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Reviews Published in 2009/2010

Review Number Title Author(s)/Editor(s) Reviewer Author's Response
854 British Conservatism and Trade Unionism, 1945-1964 Peter Dorey Chris Howell
853 The Northern Lands: Germanic Europe, c.1270-c.1500 David Nicholas Len Scales Author's response
852 Selling the Tudor Monarchy: Authority and Image in Sixteenth-Century England Kevin Sharpe Lucy Wooding
851 Geographies of Empire: European Empires and Colonies c. 1880-1960 R. A. Butlin Michael Collins
850 Atlantic Families: Lives and Letters in the Later Eighteenth Century Sarah Pearsall Susan Whyman
849 The Two Cultures Controversy: Science, Literature and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain Guy Ortolano Patricia Waugh Author's response
848 The Culture of Giving: Informal Support and Gift-Exchange in Early Modern England Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos Jonathan Healey
847 The Posthumous Career of Emiliano Zapata: Myth, Memory, and Mexico's Twentieth Century Samuel Brunk Keith Brewster
846 Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain Ronald Hutton Adam Stout Author's response
845 British Imperialism in Cyprus, 1878–1915: The Inconsequential Possession Andrekos Varnava Hubert Faustmann Author's response
844 The Long Parliament of Charles II Annabel Patterson Alan Marshall
843 The Will to Believe: Woodrow Wilson, World War I, and America’s Strategy for Peace and Security Ross A. Kennedy Kendrick A. Clements
842 Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination Paul Freedman Roger Haden
841 Ending British Rule in Africa: Writers in a Common Cause Carol Polsgrove Marika Sherwood Author's response
840 Black 1919: Riots, Racism and Resistance in Imperial Britain Jacqueline Jenkinson Laura Tabili
839 The Grand Tour Adam Matthew Digital Katy Layton-Jones
838 Fat, Gluttony and Sloth: Obesity in Literature, Art and Medicine David and Fiona Haslam Sander Gilman Author's response
837 The History of Italian Cinema: a Guide to Italian Film from its Origins to the Twenty-First Century Gian Piero Brunetta Catherine O'Rawe
836 A Tale of Two Monasteries: Westminster and Saint-Denis in the Thirteenth Century Willliam Chester Jordan Andrew Abram
835 Credit and Village Society in Fourteenth Century England Chris Briggs Miriam Müller Author's response
834 At the Limits of History. Essays on Theory and Practice Keith Jenkins Martin L. Davies
833 Contested Histories in Public Space: Memory, Race, and Nation Daniel J. Walkowitz and Lisa Maya Knauer (eds.) Steven Dubin Author's response
832 The Hell-Fire Clubs: Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies Evelyn Lord Jason Kelly
831 Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain Karen O'Brien Rosalind Carr Author's response
830 Living in Sin: Cohabiting as Husband and Wife in Nineteenth-Century England Ginger Frost Tanya Evans
829 The Urban Social History of the Middle East, 1750-1950 Peter Sluglett (ed.) Johan Franzén Author's response
828 The Cabinet Papers 1915-1978 Online The National Archives Michael F. Hopkins
827 Sans-Culottes: An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution Michael Sonenscher Richard Whatmore Author's response
826 Crafting the Witch: Gendering Magic in Medieval and Early Modern England Heidi Breuer Catherine Rider
825 Consuming History: Historians and Heritage in Contemporary Popular Culture Jerome de Groot Ian Gwinn Author's response
824 In the Shadow of Yalta: Art and the Avant-garde in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989 Piotr Piotrowski Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius
823 Who Will Write Our History? Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto Saul D. Kassow Sam Johnson
822 British Political Thought, 1500-1660: The Politics of the Post-Reformation Glenn Burgess Sarah Mortimer Author's response
821 State and Market in Victorian Britain: War, Welfare and Capitalism Martin Daunton Jim Tomlinson
820 Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary Miri Rubin Donna Spivey Ellington Author's response
819 Invented Knowledge: False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-religions Ronald H. Fritze Douglas Allchin Author's response
818 Reinventing History. The Enlightenment Origins of Ancient History James Moore, Ian Macgregor Morris and Andrew J. Bayliss (eds) Kostas Vlassopoulos
817 Small and Special: the Hospital for Sick Children at Great Ormond Street Historic Patient Admissions Database Andrea Tanner Alice Reid Author's response
816 A Companion to Britain in the Later Middle Ages S. H. Rigby Rowena E. Archer Author's response
815 Race, Law and ‘The Chinese Puzzle’ in Imperial Britain Sascha Auerbach Flemming Christiansen Author's response
814 Domestic Affairs: Intimacy, Eroticism, and Violence Between Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-Century Britain Kristina Straub Sarah Lloyd Author's response
813 A Man and an Institution: Sir Maurice Hankey, the Cabinet Secretariat and the Custody of Cabinet Secrecy John F. Naylor Vernon Bogdanor
812 A History of Nigeria Toyin Falola and Matthew Heaton Steven Pierce
811 Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America's Culture of Death

Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War
Mark S. Schantz


Dora L. Costa and Matthew E. Kahn
Brian Holden Reid Author's response
810 Guarantee of Peace: The League of Nations in British Policy 1914-1925 Peter Yearwood Carolyn Kitching Author's response
809 The End is Nigh: a History of Natural Disasters Henrik Svensen Michael Baillie Author's response
808 The Eagle and the Crown: Americans and the British Monarchy Frank Prochaska Adam Smith
807 The Cultural Turn in U.S. History: Past, Present, and Future James W. Cook, Lawrence B. Glickman, and Michael O’Malley (eds.) Patrick Hagopian
806 A Child for Keeps: the History of Adoption in England, 1918-45 Jenny Keating Daniel Grey Author's response
805 The Medieval Prison: A Social History G. Geltner Jonathan Rose
804 The Reformation in Rhyme. Sternhold, Hopkins and the English Metrical Psalter, 1547-1603

Humanism and the Reform of Sacred Music in Early Modern England. John Merbecke the Orator and The Booke of Common Praier Noted (1550)
Beth Quitslund


Hyun-Ah Kim
Peter Webster
803 The New Civilisation? Understanding Stalin’s Soviet Union 1929-1941 Paul Flewers Geoffrey Foote Author's response
802 ‘The Contending Kingdoms’: England and France 1420-1700 Glenn Richardson (ed.) Simon Lambe
801 The Civilising Mission and the English Middle Class, 1792-1850: The ‘Heathen’ at Home and Overseas Alison Twells Rhonda Semple Author's response
800 Riotous Assemblies: Popular Protest in Hanoverian England

