Albion articles from March 2004

Albion archives from March 2004

Murder & the modern British historian.(Presidential Address of the North American Conference on British Studies 2003)
March 22, 2004... Over a century ago, the pioneer English historian of law F. W. Maitland observed that "If some fairy gave me the power of seeing a scene of one and the same kind in every age of history of every race, the kind of scene that I would choose would...

English history abridged: John Stow's shorter chronicles and popular history*.
March 22, 2004... John Stow's abridged chronicles present a short, simplified version of English history that formed an important component of sixteenth-century popular culture. The author was a citizen historian, a self-educated man, whose social status placed...

Henry Brougham and the 1818 Westmorland election: a study in provincial opinion and the opening of constituency politics.
March 22, 2004... An extensive literature that has appeared over the past two decades on the Hanoverian electorate and political culture at the constituency level provides a more sophisticated understanding of party conflict in Britain during the long eighteenth...

Which? craft in post-war Britain: the Consumers' Association and the politics of affluence*.
March 22, 2004... Consumption has recently acquired key importance in re-interpreting post-war British politics. Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska has argued the Conservative construction of a popular alliance in opposition to rationing and controls was crucial to...

The Dramatic Liturgy of Anglo-Saxon England.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... M. Bradford Bedingfield. The Dramatic Liturgy of Anglo-Saxon England. (Anglo-Saxon Studies.) Rochester, N. Y.: The Boydell Press. 2002. Pp. Ix, 246. $85.00. ISBN 0-85115-873-0. This volume is the first in a welcome new series of monographs,...

Alban and St. Albans: Roman and Medieval Architecture, Art and Archaeology.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Martin Henig and Phillip Lindley, eds. Alban and St. Albans: Roman and Medieval Architecture, Art and Archaeology. (The British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions XXIV.) Portland, Ore.: Maney Publishing; dist. by ISBS, Portland,...

The Medieval Life of King Alfred the Great: A Translation and Commentary on the Text Attributed to Asser.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Alfred P. Smyth. The Medieval Life of King Alfred the Great: A Translation and Commentary on the Text Attributed to Asser. New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. xx, 280. $45.00. ISBN 0-333-69917-3. Alfred P. Smyth has produced a translation of and...

Anglo-Norman Castles.(Reviews of Books)(The Castle Community: The Personnel of English and Welsh Castles, 1272-1422.)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Robert Liddiard, ed. Anglo-Norman Castles. Rochester, N. Y.: Boydell Press. 2002. Pp. Xiii, 414. $75.00. ISBN 0-85115-904-4. John Rickard. The Castle Community: The Personnel of English and Welsh Castles, 1272-1422. Rochester, N. Y.:...

Lady Godiva: A Literary History of the Legend.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Daniel Donoghue. Lady Godiva: A Literary History of the Legend. Malden, Mass.: Black-well Publishers. 2003. Pp. X, 159. $19.95. ISBN 1-4051-0047-8. Few would argue that Lady Godiva is famous, some might even recall her legendary ride naked...

Kings in the North: The House of Percy in British History.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Alexander Rose. Kings in the North: The House of Percy in British History. North Pomfret, Vt.: Trafalgar Square. 2002. Pp. Viii, 578. $45.00. ISBN 0-29781-860-0. There may soon come a time when reviews of books about late-medieval English...

William of Malmesbury: Saints' Lives: Lives of SS. Wulfstan, Dunstan, Patrick, Benignus and Indract.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... M. Winterbottom and R. M. Thomson, eds. William of Malmesbury: Saints' Lives: Lives of SS. Wulfstan, Dunstan, Patrick, Benignus and Indract. (Oxford Medieval Texts.) New York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. xxxviii,...

A Companion to Britain in the Later Middle Ages.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... S. H. Rigby, ed. A Companion to Britain in the Later Middle Ages. (Blackwell Companions to British History.) Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing. 2003. Pp. xviii, 665. $124.95. ISBN 0-631-21785-1. This book is part of Blackwell's British...

