Book Reviews

• • Michael Bentley

  A Concise Companion to History, ed. Ulinka Rublack

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 669-671 first published online April 25, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces098
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• • Verena Postel

  The Idea of Work in Europe from Antiquity to Modern Times, ed. Josef Ehmer and Catharina Lis

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 671-673 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces102
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• • Sarah Foot

  The Cambridge History of Christianity. Vol. III: Early Medieval Christianities, c.600–c.1100, ed. Thomas F.X. Noble Smith and Julia M.H. Smith

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 673-676 first published online April 17, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces061
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• • Ildar H. Garipzanov

  Peaceful Kings: Peace, Power and the Early Medieval Political Imagination, by Paul J.E. Kershaw

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 676-678 first published online April 25, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces092
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• • Tom Lambert

  Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs, by Andrew Reynolds

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 678-680 first published online April 26, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces107
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• • Michael Clanchy

  Medieval Legal Process: Physical, Spoken and Written Performance in the Middle Ages, ed. Marco Mostert and P.S. Barnwell

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 680-682 first published online April 20, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces077
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• • David Bates

  King Stephen, by Edmund King

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 682-685 first published online April 26, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces116
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• • Michael Penman

  The Cult of Saints and the Virgin Mary in Medieval Scotland, ed. Steve Boardman and Eila Williamson

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 685-687 first published online April 26, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces101
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• • Elisabeth Van Houts

  The Saints’ Lives of Jocelin of Furness: Hagiography, Patronage and Ecclesiastical Politics, by Helen Birkett

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 687-688 first published online May 3, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces126
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• • Jonathan M. Elukin

  Feeling Persecuted: Christians, Jews and Images of Violence in the Middle Ages, by Anthony Bale
  Reassessing Jewish Life in Medieval Europe, by Robert Chazan

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 688-692 first published online April 17, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces076
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• • Ian Forrest

  The Unorthodox Imagination in Late Medieval Britain, ed. Sophie Page

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 692-693 first published online April 16, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces064
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• • James G. Clark

  Polluting the Sacred: Violence, Faith and the ‘Civilising’ of Parishioners in Late Medieval England, by Daniel E. Thiery

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 693-694 first published online April 25, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces117
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• • Chris Given-Wilson

  Edward III, by W. Mark Ormrod

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 694-696 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces083
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• • Thomas H. Ohlgren

  Outlaws in Medieval and Early Modern England: Crime, Government and Society, c.1066–c.1600, ed. John C. Appleby and Paul Dalton

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 696-698 first published online April 19, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces084
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• • Chris Given-Wilson

  Crime, Law and Society in the Later Middle Ages, ed. and tr. Anthony Musson, with Edward Powell

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 698-700 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces070
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• • David D’Avray

  Urkunden und Regesten des Klosters Cornberg, ed. Johannes Burkardt

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 700-701 first published online April 16, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces081
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• • P.D. Clarke

  A Sip from the ‘Well of Grace’: Medieval Texts from the Apostolic Penitentiary, by Kirsi Salonen and Ludwig Schmugge

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 701-703 first published online April 17, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces088
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• • Roberta Gilchrist

  Everyday Objects: Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture and its Meanings, ed. Tara Hamling and Catherine Richardson

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 703-704 first published online May 2, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces110
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• • Steven Gunn

  Henry VIII and Francis I: The Final Conflict, 1540–47, by David Potter

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 705-706 first published online April 16, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces063
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• • J.P.D. Cooper

  Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery, by Eric Ives

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 706-708 first published online May 2, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces119
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• • C.S.L. Davies

  The Dialogue of the Government of Wales (1594): Updated Text and Commentary, ed. John Gwynfor Jones

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 708-709 first published online April 16, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces065
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• • Adam Hansen

  Impostures in Early Modern England: Representations and Perceptions of Fraudulent Identities, by Tobias B. Hug

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 709-711 first published online April 26, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces097
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• • Alexander Marr

  British Printed Images to 1700
  Printed Images in Early Modern Britain, ed. Michael Hunter
  The Print in Early Modern England: An Historical Oversight, by Malcolm Jones

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 712-717 first published online April 18, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces086
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• • Kenneth Gibson

  Humanism and Protestantism in Early Modern English Education, by Ian Green

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 717-718 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces109
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• • Moshe Sluhovsky

  Enchanted Europe: Superstition, Reason, and Religion, 1250–1750, by Euan Cameron

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 718-720 first published online May 2, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces122
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• • Andrew Pettegree

  Protestants: A History from Wittenberg to Pennsylvania, 1517–1740, by C. Scott Dixon

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 720-722 first published online April 25, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces114
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• • C. Scott Dixon

  Magistrates, Madonnas, and Miracles: The Counter Reformation in the Upper Palatinate, by Trevor Johnson

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 723-725 first published online May 2, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces091
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• • Julian Goodare

  Witchcraft in Europe and America

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 725-727 first published online May 2, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces121
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• • Maria Fusaro

  Holy War and Human Bondage: Tales of Christian-Muslim Slavery in the Early-Modern Mediterranean, by Robert C. Davis

