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The Strange Survival of Liberal Britain: Politics and Power Before the First World War / Vernon Bogdanor

Review Date:

28 Feb 2023

This magnum opus of 842 pages, plus notes, takes the reader from 1895, and the politics of Unionism, to the onset of the First World War. It deals with every subject a reader interested to understand modern Britain might want to know, from domestic questions like the rise of the Labour Party to imperial issues like Britain’s complex relationship with Japan.

Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871-1918 / Katja Hoyer

Review Date:

7 Oct 2022

The publicity surrounding the German empire has not been good lately, to put it mildly. In August 2020, several hundred members of the far-right Reichsbürger (‘Reich Citizens’) group tried to storm the German parliament building in Berlin. They did so while holding the red, white, and black flags of Imperial Germany.

West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba: Soldier Slaves in the Atlantic World 1807-1844 / Manuel Barcia

Review Date:

14 May 2014

In the last two decades a series of publications on Africa in (Latin) America (1), the role of enslaved African soldiers in slave uprisings and the slave revolution in Haiti (2), and the independence movements of Latin America (3) have been published.

Abolition and Empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia / Bronwen Everill

Review Date:

28 Feb 2013

The past year has seen an embarrassment of riches for those interested in the history of slavery and abolition.