{"title":"Heather Jones. Violence against Prisoners of War in the First World War: Britain, France, and Germany, 1914–1920 . Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Warfare 34. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. 451. £65.00 (cloth).","authors":"Caroline Shaw","doi":"10.1086/666703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/666703","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":132502,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of British Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123880411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shani D’Cruze and Louise A. Jackson. Women, Crime and Justice in England since 1660 . Gender and History. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2009. Pp. 240. $100.00 (cloth).","authors":"P. King","doi":"10.1086/666676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/666676","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":132502,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of British Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127826124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Christian J. Koot. Empire at the Periphery: British Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade, and the Development of the British Atlantic, 1621–1713. Early American Places Series. New York: New York University Press, 2011. Pp. 312. $39.00 (cloth).","authors":"E. Haefeli","doi":"10.1086/666672","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/666672","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":132502,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of British Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134402036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H istorians continue to be captivated by the English civil wars. The period has stimulated enduring fascination because, whatever scholars may think about the causes, conduct, and consequences of the wars, any sober assessment of the seventeenth century cannot fail to reckon with the sheer disruptiveness of the conflict and the ways in which it devoured lives and shattered the seemingly solid bedrock of English social and political existence. And while this upheaval was traumatic for large numbers of people, it also undeniably forced upon many of its victims a necessary recalibration of ideas, values, and religious assumptions, resulting in considerable ideological ferment and change on all sides of the political divide. Although many royalists (and the nonaligned) partook of this vertiginous process of ideological change, the effects of the disruption are most obvious among committed parliamentarians, for whom the relatively conservative rhetoric of loyalty to the king, measured godly reformation, and enmity to evil council, so apparent in 1640 and 1641, quickly gave way to all manner of religious and political fragmentation. This fragmentation was accompanied in some circles by parallel processes of radicalization, ultimately allowing for a bloody regicidal denouement and a constitutional upheaval that would have been unthinkable for most English subjects in 1640. Knowing that such radicalization took place, however, is quite different from charting it, still less explaining it. In part because of the sheer weight of material generated during the civil wars and interregnum, and the dizzying and accelerating pace of changing circumstance that confronts any would-be historian of the period, it has proved
{"title":"Print, Censorship, and Ideological Escalation in the English Civil War","authors":"David R. Como","doi":"10.1086/666848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/666848","url":null,"abstract":"H istorians continue to be captivated by the English civil wars. The period has stimulated enduring fascination because, whatever scholars may think about the causes, conduct, and consequences of the wars, any sober assessment of the seventeenth century cannot fail to reckon with the sheer disruptiveness of the conflict and the ways in which it devoured lives and shattered the seemingly solid bedrock of English social and political existence. And while this upheaval was traumatic for large numbers of people, it also undeniably forced upon many of its victims a necessary recalibration of ideas, values, and religious assumptions, resulting in considerable ideological ferment and change on all sides of the political divide. Although many royalists (and the nonaligned) partook of this vertiginous process of ideological change, the effects of the disruption are most obvious among committed parliamentarians, for whom the relatively conservative rhetoric of loyalty to the king, measured godly reformation, and enmity to evil council, so apparent in 1640 and 1641, quickly gave way to all manner of religious and political fragmentation. This fragmentation was accompanied in some circles by parallel processes of radicalization, ultimately allowing for a bloody regicidal denouement and a constitutional upheaval that would have been unthinkable for most English subjects in 1640. Knowing that such radicalization took place, however, is quite different from charting it, still less explaining it. In part because of the sheer weight of material generated during the civil wars and interregnum, and the dizzying and accelerating pace of changing circumstance that confronts any would-be historian of the period, it has proved","PeriodicalId":132502,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of British Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114792923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Janet L. Polasky. Reforming Urban Labor: Routes to the City, Roots in the Country. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010. Pp. 264. $55.00 (cloth).","authors":"David Howell","doi":"10.1086/666710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/666710","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":132502,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of British Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116741809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paul Dalton, Charles Insley, and Louise J. Wilkinson, eds. Cathedrals, Communities and Conflict in the Anglo-Norman World . Studies in the History of Medieval Religion. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2011. Pp. 274. $90.00 (cloth).","authors":"S. Bruce","doi":"10.1086/666688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/666688","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":132502,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of British Studies","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134325783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth. Selling Science in the Age of Newton: Advertising and the Commoditization of Knowledge . Science, Technology and Culture, 1700–1945. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. 218. $119.95 (cloth).","authors":"L. Curth","doi":"10.1086/666686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/666686","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":132502,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of British Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116719333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
two institutions. That the same men might generate divergent operational codes for these two companies begs questions about the structural concerns—political, geographic, economic, social, racial, historical, and so on—at play when companies and empires overlapped. The comparative study of corporate imperialism has the potential, no doubt, to become a rich field of historical inquiry. For those interested in pursuing this work, Laidlaw’s book will be a valuable starting point.
