New review article: Nancy J. Jacobs @nancyjjacobs.bsky.social on 'Apartheid, after Apartheid' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
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New review article: Archie Brown on 'From Stalin to Gorbachev: The Cold War, ‘New Thinking’, the Balts, and the Soviet Breakup' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
New article! Matthew Evenden @arts.ubc.ca on 'Deptford Stones: London, the River Thames and the Circulation of Ballast in the Age of Sail, c.1750–c.1850' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
Deptford Stones: London, the River Thames and the Circulation of Ballast in the Age of Sail, c.1750–c.1850*Abstract. In the Age of Sail, ships required ballast to ensure buoyancy at sea, pulling the vessel down in the water and stabilising it against lateral foracademic.oup.comMichael Frassetto reviews 'The Destruction of Jerusalem and Anti-Jewish Commonplaces in Model Sermon Collections (1100–1350)', by Jussi Hanska academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @brepols.net
The Destruction of Jerusalem and Anti-Jewish Commonplaces in Model Sermon Collections (1100–1350), by Jussi HanskaIn this book, Jussi Hanska offers a detailed study of model sermon collections from the later twelfth to the fourteenth century that were delivered on theacademic.oup.comRupa Viswanath reviews 'Labors of Division: Global Capitalism and the Emergence of the Peasant in Colonial Panjab', by Navyug Gill academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Labors of Division: Global Capitalism and the Emergence of the Peasant in Colonial Panjab, by Navyug GillIn this provocative and thoughtful book, Navyug Gill provides a broad reconsideration of the peasant under capitalism, taking colonial Panjab as his site;academic.oup.comKirsten Schultz reviews 'Seditious Spaces: Race, Freedom, and the 1798 Tailors’ Conspiracy in Bahia, Brazil', by Greg L. Childs academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @universitypress.cambridge.org
Seditious Spaces: Race, Freedom, and the 1798 Tailors’ Conspiracy in Bahia, Brazil, by Greg L. Childs‘If you heard the voice of liberty cry out in this land, would you appreciate it and embrace it?’ (p. 120). This affecting question, posed by the soldier Lacademic.oup.comKatharine Sykes reviews the two volumes of Saints’ Lives for Medieval English Nuns' by Veronica O’Mara and Virginia Blanton @virginiablanton.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @brepols.net
Saints’ Lives for Medieval English Nuns, I: A Study of the ‘Lyves and Dethes’ in Cambridge University Library, MS Additional 2604; and Saints’ Lives for Medieval English Nuns, II: An Edition of the ‘L...This two-volume edition and commentary from Veronica O’Mara and Virginia Blanton brings a little-known manuscript, Cambridge, CUL Additional MS 2604, to aacademic.oup.comJeffrey Merrick reviews 'Policing and Urban Society in Eighteenth-Century Paris', ed. Pascal Bastien @pbastien.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @livunipress.bsky.social @voltaire.ox.ac.uk
Policing and Urban Society in Eighteenth-Century Paris, ed. Pascal BastienCritics of the Ancien Régime before and after 1789 implied that the French monarchy operated like a relentless steamroller with reckless and ruthless driveacademic.oup.comAndrej Ondrejka reviews 'Courtiers and Court Life in Poland, 1386–1795', ed. Bożena Czwojdrak academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @brepols.net
Courtiers and Court Life in Poland, 1386–1795, ed. Bożena CzwojdrakThis collection of essays by a team of Polish authors edited by Bożena Czwojdrak offers a clear and fairly comprehensive insight into the courtiers and theacademic.oup.comRobert Tree @rdtree.bsky.social reviews 'Agriculture, Economy and Society in Early Modern Scotland', ed. Harriet Cornell, Julian Goodare and Alan R. MacDonald @estaitis.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social
Agriculture, Economy and Society in Early Modern Scotland, ed. Harriet Cornell, Julian Goodare and Alan R. MacDonaldDedicated to the late historical geographer Ian Whyte (1948–2019), this engrossing volume provides an important addition to scholarship in several themes,academic.oup.comBeatrice Penati reviews 'Fuel and Power: Energy, Trade, and Russian Foreign Relations from Lenin to Putin', by Jeronim Perović academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @universitypress.cambridge.org
