A quarterly journal concerned with British studies

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 Piscatorial Politics Revisited: The Language of Economic Debate and the
Evolution of Fishing Policy in Elizabethan England
R C. L. Sgroi

25 Eighteenth-Century English Politics: Recent Work
Jeremy Black

53 Disconnecting Church and State: Richard Whately’s Ideas in the 1830s
David de Giustino

71 Home Rule For England, English Nationalism, and Edwardian Debates
About Constitutional Reform
G. K. Peatling

Reviews of Books

Catherine E. Karkov. Text and Picture in Anglo-Saxon England: Narrative
Strategies in the Junius II Manuscript. by MARY FRANCES SMITH 91

Barbara Harvey, ed. The Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 1066–c. 1280.
by J. S. HAMILTON 92

Peter Biller and Joseph Ziegler, eds. Religion and Medicine in the Middle Ages.
by CORNELIUS O’BOYLE 94

David Green. The Black Prince. by SCOTT L. WAUGH 95

David Brindley. Richard Beauchamp: Medieval England’s Greatest Knight.
by CLIFFORD J. ROGERS 97

Bernhard Klein. Maps and the Writing of Space in Early Modern England and
Ireland. by STEVE HINDLE 98

Eamon Duffy. The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an
English Village. by DAVID LOADES 99

Narasingha P. Sil. Tudor Placemen and Statesmen: Select Case Histories.
by WILLIAM J. TIGHE 101

Lucy E. C. Wooding. Rethinking Catholicism in Reformation England.
by NICHOLAS TYACKE 103

Kenneth Carleton. Bishops and Reform in the English Church, 1520–1559.
by JOEL BERLATSKY 104

Daniel J. Vitkus, ed. Piracy, Slavery, and Redemption: Barbary Captivity
Narratives from Early Modern England. by MAURA O’CONNOR 106

Ian Green. Print and Protestantism in Early Modern England. by N. H. KEEBLE 108

Nesta Evans, and Susan Rose, eds. Cambridgeshire Hearth Tax Returns
Michaelmas 1664. Duncan Harrington, Sarah Pearson, and Susan Rose, eds.
Kent Hearth Tax Assessment Lady Day 1664. by ERIC JOSEF CARLSON 109

Carole Levin. The Reign of Elizabeth I. by VICTORIA DE LA TORRE 111

Roslyn Lander Knutson. Playing Companies and Commerce in Shakespeare’s
Time. by JEAN E. HOWARD 112

David Hawkes. Idols of the Marketplace: Idolatry and Commodity Fetishism in
English Literature, 1580–1680. by LAURA LUNGER KNOPPERS 114

J. F. Merritt, ed. Imagining Early Modern London: Perceptions and Portrayals
of the City from Stow to Strype, 1598–1720. by ROGER B. MANNING 116

Cyndia Susan Clegg. Press Censorship in Jacobean England.
by RICHARD DUTTON 117

N. H. Keeble, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English
Revolution. by MICHAEL MENDLE 119

J. C. Davis. Oliver Cromwell. Christopher Durston. Cromwel’’s
Major-Generals: Godly Government during the English Revolution. by PAUL
PINCKNEY 121

William T. Lynch. Solomon’s Child: Method in the Early Royal Society of
London. by LARRY STEWART 124

Bridget Hill. Women Alone: Spinsters in England, 1660–1850.
by JANINE M. LANZA 126

J. M. Beattie. Policing and Punishment in London, 1660–1750: Urban Crime
and the Limits of Terror. by TIM HITCHCOCK 127

Hal Gladfelder. Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England:
Beyond the Law. by LINCOLN FALLER 129

Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull. Undertaker of the Mind: John Monro and
Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England. by ANITA GUERRINI 130

Anthony Brundage. The English Poor Laws, 1700–1930. by PETER DUNKLEY 132

Madge Dresser. Slavery Obscured: The Social History of the Slave Trade in an
English Provincial Port. by SEYMOUR DRESCHER 133

Stephen Brumwell. Redcoats: The British Soldier and War in the Americas,
1755–1763. by JEREMY M. BLACK 134

