{"title":"Jacob Selwood. Diversity and Difference in Early Modern London . Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. 226. $119.95 (cloth).","authors":"J. Boulton","doi":"10.1086/666678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/666678","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":132502,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of British Studies","volume":"21 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":"116701733","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}
T he writing of empire into the history of Ireland has produced a vibrant debate. For some years this debate focused primarily on the colonial status of the island. Always interesting and sometimes provocative, this particular discussion has perhaps run its course, and a consensus that Ireland’s relationship with Britain shared at least some features with those of the dominions and colonies has settled in across the disciplines of Irish studies. We have now entered the second wave of Irish imperial studies. Mainly concerned with Irish nationalists, these works reveal that different strands of nationalism engaged intellectually and politically with empire in a variety of complex ways. Scholars in this field have demonstrated that Irish engagements with empire were more extensive and vigorous than some have allowed and that they were frequently central to the elaboration of Irish nationalist understandings of Ireland’s place in the wider world. The result is a convincing and nuanced portrayal of anti-imperialism as a central thread of Irish nationalism from the 1840s through the 1880s. For example, Niamh Lynch demonstrates that a “coherent and ultimately revolutionary form
{"title":"“Speed the Mahdi!” The Irish Press and Empire during the Sudan Conflict of 1883–1885","authors":"Michael Willem De Nie","doi":"10.1086/667397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/667397","url":null,"abstract":"T he writing of empire into the history of Ireland has produced a vibrant debate. For some years this debate focused primarily on the colonial status of the island. Always interesting and sometimes provocative, this particular discussion has perhaps run its course, and a consensus that Ireland’s relationship with Britain shared at least some features with those of the dominions and colonies has settled in across the disciplines of Irish studies. We have now entered the second wave of Irish imperial studies. Mainly concerned with Irish nationalists, these works reveal that different strands of nationalism engaged intellectually and politically with empire in a variety of complex ways. Scholars in this field have demonstrated that Irish engagements with empire were more extensive and vigorous than some have allowed and that they were frequently central to the elaboration of Irish nationalist understandings of Ireland’s place in the wider world. The result is a convincing and nuanced portrayal of anti-imperialism as a central thread of Irish nationalism from the 1840s through the 1880s. For example, Niamh Lynch demonstrates that a “coherent and ultimately revolutionary form","PeriodicalId":132502,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of British Studies","volume":"14 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":"126894447","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":"James Kelly and Martyn J. Powell, eds. Clubs and Societies in Eighteenth-Century Ireland . Dublin: Four Courts, 2010. Pp. 496. $70.00 (cloth).","authors":"P. Clark","doi":"10.1086/666679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/666679","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":132502,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of British Studies","volume":"35 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":"124368788","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}
spective are remarkably similar to Leeson’s, and it would be interesting to see how the Black and Tans compare to these and other policemen in wartime. To regret that Leeson has not placed his work more firmly within a global context is simply to regret that historians outside of Ireland may not pay enough attention to what is many ways a model of how this sort of research should be done. Among Irish historians, this book is sure to become the standard work on the Black and Tans and will, one hopes, go some way toward dispelling the myths that still surround these men. This is revisionist history in the best possible sense of the term.
