A variety of different subjects and periods are covered by the reviews this week.First Jill Steward appraises Susan Barton’s study of the beginnings of the Swiss tourism industry in her review (no. 796) of Healthy Living in the Alps: the Origins of Winter Tourism in...
This week features a special issue dedicated to various e-book resources relevant to history.Mark Herring of Winthrop University has spent his summer slaving over reviews of Gutenberg-e (no. 792), Humanities-e Books (no. 793), Medieval Sources Online (no. 794) and...
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...
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...
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...
The following reviews have been published this week.Margaret Walsh (no. 778) on Cotton Seiler’s Republic of Drivers: A Cultural History of Automobility in America.Martin Lengwiler (no. 779) on Solidarity Without the State? Business and the Shaping of the Swiss Welfare...
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