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Richard Whatmore, “Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans: The Genevans and the Irish in Time of Revolution” (Princeton UP, 2019)
Richard Whatmore
Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans
The Genevans and the Irish in Time of Revolution
Princeton University Press, 2019

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network December 11, 2019 Ryan Tripp

In 1798, members of the United Irishmen were massacred by the British amid the crumbling walls of a half-built town near Waterford in Ireland. Many of the Irish were republicans inspired by the French Revolution, and the site of their demise was known as Genevan Barracks. The Barracks were the... Read More
Claire Chambers, “Making Sense of Contemporary British Muslim Novels” (Palgrave, 2019)
Claire Chambers
Making Sense of Contemporary British Muslim Novels

Palgrave, 2019

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network December 6, 2019 Kristian Petersen

After the Rushdie affair in 1989 there was an important shift in the public life of British Muslims. Their image came under closer scrutiny which led to new social policies and self-perceptions. This moment also served as a significant pivot in the narrative and representational patterns in British Muslim literature. Claire... Read More
Eleanor Parker, “Dragon Lords: The History and Legends of Viking England” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
Eleanor Parker
Dragon Lords
The History and Legends of Viking England
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in FolkloreNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network December 5, 2019 Mark Klobas

For all of their prominence in the popular imagination today, the historical record of the Viking presence in England is limited, with much of what we know about them dependent upon the literary accounts attached to it. In Dragon Lords: The History and Legends of Viking England (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019),... Read More
Sally Holloway, “The Game of Love in Georgian England: Courtship, Emotions, and Material Culture” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Sally Holloway
The Game of Love in Georgian England
Courtship, Emotions, and Material Culture
Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network December 3, 2019 Jess Clark

What was the role of love and courtship in eighteenth-century English culture? In her new book, The Game of Love in Georgian England: Courtship, Emotions, and Material Culture (Oxford University Press, 2019), Sally Holloway uses innovative methods to explore the history of romantic love in the long eighteenth century. Examining... Read More
Kathleen Sheppard, “The Life of Margaret Alice Murray: A Woman’s Work in Archaeology” (Lexington, 2017)
Kathleen Sheppard
The Life of Margaret Alice Murray
A Woman’s Work in Archaeology
Lexington Books, 2017

New Books in ArchaeologyNew Books in BiographyNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network November 29, 2019 Michael F. Robinson

After Napoleon occupied Egypt, Europeans became obsessed with the ancient cultures of the Nile. In Britain, the center of Egyptology research was University College London (UCL). At the heart of the UCL program was the Egyptologist, Margaret Alice Murray. During this golden age of Egyptian Archaeology, Murray was training students,... Read More
Stephen R. Taaffe, “Washington’s Revolutionary War Generals” (U Oklahoma Press, 2019)
Stephen R. Taaffe
Washington’s Revolutionary War Generals

University of Oklahoma Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network November 27, 2019 Mark Klobas

When George Washington led the United States to victory in the American Revolution, he did so in collaboration with seventy-three other men who served as major and brigadier generals in the Continental Army over the course of the war. In Washington’s Revolutionary War Generals (University of Oklahoma Press, 2019), Stephen... Read More
What Should We Think of the British Empire?

What Should We Think of the British Empire?
A Discussion with Jeremy Black
New Books Network, 2019

Arguing HistoryNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network November 26, 2019 Charles Coutinho

The British Empire at its greatest extent covered approximately twenty-five percent of the surface of the globe with the same percentage of the world so population under its rule, directly or indirectly. And, yet a little over one-hundred years after its apogee, with its fall made absolute by the process... Read More
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