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The author of this blog is Trevor Pateman. I have purchased all the books reviewed here except a very few noted as sent to me. My own books are cheapest at blackwells.co.uk and are usually on Amazon. I can be found at academia.edu but do not have an X account and never used Twitter; that is another Trevor Pateman.

Sunday, 13 January 2013

Review: Richard Davenport-Hines, An English Affair - Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

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The Conservative Party. The News of the World. The Metropolitan Police. The Judiciary. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. T...
Saturday, 29 December 2012

Review: David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years

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I think this has to be my Book of the Year for 2012. It is extraordinary in its scope, lively and original in its treatment, and display...
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Thursday, 20 December 2012

Review: Evan Mawdsley, The Russian Civil War

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This book was originally published in 2005 with this American (Pegasus Books) edition appearing in 2007. I picked up a copy in a Barga...
Monday, 10 December 2012

Review: Douglas Smith, Former People

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This is an important and interesting book. It focuses on just two Russian families (large clans, really) - the Sheremetevs and the Golit...
Tuesday, 27 November 2012

Essay: Agnostics, Atheists and Abstainers - a case for Avoidance

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This essay develops a line of thought mentioned but not developed in my review of Francis Spufford's Unapologetic. Teetotallers (somet...
Monday, 26 November 2012

Review: Francis Spufford, Unapologetic

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"My daughter has just turned six. Some time over the next year or so, she will discover that her parents are weird. We're weir...
Monday, 12 November 2012

Review: T.S.Eliot, Notes Towards The Definition of Culture

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In 1948, T S Eliot won the Nobel Prize for Literature and published "Notes Towards the Definition of Culture". He was sixty y...
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