Albion articles from September 2003

Albion archives from September 2003

The Scottish political community and the Parliament of 1563*.
September 22, 2003... When Mary queen of Scots met her first Parliament, she encountered an institution that had long played an influential part in Scottish history. The Scottish Parliament was important for its legislation and taxation, but it was even more...

Public scandal, political controversy, and familial conflict in the Stuart courts in exile: the struggle to convert the duke of Gloucester in 1654 (1).
September 22, 2003... In late 1654, the fate of the Stuart restoration to the British and Irish thrones appeared to rest upon the professed religion of the fourteen-year old Henry, Duke of Gloucester, son of Charles I and Henrietta Maria and brother of Charles II....

Violence against and amongst Jews in an early modern town: tolerance and its limits in Portsmouth, 1718-1781*.
September 22, 2003... In 1811, William Robinson, a purser's steward in the royal navy, deserted, having served six long and brutal years at sea. Years later, he wrote his memoirs, under the colorful title of Jack Nastyface. In it he recorded the many indignities...

The Peopling of Britain: The Shaping of a Human Landscape.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Paul Slack and Ryk Ward, eds. The Peopling of Britain: The Shaping of a Human Landscape. (The Linacre Lectures 1999.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 295. $50.00. ISBN 0-19-829759-9. This book encapsulates the Linacre...

Guns and Violence: The English Experience.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Joyce Lee Malcolm. Guns and Violence: The English Experience. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2002. Pp. x, 340. $28.00. ISBN 0-674-00753-0. Though the ostensible topic of this book is guns in England, the question of gun...

East Anglia's History: Studies in Honour of Norman Scarfe.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Christopher Harper-Bill, Carole Rawcliffe, and Richard G. Wilson, eds. East Anglia's History: Studies in Honour of Norman Scarfe. Rochester, N. Y.: The Boydell Press for The Centre of East Anglian Studies, University of East Anglia. 2002. Pp....

Garrison Life at Vindolanda: a Band of Brothers.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Anthony Birley. Garrison Life at Vindolanda: a Band of Brothers. Charleston, S. C.: Tempus Publishing; dist. by Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, S. C. 2002. Pp. 192. $26.99 paper. ISBN 0-7524-1950-1. "We few, we happy few, we band of...

King Arthur: Myth-Making and History.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... N. J. Higham. King Arthur: Myth-Making and History. New York: Routledge. 2002. Pp. Xi, 303. $27.95. ISBN 0-415-21305-3. N. J. Higham is the sort of scholar that Heads of Department dream about--which may be why he currently is Head of...

Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain 850-1520.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Christopher Dyer. Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain 850-1520. (The New Economic History of Britain.) New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 2002. Pp. x, 403. $35.00. ISBN 0-300-09060-9. Christopher Dyer's Making a...

Women, Art and Patronage From Henry III to Edward III, 1216-1377.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Loveday Lewes Gee. Women, Art and Patronage From Henry III to Edward III, 1216-1377. Rochester, N. Y.: The Boydell Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 219. $75.00. ISBN 0-85115-8617-7. Despite the ravages of time, there is still extant a large volume of...

The Abbot and the Rule: Religious Life at St. Albans, 1290-1349.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Michelle Still. The Abbot and the Rule: Religious Life at St. Albans, 1290-1349. (Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West.) Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2002. Pp. ix, 329. $79.95. ISBN 0-7546-0521-3. This book is a careful,...

The Wycliffite Heresy: Authority and the Interpretation of Texts.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Kantik Ghosh. The Wycliffite Heresy: Authority and the Interpretation of Texts. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xiii, 298. $65.00. ISBN 0-521-80720-4. Kantik Ghosh's new book is a...

Female Monastic Life in Early Tudor England: With an Edition of Richard Fox's Translation of the Benedictine Rule for Women, 1517.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Barry Collett, ed. Female Monastic Life in Early Tudor England: With an Edition of Richard Fox's Translation of the Benedictine Rule for Women, 1517. (The Early Modern English-woman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions.) Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate....

English Works of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester: Sermons and Other Writings, 1520-1535.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Cecilia A. Hatt, ed. English Works of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester: Sermons and Other Writings, 1520-1535. New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. xv, 465. $110.00. ISBN 0-19-827011-9. The works of Bishop John Fisher have not been...

