I thank Sarah Fox for her thorough review of my book, The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder, and for reading and engaging with it so closely. Drawing on her own expertise of women's lives and reproduction, she has received the book as I had hoped readers would: as an account of one woman's (admittedly extraordinary) reproductive experiencesContinue reading “Response to Review of The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder: Mary Toft and Eighteenth-Century England”
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Response to Review of Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy: Transforming Nature in Early New England
I would like to thank Dr. Winchcombe for her praise of Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy and especially for her words of appreciation for the book’s first two chapters, which I believe lay the ground work for the rest of the book by highlighting the astonishingly profound ecological changes that English colonial commercial networks were ableContinue reading “Response to Review of Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy: Transforming Nature in Early New England”
Response to Review of Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean 1800-1850: Stammering the Nation
I am grateful to Michalis Sotiropoulos for his thoughtful and creative reading of my book. His generous review has inspired some further reflection regarding the stance of the book in relation to global history, which I would like to share with him and with readers. The book does well, I believe, in the placing ofContinue reading “Response to Review of Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean 1800-1850: Stammering the Nation”
Response to Review of Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Régime to the Present Day
I would like to begin by thanking Professor Girvin for his generous and thoughtful review. I will focus my comments on two criticisms or suggestions Professor Girvin raises at the end of his review. Not because I disagree with them, but rather to explain my reasoning or thinking about them. The first concerns my discussionContinue reading “Response to Review of Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Régime to the Present Day”
Response to Review of Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan
The authors would like to thank Guy Ortolano for his incisive review of our book. It captures perfectly our core arguments about the historicity of the modern car system and its global reach. We wanted to show how automobility became ordinary, embedded in everyday life during the second half of the 20th century so thatContinue reading “Response to Review of Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan”
Response to Review of A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy
The author is pleased to accept this thorough and eloquent review. The review thoughtfully discusses the book’s findings. It also draws out these findings’ broader historiographical implications for the study of both Jewish-Christian and patron-artist relations in the early modern era. It is gratifying to see the reviewer’s characterization of the book as a studyContinue reading “Response to Review of A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy”
Response to Review of The Cato Street Conspiracy: Plotting, counter-intelligence and the revolutionary tradition in Britain and Ireland
We are grateful to Robert Poole for his thoughtful assessment of The Cato Street Conspiracy. There are inevitably a number of points in his detailed review with which we disagree, but subscribers to Reviews in History will be glad to hear that we do not propose to launch into a detailed (for which, read 'pedantic'Continue reading “Response to Review of The Cato Street Conspiracy: Plotting, counter-intelligence and the revolutionary tradition in Britain and Ireland”
Response to Review of Peterloo
Our thanks to Janette Martin for this generous and inquiring review. I will respond briefly to the discussion she opens about the graphic novel as a form of history writing, and the artist will add a comment. Book and graphic novel are very different ways of presenting historical research but they have one important thingContinue reading “Response to Review of Peterloo”
Response to Review of Edmund Burke and the British Empire in the West Indies: Wealth, Power, and Slavery
I am very grateful to Natalie Zacek both for her careful and thorough summary of my book and for her generosity towards my scholarly endeavours, which I much appreciate. In responding to her, I wish to make one preliminary point. She reviews the book, as she is perfectly entitled to do, from the standpoint ofContinue reading “Response to Review of Edmund Burke and the British Empire in the West Indies: Wealth, Power, and Slavery”
Response to Review of Malleable Anatomies: Models, Makers and Material Culture in Eighteenth-Century Italy
Weaving Histories 18th-century anatomical models enjoy to this day an impressive visual power. Malleable Anatomies explores the history of the entangled social and material relations that lay behind this power. One of its aims is to study how anatomical models inscribed knowledge and shaped communities. I would like to thank Dr. Kathryn Woods for herContinue reading “Response to Review of Malleable Anatomies: Models, Makers and Material Culture in Eighteenth-Century Italy”