Petros Spanou reviews an ‘illuminating’ look at the astonishing reverberations of the Crimean War in British society and culture.
Review Archives
Authority and Power in the Medieval Church, c. 1000–c. 1500
Agata Zielinska reviews this ‘indispensable’ collection of essays tackling one of the most profound aspects of Medieval Church history.
Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871-1918
Joseph Cronin questions Katja Hoyer’s “lucid and compelling” focus on the positive legacies of the Kaiserreich.
Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching
Thomas Cryer reviews a look at Black education in America, the sociology of knowledge, and broader histories of resistance to educational domination.
The Politics of Humiliation
Samuel Clark reviews a ‘thoughtful’ look at the role public humiliation has played in modern society.
Soldiers, Saints, and Shamans
Mark Lawrence reviews this vital text, which brings ‘clarity and interest’ to the experiences and perspectives of indigenous populations during the Mexican Revolution and its aftermath.
Migrant City: A New History of London
Jean P. Smith reviews this exploration of the myriad ways that migrants have contributed to the making of London, finding it a substantial achievement of broad historical relevance.
Blood Matters: Studies in European Literature and Thought, 1400-1700
Tim Reinke-Williams reviews a collection of essays examining definitions of blood in late medieval and early modern Western Europe, and contemporary literary references to blood in descriptions of the human condition.
Provincializing Global History: Money, Ideas, and Things in the Languedoc, 1680-1830
Janine Lanza reviews a look at deep economic change in the long eighteenth century and ‘how modernity came to small, out of the way places’.
Politics and ‘Politiques’ in Sixteenth-Century France
Tom Hamilton reviews two recent, and complementary books on the intellectual history of sixteenth-century France, which break down ‘disciplinary distinctions between the history of literature, philosophy, and politics’.