The Sixteenth Century 1485-1603.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Patrick Collinson, ed. The Sixteenth Century 1485-1603. (The Short Oxford History of the British Isles.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. xiv, 306. $16.95 paper. ISBN 0-19-820766-2. Patrick Collinson has edited this volume on...

Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Stephen Alford. Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xiii, 233. $55.00. ISBN 0-521-66055-6. The reign of Edward VI, though brief (1547-53), witnessed events that fundamentally...

Riot, Rebellion and Popular Politics in Early Modern England.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Andy Wood. Riot. Rebellion and Popular Politics in Early Modern England. (Social History in Perspective.) New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. Xv, 227. $65.00. ISBN 0-333-63761-5. This book is a synthesis of recent scholarship on popular politics...

Leicester and the Court: Essays on Elizabethan Politics.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Simon Adams. Leicester and the Court: Essays on Elizabethan Politics. (Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain.) New York: Manchester University Press; dist. by Palgrave, New York, N. Y. 2002. Pp. xii, 420. $29.95 paper. ISBN...

Shakespeare's Tribe: Church, Nation, and Theater in Renaissance England.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Jeffrey Knapp. Shakespeare's Tribe: Church, Nation, and Theater in Renaissance England. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2002. Pp. xviii, 277.$36.00.ISBN 0-226-44569-0. The moment is fast approaching when literary scholars will no...

The Three-Piece Suit and Modern Masculinity: England, 1550-1850.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... David Kuchta. The Three-Piece Suit and Modern Masculinity: England, 1550-1850. (Studies on the History of Society and Culture.) Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. 2002. Pp. x, 304. $45.00. ISBN 0-520-21493-5. This is much...

Population and Society in an East Devon Parish: Reproducing Colyton 1540-1840.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Pamela Sharpe. Population and Society in an East Devon Parish: Reproducing Colyton 1540-1840. Exeter, U. K.: University of Exeter Press. 2002. Pp. xvi, 408. $80.00. ISBN 0-85989-655-2. This book is Paula Sharpe's attempt to provide a more...

Women's Writing and the Circulation of Ideas: Manuscript Publication in England, 1550-1800.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... George L. Justice and Nathan Tinker, eds. Women's Writing and the Circulation of Ideas: Manuscript Publication in England, 1550-1800. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. x, 245. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-80856-1. This book makes a...

Historical Perspectives on Child Murder and Concealment, 1550-2000.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Mark Jackson, ed. Infanticide: Historical Perspectives on Child Murder and Concealment, 1550-2000. Burlington, Vt: Ashgate. 2002. Pp. Xiii, 293. $84.95. ISBN 0-7546-0318-0. The history of infanticide offers scope for study from a range of...

The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England: News Culture and the Overbury Affair, 1603-1660.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Alastair Bellany. The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England: News Culture and the Overbury Affair, 1603-1660. (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xvii, 312. $70.00....

Military Migration and State Formation: The British Military Community in Seventeenth-Century Sweden.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Mary Elizabeth Ailes, Military Migration and State Formation: The British Military Community in Seventeenth-Century Sweden. (Studies in War, Society, and the Military.) Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press. 2002. Pp. Xiv, 192. $50.00....

Sacraments, Ceremonies and the Stuart Divines: Sacramental Theology and Liturgy in England and Scotland, 1603-1662.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Brian D. Spinks. Sacraments, Ceremonies and the Stuart Divines: Sacramental Theology and Liturgy in England and Scotland, 1603-1662. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2002. Pp. xiv, 240. $79.95. ISBN 0-7546-1475-1. This book is a major...

Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Robert Appelbaum. Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. PP. xi, 256. $55.00. ISBN 0-521-81082-5. In this modestly sized monograph of 216 pages, excluding the notes and...

"A Good Choir of Voices": The Provision of Choral Music at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, and Eton College, c. 1640-1733.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Keri Dexter. "A Good Choir of Voices": The Provision of Choral Music at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, and Eton College, c. 1640-1733. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2002. Pp. xvi, 579. $99.95. ISBN 0-7546-0560-4. The archives of certain...

The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 1640-1770.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Scott Paul Gordon. The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 1640-1770. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xi, 279. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-81005-1. Scott Paul Gordon's contention in this rather trying book is that much...