England and Europe in the Reign of Henry III (1216-1272).(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Bjorn K. U. Weiler and Ifor W. Rowlands, eds. England and Europe in the Reign of Henry III (1216-1272). Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2002. Pp. xvii, 239. $79.95. ISBN 0-7546-0467-5. This collection of essays, drawn from papers presented at a...

The Havener's Accounts of the Earldom and Duchy of Cornwall, 1287-1356.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Maryanne Kowaleski, ed. The Havener's Accounts of the Earldom and Duchy of Cornwall, 1287-1356. (Devon and Cornwall Record Society New Series, Volume 44.) Exeter, England: Devon and Cornwall Record Society. 2001. Pp. xii, 364, [pounds...

Fourteenth Century England II.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Chris Given-Wilson, ed. Fourteenth Century England II. (Fourteenth Century England Series, Volume II.) Rochester, N. Y.: The Boydell Press. 2002. Pp. ix, 180. $75.00. ISBN 0-85115-891-9. The Fourteenth Century is the second installment of a...

From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Ruth Mazo Karras. From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2002. Pp. 246. Pp. 246. $17.50. ISBN 0-8122-1834-5. This book examines various ways in which...

London Civic Theatre: City Drama and Pageantry from Roman Times to 1558.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Anne Lancashire. London Civic Theatre: City Drama and Pageantry from Roman Times to 1558. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. xix, 355. $65.00. ISBN 0-521-63278-1. Early in her informative and expansive history of...

English Political Culture in the Fifteenth Century.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Michael Hicks. English Political Culture in the Fifteenth Century. New York: Routledge. 2002. Pp. xvii, 261. $22.95. ISBN 0-415-21764-4. The political culture of any age can be broadly defined as the ideas and assumptions shared by...

The Religious Orders in Pre-Reformation England.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... James G. Clark, ed. The Religious Orders in Pre-Reformation England. (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion, Volume XVIII.) Rochester, N. Y.: The Boydell Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 250. $75.00. ISBN 0-851-15900-1. Henry VIII's decision to...

English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550: Marriage and Family, Property and Careers.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Barbara J. Harris. English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550: Marriage and Family, Property and Careers. New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. xiv, 346. $29.95 paper. ISBN 0-19-515128-3. English aristocratic women in the fifteenth and...

Henry VIII, the League of Schmalkalden, and the English Reformation.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Rory McEntegart. Henry VIII, The League of Schmalkalden, and the English Reformation. (Royal Historical Society Studies in History, New Series.) Rochester, N. Y.: The Boydell Press for the Royal Historical Society. 2002. Pp. x, 244. $75.00....

Popular Politics and the English Reformation.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Ethan H. Shagan. Popular Politics and the English Reformation. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. xiii, 341. $70.00. ISBN 0-521-80846-4. Ethan Shagan set out to fire controversy and in this he will succeed. How well the book...

Preaching during the English Reformation.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Susan Wabuda. Preaching during the English Reformation. (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. xix, 203. $55.00. ISBN 0-521-45395-X. Students and scholars of sixteenth-century...

Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... William R. Newman and Lawrence M. Principe. Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2002. Pp. xv, 344. $40.00. ISBN 0-226-57711-2. One of the most exciting...

Charity and Lay Piety in Reformation London, 1500-1620.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Claire S. Schen. Charity and Lay Piety in Reformation London, 1500-1620. (St. Andrew's Studies in Reformation History.) Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2002. Pp. xvi, 281. ISBN 0-7546-0098-X. Historians currently are inclined to characterize the...

Parliament at Work: Parliamentary Committees, Political Power and Public Access in Early Modern England.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, eds. Parliament at Work: Parliamentary Committees, Political Power and Public Access in Early Modern England. Rochester, N. Y.: The Boydell Press. 2002. Pp. xi, 190. $85.00. ISBN 0-85115-874-9. This...

Self Defence and Religious Strife in Early Modern Europe: England and Germany, 1530-1680.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Robert von Friedeburg. Self Defence and Religious Strife in Early Modern Europe: England and Germany. 1530-1680. (St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2002. Pp. xii, 278. $99.95. ISBN 0-7546-0177-3. ...

