MU Libraries New Books: History - Great Britain

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5/15/2013

The RSS feeds for the new books list is updated every Wednesday and contains a list of books added to the Ellis Library collection for the last six weeks. The titles are grouped by call number classification, and are listed by week and alphabetically by title.

Books for the most recent weeks are currently on the New Books Shelves inside the north entrance of Ellis Library. They can be checked out.

An Historical geography of Ireland / edited by B J Graham, L J Proudfoot. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: DA913 .H5 1993

Classical Victorians : scholars, scoundrels and generals in pursuit of antiquity / Edmund Richardson. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: DA533 .R53 2013

England uncensored / Peter Dench. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: DA667 .D46 2012

I belong Jarrow / Chris Harrison essay by Val Williams. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: DA690.J3 H37 2012

The Army in Cromwellian England, 1649-1660 / Henry Reece. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: DA425 .R44 2013

The creation of Anne Boleyn : a new look at England's most notorious queen / Susan Bordo. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: DA333.B6 B67 2013

The 'natural leaders' and their world : politics, culture and society in Belfast, c. 1801-1832 / Jonathan Jeffrey Wright. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: DA995.B5 W75 2012

Breaking down boundaries : Hadrian's wall in the 21st century / edited by Rob Collins and Matthew Symonds [with contributions by L. Allason-Jones ... [et al.]]. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: DA146 .B62 2013

Education and Celtic myth : national self-image and schoolbooks in 20th century Ireland / Pádraic Frehan. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

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Call #: DA908 .F74 2012

Mrs. Catherine Gladstone : "a woman not quite of her time"/ Janet Hilderley. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: DA563.9 .H55 2013

A dated type-series of London medieval pottery / by J.E. Pearce, A.G. Vince and M.A. Jenner with K.H. Armitage and R.A. Rattray. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: DA680 .P38 1985

God's instruments : political conduct in the England of Oliver Cromwell / Blair Worden. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: DA426 .W67 2012

Records of the Convention of Royal Burghs, 1555 1631-1648 / edited by Alan R. MacDonald, Mary Verschuur. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: DA750 .S25 Ser.6, 3

Belfast 400 : people, place and history / edited by S. J. Connolly. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: DA995.B5 B442 2012

Blood sisters : the women behind the Wars of the Roses / Sarah Gristwood. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: DA250 .G75 2013

Lost letters of medieval life : English society, 1200-1250 / edited and translated by Martha Carlin and David Crouch. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

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Review

"This is a fascinating and important collection of letters. It will add significant new source material to the known corpus of surviving thirteenth-century letters and will shed light on a host of central issues in the history of thirteenth-century England."—Robert Stacey, University of Washington

Call #: DA170 .L67 2013

Northern Ireland's lost opportunity : the frustrated promise of political loyalism / Tony Novosel. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

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Call #: DA990.U46 N69 2013

The 'Annals of Multyfarnham' : Roscommon and Connacht provenance / edited and translated, with an introduction by Bernadette Williams. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: DA934 .S84 2012

The wardrobe accounts of Henry III / edited by Benjamin Linley Wild. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: DA200 .P66 v.96

Britain and its empire in the shadow of Rome : the reception of Rome in socio-political debate from the 1850s to the 1920s / Sarah J. Butler. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

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About the Author

Sarah J. Butler is a Visiting Tutor at Royal Holloway, University of London and an Associate Lecturer at the Open University, UK. She has published articles, most recently in the journal New Voices in Classical Reception Studies, and contributed a chapter on ancient class warriors and modern reformers to the volume Classics and Class in Britain (2011; edited Edith Hall)

Call #: DA533 .B885 2012

Everybody matters : my life giving voice / Mary Robinson with Tessa Robinson. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: DA965.R63 A3 2013

George III, national reform, and North America : "the true essential business of a king" / John L. Bullion with a preface by Karl W. Schweizer. (4/10/2013)

4/10/2013

Call #: DA505 .B95 2013

The Oxford handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles / edited by Paulina Kewes, Ian W. Archer, and Felicity Heal. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

Call #: DA130 .O95 2013

The Queen's agent : Sir Francis Walsingham and the rise of espionage in Elizabethan England / John Cooper. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

Call #: DA358.W2 C66 2013

A great and monstrous thing : London in the eighteenth century / Jerry White. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

Call #: DA682 .W48 2013

Belfast : the emerging city, 1850-1914 / editor, Olwen Purdue. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

Call #: DA995.B5 B44 2013

Gerrard Winstanley : the digger's life and legacy / John Gurney. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

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Review

Outstanding. An exciting and extremely well-written account of Winstanley's development as thinker and experimental communist, with a clear demonstration of his continuing relevance and his overlooked influence on modern social thought and art. No one knows the evidence better than Gurney and in this study he distils complex issues into a revealing and enjoyable narrative. It is a continuing reminder of why in our world the experiences of the seventeenth century still matter. -- Nigel Smith, William and Annie S. Paton Foundation Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature, Princeton University This is a clear-eyed yet sympathetic account of one of the most baffling figures of the English Revolution. Gurney's painstaking research provides a wealth of new information that is assembled into a highly readable narrative. An informative and thought-provoking book. -- Mark Kishlansky, Frank Baird Jr. Professor of History at Harvard University This admirably succinct and clear guide to the complex career and thought of Gerrard Winstanley pays full attention to the ambiguities of the evidence and range of interpretation his writings have supported. By doing so, it offers a fascinating commentary on the complex and shifting world of radical thought during the revolutionary decades as a whole and a stimulating introduction to a number of wider, historiographical debates. -- Mike Braddick, Professor of History at the University of Sheffield

Call #: DA429.W5 G87 2013

The miraculous conformist : Valentine Greatrakes, the body politic, and the politics of healing in Restoration Britain / Peter Elmer. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

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About the Author

Following a seventeen-year career at the Open University as a lecturer in the History department, Dr Peter Elmer is now employed as a Senior Research Fellow on a five-year Wellcome funded project at the University of Exeter which aims to create a comprehensive and interactive database of medical practitioners in early modern England, Wales and Ireland. His research is focused on early modern medicine, and its relationship to broader religious and political issues, with a particular emphasis on the role of magic and witchcraft in early modern British society.

Call #: DA447.G74 E46 2013

Irish provincial cultures in the long eighteenth-century : making the middle sort : essays for Toby Barnard / Raymond Gillespie and R.F. Foster, editors. (3/20/2013)

3/20/2013

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Call #: DA913 .I68 2012

Tom Clarke : life, liberty, revolution / Gerard MacAtasney. (3/20/2013)

3/20/2013

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Call #: DA965.C5 M33 2013