All Men and Both Sexes: Gender, Politics, and the False Universal in England, 1640-1832.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Hilda Smith. All Men and Both Sexes: Gender, Politics, and the False Universal in England, 1640-1832. University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2002. Pp. xi, 235. $65.00. ISBN 0-271-02182-9. The collections of the Folger...

The Making of Modern Tourism: The Cultural History of the British Experience, 1600-2000.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Hartmut Berghoff, Barbara Korte, Ralph Schneider, and Christopher Harvie, eds. The Making of Modern Tourism: The Cultural History of the British Experience, 1600-2000. New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. xiii, 310. $65.00. ISBN 0-333-97114-0. ...

Empire on the English Stage 1660-1714.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Bridget Orr. Empire on the English Stage 1660-1714. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. x, 350. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-77350-4. Bridget Orr's book expands the notion of what Restoration and eighteenth-century drama was about....

The Jacobites and Russia, 1715-1750.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Rebecca Wills. The Jacobites and Russia, 1715-1750. East Linton, U.K.: Tuckwell Press. 2002. Pp. xvi, 253. $31.95 paper. ISBN 1-86232-142-6. Despite the plethora of works--all but a growth industry--dealing with virtually every aspect of...

William Stukeley, Science, Religion and Archaeology in Eighteenth-Century England.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... David Boyd Haycock, William Stukeley, Science, Religion and Archaeology in Eighteenth-Century England, Rochester, N. Y.: The Boydell Press. 2002. Pp. xiii, 290. $70.00. ISBN 0-85115-864-1. Of the many followers that Newton assembled in his...

Patriotism and Poetry in Eighteenth-Century Britain.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Dustin Giffin. Patriotism and Poetry in Eighteenth-Century Britain. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. X, 316. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-81118-X. Toward the end of Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver considers that his "duty as a subject of...

Gentrification and the Enterprise Culture: Britain 1780-1980.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... F.M.L. Thompson. Gentrification and the Enterprise Culture: Britain 1780-1980. (The Ford Lectures Delivered in The University of Oxford in Hilary Term 1994.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2001. Pp. ix, 200. $39.95. ISBN 0-19-924330-1. ...

Bodies Politic. Disease, Death, and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Roy Porter. Bodies Politic. Disease. Death, and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 2002. Pp. 328. $37.50. ISBN 0-8014-3953-1. Roy Porter's untimely death in March 2002 deprived "the long eighteenth...

In Praise of Poverty: Hannah More Counters Thomas Paine and the Radical Threat.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Mona Scheuermann. In Praise of Poverty: Hannah More Counters Thomas Paine and the Radical Threat. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky. 2002. Pp. xiv, 255. $36.00. ISBN 0-8131-2222-8. Hannah More (1745-1833) was one of the most...

The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Jonathan H. Grossman. The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2002. Pp. xiv, 202. $39.95. ISBN 0-8018-6755-X. The Art of Alibi takes as its subject the relationship of "two...

Romantic Sociability: Social Networks and Literary Culture in Britain, 1770-1840.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Gillian Russell and Clara Tuite, eds. Romantic Sociability: Social Networks and Literary Culture in Britain, 1770-1840. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 267. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-77068-8. Gillian Russell and Clara Tuite...

John Clare: A Literary Life.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Roger Sales. John Clare: A Literary Life. (Literary Lives.) New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. xviii, 195. $55.00. ISBN 0-333-65270-3. Roger Sales' John Clare: A Literary Life is the latest in Palgrave's well-known Literary Lives series. The...

The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor Versus Slavery in British Emancipation.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Seymour Drescher. The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor Versus Slavery in British Emancipation. New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp vi, 307.$50.00. ISBN 0-19-509346-1. As historians continue to ponder the causes of British antislavery...

The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Philosophers.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... W. J. Mander and Alan P.F. Sell, eds. The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Philosophers. Volumes One and Two. Bristol, U.K.: Thoemmes Press. 2002. Pp. xxviii, 1280. $525.00. ISBN 1-85506-955-5. One thing most of those included in...

Trusting Leviathan: The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1799-1914.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Martin Daunton. Trusting Leviathan: The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1799-1914. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. xiii, 438. $55.00. ISBN 0-521-80372-1. Whether we like it or not, taxation is about government and...

