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Books reviewed: William Godsey Jr., Nobles and Nation in Central Europe: Free Imperial Knights in the Age of Revolution, 1750–1850. Sudhir Hazareesingh, The Legend of Napoleon. William Anthony Hay, The Whig Revival, 1808–1830. Kevin Binfield (ed.), Writings of the Luddites. Matthew Cragoe, Culture, Politics, and National Identity in Wales 1832–1886. Michael Partridge, Gladstone. David Bebbington, The Mind of Gladstone: Religion, Homer and Politics. Paul Ward, Britishness since 1870. Alan Sykes, The Radical Right in Britain: Social Imperialism to the BNP. Miles Taylor and Michael Wolff (eds.), The Victorians since 1901: Histories, Representations and Revisions. The Catholic Church and Russia: Popes, Patriarchs, Tsars and Commissars. Dennis J. Dunn, The Catholic Church and Russia: Popes, Patriarchs, Tsars and Commissars. Margaret Stieg Dalton, Catholicism, Popular Culture, and the Arts in Germany, 1880–1933. Richard E. Frankel, Bismarck's Shadow: The Cult of Leadership and the Transformation of the German Right, 1898–1945. Benjamin Carter Hett, Death in the Tiergarten: Murder and Criminal Justice in the Kaiser's Berlin. Peter D. Stachura, Poland, 1918–1945: An Interpretive and Documentary History of the Second Republic. Joanna Olczak-Ronikier, In the Garden of Memory: A Family Memoir. Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson, The Somme. Philip Williamson and Edward Baldwin (eds.), Baldwin Papers: A Conservative Statesman, 1908–1947. Meda Ryan, Tom Barry: IRA Freedom Fighter. Gerard O’Brien, Irish Governments and the Guardianship of Historical Records, 1922–72. Harold James, The Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank. David Cesarani, Eichmann: His Life and Crimes. Martin H. Folly, The Palgrave Atlas of the Second World War. S. P. MacKenzie, The Colditz Myth: The Real Story of POW Life in Nazi Germany. Hans Erich Nossack, The End: Hamburg 1943. Mark Harrison, Medicine and Victory: British Military Medicine in the Second World War. Thomas Lane, Victims of Stalin and Hitler: The Exodus of Poles and Balts to Britain. Y. Michal Bodemann, A Jewish Family in Germany Today: An Intimate Portrait. Geoff Andrews, Endgames and New Times: The Final Years of British Communism, 1964–1991. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books reviewed: Stuart Semmel, Napoleon and the British. Michael J. Turner, Independent Radicalism in Early Victorian Britain. Saho Matsumoto-Best, Britain and the Papacy in the Age of Revolution, 1846–1851. Mark Curthoys, Governments, Labour, and the Law in Mid-Victorian Britain: The Trade Union Legislation of the 1870s. Carolyn Malone, Women's Bodies and Dangerous Trades in England, 1880–1914. Jean-Louis Robert, Antoine Prost and Chris Wrigley (eds), The Emergence of European Trade Unionism. Katherine Anne Lerman, Bismarck. Robert T. Foley, German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870–1916. Terence Zuber, German War Planning 1891–1914: Sources and Interpretations. Robert Zaretsky, Cock & Bull Stories: Folco de Baroncelli and the Invention of the Camargue. Jean-Pierre Dormois, The French Economy in the Twentieth Century. Robert Service, Stalin: A Biography. Shlomo Aronson, Hitler, the Allies, and the Jews. Moishe Postone and Eric Santner (eds), Catastrophe and Meaning: The Holocaust and the Twentieth Century. Gordon Martel (ed), The World War Two Reader. Ben Shepherd, War in the Wild East: The German Army and Soviet Partisans. Alan McDougall, Youth Politics in East Germany: The Free German Youth Movement 1946–1968. Lawrence Black and Hugh Pemberton, An Affluent Society? Britain's Post-war ‘Golden Age’ Revisited. Steven Fielding, The Labour Governments 1964–70, volume 1: Labour and Cultural Change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books reviewed: MacGregor Knox and Williamson Murray (eds), The Dynamics of Military Revolution Jeremy