Reviews in History (RVH)

Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching | Jarvis R. Givens

Jarvis R. Givens | Imagens: The Black Teacher Archive Born in 1865 during the last years of the American Civil…

2 anos ago

The Politics of Humiliation: A Modern History | Ute Frevert

Ute Frevert | Imagem: Prospect Magazine In this informative book, Ute Frevert examines shame and shaming during the early modern…

2 anos ago

Soldiers, Saints, and Shamans: Indigenous Communities and the Revolutionary State in Mexico’s Gran Nayar, 1910–1940 | Nathaniel Morris

Nathaniel Morris | Imagem: The University of Arizona Press The period 1910-40 was tumultuous in Mexican history. The armed phase…

2 anos ago

Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership | Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor | Imagem: KQED In the context of a COVID-19 world, housing and living standard inequities are a phenomenon…

2 anos ago

Migrant City: A New History of London | Panilos Panayi

Panilos Panayi | Imagem: Times Higher Education According to a survey carried out by the National Federation of Fish Fryers in…

2 anos ago

Blood Matters: Studies in European Literature and Thought/ 1400-1700 | Bonnie Lander Johnson e Eleanor Decamp

Sangue | Imagem: Classen Rafael / EyeEm/Getty Images/Superinteressante This interdisciplinary collection of essays, emerging from a conference held at Oxford…

3 anos ago

Provincializing Global History: Money/Ideas/and Things in the Languedoc/ 1680-1830 | James Livesey

James Livesey | Imagem: University of Dundee James Livesey’s Provincializing Global History: Money, Ideas, and Things in the Languedoc, 1680-1830…

3 anos ago

Political Thought in the French Wars of Religion | Sophie Nicholls

Sophie Nicholls | Imagem: University of Oxford The book series ‘Ideas in Context’, published by Cambridge University Press since 1984,…

3 anos ago

The Press and the People: Cheap Print and Society in Scotland/ 1500-1785 | Adam Fox

The Press and the People | Detalhe de capa Early modern Scotland was awash with cheap print. Adam Fox, in…

3 anos ago

Public Opinion in Early Modern Scotland/ c.1560–1707 | Karin Bowie

This is Karin Bowie’s second book about the history of public opinion in Scotland. Her first, in 2007, examined the…

3 anos ago

In the shadow of Enoch Powell: Race/ locality and resistance | Shirin Hirsch

Shirin Hirsch | Imagem: MEN In the spring of 1968, Enoch Powell gave his infamous ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech (p…

3 anos ago

The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain’s Transition to Mass Education since the Second World War | Peter Mandler

Peter Mandle | Imagem: Historical Association Britain has never been a meritocracy. Despite the concept’s widely-evoked vision of a ‘fair’…

3 anos ago

Four Nations Approaches to Modern ‘British’ History: A (Dis)united Kingdom | Naomi Lloyd-Jones e Margaret M. Scull

Naomi Lloyd-Jones | Imagem: Royal Historical Society Four Nations Approaches, as the editors acknowledge from the start, follows in the…

3 anos ago

Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830–1930 | Judith Surkis

Judith Surkis | Foto: Brown University | In recent decades historians, postcolonial theorists and feminist scholars have demonstrated how, in a…

3 anos ago

Masculinity and Danger on the Eighteenth-Century Grand Tour | Sarah Goldsmith (R)

Englishmen have always travelled. According to French Abbé Le Blanc, they travelled more than other people of Europe because `they…

4 anos ago

Medieval Welsh Genealogy: An Introduction and Textual Study | Ben Guy (R)

This substantial book does two jobs. It undertakes the first full textual study of Welsh genealogical literature in the Middle…

4 anos ago

Michael Young, Social Science & The British Left, 1945-1970 / Lise Butler

All historical actors ultimately defy our neat labels. Practically speaking however, some are more defiant than others. One such figure…

4 anos ago

Burning the Books / Richard Ovenden, The lost library / Dan Rabinowitz

Richard Ovenden - Foto: Library of Congress / The burning of books is a highly emotive subject. The Nazis’ bonfires…

4 anos ago

Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe – Antony Grafton

Anthony Grafton / Foto: Princeton University / If it is hard to write a book review, then it is much…

4 anos ago

Utopian Universities / Jill Pellew e Miles Taylor

Milles Taylor. Foto: Telegraph India / The most remarkable feature of the mould-breaking expansion of higher education that took place…

4 anos ago

AI Narratives / Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal e Sarah Dillon

Kanta Dihal / Foto: Media & Press / Artificial intelligence (AI)’ is a loaded term, rife with connotative contradiction that inspires…

4 anos ago

The War of Words: The Language of British Elections / Luke Blaxill

Luke Blaxill / Foto: University of Birmingham / Luke Blaxill’s book deserves to be seminal. Its unassuming title conceals a…

4 anos ago

Statelessness: A Modern History / Mira Siegelberg

Mira Siegelberg / Foto: TAUVOD / Mira Siegelberg’s important monograph retrieves and explores the debates in a range of different…

4 anos ago

Reviews in History | IHR UL | 1996

Reviews in History was launched in 1996, and publishes reviews and reappraisals of significant work in all fields of historical interest.…

29 anos ago

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