Volume 37, Number 10 · June 14, 1990
Touché!
By Christopher Hill
The Duel in European History: Honour and the Reign of Aristocracy
by V.G. Kiernan
Oxford University Press, 348 pp., $14.95 (paper)
Victor Kiernan is one of the most versatile of British historians. He has written learned monographs on British Diplomacy in China, 1880–1885, on Metcalfe's Mission to Lahore, 1808–1809, on The Revolution of 1854 in Spanish History, on American imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, on imperialism generally, and on state and society in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He has also written about Wordsworth, nineteenth-century England, central Asia, Africa, India and Pakistan, and about relations between Portugal and Britain. He has translated volumes of Urdu poetry.
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