V.G. Kiernan

V.G. Kiernan, who died in February 2009, was an emeritus professor of history at Edinburgh University and the author of The Duel in European History and Tobacco: A History.

In the LRB Archive:

• The Unrewarded End: Memories of the CP · 17 September 1998

  • The Death of Uncle Joe by Alison Macleod
  • Enemy Within: The Rise and Fall of the British Communist Party by Francis Beckett

• Grains and Pinches · 9 July 1992

  • Salt and Civilisation by S.A.M. Adshead

• Diary · 24 October 1991

• Highland Hearts · 20 December 1990

  • On the Crofters’ Trail: In Search of the Clearance Highlanders by David Craig

• Evil Days · 10 May 1990

  • Luther: Man between God and the Devil by Heiko Oberman, translated by Eileen Walliser-Schwarzbart

• Holland’s Empire · 17 August 1989

  • Dutch Primacy in World Trade, 1585-1740 by Jonathan Israel

• Magic Circles · 4 May 1989

  • Jewish History: Essays in Honour of Chimen Abramsky edited by Ada Rapoport-Albert and Steven Zipperstein
  • A History of Islamic Societies by Ira Lapidus

• V.G. Kiernan on the high price of poison · 23 June 1988

  • The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery 1776-1848 by Robin Blackburn
  • Pro-Slavery: A History of the Defence of Slavery in America, 1701-1840 by Larry Tise
  • Haiti’s Influence on Antebellum America: Slumbering Volcano in the Caribbean by Alfred Hunt
  • Thomas Paine by A.J. Ayer
  • Paine and Cobbett: The Transatlantic Connection by David Wilson

• V.G. Kiernan on treason · 25 June 1987

• England rejects · 19 March 1987

  • The Fatal Shore: A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868 by Robert Hughes
  • Rights of Passage: Emigration to Australia in the 19th Century by Helen Woolcock

• Oppressors · 18 September 1986

  • What’s happening to India: Punjab, Ethnic Conflict, Mrs Gandhi’s Death and the Test for Federalism by Robin Jeffrey
  • Lions of the Punjab: Culture in the Making by Richard Fox

• Scenes from Common Life · 1 November 1984

  • A Radical Reader: The Struggle for Change in England 1381-1914 edited by Christopher Hampton
  • Riots and Community Politics in England and Wales 1790-1810 by John Bohstedt
  • The World We have Lost – Further Explored by Peter Laslett

• Entanglements · 4 August 1983

  • The Working Class in Modern British History: Essays in Honour of Henry Pelling edited by Jay Winter
  • The Chartist Experience: Studies in Working-Class Radicalism and Culture, 1830-60 edited by James Epstein and Dorothy Thompson
  • Bread, Knowledge and Freedom: A Study of 19th-Century Working Class Autobiography by David Vincent

• Royal Mysteries · 10 January 1983

  • From Agadir to Armageddon: Anatomy of a Crisis by Geoffrey Barraclough

• V.G. Kiernan writes about the Marx sisters · 16 September 1982

  • The Daughters of Karl Marx: Family Correspondence 1866-98 edited by Olga Meier, translated by Faith Evans

• Lifting the Shadow · 15 April 1982

  • Death and the Enlightenment: Changing Attitudes to Death among Christians and Unbelievers in l8th-Century France by John McManners
  • Mirrors of Mortality: Studies in the Social History of Death edited by Joachim Waley

• Vietnam’s Wars · 3 December 1981

  • Vietnam: The Revolutionary Path by Thomas Hodgkin
  • Death in the Ricefields: Thirty Years of War in Indochina by Peter Scholl-Latour, translated by Faye Carney
  • Hollywood’s Vietnam by Gilbert Adair

• Joan and Jill · 15 October 1981

  • Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism by Marina Warner

• Freaks of Empire · 16 July 1981

  • Revolutionary Empire: The Rise of the English-Speaking Empires from the 15th Century to the 1780s by Angus Calder

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