Late Modern

Books reviewed: Philip Bagwell and Peter Lyth, Transport in Britain 1750–2000: From Canal Lock to Gridlock R. Angus Buchanan, Brunel: The Life and Times of Isambard Kingdom Brunel Charles Esdaile, The Peninsular War: A New History John Wardroper, Wicked Ernest. The Truth about the Man who was almost Britain’s King: An Extraordinary Royal Life Revealed Alexis Keller, Le libéralisme sans la démocratie: La pensée républicaine d’Antoine‐Elisée Cherbuliez Martin Daunton, Trusting Leviathan: The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1799–1914 Rowan Strong, Episcopalianism in Nineteenth‐Century Scotland: Religious Responses to a Modernizing Society Terrie M. Romano, Making Medicine Scientific: John Burdon Sanderson and the Culture of Victorian Science Kate Jackson, George Newnes and the New Journalism in Britain, 1880–1910. Culture and Profit Helmut Walser Smith, The Butcher’s Tale. Murder and Anti‐Semitism in a German Town Christopher McKee, Sober Men and True. Sailor Lives in the Royal Navy 1900–1945 Annika Mombauer, The Origins of the First World War: Controversies and Consensus Brian Bond, The Unquiet Western Front: Britain’s Role in Literature and History Deborah Cohen, The War Come Home. Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914–1939 Partha Sarathi Gupta, Imperialism and the British Labour Movement, 1914–1964 Ted Rowlands, ‘Something Must Be Done’: South Wales v. Whitehall, 1921–1951 Emmet O’Connor and Trevor Parkhill (eds), Loyalism and Labour in Belfast. ‘The Autobiography of Robert McElborough 1884–1952’ David Welch, The Third Reich. Politics and Propaganda Amir Weiner, Making Sense of War:The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution Geoffrey Roberts, Victory at Stalingrad David H. Close, Greece since 1945. Politics, Economy and Society Scott Kelly, The Myth of Mr Butskell: The Politics of British Economic Policy, 1950–55 Stuart Ward (ed), British Culture and the End of Empire Fiona Venn, The Oil Crisis