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Nicola Rollock et al. “The Colour of Class: The Educational Strategies of the Black Middle Classes” (Routledge, 2014)

Nicola Rollock, David Gillborn, Carol Vincent and Stephen J. Ball
The Colour of Class
The Educational Strategies of the Black Middle Classes
Routledge, 2014

New Books in British Studies New Books in Critical Theory New Books in Education New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Public Policy New Books in Sociology New Books Network February 22, 2016 Dave O'Brien

The experience of the African American middle class has been an important area of research in the USA. However, the British experience has, by comparison, not been subject to the same amount of attention, particularly with regard to the middle… Read More

Jessica Parr, “Inventing George Whitefield: Race, Revivalism, and the Making of a Religious Icon” (UP of Mississippi, 2015)

Jessica Parr
Inventing George Whitefield
Race, Revivalism, and the Making of a Religious Icon
University Press of Mississippi, 2015

New Books in African American Studies New Books in American Studies New Books in British Studies New Books in Christian Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network February 22, 2016 Franklin Rausch

George Whitefield was a complex man driven by a simple idea, the new birth that brought salvation. Because of such passion, Whitefield received both enthusiastic support, preaching to audiences numbering in the thousands, and bitter criticism for violating religious doctrine… Read More

Caroline Shaw, “Britannia’s Embrace: Modern Humanitarianism and the Imperial Origins of Refugee Relief” (Oxford UP, 2015)

Caroline Shaw
Britannia's Embrace
Modern Humanitarianism and the Imperial Origins of Refugee Relief
Oxford University Press, 2015

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in British Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in Global Ethics and Politics New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in World Affairs New Books Network February 16, 2016 Christienna Fryar

Published in October 2015, Caroline Shaw‘s timely new book, Britannia’s Embrace: Modern Humanitarianism and the Imperial Origins of Refugee Relief (Oxford University Press, 2015), traces the intertwined development of the category of refugee and of the moral commitment of… Read More

Carin Berkowitz
Charles Bell and the Anatomy of Reform

University of Chicago Press, 2015

New Books in British Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in History New Books in Medicine New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Science, Technology, and Society New Books Network February 16, 2016 Carla Nappi

Carin Berkowitz‘s new book takes readers into the world of nineteenth century London to explore the landscape of medicine and surgery along with Charles Bell, artist-anatomist-teacher-natural philosopher. Charles Bell and the Anatomy of Reform (University of Chicago Press, 2015)… Read More

Ellen Boucher, “Empire’s Children” (Cambridge UP, 2014)

Ellen Boucher
Empire's Children
Child Emigration, Welfare, and the Decline of the British World, 1869-1967
Cambridge University Press, 2014

New Books in African Studies New Books in Australian and New Zealand Studies New Books in British Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in World Affairs New Books Network May 1, 2015 Monica Black

For almost 100 years, it seemed like a good, even wholesome and optimistic idea to take young, working-class and poor British children and resettle them, quite on their own and apart from their families, in Canada, Australia, and southern Rhodesia.… Read More