Loyalism and Radicalism in Lancashire 1798-1815
Adrian Randall


Katrina Navickas
Robert Poole
799 Evangelicals in the Royal Navy, 1775-1815: Blue Lights and Psalm-Singers Richard Blake Gareth Atkins Author's response
798 Judaism without Jews: Philosemitism and Christian Polemic in Early Modern England Eliane Glaser Ariel Hessayon Author's response
797 The Persecution of the Jews and Muslims of Portugal. King Manuel I and the End of Religious Tolerance (1496–7) François Soyer Ariel Hessayon
796 Healthy Living in the Alps: the Origins of Winter Tourism in Switzerland, 1860-1914 Susan Barton Jill Steward
795 Oxford Scholarship Online (E-books special) Oxford University Press Mark Herring
794 Medieval Sources Online (E-books special) Manchester University Press Mark Herring
793 Humanities-e Books (E-books special) American Council of Learned Societies Mark Herring
792 Gutenberg-e (E-books special) American Historical Association Mark Herring
791 The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776-1941 Rebecca McLennan Vivien Miller
790 The Domination of Strangers: Modern Governance in Eastern India, 1780-1835 Jon Wilson Philip Stern Author's response
789 A History of Attitudes and Behaviours toward Animals in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain. Anthropocentrism and the Emergence of Animals Rob Boddice Hilda Kean Author's response
788 The Chemical Choir. A History of Alchemy P. G. Maxwell-Stuart Vittoria Feola
787 Reading Gladstone Ruth Windscheffel Frank Turner
786 The Cosmopolitan Interior: Liberalism and the British Home 1870-1914 Judith Neiswander Lynne Walker
785 The Children’s Crusade: Medieval History, Modern Mythistory Gary Dickson Brett Edward Whalen
784 Jack Lynch: a Biography Dermot Keogh Emmett O'Connor
783 Liberal Fascism- The Secret History of the Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning Jonah Goldberg Keith Flett
782 The Virtual Representation of the Past Mark Greengrass and Lorna Hughes (eds) Jonathan Blaney
781 The Blasphemies of Thomas Aikenhead. Boundaries of Belief on the Eve of the Enlightenment Michael Graham Justin Champion Author's response
780 Parties at War. Political Organisation in Second World War Britain Andrew Thorpe Kevin Jefferys
779 Solidarity Without the State? Business and the Shaping of the Swiss Welfare State, 1890–2000 Matthieu Leimgruber Martin Lengwiler
778 Republic of Drivers: A Cultural History of Automobility in America Cotten Seiler Margaret Walsh
777 God’s Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland Micheál Ó Siochrú Jason Peacey Author's response
776 War and Peace in Ancient and Medieval History Philip de Souza and John France (eds.) Jenny Benham
775 Florence 1900. The Quest for Arcadia Bernd Roeck Dario Gaggio
774 Cities and the Making of Modern Europe, 1750–1914 Andrew Lees and Lynn Hollen Lees Leif Jerram Author's response
773 Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern World Liam Matthew Brockey (ed.) Kathleen Sheldon
772 Urban Poetics in the French Renaissance Elisabeth Hodges Hugh Roberts
771 Guilty Money: The City of London in Victorian and Edwardian Culture Ranald Michie James Gregory Author's response
770 African or American? Black Identity in New York City, 1784-1861 Leslie Alexander Bronwen Everill
769 The Gangs of Manchester: The Story of the Scuttlers, Britain’s First Youth Cult Andrew Davies Kate Bradley
768 Cities in Modernity: Representations and Productions of Metropolitan Space, 1840-1930 Richard Dennis Karl Bell
767 Lost Londons: Change, Crime and Control in the Capital City 1550-1660 Paul Griffiths Jacob Field Author's response
766 The London Guildhall: an Archaeological History of a Neighbourhood from Early Medieval to Modern Times David Bowsher et al. Justin Colson Author's response
765 Invented Edens: Techno-Cities of the Twentieth Century Robert Kargon and Arthur Molella Federico Caprotti Author's response
764 Kingmakers: the Invention of the Modern Middle East K. Meyer and S.B. Brysac Rory Miller
763 Ireland, India and Empire: Indo-Irish Radical Connections, 1919–64 Kate O'Malley Keith Jeffery
762 The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus David Abulafia Trevor Burnard Author's response
761 Love, Lust, and License in Early Modern England: Illicit Sex and the Nobility Johanna Rickman Ingrid Tague Author's response
760 Our Friend ‘The Enemy’: Elite Education in Britain and Germany Before World War 1 Thomas Weber Sonja Levsen Author's response
759 Hard and Unreal Advice: Mothers, Social Science and the Victorian Poverty Experts Kathleen Callanan Martin Victoria Le Fevre Author's response
758 Radicalism and Cultural Dislocation in Ethiopia, 1960 – 1974 Messay Kebede Richard Reid Author's response
757 The Invention of Altruism. Making Moral Meanings in Victorian Britain Thomas Dixon Stuart Jones Author's response
756 The American Future: A History Simon Schama Nicholas Guyatt
755 A Companion to Eighteenth Century Europe Peter H. Wilson William Doyle