{"title":"Caroline McCracken-Flesher. The Doctor Dissected: A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Murders . New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. 288. $65.00 (cloth).","authors":"M. Kerr","doi":"10.1086/666719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/666719","url":null,"abstract":"spective are remarkably similar to Leeson’s, and it would be interesting to see how the Black and Tans compare to these and other policemen in wartime. To regret that Leeson has not placed his work more firmly within a global context is simply to regret that historians outside of Ireland may not pay enough attention to what is many ways a model of how this sort of research should be done. Among Irish historians, this book is sure to become the standard work on the Black and Tans and will, one hopes, go some way toward dispelling the myths that still surround these men. This is revisionist history in the best possible sense of the term.","PeriodicalId":132502,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of British Studies","volume":"120 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":"116574285","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":"Judy A. Hayden, ed. The New Science and Women’s Literary Discourse: Prefiguring Frankenstein. New York: Macmillan, 2011. Pp. 280. $85.00 (cloth).","authors":"Michelle DiMeo","doi":"10.1086/666695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/666695","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":"125032558","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}
S ome of the most enduring propaganda images and slogans of the Second World War emerged from the so-called careless talk campaigns in Britain. Catchphrases such as “Careless Talk Costs Lives” have entered the common lexicon, while Fougasse’s famous posters of Hitler and Goering eavesdropping on the unwise gossip of two female shoppers have been the subject of numerous pastiches by cartoonists on modern political crises, including the recent conflict in Iraq. The longevity of these phrases and images is explained not just because they were textually and visually striking but also because they were unusual in character. They simultaneously evoke notions of British resilience and sacrifice and an enduring anxiety provoked by the threat of Nazism. This tension stems from the fact that while national wartime propaganda tended to promote a positive, united “world view,” the careless talk initiatives had a quite different impetus. As campaigns concerned with the internal security aims of eliminating opportunities for damaging rumors to spread and with identifying potential “fifth columnists,” these campaigns encouraged a “closing of the ranks” and a suspicion toward others. As such, they ran the risk of disrupting the wartime master narrative of the “People’s War.” The careless talk campaigns have received relatively little scholarly attention. They are barely mentioned in wider studies of Britain during the Second World War. Works that do consider the campaigns either confine them to a specific
{"title":"Careless Talk: Tensions within British Domestic Propaganda during the Second World War","authors":"J. Fox","doi":"10.1086/666741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/666741","url":null,"abstract":"S ome of the most enduring propaganda images and slogans of the Second World War emerged from the so-called careless talk campaigns in Britain. Catchphrases such as “Careless Talk Costs Lives” have entered the common lexicon, while Fougasse’s famous posters of Hitler and Goering eavesdropping on the unwise gossip of two female shoppers have been the subject of numerous pastiches by cartoonists on modern political crises, including the recent conflict in Iraq. The longevity of these phrases and images is explained not just because they were textually and visually striking but also because they were unusual in character. They simultaneously evoke notions of British resilience and sacrifice and an enduring anxiety provoked by the threat of Nazism. This tension stems from the fact that while national wartime propaganda tended to promote a positive, united “world view,” the careless talk initiatives had a quite different impetus. As campaigns concerned with the internal security aims of eliminating opportunities for damaging rumors to spread and with identifying potential “fifth columnists,” these campaigns encouraged a “closing of the ranks” and a suspicion toward others. As such, they ran the risk of disrupting the wartime master narrative of the “People’s War.” The careless talk campaigns have received relatively little scholarly attention. They are barely mentioned in wider studies of Britain during the Second World War. Works that do consider the campaigns either confine them to a specific","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":"127553533","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":"Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid. Seán MacBride: A Republican Life, 1904–1946 . Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2011. Pp. 245. £65.00 (cloth).","authors":"Gavin Foster","doi":"10.1086/666718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/666718","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":132502,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of British Studies","volume":"6 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":"114389454","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":"Kathryn Chittick. The Language of Whiggism: Liberty and Patriotism, 1802–1830 . The Enlightenment World: Political and Intellectual History of the Long Eighteenth Century. London: Pickering a Chatto, 2010. Pp. 243. $99.00 (cloth).","authors":"W. Hay","doi":"10.1086/666722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/666722","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":132502,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of British Studies","volume":"7 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":"127971941","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":"Tamara Ketabgian. The Lives of Machines: The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011. Pp. 237. $35.00 (paper).","authors":"C. Pettitt","doi":"10.1086/666721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/666721","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":132502,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of British Studies","volume":"114 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":"134202469","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":"Juliette Atkinson. Victorian Biography Reconsidered: A Study of Nineteenth-Century “Hidden” Lives . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 315. $99.00 (cloth).","authors":"Sarah J. Heidt","doi":"10.1086/666709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/666709","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":132502,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of British Studies","volume":"20 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":"114976113","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}
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