Cultural and Social History

Anthony McElligott is Professor of History and Director of the Centre for Historical Research at the University of Limerick. Alexandra Shepard is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of History, and Fellow of Christ's College, University of Cambridge. Book Reviews Editor: Louise Jackson (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Articles * Witchcraft In The Early Modern Isle Of Man James Sharpe * Late Colonial Estrangement And Miscegenation: Identity and Authenticity in the Colonial Imagination in the Dutch and Lusophone (Post) Colonial Worlds Fernando Rosa Ribeiro And Ulbe Bosma * Finding A Mate In Late Tsarist Russia: The Evidence From Marriage Advertisements Stephen Lovell * 'A Merciful, Heaven-Sent Release'?: The Clerk And The First World War in British Literary Culture Jonathan Wild Debate Forum * The Limits Of Culture? Society, Evolutionary Psychology And The History Of Violence J. Carter Wood Review Essay * Breaking Modernity's Spell - Magic And Modern History Karl Bell Book Reviews * Medicine and Colonial Identity. Edited by Molly Sutphen and Bridie Andrews Reviewed by Marguerite W. Dupree * Sacred Cow, Mad Cow: A History of Food Fears. By Madeleine Ferrieres Reviewed by Mike French * The Greatest Fight of Our Generation: Louis vs Schmeling. By Lewis A.Erenberg Reviewed by Bill Luckin * Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain. By Maxine Berg Reviewed by Stana Nenadic * History and the Media. Edited by David Cannadine Reviewed by Chris A. Williams * Violence and Crime in Nineteenth-century England: The Shadow of our Refinement. By John Carter Wood Reviewed by Chris A. Williams Obituary Emeritus Professor John Burnett