New e-access: Britain and the World: the historical journal of the British Scholar Society (1, 2008-)

britain and the world journalOxford users now have electronic access to Britain and the World: the historical journal of the British Scholar Society (1, 2008-). ISSN: 2043-8567, E-ISSN: 2043-8575. Bi-annual. Editor-in-chief: Gregory A. Barton.

“Britain and the World focuses on Britain’s global history in the modern era, which is defined as beginning with the changes ushered in by the seventeenth century as these set Britain on a course towards world power status. The focus on the history of the ‘British world’ is unique amongst all journals concerned with British history.

The editors invite research articles, review essays, and book reviews from historians of all ranks on the ways in which Britain has interacted with other societies since the seventeenth century.  The journal is sponsored by The British Scholar Society. ”

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Table of content for the Sept 2012 issue:

The Cultural British World: Asia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Mark Hampton and James R. Fichter

British Infrastructure and French Empire: Anglo-French Steam Interdependency in Asian Waters, c.1852–1870
James R. Fichter

Iraq in 1939: British Alliance or Nationalist Neutrality toward the Axis?
Juan Cole

British Legal Culture and Colonial Governance: The Attack on Corruption in Hong Kong, 1968–1974
Mark Hampton

Beefeaters, British History and the Empire in Asia and Australasia since 1826
Paul Ward

Making a Difference: Overseas Student Fees in Britain and the Development of a Market in International Education
Nicholas Tarling

A Life in Trouble: A Personal Reflection on Managing Crises
Alan Doss

Book reviews

Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism and Empire C. A. Bayly, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 404 pages, £18.99 (paperback).

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s Pamela Clemit, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xxviii+228 pp. £55 (hardback).
David Andress

Britain, Russia and the Road to the First World War: The Fateful Embassy of Count Aleksandr Benckendorff (1903–16) Marina Soroka. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. xix+312 pp. £65 (hardback).
Jeremy Black

Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England Amanda Vickery. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. 382 pp. £10.99 (paperback).
Roey Sweet

The Chinese Taste in Eighteenth-Century England David Porter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 242pp. $90 (hardback).
Clive Edwards

Energy and the English Industrial Revolution E. A. Wrigley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xiv+272 pp. £45 (hardback).
Bernard Attard

The Culture of Nature in Britain 1680–1860 P. M. Harman. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. 393 pp. £45 (hardback).
Michael Roche

Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Biography Adam Sissman. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2010. 648 pp. £25 (hardback).
Reba N. Soffer

The Letters of Richard Cobden, Volume II: 1848–1853 Anthony Howe, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 616 pp. £120 (hardback).
Donna Loftus

Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution Jane Humphries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xiii+439 pp. $99 (hardback).
Harry Hendrick

Disraeli and the Eastern Question Miloš Ković. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 364 pp. £63 (hardback).
Jonathan Parry

Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714–1783 Brendan Simms. London: Penguin, 2007. xxix+802 pp. £30 (hardback).
Jeremy Black

Captain Cook: Master of the Seas Frank McLynn. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010. 486 pp. £25 (hardback).
Roger Morriss

The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law Jenny S. Martinez. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 264 pp. $29 (hardback).
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara

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Britain and the World 4.1 (2011): 40–64

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