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...James L. Godfrey British Interparty Conferences: A Study of the Procedure of Conciliation in British Politics, 1867-1921 . By Fair John D. . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1980 . Pp. viii , 354 . $49.00 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 374 The South Atlantic...

...Jack P. Greene The British Isles and the American Colonies: The Northern Plantations, 1748-1754. Volume III of The British Empire before the American Revolution . By Gipson Lawrence Henry . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1960 . Pp. xlviii , 294 . $8.50 . Copyright © 1961 by Duke...

...Ben Carrington The past two decades have witnessed the emergence of a remarkable number of internationally renowned black British intellectuals, including artists, novelists, poets, journalists, and academics. This article maps the socioeconomic and political terrain from which the “black British...

...Elizabeth J. Deis; Lowell T. Frye Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 ''London or Else the Back-Woods : Some British Views of America in the 1830s Elizabeth J. Deis and Lowell T. Frye During the 1830s Thomas Carlyle s attitudes toward America shifted fre­ quently, the fluctuations...

...Elgin W. Mellown Shadows of the Past in Contemporary British Fiction . By Higdon David Leon . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1985 . Pp. xii , 219 . $22.50 . Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 84 The South Atlantic Quarterly hardly be blamed...

...Mary Ann Witt Published in Paris: American and British Writers, Printers, and Publishers in Paris, 1920-1939 . By Ford Hugh . New York : Macmillan Publishing Co. , 1975 . Pp. ix , 453 . $14.95 . Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 402 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

...James L. Godfrey Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 Inflation and Politics: The British Experience James L. Godfrey It is now recognized that inflation is caused by far more complex causes than the relationship between supply and demand. Some of the causes are quite beyond...

...Calvin D. Davis Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 A British Diplomat and the American Civil War: Edward Malet in the United States Calvin D. Davis On Saturday, November 8, 1862, the Cunard steamer Scotia docked in New York. The ship had sailed from Liverpool on October 25...

...John Halperin Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars . By Fussell Paul . New York : Oxford University Press , 1980 . Pp. 246 . $14.95 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 366 The South Atlantic Quarterly Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between...

...Charles R. Young A History of Bubonic Plague in the British Isles . By Shrewsbury J. F. D. . New York and Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1970 . Pp. xi , 661 . $25.00 . Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 Book Reviews 435 members. The problem of trying...

...Carl F. Brand Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 The British General Election of 1970 Carl F. Brand The British Labour government that emerged triumphant from the general election of 1966 confidently assumed that with a solid majority in the House of Commons it could realize its...

...J. A. Thompson Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 Labour and the Modern British Monarchy J. A. Thompson In his published memoirs Ivan Maisky, longtime Russian am­ bassador to the Court of St. James s, recalls a conversation he heard at a socialist vacation camp in England in 1913...

...Gerald W. Hartwig India and East Africa: A History of Race Relations Within the British Empire, 1890–1939 . By Gregory Robert G. . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1971 . Pp. xviii , 555 . $24.00 . Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Book Reviews 165 life...

...Lionel Stevenso The Classic British Novel , edited by Harper Howard M. Jr. Edge Charles ( Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press , 1972 , $10.00 ) Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Book Reviews m that this transfigured beauty had foundation...

...R. Bruce Bickley, Jr. Mark Twain and John Bull: The British Connection . By Baetzhold Howard G. . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1970 . Pp. xvii , 394 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Book Reviews 171 be narrow and limited in its appeal...

...Richard A. Cosgrove Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 The Crowe Memorandum and British Foreign Policy, 1907-1914 Richard A. Cosgrove Perhaps the most famous single document in the annals of British diplomacy is the Memorandum on the Present State of British Relations with France...

...William Thomas Morgan Copyright © 1935 by Duke University Press 1935 I RECENT BRITISH POLITICS AND THE NEWSPAPER BARONS, 1929-1935 WILLIAM THOMAS MORGAN IN GREAT BRITAIN three families own most of the ultra-popular newspapers. The Berry family controls not only the Daily Telegraph, which...

...William McDougall Copyright © 1929 by Duke University Press 1929 THE BRITISH IN THE EAST william McDougall Duke University I BRITISH POWER and influence in the East are, today, shaken to their foundations. Are they tottering to a final collapse ? Or are there reasons to believe or to hope...

...Kennetta Hammond Perry This essay explores how the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement’s public visibility during the summer of 2020 opened critical space to reconsider and critique entrenched narratives of British abolitionism that render the fate of post-emancipation Black futures...

...Peter E. Firchow Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 The Death of the German Cousin: The Great War and Changes in British Literary Views of Germany Peter E. Firchow From the distance of over two-thirds of a century it is no longer easy to grasp the complex of explosive emotions...