Helen Roche reviews an edited collection exploring how far-right movements promoted the creation of a new, ideal human, and what this things tell us about fascism’s emergence in the 20th century.
History Type Archives
India and the Cold War
Marc A. Reyes enjoys this work on India’s pivotal role in the Cold War, appreciating its challenge to established arguments and its broad view of an understudied area.
Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War
Adam Timmins reviews a highly-readable account of the appeasement policy, but questions whether it uncovers anything new in this well-tilled ground.
Founding Martyr: The Life and Death of Joseph Warren, the American Revolution’s Lost Hero
Megan King reviews this thorough, powerful outline of the life and times of a frequently overlooked ‘founding father’.
Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War
Anna Koivusalo reviews Varon’s study of ‘deliverance’ as an all-embracing concept, illuminating the military, political, and social actions of the Unionist north in the American civil war.
Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830-1914: An Intellectual History
Julia Stapleton reviews Emily Jones’ reassessment of the shifting C/conservative legacy of Edmund Burke.
Thatcher’s Progress: From Social Democracy to Market Liberalism through an English New Town
Otto Saumarez Smith reviews Ortolano’s brilliant and inventive study of what Milton Keynes shows us about the shift from social democracy to market liberalism.
Making Murder Public: Homicide in Early Modern England, 1480-1680
Stuart Carroll reviews Kesselring’s work, which takes homicide out of the silo of crime history and places it firmly in the context of the political.
Imperial Twilight: the Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age
Song-Chuan Chen discusses Platt’s lavish and beautiful history of the Canton world, with this message to non-specialists: “If you want to read only one book about China, this would the one.”
Radical Friend: Amy Kirby Post and her Activist Worlds
Daniel Albert Joslyn reviews Nancy A. Hewitt’s work, which reveals connections between radical social movements during the American Civil War, through the story of a woman at their heart.