{"title":"David Loades. The Religious Culture of Marian England . Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World. London: Pickering a Chatto, 2010. Pp. 224. $99.00 (cloth).","authors":"Jonathan L. Willis","doi":"10.1086/666687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/666687","url":null,"abstract":"two institutions. That the same men might generate divergent operational codes for these two companies begs questions about the structural concerns—political, geographic, economic, social, racial, historical, and so on—at play when companies and empires overlapped. The comparative study of corporate imperialism has the potential, no doubt, to become a rich field of historical inquiry. For those interested in pursuing this work, Laidlaw’s book will be a valuable starting point.","PeriodicalId":132502,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of British Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126304026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Charles Carlton. This Seat of Mars: War and the British Isles, 1485–1746 . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011. Pp. 336. $40.00 (cloth).","authors":"S. Gunn","doi":"10.1086/666681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/666681","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":132502,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of British Studies","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130369965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I n papers posthumously published in 1641, Ben Jonson likens language to a mirror. “Speak, that I may see thee,” he commands, for in his metaphor, language is capable of externalizing the internal contours of the hidden mind. By focusing on how language discloses a person’s unique mental “form or likeness,” Jonson prefigures his eighteenth-century intellectual descendants who, agreeing that language was an essential part of self-presentation, fixated on the things that language revealed about a speaker’s social conditions. As figures like Thomas Sheridan, John Walker, and others claimed in the second half of the eighteenth century, language was a public spectacle that immediately identified one’s class origins, vocational potential, and social standing, not to mention one’s national, regional, and ethnic derivation. Spoken language, they argued, was a profoundly evocative social signifier, one that articulated a great deal about a person irrespective of what the speaker was actually saying. Dismayed by nonstandard language’s ability to forestall occupational and social advancement, these writers popularized the discipline of elocution, which was framed as an educational regiment that would allow speakers to hide linguistic traits wrongly associated with ignorance, ill-breeding, and even criminality.
{"title":"Spectacular Speech: Performing Language in the Late Eighteenth Century","authors":"Daniel Dewispelare","doi":"10.1086/666958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/666958","url":null,"abstract":"I n papers posthumously published in 1641, Ben Jonson likens language to a mirror. “Speak, that I may see thee,” he commands, for in his metaphor, language is capable of externalizing the internal contours of the hidden mind. By focusing on how language discloses a person’s unique mental “form or likeness,” Jonson prefigures his eighteenth-century intellectual descendants who, agreeing that language was an essential part of self-presentation, fixated on the things that language revealed about a speaker’s social conditions. As figures like Thomas Sheridan, John Walker, and others claimed in the second half of the eighteenth century, language was a public spectacle that immediately identified one’s class origins, vocational potential, and social standing, not to mention one’s national, regional, and ethnic derivation. Spoken language, they argued, was a profoundly evocative social signifier, one that articulated a great deal about a person irrespective of what the speaker was actually saying. Dismayed by nonstandard language’s ability to forestall occupational and social advancement, these writers popularized the discipline of elocution, which was framed as an educational regiment that would allow speakers to hide linguistic traits wrongly associated with ignorance, ill-breeding, and even criminality.","PeriodicalId":132502,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of British Studies","volume":"230 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120878914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：