Policing and War in Europe.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Louis A. Knafla, ed. Policing and War in Europe. (Criminal Justice History, Volume 16.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 2002. Pp. xvi, 218. $64.95. ISBN 0-313-31012-2. Warfare and internal order are both central concerns of the modern...

The Woman and the Hour: Harriet Martineau and Victorian Ideologies.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Caroline Roberts. The Woman and the Hour: Harriet Martineau and Victorian Ideologies. Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press. 2002. Pp. x, 253. $50.00. ISBN 0-8020-3596-5. How do we account for the revival of scholarly interest in...

The Irish Through British Eyes: Perceptions of Ireland in the Famine Era.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Edward G. Lengel. The Irish Through British Eyes: Perceptions of Ireland in the Famine Era. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2002. Pp. xi, 185. $64.95. ISBN 0-275-97634-3. Edward Lengel's Ireland through British Eyes focuses on the period 1840 to...

Visual Words. Art and the Material Book in Victorian England.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Gerard Curtis. Visual Words. Art and the Material Book in Victorian England. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2002. Pp. xii, 305. $84.95. ISBN 1-84014-657-5. Visual Words the title of Gerard Curtis's new book, is vividly encapsulated by John...

The Controversialist: An Intellectual Life of Goldwin Smith.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Paul T. Phillips. The Controversialist: An Intellectual Life of Goldwin Smith. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2002. Pp. Xvi, 198. $64.95. ISBN 0-275-97611-4. In this book Paul T. Mitchell provides a portrait of the irascible Victorian social...

The Private Trustee in Victorian England.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Chantal Stebbings. The Private Trustee in Victorian England. (Cambridge Studies in English Legal History.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xxvii, 201. $65.00. ISBN 0-521-78185-X. This book is a fine addition to the Cambridge...

The English Musical Renaissance and the Press, 1850-1914: Watchmen of Music.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Meirion Hughes. The English Musical Renaissance and the Press, 1850-1914: Watchmen of Music. (Music in 19th-Century Britain.) Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2002. Pp. xi, 248. $84.95. ISBN 0-75460-588-4. Meirion Hughes is a man with a...

Imperialism and Music: Britain, 1876-1953.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Jeffrey Richards. Imperialism and Music: Britain, 1876-1953. (Studies in Imperialism.) New York: Manchester University Press; dist. by Palgrave, New York. 2002. Pp. x, 534. $32.00 paper. ISBN 0-7190-6143-1. Imperialism and Music is in many...

Janet Ashbee: Love, Marriage, and the Arts and Crafts Movement.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Felicity Ashbee. Janet Ashbee: Love, Marriage, and the Arts and Crafts Movement. Syracuse, N. Y.: Syracuse University Press. 2002. Pp. xxix, 245. $39.95. ISBN 0-8156-0731-8. In 1897, two years after Oscar Wilde's notorious trial, Janet...

Political Intellectuals and Public Identities in Britain Since 1850.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Julia Stapleton. Political Intellectuals and Public Identities in Britain Since 1850. New York: Manchester University Press; dist. by Palgrave, New York. 2001. Pp. x, 220. $69.95. ISBN 0-7190-5511-3. Intellectual historians often attempt to...

Fashioning the Feminine: Representation and Women's Fashion from the Fin de Siecle to the Present.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Cheryl Buckley and Hilary Fawcett Fashioning the Feminine: Representation and Women's Fashion from the Fin de Siecle to the Present. New York: I. B. Tauris; dist. by Palgrave, New York, N. Y. 2002. Pp. xi, 164. $22.50 paper. ISBN 1-86064-506-2....

Studies in Economic and Social History: Essays in Honour of Derek H. Aldcroft.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Michael J. Oliver. Studies in Economic and Social History: Essays in Honour of Derek H. Aldcroft. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2002. Pp. xxvi, 275. $84.95. ISBN 0-7546-0371-7. Derek Aldcroft has for more than thirty years been one of the most...

Living at the Edge: A Biography of D. H. Lawrence and Frieda von Richthofen.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Michael Squires and Lynn K. Talbot Living At The Edge: A Biography of D. H. Lawrence and Frieda von Richthofen Madison, Wisc.: The University of Wisconsin Press. 2002. Pp. xv, 501. $34.95. ISBN 0-299-17750-5. Dozens of books and articles...