Black, Western Warfare 1775–1882 James Livesey, Making Democracy in the French Revolution Gavin Daly, Inside Napoleonic France: State and Society in Rouen, 1800–1815 Michael Leggiere, Napoleon and Berlin. The Napoleonic Wars in Prussia, 1813 F. M. L. Thompson, Gentrification and the Enterprise Culture: Britain 1780–1980 Philip Harling, The Modern British State: An Historical Introduction John McManners, All Souls and the Shipley Case 1808–1810 Jeremy D. Popkin, Press, Revolution and Social Identities in France, 1830–1835 Sudhir Hazareesingh, Intellectual Founders of the Republic: Five Studies in Nineteenth-Century French Republican Political Thought Jon Cohen and Giovanni Federico, The Growth of the Italian Economy 1820–1960 Martin H. Geyer and Johannes Paulmann (eds), The Mechanics of Internationalism: Culture, Society, and Politics from the 1840s to the First World War Graeme J. Milne, Trade and Traders in Mid-Victorian Liverpool: Mercantile Business and the Making of a World Port Lynne Vallone, Becoming Victoria Joseph S. Meisel, Public Speech and the Culture of Public Life in the Age of Gladstone Sylvia L. Hilton and Steve J. S. Ickringill (eds), European Perceptions of the Spanish–American War of 1898 Jeremy Black, The World in the Twentieth Century Sally Marks, The Ebbing of European Ascendancy: An International History of the World 1914–1945 Abraham Ascher, P. A. Stolypin: The Search for Stability in Late Imperial Russia Ian Packer, Lloyd George, Liberalism and the Land: The Land Issue and Party Politics inEngland, 1906–1914 David Dutton, Neville Chamberlain Peter Clarke, The Cripps Version: The Life of Sir Stafford Cripps, 1889–1952 Adrian Shubert, Death and Money in the Afternoon. A History of the Spanish Bullfight Judith Keene, Fighting for Franco: International Volunteers in... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books reviewed: Peter McPhee, The French Revolution 1789–1799 Malcolm Crook (ed), Revolutionary France Michael J. Turner, The Age of Unease: Government and Reform in Britain, 1782–1832 M. O. Grenby, The Anti-Jacobin Novel: British Conservatism and the French Revolution Michael Scrivener, Seditious Allegories: John Thelwall and Jacobin Writing John Beckett with Sheila Aley, Byron and Newstead: The Aristocrat and the Abbey David Vital, A People Apart: The Jews in Europe, 1789–1939 Helmut Walser Smith (ed), Protestants, Catholics and Jews in Germany, 1800–1914 W. Bruce Lincoln, Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia Gregory Claeys (ed), The Chartist Movement in Britain 1838–1850 Louise Purbrick (ed), The Great Exhibition of 1851 Louise Miskell, Christopher A. Whatley and Bob Harris (eds), Victorian Dundee: Image and Realities Alan Kidd, State, Society and the Poor in Nineteenth Century England Thomas C. Kennedy, British Quakerism 1860–1914: The Transformation of a Religious Community Michael Bentley, Lord Salisbury's World: Conservative Environments in Late-Victorian Britain Pamela J. Walker, Pulling the Devil's Kingdom Down: The Salvation Army in Victorian Britain Andrew Horrall, Popular Culture in London c.1890–1918: The Transformation of Entertainment William Kenefick, ‘Rebellious and Contrary’: The Glasgow Dockers 1853–1932 J. J. Smyth, Labour in Glasgow 1896–1936: Socialism, Suffrage, Sectarianism Roger Price, The French Second Empire: An Anatomy of Political Power Scott Spector, Prague Territories. National Conflict and Cultural Innovation in Franz Kafka's Fin de Siècle Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska (ed), Women in Twentieth-Century Britain Richard S. Grayson, Liberals, International Relations and Appeasement: The Liberal Party, 1919–1939 Ronald Grigor Suny and Terry Martin (eds), A State of Nations. Empire and Nation-Making in the Age of Lenin and... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books reviewed in this article: William E. Leuchtenburg (ed.), American Places: Encounters with History Gary Y. Okihoro, The Columbia Guide to Asian American History Russell R. Menard, Migrants, Servants and Slaves: Unfree Labour in Colonial British America Donna R. Gabaccia, Immigration and American Diversity: A Social and Cultural History Robin D. G. Kelley and Earl Lewis (eds), To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans James O. Horton and Lois E. Horton, Hard Road to Freedom: The Story of African America Kenneth Morgan, Slavery and Servitude in North America, 1607–1800 John B. Boles (ed.), A Companion to the American South Joyce E. Chaplin, Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo–American Frontier, 1500–1676 Norman K. Risjord, Representative Americans: The Colonists Norman K. Risjord, Representative Americans: The Revolutionary Generation Ruth Wallis Herndon, Unwelcome Americans: Living on the Margin in Early New England Joyce Appleby, Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans Peter S. Onuf and Leonard J. Sadosky, Jeffersonian America Lamin Sanneh, Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa Donald Worster, A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell John H. M. Laslett, Colliers across the Sea: A Comparative Study of Class Formation in Scotland and the American Midwest, 1830–1924 Richard Franklin Bensel, The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877–1900 Barbara Young Welke, Recasting American Liberty. Gender, Race, Law and the Railroad Revolution, 1865–1920 Arnold Lewis, An Early Encounter with Tomorrow: Europeans, Chicago’s Loop, and the World’s Columbian Exposition James MacGregor Burns and Susan Dunn, The Three Roosevelts: The Leaders who Transformed America Jane Dailey, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore and Bryant Simon (eds), Jumpin’ Jim Crow: Southern Politics From Civil War to Civil Rights Bruce Nelson, Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality Mary L. Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy Jack E. Davis (ed.), The Civil Rights Movement Janet Irons, Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South Thomas Fleming, The War within World War Two: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Struggle for Supremacy William Tuohy, The Bravest Man: The Story of Richard O’ Kane & U.S. Submariners in the Pacific War John T. McNay, Acheson and Empire: The British Accent in American Foreign Policy Volker Berghahn, America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe Victor S. Kaufman, Confronting Communism: U.S. and British Policies toward China David Kaiser, American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson and the Origins of the Vietnam War Margaret Walsh, Making Connections. The Long–Distance Bus Industry in the USA Susan Ware, Letter to the World: Seven Women who Shaped the American Century Gary Cross, An All–Consuming Century. Why Commercialism Won in Modern America William M. Leary (ed.), MacArthur and the American Century: A Reader Geoffrey Plank, An Unsettled Conquest: The British Campaign against the Peoples of Acadia Paul Romney, Getting it Wrong: How Canadians Forgot their Past and Imperilled Confederation Fernando López–Alves, State Formation and Democracy in Latin America, 1810–1900. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books reviewed: Amanda Vickery (ed.), Women, Privilege and Power: British Politics, 1750 to the Present Jane Moody, Illegitimate Theatre in London, 1770–1840 Steve Poole, The Politics of Regicide in England 1760–1850: Troublesome Subjects Gordon Corrigan, Wellington: A Military Life George K. Behlmer and Fred M. Leventhal (ed.), Singular Continuities: Tradition, Nostalgia, and Identity in Modern British Culture Michael H. Shirley and Todd E. A. Larson (ed.), Splendidly Victorian: Essays in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century British History in Honour of Walter L. Arnstein Martin Hewitt (ed.), An Age of Equipoise? Reassessing Mid-Victorian