Reviews
The Nazi and the Psychiatrist
I’ve been looking forward to reading Jack El-Hai’s The Nazi and the Psychiatrist ever since I heard him talk about it at a conference in April. Now that I’ve seen the book trailer, I’m even more excited about it. Take a peek: http:// [If you subscribe to History in the Margins by e-mail, you probably…
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The Profligate Son
From Jane Austen’s Wickham through Charles Dicken’s array of extravagant cads to the latest Regency romance, the dissipated wastrel who throws away his family fortune, or at least his good name, is a familiar character to anyone who reads novels written (or set) in Britain in the first half of the nineteenth century. They drink,…
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Jane Austen’s England
Even if you’ve never read Jane Austen’s novels you probably have a clear image of what life was like for her characters thanks to excellent adaptations for film and television. Women wore white muslin dresses. Gentlemen wore precisely tied cravats and really tight pants. Red-coats wore, well, red-coats. People went to dances, visited great houses,…
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