Dear subscribers to
'Reviews in History'
We’re back this week
(following the deputy editor’s rain-soaked so-called holiday in the north of
England) with a bumper crop of reviews.
First up there’s an
assessment (no.
782) by Jonathan Blaney of an edited collection of papers on the use of
digital media in the study of history, The Virtual Representation of the
Past, edited by Mark Greengrass and Lorna Hughes.
Next Keith Flett
critiques (no.
783) Jonah Goldberg’s controversial polemic Liberal Fascism: the Secret
History of the Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, the subject
of much attention on both sides of the Atlantic.
Emmett O’Connor then
reviews (no.
784) the recent biography of Jack Lynch (Jack Lynch: a Biography) by
Dermot Keogh, challenging what he sees as the book’s attempts to rehabilitate
the former Irish Taoiseach’s reputation.
Finally Brett Whalen
is impressed (no.
785) by Gary Dickson’s The Children’s Crusade: Medieval History, Modern
Mythistory, which tackles both the history of that event and its long
afterlife as ‘mythistory’.
As always, please
send any comments or suggestions to me at [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]
Best
wishes
Danny
Danny
Millum
Deputy Editor, Reviews in History / Editorial
Assistant (Web)
Institute of
Historical Research
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