Jaume Navarro (Editor). Ether and Modernity: The Recalcitrance of an Epistemic Object in the Early Twentieth Century. xi + 250 pp., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. £65 (cloth); ISBN 9780198797258. E-book available.
This chapter examines the revival of interest in early English choral music that took place in the first quarter of the twentieth century. It pays particular attention to the religious agendas driving this revival, and to the role of the Tudor Church Music edition, published in the 1920s by Oxford University Press, in promoting this music as a ‘national heritage’ of which all Englishmen could be proud.
Legalist Empire: International Law and American Foreign Relations in the Early Twentieth Century. By Benjamin Allen Coates. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. x, 284. Index.