J.H. Plumb (1911–2001) was a British historian. He taught at Cambridge and Columbia. Plumb was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1968 and was knighted in 1982. His works include England in the Eighteenth Century, The Making of a Historian,and The American Experience.
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Franklin’s Mint
November 7, 1985
A Little Revenge: Benjamin Franklin and His Son by Willard Sterne Randall
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Spreading the News
January 17, 1985
Slavery and Human Progress by David Brion Davis
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Very Heaven
November 10, 1983
The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation, 1783-1784
by Charles Coulston Gillispie
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Short and Sweet
May 29, 1980
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Underqualified for the Job
March 20, 1980
The Image of the King: Charles I and Charles II
by Richard Ollard
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Un-Kinglike King
December 20, 1979
Royal Charles: Charles II and the Restoration
by Antonia Fraser
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Easy Living
October 26, 1978
Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History by Mark Girouard
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The Rise of Love
November 24, 1977
The Family, Sex and Marriage in England: 1500-1800 by Lawrence Stone
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How Freedom Took Root in Slavery
November 27, 1975
American Slavery, American Freedom
by Edmund S. Morgan
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He Tried Harder
May 30, 1974
The Life of Captain James Cook
by J.C. Beaglehole
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Ravaged by Common Sense
April 19, 1973
Benjamin Franklin: A Biography in His Own Words edited by Thomas Fleming
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin edited by Leonard W. Labaree, edited by Ralph L. Ketcham, edited by Helen C. Boatfield, edited by Helene M. Fineman
Road to Revolution: Benjamin Franklin in England, 1765-1775 by Cecil B. Currey
Code 72Ben Franklin: Patriot or Spy? by Cecil B. Currey
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin edited by Leonard W. Labaree, edited by William B. Willcox
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Royal Herring
March 8, 1973
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The Wolf’s Clothing
December 14, 1972
King George III by John Brooke
George III by Stanley Ayling
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Hogarth’s Progress
December 16, 1971
Hogarth: His Life, Art, and Times by Ronald Paulson
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From Peking to Rome
February 25, 1971
Madly Singing in the Mountains: An Appreciation and Anthology of Arthur Waley edited by Ivan Morris
Rebellion and Its Enemies in Late Imperial China: Militarization and Social Structure, 1796-1864 by Philip A. Kuhn
The Rise of Modern China by Immanuel C.Y. Hsü
The China Reader, Vol I, Imperial China by Franz Schurmann, by Orville Schell
The China Reader, Vol II, Republican China by Franz Schurmann, by Orville Schell
The China Reader, Vol III, Communist China by Franz Schurmann, by Orville Schell
The Religions of the Roman Empire
by John Ferguson
Constantine
by Ramsay MacMullen
Rome: The Center of Power by Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli
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Rabbit Stew
October 8, 1970
Frederick the Great
by Nancy Mitford
Frederick the Great by Gerhard Ritter, translated and with an Introduction by Peter Paret
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Plantation Power
February 26, 1970
The World the Slaveholders Made
by Eugene D. Genovese
Slavery in the New World: A Reader in Comparative History edited by Laura Foner, edited by Eugene D. Genovese
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Farmers in Arms
June 19, 1969
Captain Swing by Rudé George, by E.J. Hobsbawm
William Cobbett, His Thought and His Times by John W. Osborne
The English Jacobins by Carl B. Cone
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Slavery, Race, and the Poor
March 13, 1969
Black History: A Reappraisal edited by Melvin Drimmer
American Negro Slavery: A Modern Reader edited by Allen Weinstein, edited by Frank Otto Gatell
White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro 1550-1812 by Winthrop D. Jordan
Race Relations by Michael Banton
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The Bourgeois Take-Over
October 24, 1968
The Bourgeois, Catholicism vs Capitalism by Bernard Groethuysen, translated by Mary Ilford, with an Introduction by Benjamin Nelson
Bayeux in the Late Eighteenth Century by Olwen H. Hufton
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For Wilberforce’s Aunt
February 15, 1968
Sins of the Fathers: A Study of the Atlantic Slave Trade by James Pope-Hennessy
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Excelsior!
July 13, 1967
Scott of the Antarctic by Reginald Pound
Peary, the Explorer and the Man by John Edward Weems
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Franklin Unbuttoned
January 26, 1967
Mon Cher Papa, Franklin and the Ladies of Paris by Claude-Anne Lopez
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Boney
November 3, 1966
The Bonapartes by David Stacton
Napoleon’s Russian Campaign by Count Philippe-Paul de Ségur, translated by J. David Townsend, with a new Introduction by Peter Gay
1812 by Anthony Brett James
The Campaigns of Napoleon by David Chandler
Napoleon’s Satellite Kingdoms by Owen Connelly
Napoleon and the Birth of Modern Spain by Gabriel H. Lovett
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Unconditional Negotiations
March 17, 1966
The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence by Richard B. Morris
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History in Spite of Itself
December 23, 1965
The Great Mutiny by James Dugan
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Walpoliana
December 9, 1965
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Horace Walpole at Yale
September 30, 1965
Horace Walpole’s Correspondence edited by W.S. Lewis
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For the Record
August 5, 1965
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Amateurs
July 1, 1965
A Royal Affinity by Constance Wright
First Gentleman of the Bed Chamber by Hubert Cole
A Royal Spy by Edna Nixon
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A King’s Madness
March 25, 1965
The Royal Malady by Charles Chevenix-Trench
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Burke and His Cult
February 11, 1965
Burke and the Nature of Politics by Carl B. Cone
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Sir Lewis Namier
December 3, 1964
Sir Lewis Namier and John Brooke by Charles Townshend
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The Great Revolution
September 24, 1964
The Age of Democratic Revolution (Volume II) by R.R. Palmer
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A Black Heart
April 30, 1964
The King Incorporated by Neal Ascherson
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Enlightenment
February 20, 1964
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Garrick Gaieties
February 20, 1964
The Letters of David Garrick edited by David M. Little, edited by George M. Kahrl
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The Enlightenment
January 23, 1964
The Party of Humanity: Essays in the French Enlightenment by Peter Gay
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Dark Mission
December 26, 1963
Livingstone’s African Journals 1853-56 edited with an Introduction by I. Schapera