We start this week with The Spectral Arctic: a Cultural History of Ghosts and Dreams in Polar Exploration by Shane McCorristine. Kristof Smeyers enjoys a thought-provoking, inspiring book, important in its approach to the study of the supernatural, and timely in its...
We start this week with The Loyal Republic: Traitors, Slaves and the Remaking of Citizenship in Civil War America by Erik Mathisen. Tom Lawrie welcomes a book which expertly brings the reader’s focus in and out of the national scale, concentrating alternately on...
We start this week with A Day at Home in Early Modern England: Material Culture and Domestic Life, 1500-1700, by Tara Hamling and Catherine Richardson. Sara Fox and the authors discuss a book which presents the complex issues surrounding early modern domesticity in an...
We start this week with a review of the digital archive Gabriel García Márquez: An Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Center. Steven Hart believes this archive is a truly remarkable achievement for future research on Latin American culture and literature, and...
We begin this week with The Internationalists and Their Plan to Outlaw War, edited by Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro. Peter Yearwood believes this book fails as a work of history, bound up as it is with a deeply flawed and greatly overstated thesis (no. 2257)....
We begin this week with Susan Dunn-Hensley’s Anna of Denmark and Henrietta Maria: Virgins, Witches, and Catholic Queens. Aidan Norrie and the author discuss an interesting, if sometimes simplistic, reconsideration of these two queens (no. 2253, with response...
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