George Sandys: Travel, Colonialism and Tolerance in the Seventeenth Century.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... James Ellison. George Sandys: Travel, Colonialism and Tolerance in the Seventeenth Century. (Studies in Renaissance Literature, Volume 8.) Rochester, N. Y.: D. S. Brewer. 2002. Pp. ix, 286. $85.00. ISBN 0-85991-750-9. James Ellison's...

Literary Culture in Jacobean England: Reading 1621.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Paul Salzman. Literary Culture in Jacobean England: Reading 1621. New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. xix, 268. $62.00. ISBN 1-4039-0073-6. The year 1621 marked a critical point in England under James I: the Thirty Years' War; rumors of Prince...

Kingship and Crown Finance under King James VI and I, 1603-1625.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... John Cramsie. Kingship and Crown Finance under King James VI and I, 1603-1625. (Studies in History, New Series.) Rochester, N.Y.: The Boydell Press for the Royal Historical Society. 2002. Pp. xi, 242. $75.00. ISBN 0-86193-259-5. The...

Politics, Religion and Popularity in Early Stuart Britain: Essays in Honour of Conrad Russell.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Thomas Cogswell, Richard Cust and Peter Lake, eds. Politics, Religion and Popularity in Early Stuart Britain: Essays in Honour of Conrad Russell. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. x, 304. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-80700-X. By the...

Britain in Revolution, 1625-1660.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Austin Woolrych. Britain in Revolution, 1625-1660. New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. xi, 814. $35.00. ISBN 0-19-820081-1. Austin Woolrych, one of the most revered and best loved English historians, has successfully integrated the...

Publishing and Medicine in Early Modern England.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Elizabeth Lane Furdell. Publishing and Medicine in Early Modern England. Rochester, N. Y.: University of Rochester Press. 2002. Pp. xiii, 282. $80.00. ISBN 1-58046-119-0. Elizabeth Lane Furdell's new book offers an interesting perspective...

Courting the Moderates: Ideology, Propaganda, and the Emergence of Party, 1660-1678.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... John Patrick Montano. Courting the Moderates: Ideology, Propaganda, and the Emergence of Party, 1660-1678. Newark, Del.: University of Delaware Press; dist. by Associated University Presses, Cranbury, N. J. 2002. Pp. 412. ISBN 0-87413-770-5....

The Huguenot Soldiers of William of Orange and the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688: the Lions of Judah.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Matthew Glozier. The Huguenot Soldiers of William of Orange and the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688: the Lions of Judah. Portland, Ore.: Sussex Academic Press. 2002. Pp. xi, 228. $69.95. ISBN 1-902210-82-4. Following the world-wide Huguenot...

An Age of Wonders: Prodigies, Politics and Providence in England 1657-1727.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... William E. Burns. An Age of Wonders: Prodigies, Politics and Providence in England 1657-1727. Manchester, U. K.: Manchester University Press; dist. by Palgrave, New York. 2002. Pp. ix, 228. $74.95. ISBN 0-7190-6140-7. In the early...

Women of Quality: Accepting and Contesting Ideals of Femininity in England, 1690-1760.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Ingrid H. Tague. Women of Quality: Accepting and Contesting Ideals of Femininity in England, 1690-1760. (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History.) Rochester, N. Y.: Boydell Press. 2002. Pp. ix, 254. $90.00. ISBN...

Law, Crime and English Society, 1660-1830.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Norma Landau, ed. Law, Crime and English Society, 1660-1830. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 264. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-64261-2. Reviewing a collection of essays is a thankless task, even when the contributors are as...

The National Church in Local Perspective: The Church of England and the Regions, 1660-1800.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Jeremy Gregory and Jeffrey S. Chamberlain, eds. The National Church in Local Perspective: The Church of England and the Regions, 1660-1800. (Studies in Modern British Religious History.) Rochester, N. Y.: Boydell Press. 2003. Pp. xiii, 315....

Images of the Outcast: The Urban Poor in the Cries of London.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Sean Shesgreen. Images of the Outcast: The Urban Poor in the Cries of London. New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press. 2002. Pp. Xi, 228. $30.00 paper. ISBN 0-8135-3152-7. Sean Shesgreen sets himself a daunting task in Images of the...

Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Jessica Warner. Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows. 2002. Pp. xviii, 267. $24.95. ISBN 1-56858-231-5. Jessica Warner's book presents a compelling look at the conception and enactment of the...

The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Jack Lynch. The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. xi, 224. $55.00. ISBN 0-521-81907-5. Samuel Johnson's powerful affinities with the Renaissance, particularly with English and...

Henry Lloyd and the Military Enlightenment of Eighteenth-Century Europe.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Patrick J. Speelman. Henry Lloyd and the Military Enlightenment of Eighteenth- Century Europe. (Contributions in Military Studies, Number 221.) Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 222. $66.95. ISBN: 0-313-32160-4. In his...

Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade: The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull, eds. Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade: The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. 2003. Pp. xvi, 209. $44.95. ISBN 0-520-22660-7. This...

Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge--Steadfast Son of King George III, 1774-1850.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Grace E. Moremen. Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge--Steadfast Son of King George III, 1774-1850. (Studies in British History, Vol. 71.) Lewiston, N. Y: The Edwin Mellen Press. 2002. Pp. xxxvii, 442. $139.95. ISBN 0-7734-6836-6. Grace...

The Island Race: Englishness, Empire and Gender in the Eighteenth Century.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Kathleen Wilson. The Island Race: Englishness, Empire and Gender in the Eighteenth Century. New York: Routledge. 2003. Pp. xiii, 282. $24.95. ISBN 0-415-15896-6. This book covers a lot of ground. It includes detailed accounts of Cook's...

Prophetic Character: Essays on William Blake in Honor of John E. Grant.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Alexander S. Gourlay, ed. Prophetic Character: Essays on William Blake in Honor of John E. Grant. West Cornwall, Conn,: Locust Hill Press. 2002. Pp. xxxiii, 396. $60.00. ISBN 0-933951-96-5. The above volume assembles thirteen splendid (a...

The Historical Austen.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... William H. Galperin, The Historical Austen. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2003. Pp. viii, 286. $39.95. ISBN 0-8122-3687-4. William Galperin opens The Historical Austen by announcing that "the title of this book is...

The Allotment Movement in England, 1793-1873.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Jeremy Burchardt. The Allotment Movement in England, 1793-1873. Rochester, N. Y.: Royal Historical Society. 2002. Pp. xii, 287. $75.00. ISBN 0-86193-256-0. "The Land! The Land!! The Land!!!" By the mid-1840s, the pages of the Chartist...

The Political Economy of the British Historical Experience.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Donald Winch and Patrick K. O'Brien, eds. The Political Economy of the British Historical Experience, 1688-1914. New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. x, 453. $65.00. ISBN 0-19-726272-4. This book is one of several volumes published...

Electoral Reform at Work: Local Politics and National Parties, 1832-1841.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Philip Salmon. Electoral Reform at Work: Local Politics and National Parties, 1832-1841. (Studies in History, New Series.) Rochester, N. Y.: The Boydell Press for The Royal Historical Society. 2002. Pp. x, 302. $75.00. ISBN 0-86193-261-7. ...

Douglas Jerrold, 1803-1857.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Michael Slater. Douglas Jerrold, 1803-1857. Dulles, Va.: International Publishers Marketing. 2002. Pp. xii, 340. $35.00. ISBN 0-7156-2824-0. Michael Slater has rescued Douglas Jerrold (1803-1857) from obscurity. In this scholarly labor of...

The Voice of Harriet Taylor Mill.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Jo Ellen Jacobs. The Voice of Harriet Taylor Mill. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press. 2002. Pp. xxviii, 270. $39.95. ISBN 0-253-34071-3. "Ah, to have Harriet's voice heard, if only in our imagination!" (p. 86). This exclamation...

Palmerston.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Paul L. Ziegler. Palmerston. (British History in Perspective.) New York: Palgrave. 2003. Pp. Viii, 156. $69.95. ISBN 0-333-67625-4. There is a lot packed into this small book. Part of Palgrave's British History in Perspective series edited...