M. O. Grenby. The Anti-Jacobin Novel: British Conservatism and the French
Revolution. by SUSAN J. WOLFSON 136

Brian Lewis. The Middlemost and the Milltowns: Bourgeois Culture and Politics in Early Industrial England. by THEODORE KODITSCHEK 137

Ellis Wasson. Born to Rule: British Political Elites. by PAUL MONOD 139

Trowbridge H. Ford. Chancellor Brougham and His World: A Biography.
by JAMES N. MCCORD, JR. 141

Brian Vale. A Frigate of King George: Life and Duty on a British Man-of-War,
1807–1829. by PAUL WEBB 142

Rory Muir. Salamanca, 1812. by STEVEN ROSS 144

Kathryn Gleadle. British Women in the Nineteenth Century.
by SANDRA J. PEACOCK 145

Kenneth Daley. The Rescue of Romanticism: Walter Pater and John Ruskin.
by LAUREL BRAKE 147

Michael Ball and David Sunderland. An Economic History of London
1800–1914. by RODERICK FLOUD 149

Stephen Mosley. The Chimney of the World: A History of Smoke Pollution in
Victorian and Edwardian Manchester. by JODIE THORNE 150

Clare A. P. Willsdon. Mural Painting in Britain 1840–1940: Image and
Meaning. by TIM BARRINGER 151

Maurice Cowling. Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England.
by JEFFREY COX 153

Bernard Cronin. Technology, Industrial Conflict and the Development of
Technical Education in 19th-Century England. by CHRISTOPHER P. HOSGOOD 155

Joseph S. Meisel. Public Speech and the Culture of Public Life in the Age of
Gladstone. by KAREN J. MUSOLF 156

Thomas C. Kennedy. British Quakerism, 1860–1920: The Transformation of a
Religious Community. by DAVID M. THOMPSON 158

Phyllis Deane. The Life and Times of J, Neville Keynes: A Beacon in the
Tempest. by W. C. LUBENOW 159

Andrew Horrall. Popular Culture in London c. 1890–1918: The Transformation
of Entertainment. by PETER BAILEY 160

Trevor Griffiths. The Lancashire Working Classes c. 1880–1930.
by DUNCAN TANNER 162

Kate Jackson. George Newnes and the New Journalism in Britain, 1880–1910:
Culture and Profit. by JOEL H. WIENER 163

Deborah Cohen. The War Come Home: Disabled Veterans in Britain and
Germany, 1914–1939. by J. P. ANDERSON 165

Peter J. Bowler. Reconciling Science and Religion: The Debate in Early
Twentieth-Century Britain. by FRANK M. TURNER 166

Ian Speller. The Role of Amphibious Warfare in British Defence Policy,
1945–56. by JON SUMIDA 168

Robert Skidelsky. John Maynard Keynes. Volume Three: Fighting for Freedom, 1937–1946. by JOHN F. NAYLOR 169

Jack Williams. Cricket and Race. by RICHARD HOLT 171

Michael Stenton. Radio London and Resistance in Occupied Europe: British
Political Warfare, 1939–1943. by NICHOLAS J. CULL 173

Arieh J. Kochavi. Post-Holocaust Politics: Britain, The United States, and
Jewish Refugees, 1945–1948. by SUSAN L. TANANBAUM 174

Peter Hennessy. The Prime Minister: The Office and Its Holders Since 1945.
by JERRY H. BROOKSHIRE 176

David Ditchburn. Scotland and Europe: The Medieval Kingdom and its Contacts with Christendom, c.1215–1545. by CHRISTINE A. MCGLADDERY 177

Michael Fry. The Scottish Empire. by ALAN O’DAY 179

Lizanne Henderson and Edward J. Cowan. Scottish Fairy Belief: A History.
by JULIAN GOODARE 180

I. G. C. Hutchison. Scottish Politics in the Twentieth-Century.
by RICHARD J. FINLAY 182

James H. Murphy. Abject Loyalty: Nationalism and Monarchy in Ireland During the Reign of Queen Victoria. by FRANK A. BILETZ 183

D. George Boyce, Robert Eccleshall and Vincent Geoghegan, eds. Political
Discourse in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Ireland. by CIARAN BRADY 185