{"id":53828,"date":"2025-09-10T12:26:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T11:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/reviews-roundup-august-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T11:46:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T10:46:35","slug":"reviews-roundup-august-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/de\/reviews-roundup-august-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviews Roundup &#8211; August 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Check out some of our reviews from August! We&#8217;re so proud to share our titles and receive such positive feedback from respected academics across the world. Congratulations to all our authors. You can find the full reviews linked below, as well as purchase the titles on our website. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-review-highlights\">Review Highlights<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"665\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53760\" style=\"width:120px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image.png 665w, https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Title:\u00a0<\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/document\/1490769\">Atlantic Bound: Writing Afro-Conscious Diasporic Consciousness in the Works of Leonora Miano and Fatou Diome<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Charlotte G. Mackay\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Review by: <\/strong>Antonia Wimbush, University of Melbourne\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;the book is a novel, convincing and well-argued study of two important Afro-descendant female authors writing in French. It will be essential reading for students and scholars of Francophone African literature, gender studies, and diasporic identity&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Featured in: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk\/journal\/ajfs\"><em>Australian Journal of French Studies<\/em><\/a>, Volume 62, Number 3-4, pp. 379-80\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DOI: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3828\/AJFS.2025.31\u00a0\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3828\/AJFS.2025.31\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"664\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53767\" style=\"width:120px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-2.png 664w, https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-2-199x300.png 199w, https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-2-316x477.png 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Title: <\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/document\/1466977\">Games, Greek and Pluck: Classicism, Masculinity, Elite Education and British Sport, 1850\u20131914<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by Andy Carter\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Review by: <\/strong>Malcolm Tozer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Featured in:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/journals\/thed20\"><em>History of Education Journal of the History of Education Society<\/em><\/a>, pp. 1-3\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe book\u2019s thesis is convincingly argued, thus making it a most valuable addition to the library on the histories of sport, education and culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The text is well written and attractively presented; there is a host of new facts and anecdotes to please future researchers\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Link:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/0046760X.2025.2538020\u00a0\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/0046760X.2025.2538020\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"668\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53770\" style=\"width:120px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-3.png 668w, https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-3-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/document\/1182556\">Revisiting the British World: New Voices and Perspectives\u00a0<\/a><\/em>edited by Jatinder Mann and Iain Johnston-White\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Review by:<\/strong> Steven Loveridge<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Featured in: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ojs.victoria.ac.nz\/jnzs\/index\"><em>Journal of New Zealand Studies<\/em><\/a>, Issue NS39, pp. 121-22\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA concluding chapter by Jatinder Mann and Iain Johnston-White reviews the chapters\u2019 themes and findings to advance an argument of why the British World should be revisited. This reasserts the position that British World scholarship remains a source of valuable insight for an array of historical topics and continues to be relevant in facilitating understanding of our present world and concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Link:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.26686\/jnzs.iNS39.9903\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.26686\/jnzs.iNS39.9903<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"665\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53776\" style=\"width:120px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-5.png 665w, https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-5-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Title: <\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/document\/1344398\">Gender Defenders of the Sport Binary: Mediating Discourses of Difference Against Intersex and Transgender Female Athletes<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Travis R. 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