754 The Crisis of the Twelfth Century: Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government Thomas N. Bisson Theo Riches Author's response
753 Anglo-Jewry Since 1066: Place, Locality and Memory Tony Kushner William D. Rubinstein Author's response
752 The Second Crusade: Extending the Frontiers of Christendom Jonathan Phillips Susan B. Edgington
751 The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War Edward Rugemer Susan-Mary Grant Author's response
750 Fighting for the Cross: Crusading to the Holy Land Norman Housley Nicholas Morton
749 What is Global History? Pamela Crossley Iftekhar Iqbal Author's response
748 Eat My Dust: Early Women Motorists Georgine Clarsen Sean O'Connell Author's response
747 The British Empire: Themes and Perspectives Sarah Stockwell (ed.) John Marriott Editor's response
746 Oliver Cromwell: New Perspectives Patick Little (ed.) Ronald Hutton
745 Hunting and Fishing in the New South: Black Labor and White Leisure after the Civil War Scott E. Giltner Karen Jones Author's response
744 War in England 1642-1649 Barbara Donagan Elliot Vernon Author's response
743 A Nation Upon the Ocean Sea: Portugal's Atlantic Diaspora and the Crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492-1640 Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert Lorraine White
742 Racial Science and British Society, 1930-62 Gavin Schaffer Graham Macklin
741 The End of Empires: African Americans and India Gerald Horne Vijay Prashad Author's response
740 Defying Empire. Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York Thomas M. Truxes Simon Middleton Author's response
739 A Companion to American Cultural History Karen Halttunen (ed.) John Wills
738 Cross Currents and Community Networks: The History of the Indian Ocean World H.P. Ray and E.A. Alpers (eds) Clare Anderson
737 The Empire in One City? Liverpool’s Inconvenient Imperial Past Sheryllyne Haggerty, Anthony Webster and Nicholas J. White (eds) John Belchem Author's response
736 Russia’s Age of Serfdom, 1649-1861 Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter Alexander Martin
735 Youth Culture in Modern Britain, c.1920–c.1970: From Ivory Tower to Global Movement – a New History David Fowler Ian Jones Author's response
734 Land and Revolution: Nationalist Politics in the West of Ireland 1891-1921 Fergus Campbell Patrick Cosgrove Author's response
733 On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages Valerie Allen Danuta Shanzer Author's response
732 The Mantra of Efficiency: From Waterwheel to Social Control Jennifer Karns Alexander Peter Sutton Author's response
731 Appeasement in Crisis: From Munich to Prague, October 1938 – March 1939 David Gillard Robert Boyce
730 The 19th Century British Library Newspapers website British Library Martin Conboy
729 Behind Enemy Lines: Gender, Passing and the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War Juliette Pattinson Helen Jones Author's response
728 Survivors of a Kind: Memoirs of the Western Front Brian Bond Alisa Miller Author's response
727 Napoleon’s Cursed War: Popular Resistance in the Spanish Peninsular War Ronald Fraser Mark Lawrence Author's response
726 The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj. Merchants, Rulers and British in the Nineteenth-Century Gulf James Onley Nelida Fuccaro Author's response
725 Expelling the Germans: British Public Opinion and Post-1945 Population Transfer in Context Matthew Frank Alexander Clarkson Author's response
724 Bristol Historical Resource CD Peter Wardley Clive Lee
723 Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics Stefan Collini William Lubenow
722 Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile Lewis H. Siegelbaum Erik Landis
721 The African American Woman Golfer: Her Legacy M. Mikell Johnson Sundiata Djata
720 Transforming Museums: Mounting Queen Victoria in a Democratic South Africa Steven C. Dubin Sarah Longair
719 Unrespectable Radicals? Popular Politics in the Age of Reform ed. Michael T. Davis and Paul A. Pickering Chris Evans
718 A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain Marc Morris Jeremy Goldsmith Author's response
717 Work or Fight! Race, Gender, and the Draft in World War One Gerald E. Shenk Kristofer Allerfeldt
716 The Shadow of Marriage: Singleness in England 1914–1960 Katherine Holden Tanya Evans Author's response
715 The Capetians: Kings of France, 987–1328 Jim Bradbury Richard Cusimano
714 The First World War Poetry Digital Archive and The Great War Archive University of Oxford Esther MacCallum-Stewart Editor's response
713 Glamour. A History Stephen Gundle Mary Lynn Stewart
712 El Marqués de Velada y la Corte en los Reinados de Felipe II y Felipe III Santiago Martínez Hernández Patrick Williams
711 Vietnam: Explaining America’s Lost War Gary Hess Ian Horwood Author's response
710 Paris and the Commune Colette E. Wilson Martin Simpson
709 The Idea of Greater Britain Duncan Bell Miles Taylor Author's response

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