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The English imagination

From Spiked, a review of The Levellers: The Putney Debates. A review of The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1730 by Robert Markley. A review of Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britons by Lisa Forman Cody. A review of The Whig Revival, 1808–1830 by William Anthony Hay. The introduction to War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma by Christopher Herbert. Paul Kennedy reviews The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781–1997 by Piers Brendon (and more and more). Niall Ferguson reviews God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World by Walter Russell Mead (and more from Foreign Affairs).