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Britain and the World: Historical Journal of The British Scholar Society articles

Volume 8 (1)

The Wind of Change: Harold Macmillan and British Decolonization L.J. Butler and Sarah Stockwell, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 296 pp. £60.00. (hardback) vol. 8 (1): 137-140
Making Toleration: The Repealers and the Glorious Revolution Scott Sowerby. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. 404pp. $49.95 (hardback). vol. 8 (1): 140-142
Making Ireland English: The Irish Aristocracy in the Seventeenth Century Jane Ohlmeyer. New Haven:Yale University Press, 2012. 668 pp. vol. 8 (1): 142-144
Far From Home The English in New Zealand Lyndon Fraser and Angela McCarthy, eds. Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2012. 232 pp. NZ$45. (paperback). vol. 8 (1): 144-146
William Beckford. First Prime Minister of the London Empire Perry Gauci, Yale University Press: London and New Haven, 2013. 256pp. £21.42 (hardback). vol. 8 (1): 146-148
Understanding the Victorians: Politics, Culture and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain Susie Steinbach, Abingdon: Routledge, 2011. 312pp. £24.99 (paperback). vol. 8 (1): 148-150
The Month That Changed The World, July 1914 Gordon Martel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 510 pp. £25.00 vol. 8 (1): 150-152

Volume 7 (2)

Conspiracy Theory and its Discontents Gregory A. Barton, vol. 7 (2): 169-173
Anglo-American Inter-Imperialism: US Expansion and the British World, c.1865–1914 Stephen Tuffnell, vol. 7 (2): 174-195
Excessive Americanisms: Hollywood in the British Empire, 1918–1930 James Burns, vol. 7 (2): 196-211
To Be or Not to Be? The North Korean Challenge to British Foreign Policy, 1971–1976 Tae Joon Won, vol. 7 (2): 212-237
To Issue ‘Stand Down’ or Not…: Britain and Kashmir, 1947–49 Rakesh Ankit, vol. 7 (2): 238-260
Collaborations in Space: Memories of British Space Science, 1960–1980 Peter Sanford, vol. 7 (2): 261-269
Visions of Empire: Patriotism, Popular Culture and the City, 1870–1939 Brad Beaven, Manchester: University Press, 2012. 234 pp. $105 (hardback) John Griffiths, vol. 7 (2): 270-274
‘Orientalist Jones’: Sir William Jones, Poet, Lawyer, and Linguist, 1746–1794; Michael J. Franklin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 408 pp. £35 (hardback). Filomena Viviana Tagliaferri, vol. 7 (2): 283-285
Wellington's Wars: The Making of a Military Genius; Huw Davies. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. 336 pp. US $38.00 (hardback). Jeremy Black, vol. 7 (2): 285-286
The Crimean War: British Grand Strategy against Russia, 1853–56; Andrew Lambert. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011, 2nd edition. xvi + 380 pp. £72 (hardback). Jeremy Black, vol. 7 (2): 286-287
A Merciless Place: The Lost Story of Britain's Convict Disaster in Africa and How it Led to the Settlement of Australia; Emma Christopher. Sydney, NSW: Allen and Unwin, 2010. 440 pp. AUS $35 (paperback). David Andrew Roberts, vol. 7 (2): 287-289
Strong, Beautiful and Modern: National Fitness in Britain, New Zealand, Australia and Canada, 1935–1960; Charlotte Macdonald. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books Limited, 2011. 240 pp. NZ $49.99 (paperback). Katie Pickles, vol. 7 (2): 289-291
The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution; Faramerz Dabhoiwala. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 483 pp. US $34.95 (hardback). Satu Lidman, vol. 7 (2): 291-293
The Shaping of Scottish Identities: Family, Nation and the Worlds Beyond; Jodi A. Campbell, Elizabeth Ewan and Heather Parker, eds. Guelph Series in Scottish Studies: University of Guelph, Ontario, 2011. 263 pp. £25 (hardback). Lesley Orr, vol. 7 (2): 293-295
New Zealand's London: A Colony and its Metropolis; Felicity Barnes. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2012. 280 pp. NZ $49.99 (paperback). Geoff Watson, vol. 7 (2): 296-298
Racial Crossings: Race, Intermarriage and the British Empire; Damon Ieremia Salesa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 308 pp. US $45 (paperback). Lachy Paterson, vol. 7 (2): 298-300

Volume 7 (1)

Is Meritocracy History? vol. 7 (1): 1-5
An ‘imperial hangover’? Royal Honours in Australia, Canada and New Zealand, 1917–2009 vol. 7 (1): 6-27
Exporting the Westminster model: MPs and Colonial Governance in the Victorian era vol. 7 (1): 28-55
The Branch Life of Empire: Imperial Loyalty Leagues in Antipodean Cities – Comparisons and Contrasts with the British Model vol. 7 (1): 56-84
Britain, the Cold War, and ‘the importance of influencing the young’: a comparison of Cyprus and Hong Kong vol. 7 (1): 85-108
Britain, Canada and Scotland: Some Reflections on the History and Practical Nature of Accommodation vol. 7 (1): 109-118
J. C. Beaglehole: Public Intellectual, Critical Conscience Doug Munro. Wellington: Steel Roberts, 2012. 106 pp. £14.99 (paperback). vol. 7 (1): 119-121
British Jewry, Zionism and the Jewish State, 1936–1956 Stephan E. C. Wendehorst. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xiv+422 pp. £64 (hardback). vol. 7 (1): 121-126
Public Health in the British Empire: Intermediaries, Subordinates and the Practice of Public Health, 1850–1960 Ryan Johnson and Amna Khalid, eds. New York: Routledge, 2012. 201 pp. £85 (hardback). vol. 7 (1): 127-129
Wavell and the Dying Days of the Raj: Britain's Penultimate Viceroy in India Mohammad Iqbal Chawla. Pakistan: Oxford University Press, 2012. £15.99 (hardback). vol. 7 (1): 129-131
Dickens and the Artists Mark Bills, ed. New Haven: Yale University Press with Watts Gallery, 2012. 200 pp. US$55 (hardback). vol. 7 (1): 131-133
The Black and Tans: British Police and Auxiliaries in the Irish War of Independence, 1920–1921 David Leeson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. xvi+294 pp. £30 (hardback). vol. 7 (1): 133-136
The Strawberry Hill Press and its Printing House: An Account and an Iconography Stephen Clarke. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. 152 pp. £40 (hardback). vol. 7 (1): 136-138
Landscapes on the Western Front: Materiality during the Great War Ross J. Wilson. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2012. 244 pp. £80.00 (hardcover). vol. 7 (1): 138-140
Diplomatic Anecdotage: Around the World in 40 Years Sir Roger Carrick. London: Elliott and Thompson, 2012. xii+316 pp. £18.99 (hardback). vol. 7 (1): 140-143
‘To Be Truly British We Must Be Anti-German’: New Zealand, Enemy Aliens and the Great War Experience, 1914–1919 Andrew Francis. Bern: Peter Lang, 2012. 299 pp. US$65.95. vol. 7 (1): 143-145
Ourselves and Others: Scotland, 1832–1914 Graeme Morton. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. 312 pp. £19.99 (paperback). vol. 7 (1): 145-147

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