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Volume 47 - October 2008

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Book Reviews

Anne-Marie Kilday. Women and Violent Crime in Enlightenment Scotland. Royal Historical Society Studies in History. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2007. Pp. 183. $85.00 (cloth).
Louise A. Jackson
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21 December 2012, pp. 683-685
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Kim Sloan. A New World: England's First View of America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Pp. 256. $60.00 (cloth).
Michael Leroy Oberg
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21 December 2012, pp. 427-428
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Jack Goody. The Theft of History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. 342. $75.00 (paper).
Roger Des Forges
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21 December 2012, pp. 185-187
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Jeffrey Stephen. Scottish Presbyterians and the Act of Union, 1707. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. Pp. 274. $80.00 (cloth).
Ryan K. Frace
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21 December 2012, pp. 940-941
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John Elliott. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492–1830. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. xx+546. $50.00 (cloth).
Patricia Seed
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21 December 2012, pp. 685-686
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Frank Palmeri, ed. Humans and Other Animals in Eighteenth-Century British Culture: Representation, Hybridity, Ethics. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. 217. $99.95 (cloth).
Tillman W. Nechtman
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21 December 2012, pp. 187-188
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Charles Beem. The Lioness Roared: The Problems of Female Rule in English History. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. viii+271. $69.95 (cloth).
Natalie Mears
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21 December 2012, pp. 428-429
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David E. Shuttleton. Smallpox and the Literary Imagination, 1660–1820. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 265. $85.00 (cloth).
Celeste Chamberland
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21 December 2012, pp. 942-943
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Francis J. Bremer. John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 478. $18.95 (paper).
Ann M. Little
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21 December 2012, pp. 189-190
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Linda Colley. The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History. New York: Pantheon Books, 2007. Pp. 363. $27.50 (cloth).
Nabil Matar
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21 December 2012, pp. 943-944
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Jan Fergus. Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 314. $110.00 (cloth).
Scott Black
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21 December 2012, pp. 430-431
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Jan Golinski. British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xv+272. $35.00 (cloth).
Ellen J. Jenkins
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21 December 2012, pp. 686-687
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Evan Gottlieb. Feeling British: Sympathy and National Identity in Scottish and English Writing, 1707–1832. The Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture and Literature. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2007. Pp. 274. $52.50 (cloth).
Richard J. Finlay
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21 December 2012, pp. 945-946
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Jeremy Black. George III: America's Last King. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. 475. $35.00 (cloth).
C. J. Wright
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21 December 2012, pp. 190-192
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Emily Cockayne. Hubbub: Filth, Noise, and Stench in England. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. 335. $35.00 (cloth).
Matthew Milner
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21 December 2012, pp. 687-689
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Colin Kidd. The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600–2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. vii+309. $75.00 (cloth).
James Sidbury
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21 December 2012, pp. 431-433
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Vic Gatrell. City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London. New York: Walker & Company, 2006. Pp. xxiii+695. $45.00 (cloth).
Paul Griffiths
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21 December 2012, pp. 433-435
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Eric Richards. Debating the Highland Clearances. Debates and Documents in Scottish History. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. Pp. 241. $22.00 (paper).
Andrew G. Newby
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21 December 2012, pp. 946-947
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Rhodri Lewis. Language, Mind, and Nature: Artificial Languages in England from Bacon to Locke. Ideas in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi+262. $90.00 (cloth).
Eric H. Ash
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21 December 2012, pp. 689-690
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Peter Mandler. The English National Character: The History of an Idea from Edmund Burke to Tony Blair. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. 348. $35.00 (cloth).
Andrew Muldoon
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21 December 2012, pp. 192-193
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Book Reviews

Anne-Marie Kilday. Women and Violent Crime in Enlightenment Scotland. Royal Historical Society Studies in History. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2007. Pp. 183. $85.00 (cloth).

Kim Sloan. A New World: England's First View of America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Pp. 256. $60.00 (cloth).

Jack Goody. The Theft of History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. 342. $75.00 (paper).

Jeffrey Stephen. Scottish Presbyterians and the Act of Union, 1707. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. Pp. 274. $80.00 (cloth).

John Elliott. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492–1830. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. xx+546. $50.00 (cloth).

Frank Palmeri, ed. Humans and Other Animals in Eighteenth-Century British Culture: Representation, Hybridity, Ethics. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. 217. $99.95 (cloth).

Charles Beem. The Lioness Roared: The Problems of Female Rule in English History. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. viii+271. $69.95 (cloth).

David E. Shuttleton. Smallpox and the Literary Imagination, 1660–1820. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 265. $85.00 (cloth).

Francis J. Bremer. John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 478. $18.95 (paper).

Linda Colley. The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History. New York: Pantheon Books, 2007. Pp. 363. $27.50 (cloth).

Jan Fergus. Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 314. $110.00 (cloth).

Jan Golinski. British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xv+272. $35.00 (cloth).

Evan Gottlieb. Feeling British: Sympathy and National Identity in Scottish and English Writing, 1707–1832. The Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture and Literature. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2007. Pp. 274. $52.50 (cloth).

Jeremy Black. George III: America's Last King. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. 475. $35.00 (cloth).

Emily Cockayne. Hubbub: Filth, Noise, and Stench in England. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. 335. $35.00 (cloth).

Colin Kidd. The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600–2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. vii+309. $75.00 (cloth).

Vic Gatrell. City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London. New York: Walker & Company, 2006. Pp. xxiii+695. $45.00 (cloth).

Eric Richards. Debating the Highland Clearances. Debates and Documents in Scottish History. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. Pp. 241. $22.00 (paper).

Rhodri Lewis. Language, Mind, and Nature: Artificial Languages in England from Bacon to Locke. Ideas in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi+262. $90.00 (cloth).

Peter Mandler. The English National Character: The History of an Idea from Edmund Burke to Tony Blair. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. 348. $35.00 (cloth).

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