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Volume 50 - October 2011

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Page 7 of 11

Book Reviews

Kirsten T. Saxton, Narratives of Women and Murder in England, 1680–1760: Deadly Plots. Farnham: Ashgate, 2009. Pp. 162. $89.95 (cloth).
Jennine Hurl-Eamon
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21 December 2012, pp. 749-750
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Kristin Bluemel, ed. Intermodernism: Literary Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. Pp. 254. $95.00 (cloth).
Marina MacKay
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21 December 2012, pp. 214-215
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David Beck Ryden. West Indian Slavery and British Abolition, 1783–1807. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 352. $80.00 (cloth).
Katherine Paugh
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21 December 2012, pp. 495-497
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Malcolm Thick. Sir Hugh Plat: The Search for Useful Knowledge in Early Modern London. Devon: Prospect Books, 2010. Pp. 432. $60.00 (cloth).
Olivia Weisser
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21 December 2012, pp. 999-1000
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Anthony Brandt. The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage. New York: Knopf, 2010. Pp. 441. $28.95 (cloth).
Stephanie Barczewski
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21 December 2012, pp. 216-217
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Rebecca Totaro and Ernest B. Gilman, eds. Representing the Plague in Early Modern England. New York: Routledge, 2010. Pp. 260. $113.00 (cloth).
Lucinda M. McCray
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21 December 2012, pp. 750-751
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Hirokazu Tsurushima, ed. Nations in Medieval Britain. Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2010. Pp. 160. $24.95 (paper).
Hugh M. Thomas
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21 December 2012, pp. 1000-1002
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Carolyn Steedman. Labours Lost: Domestic Service and the Making of Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp 410. $35.99 (paper).
Dana Rabin
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21 December 2012, pp. 497-498
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Robert Whiting. The Reformation of the English Parish Church. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 318. $99.00 (cloth).
Kathleen Kamerick
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21 December 2012, pp. 752-753
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Emma Wilby. The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2010. Pp. 616. $125.00 (cloth).
P. G. Maxwell-Stuart
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21 December 2012, pp. 1002-1003
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Patrick Tuite. Theatre of Crisis: The Performance of Power in the Kingdom of Ireland, 1662–1692. Apple-Zimmerman Series in Early Modern Culture. Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press, 2010. Pp. 275. $65.00 (cloth).
Chris Morash
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21 December 2012, pp. 499-500
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John Darwin. The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 814. $38.00 (cloth).
Kevin Grant
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21 December 2012, pp. 217-218
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Lauren Arrington. W. B. Yeats, The Abbey Theatre, Censorship, and the Irish State: Adding the Half-Pence to the Pence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 210. $110.00 (cloth).
Ben Levitas
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21 December 2012, pp. 1003-1005
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Stefania Tutino. Thomas White and the Blackloists: Between Politics and Theology during the English Civil War. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. Pp. 228. $99.95 (cloth).
Jeffrey Collins
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21 December 2012, pp. 500-501
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Nicholas Draper. The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery. Cambridge Studies in Economic History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 416. $95.00 (cloth).
David B. Ryden
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21 December 2012, pp. 218-220
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Jonathan Willis. Church Music and Protestantism in Post-Reformation England: Discourses, Sites and Identities. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. xi+294. $124.95 (cloth).
Sarah F. Williams
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21 December 2012, pp. 753-755
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Martin Francis. The Flyer: British Culture and the Royal Air Force, 1939–1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. 266. $60.00 (cloth).
Craig C. Felker
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21 December 2012, pp. 220-221
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David Brown. Palmerston: A Biography. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010. Pp. 584. $50.00 (cloth).
Michael J. Turner
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21 December 2012, pp. 1005-1006
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Lynn Abrams and Callum G. Brown, eds. A History of Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century Scotland. A History of Everyday Life in Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. Pp. 302. £24.99 (paper).
Richard J. Finlay
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21 December 2012, pp. 755-756
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Paul Addison. No Turning Back: The Peacetime Revolutions of Post-war Britain.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xiii+449. £18.99/$29.95 (cloth).
Rodney Lowe
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21 December 2012, pp. 502-503
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Book Reviews

Kirsten T. Saxton, Narratives of Women and Murder in England, 1680–1760: Deadly Plots. Farnham: Ashgate, 2009. Pp. 162. $89.95 (cloth).

Kristin Bluemel, ed. Intermodernism: Literary Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. Pp. 254. $95.00 (cloth).

David Beck Ryden. West Indian Slavery and British Abolition, 1783–1807. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 352. $80.00 (cloth).

Malcolm Thick. Sir Hugh Plat: The Search for Useful Knowledge in Early Modern London. Devon: Prospect Books, 2010. Pp. 432. $60.00 (cloth).

Anthony Brandt. The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage. New York: Knopf, 2010. Pp. 441. $28.95 (cloth).

Rebecca Totaro and Ernest B. Gilman, eds. Representing the Plague in Early Modern England. New York: Routledge, 2010. Pp. 260. $113.00 (cloth).

Hirokazu Tsurushima, ed. Nations in Medieval Britain. Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2010. Pp. 160. $24.95 (paper).

Carolyn Steedman. Labours Lost: Domestic Service and the Making of Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp 410. $35.99 (paper).

Robert Whiting. The Reformation of the English Parish Church. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 318. $99.00 (cloth).

Emma Wilby. The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2010. Pp. 616. $125.00 (cloth).

Patrick Tuite. Theatre of Crisis: The Performance of Power in the Kingdom of Ireland, 1662–1692. Apple-Zimmerman Series in Early Modern Culture. Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press, 2010. Pp. 275. $65.00 (cloth).

John Darwin. The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 814. $38.00 (cloth).

Lauren Arrington. W. B. Yeats, The Abbey Theatre, Censorship, and the Irish State: Adding the Half-Pence to the Pence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 210. $110.00 (cloth).

Stefania Tutino. Thomas White and the Blackloists: Between Politics and Theology during the English Civil War. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. Pp. 228. $99.95 (cloth).

Nicholas Draper. The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery. Cambridge Studies in Economic History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 416. $95.00 (cloth).

Jonathan Willis. Church Music and Protestantism in Post-Reformation England: Discourses, Sites and Identities. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. xi+294. $124.95 (cloth).

Martin Francis. The Flyer: British Culture and the Royal Air Force, 1939–1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. 266. $60.00 (cloth).

David Brown. Palmerston: A Biography. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010. Pp. 584. $50.00 (cloth).

Lynn Abrams and Callum G. Brown, eds. A History of Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century Scotland. A History of Everyday Life in Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. Pp. 302. £24.99 (paper).

Paul Addison. No Turning Back: The Peacetime Revolutions of Post-war Britain.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xiii+449. £18.99/$29.95 (cloth).

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