Palgrave Macmillan
Presenting History: Past and Present
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In this insightful book, Peter J. Beck, an emeritus professor of history in the UK, cites data indicating that both British and American ...Read Review
British Historical Fiction Before Scott
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Anne Stevens examines eighty-five popular historical novels from 1762-1813 and looks in detail at how the genre developed during this period, fifty years ...Read Review
Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910
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When I first encountered this book, I was intrigued, but a bit embarrassed: I’d never heard of the Paris flood of 1910. I ...Read Review
The Contemporary British Historical Novel: Representation, Nation, Empire
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This ‘first full-length study of a genre that has had increasing critical attention and popular appeal at the turn of the twenty-first ...Read Review
The Road to Bosworth Field
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The Wars of the Roses always confused me. So many people, with so many variations of their names, all killing each other. Rarely ...Read Review
The Woman’s Historical Novel: British Women Writers, 1900-2000
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This timely, perceptive analysis gives a much-maligned genre its proper significance in the canon of English literature. Diana Wallace sets out to show “...Read Review
Women in Late Medieval and Reformation Europe 1200-1550
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This concise and comprehensive study of women’s lives and society’s expectation of them covers every aspect of women’s life in ...Read Review
Samuel Adams: Father Of The American Revolution
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Never president like his cousin John, not a military leader like George Washington, Samuel Adams seems to have become simply “the other Adams” – ...Read Review
Medievalism and Orientalism
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At last year’s HNS Conference I remember being forcibly struck by Anne Harries’ references to ‘the magic realism of history’. In this ...Read Review
Companion to Women’s Historical Writing
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This book explores ‘the many different ways in which women have researched and written history’ in over 150 entries, from Abolition to World History, ...Read Review