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 728-729 first published online April 26, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces106
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• • Ciaran Brady

  Theatre of Crisis: The Performance of Power in the Kingdom of Ireland, 1662–92, by Patrick Tuite

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 729-731 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces096
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• • Matthew Greenhall

  Regulating the British Economy, 1660–1850, ed. Perry Gauci

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 731-733 first published online April 26, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces120
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• • Adrian Green

  Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England, by Amanda Vickery

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 734-736 first published online April 26, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces111
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• • Heather Shore

  Cultures of Shame: Exploring Crime and Morality in Britain, 1600–1900, by David Nash and Anne-Marie Kilday

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 736-738 first published online May 2, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces108
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• • Benedikt Stuchtey

  Medicine in an Age of Commerce and Empire: Britain and its Tropical Colonies, 1660–1830, by Mark Harrison

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 738-739 first published online April 26, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces113
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• • Andy Croll

  Welfare's Forgotten Past: A Socio-Legal History of the Poor Law, by Lorie Charlesworth
  Pauper Capital: London and the Poor Law, 1790–1870, by David R. Green

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 739-743 first published online May 2, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces123
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• • Matthew Roberts

  Chartism in Scotland, by W. Hamish Fraser

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 743-745 first published online April 17, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces075
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• • M.P. McCabe

  Ireland, 1815–1870: Emancipation, Famine and Religion, ed. Donnchadh Ó Corráin and Tomás O’Riordan

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 745-746 first published online April 26, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces112
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• • David McLean

  ‘A Victorian Class Conflict?’: Schoolteaching and the Parson, Priest and Minister, 1837–1902, by John T. Smith

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 746-748 first published online April 26, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces105
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• • Kristin Kopp

  Osteuropa kartiert – Mapping Eastern Europe, ed. Jörn Happel and Christophe von Werdt

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 748-750 first published online May 2, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces124
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• • T.G. Otte

  Der Krimkrieg als erster europäischer Medienkrieg, ed. Georg Maag, Wolfram Pyta and Martin Windisch

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 750-752 first published online April 26, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces115
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• • Richard A. Gaunt

  Palmerston: A Biography, by David Brown

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 752-754 first published online April 25, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces093
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• • William Whyte

  The Battle of the Styles: Society, Culture and the Design of a New Foreign Office, 1855–61, by Bernard Porter

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 754-755 first published online April 26, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces090
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• • Carol Dyhouse

  Material Relations: Domestic Interiors and Middle-Class Families in England, 1850–1910, by Jane Hamlett

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 756-757 first published online April 17, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces067
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• • David Taylor

  London's Shadows: The Dark Side of the Victorian City, by Drew D. Gray

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 757-758 first published online April 25, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces066
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• • Harold L. Smith

  The Women's Suffrage Movement in Wales, 1866–1928, by Ryland Wallace

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 758-760 first published online April 25, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces100
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• • Jonathan Sperber

  ‘Einer nur ist Herr im Reiche’: Kaiser Wilhelm II als politischer Redner, by Michael A. Obst

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 760-762 first published online May 2, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces094
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• • Gary Sheffield

  Germany's Western Front: Translations from the German Official History of the Great War. Volume II: 1915, ed. Mark Osborne Humphries and John Maker

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 762-763 first published online April 25, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces125
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• • Guy Ortolano

  The Listener Historical Archive, 1929–1991

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 763-765 first published online May 2, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces118
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• • Adrian Bingham

  Sex Before the Sexual Revolution: Intimate Life in England, 1918–1963, by Simon Szreter and Kate Fisher

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 765-767 first published online April 26, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces099
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• • Roger Chickering

  Deutschnational in Weimar: Die politische Biographie des Reichstagsabgeordneten Otto Schmidt(-Hannover), 1888–1971, by Maximilian Terhalle

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 767-769 first published online April 17, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces074
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• • Elizabeth D. Heineman

  Histories of the Aftermath: The Legacies of the Second World War in Europe, ed. Frank Biess, and Robert G. Moeller

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 769-770 first published online April 17, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces078
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• • John Swift

  Attlee: a Life in Politics, by Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 770-772 first published online April 17, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces068
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• • Mary Heimann

  After Hitler, Before Stalin: Catholics, Communists and Democrats in Slovakia, 1945–1948, by James Ramon Felak

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 772-774 first published online April 17, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces087
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• • Astrid M. Eckert

  Progaganda nach Hitler: Eine Kulturgeschichte des Wahlkampfs in der Bundesrepublik, 1949–1990, by Thomas Mergel

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 774-776 first published online April 26, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces104
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• • Steven Casey

  Atlantis Lost: The American Experience with De Gaulle, 1958–1969, by Sebastian Reyn

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 776-777 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces082
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• • Ryan Shaffer

  Heath, Nixon and the Rebirth of the Special Relationship: Britain, the US and the EC, 1969–74, by Niklas H. Rossbach

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 778-779 first published online April 17, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces085
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• • Robin Darwall-Smith

  St John's College Cambridge: A History, ed. Peter Linehan

  English Historical Review (2012) CXXVII(526): 779-781 first published online April 17, 2012 doi:10.1093/ehr/ces062
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