Koos-jan de Jager reviews this “powerful and convincing argument for taking Islam seriously … in the history of the Indonesian revolution”.
History Type Archives
Mediterranean Encounters: Trade and Pluralism in Early Modern Galata
Mariusz Kaczka reviews this history of a Mediterranean and Black Sea port, which reveals a pluralist society at the heart of European modernity.
How the Old World Ended: The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800
Tim Hasker reviews this expansive look at how the intertwining of Anglo-Dutch-American politics, economics, and religion laid the unlikely foundations for the Industrial Revolution.
Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean 1800-1850: Stammering the Nation
Michalis Sotiropoulos reviews this “testament to the bigness of small stories”, which proposes different genealogies for the history of nationalism, liberalism, revolution, and modernity.
Peterloo
Janette Martin reviews Robert Poole’s ‘Peterloo’ alongside a new graphic novel on the same subject, finding there is much to be gained by reading them side-by-side.
Edmund Burke and the British Empire in the West Indies: Wealth, Power, and Slavery
Natalie Zacek’s review challenges aspects of an illuminating study of Burke’s place in the politics of Britain and its West Indian colonies in the 18th century. P.J. Marshall responds.
That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500
Janel Fontaine explores “a case study of great importance”, on late medieval slave trading practices in the Mediterranean.
Politics, Religion and Ideas in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Honour of Mark Goldie
Tony Claydon provides a challenging review of this tribute to Mark Goldie, which traces the evolution of Whig and Tory, Puritan and Anglican ideas across a tumultuous period of British history, from the mid-17th century through to the Age of Enlightenment.
The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media and the British Public, 1932-53
Burdens. Responsibilities. Intimacy. Vulnerability. Family. Arianne Chernock reviews this perceptive analysis of the way the monarchy harnessed mass media to forge stronger ties with the British public from 1932 to 1953.
The Alien Jew in the British Imagination, 1881–1905: Space, Mobility and Territoriality
Hannah Holtschneider reviews a welcome addition to the growing scholarship on British Jewish history, migration history, transnationalism and national identity.