Welcome back to
Reviews in History, your weekly digest of reviews of books and digital
resources from across the subject.
The biannual
Reviews in History Advisory Board meeting was yesterday – always a
nerve-wracking experience, as the dark corners of one’s working life are
exposed to the merciless bright searchlights of this panel of the great and
the good of the UK history world…
…actually they’re
all very nice and it was fine…
Ok, reviews. Our
featured piece this week is on Sacral Geographies: Saints, Shrines, and
Territory in Medieval Ireland by Karen Overbey. Sarah Erskine believes (no. 1371, with
response here)
scholars will find this book entertaining in some parts, highly satisfying in
most, and provocative enough to encourage future responses and
development.
Then Christine
Winter suggests (no.
1370) that the reader ignore the hype around Sönke Neitzel and Harald
Welzer’s Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying. The Secret World War II
Transcripts of German POWs, and read it carefully, thoughtfully and
critically.
Next up is
Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond by Jon Agar. Graeme Gooday
enjoys (no. 1369)
an ambitious and often fascinating book.
Finally we turn
to Afterimage of Empire: Photography in Nineteenth-Century India by Zahid
Chaudhary, with Carla Manfredi and the author discussing (no. 1368, with
response here)
a new place of departure for studies of colonialism, photography and
visuality.
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