A new feature of this blog will be a bi- monthly
collection of articles, reviews, new books from the world of Early Modern
history.
Aaron Graham from Jesus College, Oxford has reviewed
a number of books under the title of Mercantile Networks in the Early Modern World. The Historical Journal Vol. 56 Issue 01. A difficult task but the review
is highly informative and useful for anyone studying this subject.
Bernard Capp reviews Ann Hughes book Gender and the
English Revolution in English Historical Review. April 2013
Sam Jordison reviews Robert Newman new book The
Trade Secret published by Cargo. Cargo have kindly agreed to send me a review
copy. The book promises to be a ripping
yarn about the early origins of capitalism. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jun/07/the-trade-secret-newman-review
History is where the great battles of public life
are now being fought From curriculum rows to Niall Ferguson's remarks on
Keynes, our past is the fuel for debate about the future by Tristram Hunt.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/12/niall-ferguson-british-history-parochial
Memory and the Construction and Experience of Elite
Masculinity in the 17th Century Autobiography of Lord Herbert of
Cherbury. By Christine Jackson Vcol25 Issue 1 April 2013 Gender & History
History Today June edition reviewer Paul Dykes. BBC History
Magazine has another review of the above book in its June edition author Penny Roberts
In the Journal of Modern History March 2013 Tom Webster
reviews Godly Reading: Print, Manuscript and Puritanism in England, 1580-1720
(Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) Andrew Chambers author.
The Public Face of Early Modern England Artfully
Revealed is reviewed by Helen Pierce at Reviews in History website http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/
History through the Eyes of the Working Man is an
appreciation of the work of E P Thompson especially his major work The Making of
the English working Class which saw its 50th birthday this year. Review
is by David Priestland BBC History Magazine. June edition.
Hobbes's Leviathan: A tale of two bodies Stephen B.
Hequembourga The Seventeenth Century Volume 28, Issue 1, 2013.
Marxist Review March/April edition Reviews John
Gurney’s wonderful book Gerrard Winstanley.
Paul Lay writing in April’s edition of Literary
Review casts a critical eye over Leviathan; The Rise of Britain as a World
Power by David Scott Harper Press
Last and by no means least Thomas L Leng from the
University of Sheffield thought provoking appreciation of the life of William
Sykes. ‘His neighbours land mark’: William Sykes and the campaign for ‘free
trade’ in civil war England Historical Research Volume 86, Issue 232, pages
230–252, May 2013