Africans And the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Development.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Joseph E. Inikori. Africans And the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Development. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xxi, 576. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-81193-7. Nearly sixty years ago,...

Paradise Lost: Rural Idyll and Social Change since 1800.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Jeremy Burchardt. Paradise Lost: Rural Idyll and Social Change since 1800. New York: I. B. Tauris; dist. by Palgrave, New York. 2002. PP. vi, 238. $27.50. ISBN 1-86064-514-3. This book certainly finds a niche. We have had for some time...

Nationhood and Identity: the British State since 1800.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... David Powell. Nationhood and Identity: the British State since 1800. New York: I. B. Tauris & Co., Ltd.; dist. by Palgrave, New York. 2002. Pp. xiii, 314. $24.50 paper. ISBN 1-86064-517-8. In seeking to illuminate the contours of, and...

Critiques of Capital in Modern Britain and America: Transatlantic Exchanges 1800 to the Present Day.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Mark Bevir and Frank Trentmann, eds., Critiques of Capital in Modern Britain and America: Transatlantic Exchanges 1800 to the Present Day. New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. viii, 227. $45.00. ISBN 0-333-98081-6. This book is a concise...

Scenes and Personalities in Anglo-Jewry, 1800-2000.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Israel Finestein. Scenes and Personalities in Anglo-Jewry, 1800-2000. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. 2002. Pp. xvi, 322. $24.50. ISBN 0-85303-442-7. The last two decades or so have seen a transformation in historical writing about English Jews....

Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth-Century England: Gender, Work and Wages.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Nicola Verdon. Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth-Century England: Gender, Work and Wages. Rochester, N. Y.: The Boydell Press. 2002. Pp. viii, 232. $75.00. ISBN 0-85115-906-0. In 1960, British rural history was still largely understood...

The Irritable Heart of Soldiers and the Origins of Anglo-American Cardiology: The U.S. Civil War 1861 to World War I 1918.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Charles F. Wooley. The Irritable Heart of Soldiers and the Origins of Anglo-American Cardiology: The U. S. Civil War (1861) to World War I (1918). (The History of Medicine in Context.) Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2002. Pp. xvi, 321. $99.95. ISBN...

Memory and Desire: Painting in Britain and Ireland at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Kenneth McConkey. Memory and Desire: Painting in Britain and Ireland at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing. 2002. Pp. xv, 304. $59.95. ISBN 0-7546-3204-0. The volume under review collects under one cover...

Two Hegemonies: Britain 1846-1914 and the United States 1941-2001.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Patrick Karl O'Brien and Armand Clesse, eds. Two Hegemonies: Britain 1846-1914 and the United States 1941-2001 Burlington, Vt: Ashgate. 2002. Pp. xiii, 369. $84.95. ISBN 0-7546-0857-3. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1980s,...

In Practice: Studies in the Language and Culture of Popular Politics in Modern Britain.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... James Epstein. In Practice: Studies in the Language and Culture of Popular Politics in Modern Britain. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 2003. Pp. xi, 206. $21.95 paper. ISBN 0-8047-4788-1. A third of the way through this short...

Music for the People: Popular Music and Dance in Interwar Britain.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... James J. Nott. Music for the People: Popular Music and Dance in Interwar Britain. (Oxford Historical Monographs.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. xiv, 274. $49.95. ISBN 0-19-925407-9. Popular music was everywhere in Britain in...

Christobel Pankhurst: Fundamentalism and Feminism in Coalition.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Timothy Larsen. Christobel Pankhurst: Fundamentalism and Feminism in Coalition. Rochester, N. Y.: Boydell Press. 2002. Pp. ix, 156. $75.00. ISBN 0 85115 905 2. Christabel Pankhurst has proved to be a conundrum to many historians, not least...

George Lansbury: At the Heart of Old Labour.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... John Shepherd. George Lansbury: At the Heart of Old Labour. New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. xix, 407. $55.00. ISBN 0-19-820164-8. This is the first substantial biography of George Lansbury (1859-1940) since that written by...

