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Volume 60 - October 2021

Contents

Page 10 of 12

POST-1800

Book Review

Dagmar Paulus and Ellen Pilsworth, eds. Nationalism before the Nation State: Literary Constructions of Inclusion, Exclusion, and Self-Definition (1756–1871). National Cultivation of Culture 22. Leiden: Brill, 2020. Pp. 196. $113.00 (cloth)
Todd Kontje
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06 October 2021, pp. 1006-1007
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Stef Eastoe. Idiocy, Imbecility and Insanity in Victorian Society: Caterham Asylum, 1867–1911. Mental Health in Historical Perspective. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Pp. 212. $79.99 (cloth).
Amy Milne-Smith
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09 April 2021, pp. 488-489
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Lynn McDonald. Florence Nightingale: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works. Significant Figures in World History Series. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. Pp. 194. $50.00 (cloth).
Richard Bates
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29 June 2021, pp. 751-752
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Lee Jackson. Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. Pp. 320. $30.00 (cloth).
Robert Snape
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26 January 2021, pp. 237-238
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J. R. Oldfield. The Ties That Bind: Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Age of Reform, c. 1820–1865. Liverpool Studies in International Slavery 16. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020. Pp. 224. $130.00 (cloth).
Dee E. Andrews
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29 June 2021, pp. 752-754
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Joan Wallach Scott. On the Judgment of History. Ruth Benedict Book Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. Pp. 144. $95 (cloth).
Caroline Shaw, Benjamin Moodie
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06 October 2021, pp. 1008-1009
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Emma Griffin. Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. 389. $35.00 (cloth).
Lyndsey Jenkins
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09 April 2021, pp. 489-491
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Timothy Larsen and Michael Ledger-Lomas, eds. The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume III: The Nineteenth Century. The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. 568. $145.00 (cloth).
Bill Reimer
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26 January 2021, pp. 238-240
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Maurice S. Lee. Overwhelmed: Literature, Aesthetics, and the Nineteenth-Century Information Revolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. 296. $39.95 (cloth).
James Purdon
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26 January 2021, pp. 240-242
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Mark Philp. Radical Conduct: Politics, Sociability and Equality in London 1789–1815. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 273. $99.99 (cloth).
Gordon Pentland
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29 June 2021, pp. 754-755
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Kirsty Hooper. The Edwardians and the Making of a Modern Spanish Obsession. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020. Pp. 336. $120.00 (cloth).
Luis G. Martínez del Campo
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09 April 2021, pp. 491-492
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Radhika Singha. The Coolie's Great War: Indian Labour in a Global Conflict, 1914–1921. London: Hurst, 2020. Pp. 392. $59.95 (cloth).
Urvi Khaitan
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06 October 2021, pp. 1009-1011
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Jane Lydon. Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire. Critical Perspectives on Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 234. $99.99 (cloth).
Onni Gust
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26 January 2021, pp. 242-243
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Jacob Steere-Williams. The Filth Disease: Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England. Rochester Studies in Medical History. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2020. Pp. 340. $99.00 (cloth).
Lorenzo Servitje
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06 October 2021, pp. 1011-1013
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Anton Howes. Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. 416. $35.00 (cloth).
Susan Bennett
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09 April 2021, pp. 493-494
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Claudio Pogliano. Brain and Race: A History of Cerebral Anthropology. Nuncius Series 4. Leiden: Brill, 2020. Pp. 343. $179.00 (cloth).
Kathryn Woods
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29 June 2021, pp. 755-757
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James S. Pula , ed. United States Immigration, 1800–1965: A History in Documents. The Broadview Sources Series. Ontario: Broadview Press. 2020. Pp. 301. $21.95 (paper).
Marjory Harper
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29 June 2021, pp. 757-759
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Sharon Marcus. The Drama of Celebrity: A Bold New Account of How Celebrity Works. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. 328. $29.95 (cloth).
Andrea McDonnell
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26 January 2021, pp. 243-244
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Zoe Strimpel. Seeking Love in Modern Britain: Gender, Dating and the Rise of “the Single.” London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Pp. 233. $81.00 (cloth).
Penrose Halson
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06 October 2021, pp. 1013-1015
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Iain Hutchison, Martin Atherton, and Jaipreet Virdi, eds. Disability and the Victorians: Attitudes, Interventions, Legacies. Disability History. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. Pp. 216. $120.00 (cloth).
Joyce L. Huff
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09 April 2021, pp. 494-496
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Volume 60 - October 2021

POST-1800

Book Review

Dagmar Paulus and Ellen Pilsworth, eds. Nationalism before the Nation State: Literary Constructions of Inclusion, Exclusion, and Self-Definition (1756–1871). National Cultivation of Culture 22. Leiden: Brill, 2020. Pp. 196. $113.00 (cloth)

Stef Eastoe. Idiocy, Imbecility and Insanity in Victorian Society: Caterham Asylum, 1867–1911. Mental Health in Historical Perspective. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Pp. 212. $79.99 (cloth).

Lynn McDonald. Florence Nightingale: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works. Significant Figures in World History Series. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. Pp. 194. $50.00 (cloth).

Lee Jackson. Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. Pp. 320. $30.00 (cloth).

J. R. Oldfield. The Ties That Bind: Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Age of Reform, c. 1820–1865. Liverpool Studies in International Slavery 16. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020. Pp. 224. $130.00 (cloth).

Joan Wallach Scott. On the Judgment of History. Ruth Benedict Book Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. Pp. 144. $95 (cloth).

Emma Griffin. Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. 389. $35.00 (cloth).

Timothy Larsen and Michael Ledger-Lomas, eds. The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume III: The Nineteenth Century. The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. 568. $145.00 (cloth).

Maurice S. Lee. Overwhelmed: Literature, Aesthetics, and the Nineteenth-Century Information Revolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. 296. $39.95 (cloth).

Mark Philp. Radical Conduct: Politics, Sociability and Equality in London 1789–1815. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 273. $99.99 (cloth).

Kirsty Hooper. The Edwardians and the Making of a Modern Spanish Obsession. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020. Pp. 336. $120.00 (cloth).

Radhika Singha. The Coolie's Great War: Indian Labour in a Global Conflict, 1914–1921. London: Hurst, 2020. Pp. 392. $59.95 (cloth).

Jane Lydon. Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire. Critical Perspectives on Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 234. $99.99 (cloth).

Jacob Steere-Williams. The Filth Disease: Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England. Rochester Studies in Medical History. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2020. Pp. 340. $99.00 (cloth).

Anton Howes. Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. 416. $35.00 (cloth).

Claudio Pogliano. Brain and Race: A History of Cerebral Anthropology. Nuncius Series 4. Leiden: Brill, 2020. Pp. 343. $179.00 (cloth).

James S. Pula , ed. United States Immigration, 1800–1965: A History in Documents. The Broadview Sources Series. Ontario: Broadview Press. 2020. Pp. 301. $21.95 (paper).

Sharon Marcus. The Drama of Celebrity: A Bold New Account of How Celebrity Works. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. 328. $29.95 (cloth).

Zoe Strimpel. Seeking Love in Modern Britain: Gender, Dating and the Rise of “the Single.” London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Pp. 233. $81.00 (cloth).

Iain Hutchison, Martin Atherton, and Jaipreet Virdi, eds. Disability and the Victorians: Attitudes, Interventions, Legacies. Disability History. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. Pp. 216. $120.00 (cloth).

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