Author: 
David Cressy
Reviewer: 
Michael W. Jung

Jung on Cressy, 'Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea'

David Cressy. Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Illustrations. 336 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-286339-3.

Reviewed by Michael W. Jung (Saarland University) Published on H-Water (May, 2023) Commissioned by Yan Gao

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Author: 
Anna K. Sagal
Reviewer: 
Kennedy K. Mcleod

Mcleod on Sagal, 'Botanical Entanglements: Women, Natural Science, and the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England'

Anna K. Sagal. Botanical Entanglements: Women, Natural Science, and the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022. ix + 281 pp. $45.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8139-4696-2

Author: 
Harriet Lyon
Reviewer: 
George Bernard

Bernard on Lyon, 'Memory and the Dissolution of the Monasteries in Early Modern England'

Harriet Lyon. Memory and the Dissolution of the Monasteries in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 300 pp. $99.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-00-902910-0; $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-316-51640-9.

Reviewed by George Bernard (University of Southampton) Published on H-Albion (March, 2023) Commissioned by Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth (Red Deer Polytechnic)

Author: 
Jennifer M. Rampling
Reviewer: 
George Elliott

Elliott on Rampling, 'The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700'

Jennifer M. Rampling. The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700. Synthesis Series. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Illustrations. xvii + 408 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-71070-9

Author: 
Catherine F. Patterson
Reviewer: 
Jonathan Barry

Barry on Patterson, 'Urban Government and the Early Stuart State: Provincial Towns, Corporate Liberties, and Royal Authority in England, 1603-1640'

Catherine F. Patterson. Urban Government and the Early Stuart State: Provincial Towns, Corporate Liberties, and Royal Authority in England, 1603-1640. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2022. xi + 312 pp. $115.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78327-687-5

Author: 
Carla Cevasco
Reviewer: 
Anthony Trujillo

Trujillo on Cevasco, 'Violent Appetites: Hunger in the Early Northeast'

Carla Cevasco. Violent Appetites: Hunger in the Early Northeast. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. xii + 241 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-25134-0

Reviewed by Anthony Trujillo (Harvard University) Published on H-Early-America (February, 2023) Commissioned by Patrick Luck (Florida Polytechnic University)

Author: 
Eilish Gregory
Reviewer: 
Christopher P. Gillett

Gillett on Gregory, 'Catholics during the English Revolution, 1642-1660: Politics, Sequestration and Loyalty'

Eilish Gregory. Catholics during the English Revolution, 1642-1660: Politics, Sequestration and Loyalty. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2021. 248 pp. $115.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78327-594-6.

Reviewed by Christopher P. Gillett (The University of Scranton) Published on H-Albion (November, 2022) Commissioned by Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth (Red Deer Polytechnic)

Author: 
Olivette Otele
Reviewer: 
Andrew E. Barnes

Barnes on Maguire, 'Africans in East Anglia, 1467-1833' and Otele, 'African Europeans: An Untold History'

Richard Maguire. Africans in East Anglia, 1467-1833. Martlesham: Boydell Press, 2021. 300 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78327-633-2.Olivette Otele. African Europeans: An Untold History. London: Hurst & Company (US Dist through Basic), 2020. x + 291 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5416-1967-8

Author: 
Jess Keiser
Reviewer: 
Amanda Hiner

Hiner on Keiser, 'Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience'

Jess Keiser. Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020. 324 pp. $45.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-8139-4479-1; $45.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8139-4478-4; $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8139-4477-7.

Reviewed by Amanda Hiner (Winthrop University) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (September, 2022) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)

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