Pub Date : 2023-05-14DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2023.2210874
V. Joshi
collecting data on them transformed Japanese ornithology from the 1930s. Japanese, European and American ornithologists converged in their promotion of the new bird science through the international fellowship of bodies like ICBP. These exchanges not only took place in university departments and committee rooms but were played out through forms of imperial adventure. As Culver shows, European ornithological adventurers like Jean Delacour studied birds in the prewar period in French colonial Indochina. Delacour, a leading figure in IBCP, was well connected with his Japanese counterparts like Yamashina. But Japanese ornithologists themselves travelled widely across Japan’s own imperial territories to study and catalogue birds. It is a central contention of Culver’s study that the scientific expeditions of these Japanese ornithologists amounted to a form of ‘avian imperialism’ and served as a means for Japan’s ruling elites to exert colonial power over its colonised regions. Japan’s Empire of Birds is an engaging and informative study. It fleshes out the role of Japanese ornithologists in the development of the ‘new ornithology’ from the 1920s, complementing other studies which have foregrounded the role of Anglo-Americans in the shaping of the bird science. The book also tells a compelling story of the continuing role of imperial elites in Japan’s post-war democratisation. In its desire to emphasise the ways ornithology was woven into Japanese politics, Japan’s Empire of Birds oddly underplays the place of birds and the human feelings for them within ornithological science. Culver’s account tends to look through birds to undercover the role of imperial forms of masculinity within Japanese society across the ‘transwar’ period. But we are left with little discussion of the subjective attachments and varied passion for birds which undoubtedly animated the lives of bird scientists. We needed to hear more on the emotional and subjective ordering of human/avian relations within the ‘more-than-human’ worlds in which Culver’s elite Japanese men moved.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-14DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2023.2210866
I. Atherton
18-page bibliography at the end which duplicates the individual bibliographies that had occurred at the end of each chapter, one feels that the book could have been extended to include a fuller discussion of certain key topics. For instance, it is disappointing that the vexed question of who actually engraved the plates to Micrographia is passed over without discussion, despite the survival of significant clues on the subject. In the chapter on Willughby, the relationship between the collection of drawings owned by Willughy and Ray and extant collections in the British Library and at Brown University is not as fully elucidated as might have been desired, while there is a tantalising reference to the descent of such drawings to the eighteenth-century ornithological engraver, George Edwards, which cries out for a more detailed discussion. As for the account of illustrations in Philosophical Transactions, interesting as the case-studies given are, they merely scratch the surface of what is potentially a vast topic. In all, one can only hope that this is by no means the author’s final word on her chosen topic.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-14DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2023.2210867
S. Williams
longer processes could be addressed further. Indeed, a key conclusion of Peck’s book is the modernity of early modern memory. The conclusion draws similarities between memories of the civil wars in the 1650s and those of twentieth-century conflicts (including Burundi, Cambodia, Finland, Greece, Guatemala, Spain, and Zimbabwe) in three areas: remembering and forgetting as processes of healing and settling; the treatment of key actors in a recent conflict; and the difficulties of authorities to control popular memories. Peck’s book is not just an essential study of English memories of the mid-seventeenth-century civil wars; it is an important contribution to debates about the nature of early modern memory, its relation to the present, and the challenges facing any post-conflict society.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-14DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2023.2210864
Martin Ingram
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Pub Date : 2023-05-14DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2023.2210870
J. Belchem
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Pub Date : 2023-05-14DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2023.2210863
Emily Hansen
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Pub Date : 2023-05-14DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2023.2210868
Anne L. Murphy
Samantha Williams (skw30@cam.ac.uk) is Professor of Social History, University of Cambridge. Author of Poverty, Gender and Life-Cycle Under the English Poor Law, 1760-1834 and Unmarried Motherhood in London, 1700-1850: Pregnancy, the Poor Law and Provision, and co-editor of Illegitimacy in Britain 1700-1920, she is currently researching the Victorian and Edwardian workhouse and also early life assurance and causes of death.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-18DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2023.2201054
P. Thane
ABSTRACT This ‘Afterword’ summarises the main themes of the papers, especially the motivation for international humanitarianism and the difficulty of researching it given the paucity of sources, as is all too common with the histories of mainly female activities. Nevertheless, the authors have successfully achieved invaluable analyses of the lives of a fascinating variety of women, and one man, working for deprived people across the world.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2023.2189417
Song‐Chuan Chen
their products and, in some cases, offered exhibition visitors the ‘how’ of making in demonstrations. The penultimate chapter provides an insightful interrogation of amateur craftmaking in the nineteenth century, amongst men and women with, as Nenadic writes, ‘some reflections on the concept of “craft” as a socially constructed idea’ (p. 186). These ‘reflections’ are notable for their suggestions about the study of craft history and craft making during the nineteenth century and even into the twentieth century. The chapter also includes a brief but significant analysis of the tensions between professional and amateur – imperative for a careful study of craft history – including within the fledgling Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society. The ‘reflections’ continue in the conclusion (‘Evaluating the Craft Economy’) as Nenadic takes her detailed study of nineteenthcentury craftworkers forward to the ‘craft revival’ that began in the 1970s. In the process, she confirms the relevance of craft and its makers, ‘in the past’ and as ‘constantly evolving’ (p. 228). This comprehensive discussion although focused on Scotland provides a perceptive model for further broad and inclusive investigations of craftmaking and craftworkers regardless of location.
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