Pub Date : 2023-08-05DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2023.2241738
Charles C. Ludington
worked differently in Spanish courts, where pursuing justice against the women passengers’ assailants was essential to prosecuting pirates, and in British courts, where the law on rape required a woman to resist physically and vocally throughout an attack. Anything less was seen as consent. As a result, the women’s experience was passed over in the press, lest their reputations be sullied by noting their abuse. The women’s role in rescuing the ship was ignored, too. Craze’s account is less successful, however, in fitting the Defensor de Pedro pirates into the geopolitics of the 1820s Atlantic. Though Craze sketches out several centres of piracy – in South America, out of Cuba and Puerto Rico, from the United States – discussing them all together gives the impression that these maritime predators were all released by the Spanish American Wars of Independence and subsequent conflicts such as the Cisplatine War (1825–1828) between Brazil and what is now Argentina. There is a correlation here. The Spanish American wars did launch many privateers that could morph into pirates. But newspapers, Craze’s frequent source in these sections, tended to lump everyone together, without teasing out who did what to whom on what authority. ‘Pirate’ in this sense was more of an all-purpose put down, not a legal category. Given the dearth of attention paid to pirates after the eighteenth century, Atlantic Piracy in the Early Nineteenth Century is a welcome addition to the literature of piracy. The book not only reveals that piracy persisted longer than is often appreciated, but that it was still something that challenged international relations – and fired imaginations.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-05DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2023.2241740
A. Schwan
odd to wait so long to confirm that mechanised calculation, underlying the digital revolution, has its roots not only with Charles Babbage’s engineering of his analytical engine but also with the culture of measurement fomented in the 1830s. Goldman concludes that ‘numbers are plastic’ (p. 318) rather than transcendental truths, but that belief in their objectivity was a powerful motivator which affected practitioners in different ways. This is not a particularly surprising conclusion for a volume published in 2022.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-04DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2023.2241737
David Head
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Pub Date : 2023-08-04DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2023.2236426
Joseph Dredge-Fenwick
ABSTRACT We can learn much about the history of Gypsy-Roma in Britain through their song culture. This comparative analysis looks at a range of songs from different tradition-bearers whose words have been recorded from the late nineteenth century into the twenty-first. First the piece examines the shared-song culture of songs from the wider British vernacular. Then, it focuses on some neglected older recorded pieces in Angloromani (to varying degrees) which provide an even more intimate source created by Gypsy-Roma people.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-31DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2023.2241744
Alexandra Penler
more remote or at odds with the image of Ireland he thought he recognised. Across the book, O’Malley effectively demonstrates that O’Neill’s purist approach to cataloguing traditional Irish music was always vulnerable, if not deeply flawed – something the Chief seems to have understood himself by the end of his life, if the coincidence of Douglas Hyde with the Harlem Hellfighters in that late scrapbook are taken as evidence. In a similar vein, O’Malley successfully and quite brilliantly argues, through O’Neill’s story, for an approach to Irish studies that is led by the kind of assurance and connective thinking which places national and diasporic cultures in dialogue with the rest of the world. In doing so, he advocates for the potential and continuing relevance of the discipline.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-31DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2023.2241741
J. Roberts
century prison education may not be entirely surprising, but the findings presented here will make it all the more frustrating that many of the problems found in the nineteenth century continue to persist in present-day prisons, from the control of reading material and prison library stock, to the demands of ‘the regime’, which hinder meaningful educational provision and result in a competition between education and other scheduled activities. Crone herself gestures towards these contemporary contexts by acknowledging the impact of conversations with the Prisoners’ Education Trust (PET) – including former prisoners – on her thinking, and by articulating the importance of uncovering the ‘historical roots’ (p. 340) of educational provision in prisons today. Michel Foucault ends Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by declaring his study ‘a historical background to various studies of the power of normalisation and the formation of knowledge in modern society’ (Penguin, 1991: p. 308). Similarly, Crone’s magnum opus not only brings new depth and direction to nineteenth-century penal and educational history but it equally reinforces a need to look to the past to understand, and ultimately change, the present.
世纪监狱教育可能并不完全令人惊讶，但这里的研究结果将使人们更加沮丧，因为19世纪发现的许多问题仍然存在于当今的监狱中，从对阅读材料和监狱图书馆库存的控制，到“政权”的要求，这阻碍了有意义的教育提供，并导致教育与其他预定活动之间的竞争。Crone本人通过承认与囚犯教育信托基金会（PET）（包括前囚犯）的对话对她的思维产生的影响，以及阐明揭示当今监狱教育提供的“历史根源”（第340页）的重要性，来应对这些当代背景。米歇尔·福柯（Michel Foucault）在《纪律与惩罚：监狱的诞生》（Discipline and惩罚性：The Birth of The Prison）的结尾宣称，他的研究是“现代社会中正常化力量和知识形成的各种研究的历史背景”（Penguin，1991:p.308）。同样，克罗恩的代表作不仅为19世纪的刑罚和教育史带来了新的深度和方向，而且同样强调了回顾过去以理解并最终改变现在的必要性。
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Pub Date : 2023-07-31DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2023.2241747
Alice McKimm
for a film each time it figures in the text. This repetition might simply be regarded as unnecessary, were it not for the fact that different years are often cited for the same production. Examples range from Tony Richardson’s Tom Jones, to Cliff Richard’s hit musical Summer Holiday, and Antonioni’s Blow-Up. Another victim of lax proofreading is Wilfrid Brambell, whose turn in A Hard Day’s Night earns him a misspelling in the Afterword, while an unwelcome acute accent on the final letter in the title of Godard’s A Bout de Souffle transforms a lack of breath into a shortage of a baked egg-based confection. One failing for which the authors can be entirely absolved is the quality of the physical product. Before the book had even been opened, one page had already detached itself from the binding of the hardback copy sent for review; adjacent pages followed suit as they were read. At £85, it is surely not asking too much to expect a book to remain intact when used as authors and publisher presumably intended? Reverting to the content, if the mistakes itemised here do not devalue the work as a whole, they provide corroboration for the verdict that this is a book which, through a lack of sustained reflection on the implications of the testimony gathered, promises rather more than it delivers.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-28DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2023.2241739
A. Tomkins
as the British bourgeoisie, while additionally claiming that champagne and its bourgeois consumers (especially the haute ones) were essential to French national identity. I would have liked to see more of this comparison in a stand-alone chapter, perhaps at the end, thereby highlighting the differences and similarities of the meaning of champagne in Britain and France, arguably the two most culturally powerful nations in the world during the period 1870–1914. That said, if you enjoy champagne or are interested in the historical development of modern marketing and branding techniques, this book is a must read, as necessary as it is for a champagne afficionado to taste Krug, Crystal, or Dom Perignon, at least once, to see if they are worth the hype.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-28DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2023.2241746
T. Griffiths
race and class but does not spend much time analysing the difference in roles or experiences between senior and junior diplomats. Given the focus on the van Kleffens, it is not necessary, and ultimately, the book is a wonderful addition to the small literature on gender and diplomacy in this period. The last section on how diplomacy finds like-minded souls could also be said of diplomatic history. Any scholar of western diplomacy, particularly those interested in women’s experiences in the post-war period, will find this a fascinating read.
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