Britain Robert Sloan, William Smith O’ Brien and the Young Ireland Rebellion of 1848 K. D. M. Snell and Paul S. Ell, Rival Jerusalems. The Geography of Victorian Religion E. J. T. Collins (ed.), The Agrarian History of England and Wales Volume 7: 1850–1914 Trevor Royle, Crimea: The Great Crimean War 1854–1856 Edwin Jaggard (ed.), Liberalism in West Cornwall: The 1868 Election Papers of A. Pendarves Vivian, M.P. Bruce L. Kinzer, England’s Disgrace? J. S. Mill and the Irish Question John K. Walton, Blackpool Archie Hunter, A Life of Sir John Eldon Gorst: Disraeli’s Awkward Disciple Mary Lynn Stewart, For Health and Beauty: Physical Culture for Frenchwomen, 1880s–1930s Rudy Koshar, From Monuments to Traces: Artefacts of German Memory, 1870–1990 Alastair Thompson, Left Liberals, the State, and Popular Politics in Wilhelmine Germany Annika Mombauer, Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War John Mosier, The Myth of the Great War: A New Military History of World War One Andrew Britton, Monetary Regimes of the Twentieth Century David Kynaston, The City of London. Volume 3, Illusions of Gold 1914–1945 Enda Delaney, Demography, State and Society: Irish Migration to Britain, 1921–1971 Kay Chadwick (ed.), Catholicism, Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century France Claire Langhamer, Women’s Leisure in England, 1920–60 Andrew Shennan, The Fall of France, 1940 Ian Dear and M. R. D. Foot (ed.), The Oxford Companion to World War II Malcolm Smith, Britain and 1940: History, Myth and Popular Memory Martin Conway and José Gotovitch (ed.), Europe in Exile, 1940–45: European Exile Communities in Britain Klaus Larres and Ann Lane (ed.), The Cold War Hanna Schissler (ed.), The Miracle Years: A Cultural History of West Germany 1949–1968 Peter B. Johnson, Reuter Reporter among the Communists, 1958–59. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Robert Peel: A Biography," by Douglas Hurd.

Reviews the book 'The Rise of Democracy in Britain, 1830–1918,' by Ian Machin.

Books reviewed: Clive H. Lee, Understanding the Industrial Revolution . Alan Booth, Firms, Networks and Business Values: The British and American Cotton Industries since 1750 . Máire F. Cross, France and Women 1789–1914: Gender, Society and Politics . Pamela Pilbeam, Politics and Theater: The Crisis of Legitimacy in Restoration France, 1815–1830 . Joseph S. Meisel, Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology . David Brown The Mid-Victorian Generation, 1846–1886 . Muriel E. Chamberlain, The Crimean War, 1853–1856 . Louise A. Jackson, Prostitution: Prevention and Reform in England, 1860–1914 . E. H. H. Green, Bargaining on Europe: Britain and the First Common Market, 1860–1892 . David Brown, Bismarck’s Favourite Englishman: Lord Odo Russell’s Mission to Berlin . Ian F. W. Beckett, Sir Garnet Wolseley: Victorian Hero . Sylvia L. Hilton, Spain’s 1898 Crisis: Regenerationism, Modernism, Post-colonialism . John Brown, The Lancashire Giant: David Shackleton, Labour Leader and Civil Servant . Michael A. Hopkinson, The Resurrection of Ireland: The Sinn Fein Party 1916–1923 . Michael A. Hopkinson, The Long Gestation: Irish Nationalist Life 1891–1918 . John Breuilly, Representing the German Nation: History and Identity in Twentieth-century Germany . Alan Kramer, Germany, Propaganda and Total War, 1914–1918: The Sins of Omission . Mark Cornwall, The Balkan Wars 1912–1913: Prelude to the First World War . Vernon Bogdanor, Rebel on the Right: Henry Page Croft and the Crisis of British Conservatism 1903–1914 . Vernon Bogdanor, The Rebel who Lost his Cause: The Tragedy of John Beckett, MP . Philip Williamson, Parliament and Politics in the Age of Churchill and Attlee: The Headlam Diaries 1935–1951 . Panikos Panayi, Whitehall and the Jews, 1933–1948: British Immigration Policy and the Holocaust . Craig G Errard, Churchill and the Sovie... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]