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Volume 56 - October 2017

Contents

Page 10 of 12

POST-1800

Book Reviews

Matt Houlbrook . Prince of Tricksters: The Incredible True Story of Netley Lucas, Gentleman Crook. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 442. $40.00 (cloth).
Eloise Moss
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14 July 2017, pp. 688-689
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Geoff Horn . Crossing the Floor: Reg Prentice and the Crisis of British Social Democracy. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. Pp. 239. $100.00 (cloth).
Dean Blackburn
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13 January 2017, pp. 201-202
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Rebecca Lenihan . From Alba to Aotearoa: Profiling New Zealand's Scots Migrants, 1840–1920. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2015. Pp. 320. $45.00 (cloth).
Benjamin Wilkie
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31 March 2017, pp. 434-436
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Celia Marshik . At the Mercy of Their Clothes: Modernism, the Middlebrow, and British Garment Culture. Modernist Latitudes. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. Pp. 264. $60.00 (cloth).
Paula Rabinowitz
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27 September 2017, pp. 917-918
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Kirsten McKenzie . Imperial Underworld: An Escaped Convict and the Transformation of the British Colonial Order. Critical Perspectives of Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. 318. $99.99 (cloth).
Alan Atkinson
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31 March 2017, pp. 436-437
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Nick Hubble and Philip Tew , eds. London in Contemporary British Fiction: The City beyond the City. Bloomsbury Studies in the City. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Pp. 232. $114.00 (cloth).
Daniel Weston
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14 July 2017, pp. 689-691
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Angela McCarthy and John M. MacKenzie , eds. Global Migrations: The Scottish Diaspora since 1600. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016. Pp. 289. $87.18 (cloth).
Duncan Sim
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27 September 2017, pp. 918-920
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Philip Howell . At Home and Astray. The Domestic Dog in Victorian Britain. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015. Pp. 264. $39.50 (cloth).
Pauline Macadré
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13 January 2017, pp. 202-204
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Dominic Janes . Oscar Wilde Prefigured: Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750–1900. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2016. Pp. 288. $40.00 (cloth).
Jamie Horrocks
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14 July 2017, pp. 691-692
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James Kirby . Historians and the Church of England: Religion and Historical Scholarship, 1870–1920. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 257. $100.00 (cloth).
Michael Bentley
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13 January 2017, pp. 204-205
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Cian T. McMahon . The Global Dimensions of Irish Identity: Race, Nation, and the Popular Press, 1840–1860. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. Pp. 238. $34.95 (paper).
David T. Gleeson
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31 March 2017, pp. 437-438
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Ciarán Ó Murchadha . Figures in a Famine Landscape. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Pp. 240. $102.60 (cloth).
Nicholas M. Wolf
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27 September 2017, pp. 920-921
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Gerard Keown . The First of the Small Nations: The Beginnings of Irish Foreign Policy in the Interwar Years, 1919–1932. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 270. $110.00 (cloth).
Francis M. Carroll
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14 July 2017, pp. 693-694
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Graham Mooney . Intrusive Interventions: Public Health, Domestic Space, and Infectious Disease. Rochester Studies in Medical History. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2015. Pp. 278. $125.00 (cloth).
Nicola Shelton
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31 March 2017, pp. 439-440
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Murray Stewart Leith and Duncan Sim , eds. The Modern Scottish Diaspora: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014. Pp. 277. $100.00 (cloth).
Richard J. Finlay
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13 January 2017, pp. 206-207
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Jonathan E. Robins . Cotton and Race across the Atlantic: Britain, Africa and America, 1900–1920. Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora 73. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2016. Pp. 312. $112.50 (cloth).
Steven Toms
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27 September 2017, pp. 922-923
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Simon Schama . The Face of Britain: A History of the Nation through Its Portraits. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 603. $39.95 (cloth)
Sharrona Pearl
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27 September 2017, pp. 923-925
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Christopher J. Lee . Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa. Radical Perspectives. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. 368. $99.95 (cloth).
Rachel Jean-Baptiste
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14 July 2017, pp. 694-696
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Michael Meranze and Saree Makdisi , eds. Imagining the British Atlantic after the American Revolution. UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series 23. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. Pp. 276. $65.00 (cloth).
Brendan Gillis
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13 January 2017, pp. 207-209
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Myles Osborne and Susan Kingsley Kent . Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660–1980. Abingdon: Routledge, 2015. Pp. 249. $49.95 (cloth).
Bronwen Everill
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31 March 2017, pp. 440-441
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Book Reviews

Matt Houlbrook . Prince of Tricksters: The Incredible True Story of Netley Lucas, Gentleman Crook. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 442. $40.00 (cloth).

Geoff Horn . Crossing the Floor: Reg Prentice and the Crisis of British Social Democracy. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. Pp. 239. $100.00 (cloth).

Rebecca Lenihan . From Alba to Aotearoa: Profiling New Zealand's Scots Migrants, 1840–1920. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2015. Pp. 320. $45.00 (cloth).

Celia Marshik . At the Mercy of Their Clothes: Modernism, the Middlebrow, and British Garment Culture. Modernist Latitudes. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. Pp. 264. $60.00 (cloth).

Kirsten McKenzie . Imperial Underworld: An Escaped Convict and the Transformation of the British Colonial Order. Critical Perspectives of Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. 318. $99.99 (cloth).

Nick Hubble and Philip Tew , eds. London in Contemporary British Fiction: The City beyond the City. Bloomsbury Studies in the City. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Pp. 232. $114.00 (cloth).

Angela McCarthy and John M. MacKenzie , eds. Global Migrations: The Scottish Diaspora since 1600. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016. Pp. 289. $87.18 (cloth).

Philip Howell . At Home and Astray. The Domestic Dog in Victorian Britain. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015. Pp. 264. $39.50 (cloth).

Dominic Janes . Oscar Wilde Prefigured: Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750–1900. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2016. Pp. 288. $40.00 (cloth).

James Kirby . Historians and the Church of England: Religion and Historical Scholarship, 1870–1920. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 257. $100.00 (cloth).

Cian T. McMahon . The Global Dimensions of Irish Identity: Race, Nation, and the Popular Press, 1840–1860. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. Pp. 238. $34.95 (paper).

Ciarán Ó Murchadha . Figures in a Famine Landscape. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Pp. 240. $102.60 (cloth).

Gerard Keown . The First of the Small Nations: The Beginnings of Irish Foreign Policy in the Interwar Years, 1919–1932. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 270. $110.00 (cloth).

Graham Mooney . Intrusive Interventions: Public Health, Domestic Space, and Infectious Disease. Rochester Studies in Medical History. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2015. Pp. 278. $125.00 (cloth).

Murray Stewart Leith and Duncan Sim , eds. The Modern Scottish Diaspora: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014. Pp. 277. $100.00 (cloth).

Jonathan E. Robins . Cotton and Race across the Atlantic: Britain, Africa and America, 1900–1920. Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora 73. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2016. Pp. 312. $112.50 (cloth).

Simon Schama . The Face of Britain: A History of the Nation through Its Portraits. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 603. $39.95 (cloth)

Christopher J. Lee . Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa. Radical Perspectives. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. 368. $99.95 (cloth).

Michael Meranze and Saree Makdisi , eds. Imagining the British Atlantic after the American Revolution. UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series 23. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. Pp. 276. $65.00 (cloth).

Myles Osborne and Susan Kingsley Kent . Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660–1980. Abingdon: Routledge, 2015. Pp. 249. $49.95 (cloth).

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