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J. C. Beaglehole. Public Intellectual, Critical Conscience / Doug Munro
Review Date: 07 March 2013
The author of this very short monograph is well-known in New Zealand as a biographer and historian. The work is a reprint and revision of his chapter on John Beaglehole in a book published in the United Kingdom three years ago.
Edith Sitwell: avant-garde poet, English genius / Richard Greene
Review Date: 07 March 2013
‘The Sitwells belong to the history of publicity rather than of poetry’, famously pronounced F. R. Leavis in New Bearings in English Poetry (1932).
Into Africa: The Imperial Life of Margery Perham / C. Brad Faught
Review Date: 07 March 2013
Once upon a time, as every schoolboy knew, the history of the British Empire was the history of great men. Clive, Rhodes, Cromer, Curzon, Lugard, Milner: the names of these imperial pro-consuls, military leaders and administrative visionaries tripped off the tongue as paragons of the civilising and adventurous spirit which drove the expansion of England over three centuries and painted the globe pink.