Fuel and Power: Energy, Trade, and Russian Foreign Relations from Lenin to Putin, by Jeronim PerovićThe question of the interdependence between Europe and Russia in the field of oil and gas is highly topical. Jeronim Perović offers here a comprehensive anacademic.oup.comHillard von Thiessen reviews 'Diplomatie als kollektive Praxis: Botschaftssekretäre und diplomatischer Alltag im frühneuzeitlichen Istanbul', by Florian Kühnel academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @wallsteinverlag.bsky.social
Diplomatie als kollektive Praxis: Botschaftssekretäre und diplomatischer Alltag im frühneuzeitlichen Istanbul, by Florian KühnelIstanbul as a hub of intercultural diplomacy has attracted the interest of the New Diplomatic History in recent decades. Florian Kühnel’s postdoctoral thesacademic.oup.comValerie A Kivelson reviews 'Reconnoitring Russia: Mapping, Exploring and Describing Early Modern Russia, 1613–1825', by Denis J.B. Shaw academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @uclpress.bsky.social
Reconnoitring Russia: Mapping, Exploring and Describing Early Modern Russia, 1613–1825, by Denis J.B. ShawReconnoitring Russia is the culminating work of Denis J.B. Shaw’s distinguished career in the field of Russian geography. The book was clearly a labour ofacademic.oup.comFiroozeh Kashani-Sabet reviews 'Pahlavi Iran’s Relations with Africa: Cultural and Political Connections in the Cold War', by Robert Steele @robsteele.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @universitypress.cambridge.org
Pahlavi Iran’s Relations with Africa: Cultural and Political Connections in the Cold War, by Robert SteeleRobert Steele’s distinctive and rigorous work details the expanding relations between Africa and Iran in the 1970s. The book begins with anecdotes about Idacademic.oup.comJessica Howell reviews 'The Lure of the South: Health, the Victorians and the Continent', by Richard Aspin academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social
The Lure of the South: Health, the Victorians and the Continent, by Richard AspinScholars of nineteenth-century history and culture are familiar with Victorian travellers’ quest for health in warmer climes. The Victorians followed previacademic.oup.comLooking for something to read this weekend? We have new reviews here: academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
Advance articles | The English Historical Review | Oxford Academicacademic.oup.comApril Article! Robert M Hendershot and Steve Marsh on 'Britain’s ‘Big Gun’: Queen Elizabeth II and the Anglo-American Special Relationship' academic.oup.com/ehr/article-... #SpecialRelationship
Britain’s ‘Big Gun’: Queen Elizabeth II and the Anglo-American Special RelationshipAbstract. There have been few people more famous and instantly recognisable than Queen Elizabeth II, who served as Britain’s longest-reigning monarch fromacademic.oup.comApril Article! 'Dreams and Nightmares: Imagining the Aftermath of War, 1815–1945', by Frances M Clarke, Joy Damousi, Philip Dwyer, Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social, Reto Hofmann and Hans-Lukas Kieser academic.oup.com/ehr/article/...
Dreams and Nightmares: Imagining the Aftermath of War, 1815–1945*Abstract. Thinking about and planning for the end of war generally begins as soon as fighting breaks out, if not long before. Yet few studies analyse how pacademic.oup.comApril Article! Miroslav Šedivý on 'British Imperialism and the Decline of Trust in the International Order, 1840–1848' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... #imperial
British Imperialism and the Decline of Trust in the International Order, 1840–1848*Abstract. During the 1840s, international crises and territorially limited armed conflicts in Europe and overseas gave rise to or at least fuelled feelingsacademic.oup.comApril Article! Joe Curran @muahi.bsky.social on '(Re-)Making the ‘Stateless Capital’: Edinburgh and Dublin in European Context, c.1820–1850' academic.oup.com/ehr/article/... #CapitalCities
(Re-)Making the ‘Stateless Capital’: Edinburgh and Dublin in European Context, c.1820–1850*Abstract. This article revisits and complicates the idea of the ‘stateless capital’, a city that (through absorption into a larger political entity) was noacademic.oup.com