Three new reviews have been published this week. In the first (no. 762) Trevor Burnard takes issue with David Abulafia’s account of the Spanish conquest of the Americas as found in his new book The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus....
This year’s Anglo-American Conference of Historians, on the theme of ‘Cities’, has official Twitter! Just include #aac_2009 somewhere in your own tweets to feed your thoughts directly onto the Anglo-American Twitter monitor.The IHR’s online...
Two review articles are published this week. The first, by Katrina Gulliver, is concerned with the colonizer/colonized relationship and how individuals and groups negotiated their space in conflict, spanning the period from earlier colonization to the brink of...
This week we have reviews of books covering two very different subjects. First Sonja Levsen reviews (no. 760) Thomas Weber’s Our Friend ‘The Enemy’: Elite Education in Britain and Germany Before World War 1, which compares the university cultures of the two countries...
After last week’s break, Reviews returns this week with four new books under discussion.Two of these are on Victorian England, with Victoria Le Fevre reviewing (no. 759, with reply here) Kathleen Callanan Martin’s Hard and Unreal Advice: Mothers, Social...
Three new reviews have been published this week.The first (review no. 753 and response) features a robust debate between William Rubinstein of the University of Aberystwyth and Tony Kushner over the latter’s latest book, Anglo-Jewry Since 1066: Place, Locality and...
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