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Macaulay and Son. Architects of Imperial Britain Catherine Hall. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012. 419 pp. £35 (hardback)

Macaulay and Son. Architects of Imperial Britain Catherine Hall. New Haven and London: Yale... Book Reviews documentation, and a very substantial bibliography. As an introduction to the subject, though, it would have benefitted from further contextual background, a more detailed map, and a glossary of both Islamic and older English terms. The common term shirk is explained (57), but even readers with some knowledge of Islam will not necessarily recognise `Mortasolee' and `Mortus Alee' (188) as rendering Ali's epithet murtaza or murtada (`chosen'), that is, designated by Muhammad as his successor according to Shi`i belief. Christopher J. van der Krogt Massey University DOI: 10.3366/brw.2015.0176 Macaulay and Son. Architects of Imperial Britain Catherine Hall. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012. 419 pp. £35 (hardback) This is a committed work as well as a scholarly one, and shows all the strengths and weaknesses of such commitment. Hall, Professor of History at University College London, explains that she became an historian of Britain and empire to explain the legacies of colonialism for the British and that she started work on Thomas Macaulay in the wake of the `war on terror'. Hall presses on to explain that she was opposed to the 2003 Gulf War `and horrified by the claim that the West had http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Britain and the World Edinburgh University Press

Macaulay and Son. Architects of Imperial Britain Catherine Hall. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012. 419 pp. £35 (hardback)

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Britain and the World , Volume 8 (1): 134 – Mar 1, 2015
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Book Reviews documentation, and a very substantial bibliography. As an introduction to the subject, though, it would have benefitted from further contextual background, a more detailed map, and a glossary of both Islamic and older English terms. The common term shirk is explained (57), but even readers with some knowledge of Islam will not necessarily recognise `Mortasolee' and `Mortus Alee' (188) as rendering Ali's epithet murtaza or murtada (`chosen'), that is, designated by Muhammad as his successor according to Shi`i belief. Christopher J. van der Krogt Massey University DOI: 10.3366/brw.2015.0176 Macaulay and Son. Architects of Imperial Britain Catherine Hall. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012. 419 pp. £35 (hardback) This is a committed work as well as a scholarly one, and shows all the strengths and weaknesses of such commitment. Hall, Professor of History at University College London, explains that she became an historian of Britain and empire to explain the legacies of colonialism for the British and that she started work on Thomas Macaulay in the wake of the `war on terror'. Hall presses on to explain that she was opposed to the 2003 Gulf War `and horrified by the claim that the West had

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