New reviews: Spectral Arctic, Contested Reformations and WW2 Displaced Children
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...
New reviews: Civil War citizenship, British migrants and histories of punishment
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...
New reviews: Early Modern Domesticity, Ulysses S. Grant and Black Colonization
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...
New reviews: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Greek Cypriots, responses to Mary Gladstone & Internationalists
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...