Book Reviews
- Galal Amin: Whatever Happened to the Egyptians?
Changes in Egyptian Society from 1950 to the Present
- Kevin Bales: Disposable People**
- a passionate but scholarly study of modern slavery
- Susan Bayly: Caste, Society and Politics in India*
From the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age
- Richard Bessel: Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
Comparisons and Contrasts
- David Birmingham: Switzerland: A Village History*
- the mountain commune of Chateau d'Oex
- Patrice Bourdelais: Epidemics Laid Low
- a history of public health responses in Western Europe
- Fernand Braudel: Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century**
- a social and economic history of the shaping of the modern world
- Fernand Braudel: The Mediterranean*
And the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II
- Timothy Brook: The Confusions of Pleasure**
Commerce and Culture in Ming China
- Marilyn Butler: Burke, Paine, Godwin and the Revolution Controversy
- English political writing from the end of the 18th century
- David Cannadine: Trafalgar in History
A Battle and its Afterlife
- Guglielmo Cavallo: The Byzantines
- a social history
- Gillian Clark: Women in Late Antiquity*
Pagan and Christian Lifestyles
- Linda Colley: Captives
Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850
- James Cracraft: The Revolution of Peter the Great*
- a lively account of the changes he brought to Russia
- Robert Cribb: The Indonesian Killings 1965-1966
Studies from Java and Bali
- Alan Davidson: The Oxford Companion to Food*
- a gloriously erudite encyclopedia of biology, culture, history
- Luc Devoldere: Arts and Society in Flanders and the Netherlands
The Low Countries Yearbook 2014
- Maureen Dillon: Artificial Sunshine
A Social History of Domestic Lighting
- Sergio Donadoni: The Egyptians
- the social history of ancient Egypt
- Patricia Buckley Ebrey: The Inner Quarters*
Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period
- Miles Fairburn: Nearly Out of Heart and Hope
The Puzzle of a Colonial Labourer's Diary
- William Wayne Farris: Japan to 1600
A Social and Economic History
- Marc Ferro: The Great War
- with a focus on the socialist movements
- Richard Foltz: Religions of the Silk Road
Premodern Patterns of Globalization
- Anna Funder: Stasiland
Stories From Behind the Berlin Wall
- Bronislaw Geremek: Poverty - A History*
- with a focus on late medieval and early modern Europe
- Andrea Giardina: The Romans
- a social history
- S.D. Goitein: A Mediterranean Society
- the Jewish community in medieval Cairo
- Deniz Göktürk, et al.: Germany in Transit
Nation and Migration 1955-2005
- Janet M. Hartley: Siberia: A History of the People
- settlers and soldiers; exiles and explorers
- Eric Hobsbawm, George Rudé: Captain Swing*
- the 'little people' assert themselves; English agrarian unrest in 1830
- Eric Hobsbawm: The Age of Extremes*
The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991
- Eric Hobsbawm: Uncommon People
Resistance, Rebellion, and Jazz
- Michael Hutchinson: Re:Cyclists
200 Years on Two Wheels
- C.L.R. James: Beyond a Boundary
- cricket and society in the West Indies
- P.D. James, T.A. Critchley: The Maul and the Pear Tree
The Ratcliffe Highway Murders 1811
- Alison Jolly: Lords and Lemurs
Mad Scientists, Kings with Spears, and the Survival of Diversity in Madagascar
- Charles Kurzman: The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran*
- a synthesis of social history and sociology
- David Kynaston: Austerity Britain, 1945-1951
- a social history of post-war Britain
- Jacques Le Goff: Medieval Callings
- social history
- Donald A. Low: The Regency Underworld
- the dark side of London, 1800-1830
- Geert Mak: Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City
- from polders to provocations
- Noel Malcolm: Agents of Empire
Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World
- Joss Marsh: Word Crimes
Blasphemy, Culture, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century England
- Nur Masalha: Catastrophe Remembered
Palestine, Israel and the Internal Refugees
- Mark Mazower: The Balkans*
- beyond stereotypes: a short but insightful history
- Maryon McDonald: We are not French!
Language, Culture and Identity in Brittany
- Robert S. McElvaine: The Great Depression
America, 1929-1941
- Malcolm McKinnon: New Zealand Historical Atlas
- novel and innovative visualisations
- Oliver Mendelsohn, Marika Vicziany: The Untouchables
Subordination, Poverty and the State in Modern India
- Chris Morris: The New Turkey
The Quiet Revolution on the Edge of Europe
- Melanie Nolan: Breadwinning*
New Zealand Women and the State
- David Northrup: Africa's Discovery of Europe: 1450-1850
- African perspectives on encounters with Europeans
- Cormac Ó Gráda: Famine: A Short History
- demography and political, economic and social history
- Daniel Pool: What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew
From Fox Hunting to Whist - the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England
- John Reader: The Untold History of the Potato
- social history, agriculture, food
- Eric Richards: The Highland Clearances
People, Landlords and Rural Turmoil
- Julius R. Ruff: Violence in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800
- a wide-ranging survey
- John Rule: Cornish Cases
Essays in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Social History
- Jan Ryan: Ancestors
Chinese in Colonial Australia
- J.H.M. Salmon: Society in Crisis
France in the Sixteenth Century
- Michael E. Smith: The Aztecs*
- archaeology and social history
- Max Solling: Grandeur and Grit
A History of Glebe
- Lawrence R. Tenzer: The Forgotten Cause of the Civil War
A New Look at the Slavery Issue
- Kate Tiller, Giles Darkes: An Historical Atlas of Oxfordshire
- from prehistory to the present
- Daniel Tudor: Korea: The Impossible Country
- aspects of South Korean culture and society
- Dale Van Kley: The French Idea of Freedom*
The Old Regime and The Declaration of Rights of 1789
- Jean-Pierre Vernant: The Greeks
- the social history of ancient Greece
- John Waller: The Real Oliver Twist
Robert Blincoe: A Life That Illuminates a Violent Age
- Alan Watson: Roman Law and Comparative Law
- Owen White: Children of the French Empire
Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa 1895-1960
- Keith Wrightson: Earthly Necessities*
Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain
- Marilyn Yalom: Birth of the Chess Queen
- powerful women and chess in medieval Europe
- Samuel Hideo Yamashita: Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies*
Selections from the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japanese
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