Reviews in History – New Reviews 10 September 2009
Three new reviews have been posted this week.The first is Hilda Kean’s critical take (no. 789) on A History of Attitudes and Behaviours toward Animals in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain. Anthropocentrism and the Emergence of Animals by Rob Boddice, whose...Reviews in History – New Reviews 3 September 2009
Three new reviews have been posted this week.In the first, Lynne Walker finds much of interest (no. 786) in Judith Neiswander’s new study of the popular literature of Victorian interior decoration, The Cosmopolitan Interior: Liberalism and the British Home...Historical Research: ‘Henry VII and the Bristol expeditions to North America: the Condon documents’
Following his intriguing analysis of the late Dr. Alwyn Ruddock’s book proposal on the North American discovery voyages of John and Sebastian Cabot (‘Alwyn Ruddock: “John Cabot and the discovery of America”’, H.R., lxxxi, 2008), Evan Jones now publishes two ‘new’...Reviews in History – New Reviews 27 August 2009
We’re back this week (following the deputy editor’s rain-soaked so-called holiday in the north of England) with a bumper crop of reviews.First up there’s an assessment (no. 782) by Jonathan Blaney of an edited collection of papers on the use of digital media in the...