Labour Party...

Feminine Fascism: Women in Britain's Fascist Movement, 1923-45.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Julie V. Gottlieb. Feminine Fascism: Women in Britain's Fascist Movement, 1923-45. London: I. B. Tauris; dist. by Palgrave, New York. 2003. Pp. 224. $25.00 paper. ISBN 1-86064-918-1. Julie Gottlieb's study of the women who joined Fascist...

The Labour Party and the Planned Economy, 1931-1951.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Richard Toye. The Labour Party and the Planned Economy 1931-1951. Rochester, N. Y.: Royal Historical Society; dist. by Boydell Press, Rochester, N. Y. 2003. Pp. xi, 268. $75.00. ISBN 0-86193-262-5. Richard Toye begins his assured study of...

Britain, Australia, New Zealand and the Challenge of the United States, 1839-46: A Study in International History.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... P. G. A. Orders. Britain, Australia, New Zealand and the Challenge of the United States, 1839-46: A Study in International History. New York: Palgrave. 2003. Pp. viii, 262. $72.00. ISBN 0-333-77500-7. The assumption that the Second World...

Twentieth-Century Britain: A Political History.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... William D. Rubinstein. Twentieth-Century Britain: A Political History. New York: Palgrave. 2003. Pp. 368. [pounds sterling]55.00. ISBN 0-3337-7223-7. This book is obviously intended as a textbook and seems, from the number of...

The Challenges of High Command: The British Experience.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Gary Sheffield and Gregory Till, eds. The Challenges of High Command: The British Experience. New York: Palgrave. 2003. Pp. xi, 216. $72.00. ISBN 0-333-80438-4. The book's genesis is a conference held in 1998 at the Royal Air Force Staff...

Eisenhower, Macmillan and Allied Unity, 1957-1961.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... E. Bruce Geelhoed and Anthony O. Edmonds. Eisenhower, Macmillan and Allied Unity, 1957-1961. New York: Palgrave. 2003. Pp. xxxi, 196. $65.00. ISBN 0-333-64227-9. This book is not an international history of "Allied Unity" during the years...

Racial Disadvantage and Ethnic Diversity in Britain.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Andrew Pilkington. Racial Disadvantage and Ethnic Diversity in Britain. New York: Palgrave. 2003. Pp. xii, 318. $65.00. ISBN 0-333-58931-9. Britain's multi-ethnic population continues to receive much attention as a result of interest in...

Hans Keller and the BBC: The Musical Conscience of British Broadcasting, 1959-79.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... A. M. Garnham. Hans Keller and the BBC: The Musical Conscience of British Broadcasting, 1959-79. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing. 2003. Pp. xii, 194. $84.95. ISBN 0-7546-0897-2. As Archivist of Cambridge University's Hans Keller Archive...

The Life and Music of Sir Malcolm Arnold: The Brilliant and the Dark.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Paul R. W. Jackson. The Life and Music of Sir Malcolm Arnold: The Brilliant and the Dark. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2003. Pp. xiii, 277. $84.95. ISBN 1-85928-381-0. I do not envy Paul R. W. Jackson's task. He has attempted a biography of a...

The Celts: A History from Earliest Times to the Present.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Bernhard Maier. The Celts: A History from Earliest Times to the Present. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press. 2003. Pp. viii, 310. $23.00. ISBN 0-268-02361-1. The history of the Celts continues to be a popular subject for...

The Kingship of the Scots, 842-1292: Succession and Independence.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... A. A. M. Duncan. The Kingship of the Scots 842-1292: Succession and Independence. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; dist. by Columbia University Press, New York. 2002. Pp. x, 381. $90.00. ISBN 0-7486-1626-8. This is a big, bold and...

The Culture of Protestantism in Early Modern Scotland.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Margo Todd. The Culture of Protestantism in Early Modern Scotland. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 450. $40.00. ISBN 0-300-09234-2. This is a groundbreaking book. Most scholarship on the Scottish Reformation has...

Revolution by Degrees: James Tyrrell and Whig Political Thought in the Late Seventeenth Century.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Julia Rudolph. Revolution by Degrees: James Tyrrell and Whig Political Thought in the Late Seventeenth Century. (Studies in Modern History.) New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. ix, 231. $65.00. ISBN 0-333-73659-1. Julia Rudolph is a careful and...

Science and Medicine in the Scottish Enlightenment.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Charles W. J. Withers and Paul Wood, eds. Science and Medicine in the Scottish Enlightenment. East Linton, U.K.: Tuckwell Press. 2002. Pp. xiv, 364. $39.95 paper. ISBN 1-86232-285-6. It has long been recognized that Scotland participated in...

Scotland for the Holidays: Tourism in Scotland c. 1780-1939.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Alastair J. Durie. Scotland for the Holidays: Tourism in Scotland c. 1780-1939. East Linton, U. K.: Tuckwell Press. 2003. Pp. x, 206. $26.95 paper. ISBN 1-86232-121-3. Alastair Durie has performed an important service in producing the...

Death, Burial and Commemoration in Ireland, 1550-1650.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Clodagh Tait. Death, Burial and Commemoration in Ireland, 1550-1650. New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. ix, 229. $65.00. ISBN 0-333-99741-7. In this book Clodagh Tait sets out to explore beliefs and practices associated with death and dying and...

Political Thought in Ireland, 1776-1798: Republicanism, Patriotism, and Radicalism.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Stephen Small. Political Thought in Ireland, 1776-1798: Republicanism, Patriotism, and Radicalism. New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. viii, 307. $65.00. ISBN 0-19-925779-5. Years ago J. C. Beckett remarked on the congestion in the...

Robert Emmet: A Life.(Soul on Fire: A Life of Thomas Russell)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Patrick M. Geoghegan. Robert Emmet: A Life. Ithaca, N. Y.: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2002. Pp. xvii, 348. $34.95. ISBN 0-7735-2542-4. James Quinn. Soul on Fire: A Life of Thomas Russell. Dublin, Ireland: Irish Academic Press; dist....

Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Philippa Levine. Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire. New York: Routledge. 2003. Pp. ix, 480. $25.00 paper. ISBN 0-415-94447-3. Ever since the "new imperial history" began to emerge fifteen to...

Who Was Dr. Jackson? Two Calcutta Families: 1830-1855.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Mary Bennett. Who Was Dr. Jackson? Two Calcutta Families: 1830-1855. London: British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia. 2002. Pp. xv, 116. [pounds sterling]12. ISBN 0-90779-9 78-7. To understand the achievement of this monograph on...

Female Imperialism and National Identity: Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Katie Pickles. Female Imperialism and National Identity: Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire. (Studies in Imperialism.) New York: Manchester University Press; dist. by Palgrave, New York. 2002. Pp. xi, 209. $69.95. ISBN 0-7190-6390-6. ...

Pink Ice: Britain and the South Atlantic Empire.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Klaus Dodds. Pink Ice: Britain and the South Atlantic Empire. New York: I. B. Tauris; dist. by palgrave, New York. 2002. Pp. xxiii, 229. $24.50 paper. ISBN 1-86064-770-7. Had there been no war between Argentina and the United Kingdom over...