Unemployment and Employment Policies Concerning Women in Britain, 1900-1951.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Keith Laybourn. Unemployment and Employment Policies Concerning Women in Britain, 1900-1951. (Women's Studies Volume 35.) Lewiston, N. Y.: Edwin Mellen Press. 2002. Pp. ix, 243. $109.95. ISBN 0-7734-7085-9. Keith Laybourn sets out to...

Just Taxes: The Politics of Taxation in Britain 1914-1979.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Martin Daunton. Just Taxes: The Politics of Taxation in Britain 1914-1979. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xvi, 406. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-81400-6. Tax history revived in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s but with...

British Intelligence and the Japanese Challenge in Asia, 1914-1941.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Antony Best. British Intelligence and the Japanese Challenge in Asia, 1914-1941. (Studies in Military and Strategic History.) New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. Xiii, 269. $72.00. ISBN 0-333-94551-4. The string of humiliating defeats suffered by...

"For Freedom Alone": The Declaration of Arbroath, 1320.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Edward J. Cowan. "For Freedom Alone": The Declaration of Arbroath, 1320. (Scottish History Matters Series.) East Linton, U.K.: Tuckwell Press. 2003. Pp. xii, 162. $15.95. ISBN 1-86232-150-7. The Declaration of Arbroath is, as stated on the...

The Witches of Fife: Witch-Hunting in a Scottish Shire, 1560-1710.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Stuart MacDonald. The Witches of Fife: Witch-Hunting in a Scottish Shire, 1560-1710. East Linton, U. K.: Tuckwell Press. 2002. Pp. xiii, 240. $26.95 paper. ISBN 1-86232-146-9. Undergraduate studies using A Source Book of Scottish Witchcraft...

Mary of Guise in Scotland, 1548-1560: A Political Career.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Pamela E. Ritchie. Mary of Guise in Scotland, 1548-1560: A Political Career. East Linton, U. K.: Tuckwell Press. 2002. Pp. xiv, 306. $31.95 paper. ISBN 1-86232-184-1. Mary of Guise has remained a controversial, yet often neglected, figure...

Scottish History: The Power of the Past.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Edward J. Cowan and Richard J. Finlay, eds. Scottish History: The Power of the Past. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; dist. by Columbia University Press, New York, N. Y. 2002. Pp. viii, 279. $70.00. ISBN 0-7486-1419-2. The starting...

Immigration and Integration: The Irish in Wales, 1798-1922.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Paul O'Leary. Immigration and Integration: The Irish in Wales, 1798-1922. (Studies in Welsh History.) Cardiff, Wales: University of Wales Press; dist. by Independent Publishers Group, Chicago. 2002. Pp. xv, 340. $24.95 paper. ISBN...

The Irish War of Independence.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Michael Hopkinson. The Irish War of Independence. Ithaca, N. Y.: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2002. Pp. xxi, 274. $60.00. ISBN 0-7735-2498-3. As Michael Hopkinson notes in his introduction to this informative and well-researched...

The British Atlantic World 1500-1800.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... David Armitage and Michael Braddick, eds. The British Atlantic World 1500-1800. New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. xx, 324. $21.95 paper. ISBN 0-333-96341-5. This is a useful book, which does not seem to break new ground so much as make...

Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830-1867.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Catherine Hall. Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830-1867. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2002. Pp. xviii, 556. $29.00 paper. ISBN 0-226-31335-2. I recall that somewhere in that timeless space...

Suez: Britain's End of Empire in the Middle East.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Keith Kyle. Suez: Britain's End of Empire in the Middle East. London: I. B. Tauris; dist. by Palgrave, New York. 2003. Pp. xii, 684. $27.50. ISBN 1-86064-811-8. First published by Macmillan in 1991, this book was probably relaunched...

Maritime Enterprise and Empire: Sir William MacKinnon and His Business Network, 1823-93.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... J. Forbes Munro. Maritime Enterprise and Empire: Sir William MacKinnon and His Business Network, 1823-93. Rochester, N. Y.: The Boydell Press. 2003. Pp. x, 525. $130.00. ISBN 0-85115-935-4. Forbes Munro has produced a first rate study of...