Our highlight this month in Reviews in History is a fascinating discussion between Scott Newton and David Edgerton of the latter’s The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: a Twentieth Century History. This compelling book recasts 20th-century British history in...
Latin American HistoryMexican Nationalism: History and TheoryDavid Brading (Cambridge)4 October 2011 In 1821 Mexico gained independence from Spain and formed a Republic. By the 1880s a ‘reformation’ had begun to occur in the Mexican church, trade had moved primarily...
The Wild Irish GirlOxford World’s Classics series I began my previous post with a quote summarising Georg Lukács claim to the distinctiveness of nineteenth century historical fiction and to how he argued for the role of academic and popular history in its...