Late Modern

Source: History, Volume 86, Number 283, July 2001 , pp. 410-439(30)

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Abstract:

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 Soviet Union

Simon Davis, Churchill, Whitehall and the Soviet Union, 1940–45

Ian Nish, Intelligence and the War against Japan: Britain, America and the Politics of Secret Service

John Buckley, A War to be Won: Fighting the Second World War

Jeremy Black, Zhukov’s Greatest Defeat: The Red Army’s Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942

John Buckley,Scenes from the End: The Last Days of World War Two

Jeremy Black, The Effect of Science on the Second World War

Donald Bloxham, The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and its Aftermath

Nichola Lambourne, Dresden: A City Reborn

Jonathan Osmond, The Making of the GDR 1945–53: From Antifascism to Stalinism

Simon Davis, Gandhi, Mao, Mandela, and Gorbachev: Studies in Personality, Power, and Politics

Peter J. Beck, The Oxford History of the Twentieth Century

Peter J. Beck, The Columbia History of the Twentieth Century

Language: English

Document Type: Book review

Publication date: 2001-07-01

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