REFLECTIONS
Editorial
What Is Islamic History? Muslims, Non-Muslims and the History of Everyone Else Christian C Sahner
Chartist Studies and Malcolm Chase: A Re-appreciation Katrina Navickas
Smashing Statues: Re-evaluating Iconoclasm in History Philip Dwyer, Nikolas Orr
ARTICLES
Royal Companies, Risk Management and Sovereignty in Old Regime France Lewis Wade
‘So Manly and Ornamental’: Shoe Buckles and Britain’s Eighteenth Century Matthew McCormack
Royal Attitudes to the Atlantic Slave Trade and Abolition in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries Suzanne Schwarz
Espionage and the 1935 Press War in Palestine: Revisiting Factionalism, Forgeries and Fake News Steven Wagner
British Responses to Italian Non-Belligerence, September 1939–June 1940 Massimiliano Fiore
The Nkrumah Factor: The Strategic Alignment of Early Postcolonial Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria Marco Wyss
BOOK REVIEWS
Rumor in the Early Chinese Empires, by Lu Zongli, tr. Wee Kek Koon Michael G Chang
Hell and Its Rivals: Death and Retribution among Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Early Middle Ages, by Alan E. Bernstein Ian Richard Netton
Inventing the Berbers: History and Ideology in the Maghrib, by Ramzi Rouighi Marco Di Branco
King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne, by Janet L. Nelson Ingrid Rembold
Historical Writing of Early Rus (c.1000–c.1400) in a Comparative Perspective, by Timofey V. Guimon Jonathan Shepard
Holy Harlots in Medieval English Religious Literature: Authority, Exemplarity and Femininity, by Juliette Vuille Chelsea Skalak
Cistercian Stories for Nuns and Monks: The Sacramental Imagination of Engelhard of Langheim, by Martha G. Newman Katharine Sykes
Historiography and Identity, VI: Competing Narratives of the Past in Central and Eastern Europe, c.1200–c.1600, ed. Pavlína Rychterová with David Kalhous Dušan Zupka
Human Trafficking in Medieval Europe: Slavery, Sexual Exploitation and Prostitution, by Christopher Paolella Debra Blumenthal
The Avignon Popes and their Chancery: Collected Essays, by Patrick Zutshi Ben Wiedemann
Doctoring the Black Death: Medieval Europe’s Medical Response to Plague, by John Aberth Lucy C Barnhouse
Dissimilar Similitudes: Devotional Objects in Late Medieval Europe, by Caroline Walker Bynum Hannah Skoda
Keeping the Peace in Medieval Suffolk, by Nicholas R. Amor Paul Booth
Merchants, Pirates, and Smugglers: Criminalization, Economics, and the Transformation of the Maritime World (1200–1600), ed. Thomas Heebøll-Holm, Philipp Höhn and Gregor Rohmann Maria Fusaro
Ports in the Medieval European Atlantic: Shipping, Transport and Labour, ed. Ana María Rivera Medina Craig Lambert
Inquisition and Knowledge, 1200–1700, ed. Peter Biller and L.J. Sackville Joshua Rice
A Time of Novelty: Logic, Emotion, and Intellectual Life in Early Modern India, 1500–1700 CE, by Samuel Wright Anand Venkatkrishnan
The Tudor Sheriff: A Study in Early Modern Administration, by Jonathan McGovern K J Kesselring
Ser y vivir esclavo: Identidad, aculturación y agency (Mundos Mediterraneos y Atlanticos, Siglos XIII–XVIII), ed. Fabienne P. Guillén and Roser Salicruú i Lluch Brian A Catlos
Economics of Faith: Reforming Poor Relief in Early Modern Europe, by Esther Chung-Kim Nicholas Terpstra
The Power of Scripture: Political Biblicism in the Early Stuart Monarchy between Representation and Subversion, by Andreas Pečar, tr. Jozef van der Voort and Jennifer Walcoff Neuheiser Debora Shuger
African Voices from the Inquisition, I: The Trial of Crispina Peres of Cacheu, Guinea-Bissau (1646–1648), ed. and tr. Toby Green, Philip J. Havik and F. Ribeiro da Silva José Pedro Paiva
The Rise of Majority Rule in Early Modern Britain and its Empire, by William Bulman Mark Knights
Civil War London: Mobilizing for Parliament, 1641–1645, by Jordan S. Downs Peter Gaunt
Church and People in Interregnum Britain, ed. Fiona McCall John Reeks
Mysticism in Early Modern England, by Liam Peter Temple Sarah Apetrei
A Commerce of Knowledge: Trade, Religion, and Scholarship between England and the Ottoman Empire, c.1600–1760, by Simon Mills Charles Beirouti
Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan: Materials, Makers, and Mastery, by Christine M.E. Guth Patricia J Graham
The Natural, Moral, and Political History of Jamaica and the Territories thereon depending from the First Discovery of the Island by Christopher Columbus, to the Year 1746, by James Knight, ed. Jack P. Greene Jamie Gemmell
Justifying Revolution: The American Clergy’s Argument for Political Resistance, 1750–1776, by Gary L. Steward Katherine Carté
Beyond the Law: The Politics of Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain, by Charles Upchurch Lesley A Hall
Promised Lands: The British and the Ottoman Middle East, by Jonathan Parry Alex Middleton
Love for Sale: Representing Prostitution in Imperial Russia, by Colleen Lucey Laurie Bernstein
Empire of Sentiment: The Death of Livingstone and the Myth of Victorian Imperialism, by Joanna Lewis Berny Sèbe
The War of Words: The Electoral Language of British Elections, 1880–1914, by Luke Blaxill Naomi Lloyd-Jones
Beyond Benevolence: The New York Charity Organization Society and the Transformation of American Social Welfare, 1882–1935, by Dawn M. Greeley Lori D Ginzberg
Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York, by Douglas J. Flowe Brian Purnell
Forgotten Wars: Central and Eastern Europe, 1912–1916, by Włodzimierz Borodziej and Maciej Górny Rok Stergar
Beyond the Great War: Making Peace in a Disordered World, ed. Norman Ingram and Carl Bouchard Jan Stöckmann
Building Schools, Making Doctors: Architecture and the Modern American Physician, by Katherine L. Carroll William Whyte
British Christians and the Third Reich: Church, State and the Judgement of Nations, by Andrew Chandler Philip Williamson
Asian American Spies: How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory, by Brian Masaru Hayashi Sidney Pash
Africa and the Shaping of International Human Rights, by Derrick M. Nault Kevin Grant
Ballet in the Cold War: A Soviet-American Exchange, by Anne Searcy Justin Hart
The Age of Aryamehr: Late Pahlavi Iran and its Global Entanglements, ed. Roham Alvandi Hormoz Ebrahimnejad
After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present, by Hope M. Harrison Pertti Ahonen