Late Modern

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Books reviewed:Philip Bagwell and Peter Lyth, Transport in Britain 1750–2000: From Canal Lock to GridlockR. Angus Buchanan, Brunel: The Life and Times of Isambard Kingdom BrunelCharles Esdaile, The Peninsular War: A New HistoryJohn Wardroper, Wicked Ernest. The Truth about the Man who was almost Britain’s King: An Extraordinary Royal Life RevealedAlexis Keller, Le libéralisme sans la démocratie: La pensée républicaine d’Antoine‐Elisée CherbuliezMartin Daunton, Trusting Leviathan: The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1799–1914Rowan Strong, Episcopalianism in Nineteenth‐Century Scotland: Religious Responses to a Modernizing SocietyTerrie M. Romano, Making Medicine Scientific: John Burdon Sanderson and the Culture of Victorian ScienceKate Jackson, George Newnes and the New Journalism in Britain, 1880–1910. Culture and ProfitHelmut Walser Smith, The Butcher’s Tale. Murder and Anti‐Semitism in a German TownChristopher McKee, Sober Men and True. Sailor Lives in the Royal Navy 1900–1945Annika Mombauer, The Origins of the First World War: Controversies and ConsensusBrian Bond, The Unquiet Western Front: Britain’s Role in Literature and HistoryDeborah Cohen, The War Come Home. Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914–1939Partha Sarathi Gupta, Imperialism and the British Labour Movement, 1914–1964Ted Rowlands, ‘Something Must Be Done’: South Wales v. Whitehall, 1921–1951Emmet 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 PropagandaAmir Weiner, Making Sense of War:The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik RevolutionGeoffrey Roberts, Victory at StalingradDavid H. Close, Greece since 1945. Politics, Economy and SocietyScott Kelly, The Myth of Mr Butskell: The Politics of British Economic Policy, 1950–55Stuart Ward (ed), British Culture and the End of EmpireFiona Venn, The Oil Crisis