France, and the Financing of the First World War.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Martin Horn. Britain, France, and the Financing of the First World War. Ithaca, N. Y.: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2002. Pp. x, 249. $75.00. ISBN 0-7735-2293-X. Victory in the First World War was far more than a matter of tactics on...

The British Empire and Its Italian Prisoners of War, 1940-1947.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Bob Moore and Kent Fedorowich. The British Empire and Its Italian Prisoners of War, 1940-1947. (Studies in Military and Strategic History.) New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. xi, 329. $72.00. ISBN 0-333-73892-6. During World War II British and...

The Best Years of British Film Music, 1936-1958.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Jan G. Swynnoe. The Best Years of British Film Music, 1936-1958. Rochester N. Y.: The Boydell Press. 2002. Pp. xvii, 243. $70.00. ISBN 0-85115-862-5. The academic recuperation of British cinema continues and this book makes an interesting...

The Neville Chamberlain Diary Letters Volume 1: The Making of a Politician, 1915-20.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Robert Self, ed. The Neville Chamberlain Diary Letters Volume 1: The Making of a Politician, 1915-20. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2000. Pp. 434. $134.95. ISBN 1-84014-691-5. Robert Self, ed. The Neville Chamberlain Diary Letters Volume 2:...

Churchill: A Biography.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Roy Jenkins. Churchill: A Biography. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2001. Pp. xxi, 1002. $40.00. ISBN 0-374-12354-3. They keep coming! There appears to be no let-up. Recent biographies and biographical studies of Sir Winston Churchill...

Sport, Leisure and Culture in Twentieth-Century Britain.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Jeffrey Hill. Sport, Leisure and Culture in Twentieth-Century Britain. New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. xi, 241. $72.00. ISBN 0-333-72686-3. This is an important and timely book. It provides a critical commentary on what we have learned about...

Ideologies of Conservatism: Conservative Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... E. H. H. Green. Ideologies of Conservatism: Conservative Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. viii, 309. $39.95. ISBN 0-19-820593-7. It has been over a decade since Michael Freeden issued...

The Myth of Mr. Butskell: The Politics of British Economic Policy, 1950-55.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Scott Kelly. The Myth of Mr. Butskell: The Politics of British Economic Policy, 1950-55. (Modern Economic and Social History Series.) Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2002. Pp. viii, 248. $74.95. ISBN 0-7546-0604-X. The argument about the extent...

British Culture and the End of Empire.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Stuart Ward, ed. British Culture and the End of Empire. (Studies in Imperialism.) New York: Manchester University Press; dist. by Palgrave, New York, N. Y. 2001. Pp. xi, 241. $29.95 paper. ISBN 0-7190-6048-6. There is no question today that...

An Environmental History of Twentieth-Century Britain.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... John Sheail. An Environmental History of Twentieth-Century Britain. New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. x, 306. $72.00. ISBN 0-333-94980-3. In the closing pages of this book, John Sheail credits Tony Blair with affirming John Redwood's...

British Counterinsurgency: From Palestine to Northern Ireland.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... John Newsinger. British Counterinsurgency: From Palestine to Northern Ireland. New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. x, 221. $65.00. ISBN 0-333-79385-4. British counterinsurgency has been the subject of extensive and some times contentious debate...

The Twilight of Britain: Cultural Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and the Politics of Toleration.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... The Twilight of Britain: Cultural Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and the Politics of Toleration. (Social Policy and Social Theory Series.) New Brunswick, N. J.: Transaction Publishers. 2002. Pp. xxi, 389. ISBN 0-7658-0065-9. G. Gordon...

History, Literature, and Music in Scotland, 700-1560.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... R. Andrew McDonald, ed. History, Literature, and Music in Scotland, 700-1560. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2002. Pp. xviii, 234. $45.00. ISBN 0-8020-3601-5. Aside from their concern with medieval Scotland, this collection of...

The politics of religion in the Age of Mary, Queen of Scots: the earl of Argyll and the struggle for Britain and Ireland.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Jane E. A. Dawson. The Politics of Religion in the Age of Mary, Queen of Scots: The Earl of Argyll and the Struggle for Britain and Ireland. (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp....

Episcopalianism in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Religious Responses to a Modernizing Society.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Rowan Strong. Episcopalianism in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Religious Responses to a Modernizing Society. New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. Xvii, 347. $74.00. ISBN 0-19-924922-9. The challenges to religion by the forces of...