Two new reviews have been published this week.First, Edward Rugemer’s examination of the implications for the United States of the abolition of slavery in the Caribbean is assessed for a UK scholarly audience for the first time (review no. 751) by Susan-Mary Grant of...
Three new reviews have been published this week.Review no. 748, by Sean O’Connell of Queen’s University, Belfast, is of Georgine Clarsen’s recent work on female drivers in the first part of the 20th century, Eat My Dust: Early Women Motorists. Her response can be read...
Michael Oakeshott’s highly influential Experience and its Modes was published for the first time in 1933, and this philosophy of history classic has now been reappraised by Alexander Macfie.Elsewhere there are reviews of new books on topics as disparate as...
There are two new reviews this week, with Lorraine White tackling Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert’s A Nation Upon the Open Sea: Portugal’s Atlantic Diaspora and the Crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492-1640 and Elliot Vernon reviewing War in England 1642-1649, by...
Two of the reviews published this week share the theme of empire, but while Thomas M. Truxes (Defying Empire. Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York, reviewed here by Simon Middleton) is interested in the illegal traders of New York at a time when it was still...
New this week is John Belchem’s review of a collection of papers from a conference on the relationship between the city of Liverpool and the British Empire, along with a response from the editors.In addition, Clare Anderson reviews Cross Currents and Community...
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