I learned a great deal from Professor Sarah Rees Jones’s review of my book Cities of Strangers (2020). I learned from her attention to the book’s intention, format and ideas; and from her willingness to examine a field she knows so well – the history of later medieval urban life – from a new perspective.Continue reading “Response to Review of Cities of Strangers: Making Lives in Medieval Europe”
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Response to Review of Cornwall, Connectivity and Identity in the Fourteenth Century
In responding to Dr Matt Raven’s review of Cornwall, Connectivity and Identity in the Fourteenth Century, I would first like to thank Dr Raven for both reading my book so closely and for writing such a comprehensive review. I do not have anything much to add to his comments about the book itself – hisContinue reading “Response to Review of Cornwall, Connectivity and Identity in the Fourteenth Century”
Response to Review of Animal City: The Domestication of America
I would like to thank Dr. Thomas Almeroth-Williams for his deep, generous, and engaged reading and review of Animal City. I am pleased to see Animal City in good company in Almeroth-Williams’s footnotes, and would also add his own recent book, City of Beasts: How Animals Shaped Georgian London (2019) as a welcome addition toContinue reading “Response to Review of Animal City: The Domestication of America”
Response to Review of The Economy of Medieval Wales, 1067-1536
I read Dr Chapman’s review with interest and appreciation. I take it as a compliment that his review raises only ‘two very minor areas which detract from the book’, and that these are only his dislike of the use of endnotes and my regular reference the historic counties of Wales while failing to supply aContinue reading “Response to Review of The Economy of Medieval Wales, 1067-1536”
Response to Review of A Little Gay History of Wales
It is a marker of the growing maturity of what I shall call ‘Queer Wales Studies’ that a review of my A Little Gay History of Wales, a book of fewer than 200 pages, is able to generate so many grounds for debate, further research, and reconsideration of the evidence. That breadth is characteristic of KirstiContinue reading “Response to Review of A Little Gay History of Wales”
Response to Review of Complete and entire
Rudolf Mrázek – The Complete Lives of Camp People The author thanks Professor Keefe for his generous and thoughtful review. The only comment he wishes to make regards the question raised over whether "complete" in the title and throughout the book is the right word. Mrázek writes: "This is not a "complete" study of theContinue reading “Response to Review of Complete and entire”
Response to Review of Mr. Smith Goes to China: Three Scots in the Making of Britain’s Global Empire
I thank Junqing Wu for taking the time to produce such a thoughtful review of my book and am grateful to the IHR for giving me the opportunity to write a short response. I especially appreciate the reviewer’s attention to my methodology, which is shaped by a new approach to world and imperial history, knownContinue reading “Response to Review of Mr. Smith Goes to China: Three Scots in the Making of Britain’s Global Empire”
Response to Review of Animal worlds
I am very grateful to Sabine Hanke for this thoughtful, engaging and very positive review. By considering my book alongside Diana Donald’s Women against cruelty, Hanke not only highlights animal history’s rude health but also the growing array of approaches being taken. While my book offers some criticism of approaches which heavily prioritise theoretical andContinue reading “Response to Review of Animal worlds”
Response to Review of Indonesia’s Islamic Revolution
I am very grateful to Koos-Jan de Jager for this careful and thoughtful review of my book. I am particularly pleased to have such a positive reception from a Dutch historian who is working to contribute to the larger reckoning that the Netherlands is having right now with its late colonial history. Dutch historiography (and,Continue reading “Response to Review of Indonesia’s Islamic Revolution”
Response to Review of Wem & Myddle
The authors have received the review and appreciate Professor Edwards’ observations on various aspects of the late David Hey’s account of Myddle during the Tudor and Stuart period and the more recently published Victoria County History Short on Wem. The works are complementary, exploring a rural parish and neighbouring town in North Shropshire, and theyContinue reading “Response to Review of Wem & Myddle”