John Newsinger
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- PhD History University of Sussex
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Newsinger is a British historian and academic, who is an emeritus professor of history at Bath Spa University. Newsinger is a book reviewer for Race & Class and the New Left Review. He is also author of numerous books and articles, as well as studies of science fiction and of the cinema. He teaches on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
John Newsinger's Published Works
Published Works
- The Downing Street Years (1995) (353)
- British Counterinsurgency: From Palestine to Northern Ireland (2002) (83)
- Why Rhodes Must Fall (2016) (58)
- The Blood Never Dried: A People's History of the British Empire (2000) (37)
- Minimum Force, British Counter-Insurgency and the Mau Mau Rebellion (1992) (29)
- A cultural shock doctrine? Austerity, the neoliberal state and the creative industries discourse (2015) (27)
- The Fenianism in mid-victorian Britain (1994) (24)
- Orwell's Politics (1999) (23)
- From counter‐insurgency to internal security: Northern Ireland 1969–1992 (1995) (21)
- Explicit and Implicit Diversity Policy in the UK Film and Television Industries (2020) (21)
- Lord Greystoke and Darkest Africa: the politics of the Tarzan stories (1986) (20)
- 'I Bring Not Peace But A Sword' (1978) (20)
- Dangerous Men: The SAS and Popular Culture (1997) (19)
- British Film Policy in an Age of Austerity (2012) (16)
- The Catholic Church in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (1995) (15)
- The politics of regional audio-visual policy in England: or, how we learnt to stop worrying and get ‘creative’ (2012) (15)
- The infrapolitics of cultural value: cultural policy, evaluation and the marginalisation of practitioner perspectives (2016) (15)
- Rebel City: Larkin, Connolly and the Dublin Labour Movement (2004) (14)
- The roast beef of old England. (1996) (13)
- Workforce diversity in the UK screen sector: evidence review (2018) (12)
- The American connection: George Orwell, ‘literary Trotskyism’ and the New York intellectuals (1999) (11)
- Performative resilience: How the arts and culture support austerity in post-crisis capitalism (2019) (10)
- Book Review: Emergency and Confrontation: Australian Military Operations in Malaya and Borneo 1950-1966 (2000) (10)
- And … action? Gender, knowledge and inequalities in the UK screen industries (2018) (10)
- Liberal imperialism and the occupation of Egypt in 1882 (2008) (8)
- 'A Lamp to Guide Your Feet' : Jim Larkin, the Irish Worker and the Dublin Working Class (1990) (8)
- Hope Lies in the Proles: George Orwell and the Left (2018) (7)
- From the grassroots : regional film policy and practice in England (2010) (7)
- The military memoir in British imperial culture: the case of Malaya (1994) (7)
- The ‘Cultural Burden’: regional film policy and practice in England (2009) (7)
- 'A great blow must be struck in Ireland': Karl Marx and the Fenians (1982) (7)
- Britain's Opium Wars (1997) (6)
- The Fenian Problem: Insurgency and Terrorism in a Liberal State, 1858–1874 (review) (2010) (5)
- 'Pox Britannica': Orwell and the empire (1996) (5)
- Introduction to the 2nd Edition (2015) (5)
- BLACKSHIRTS, BLUESHIRTS, AND THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR (2001) (5)
- Recent Controversies in the History of British Communism (2006) (5)
- Legacy of Violence: a history of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins (2022) (4)
- Book Review: The Great Deception: Anglo-American power and world order (2000) (4)
- A counter-insurgency tale: Kitson in Kenya (1990) (4)
- Orwell, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust (2007) (4)
- THE DEATH OF BOB SMILLIE (1998) (4)
- Supporting 'Our Boys': the Sun and the Gulf war (1991) (4)
- United Kingdom: film funding, the “corporate welfare system” and its discontents (2018) (4)
- Priests and People in Ireland (1984) (4)
- Modern Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies: Guerrillas and Their Opponents since 1750 (review) (2003) (4)
- Private Security Companies during the Iraq War: military performance and the use of deadly force (2016) (4)
- Connolly and his biographers (1990) (3)
- Destroying the myth: George Orwell and soviet communism (1999) (3)
- A forgotten war: British intervention in Indonesia 1945-46 (1989) (3)
- Taiping Revolutionary: Augustus Lindley in China (2001) (3)
- Thatcher, Northern Ireland and ‘the downing street years’ (1994) (3)
- Elgin in China (2002) (3)
- Fighting Back: The American Working Class in the 1930s (2012) (3)
- Book reviews : British Counterinsurgency 1919-1960 (1992) (3)
- Arts policy and practice for disabled children and young people: towards a ‘practice spectrum’ approach (2016) (3)
- Introduction: Diversity in British Film and Television: Policy, Industry and Representation (2020) (3)
- The British counter-insurgency myth* (2013) (3)
- Workforce Diversity in the UK Screen Sector (2018) (3)
- Disabled children and young people: Engagement in arts and culture in the East Midlands in an environment of restrained resources (2014) (3)
- British security policy in Northern Ireland (1995) (3)
- Revolution and Catholicism in Ireland, 1848-1923 (1979) (2)
- War, Empire and the Attlee government 1945–1951 (2018) (2)
- 1934: year of the fightback (2009) (2)
- The Great Irish Famine: A Crime of Free Market Economics (1996) (2)
- Imperial silences: from Rhodes to Surabaya (2016) (2)
- The British Labour Party and Twentieth Century Ireland (2017) (2)
- Structure and agency: Shane Meadows and the new regional production sectors (2013) (2)
- Jim Larkin and the Great Dublin Lockout of 1913 (2014) (2)
- Jebel Akhdar and Dhofar: footnote to empire (1998) (2)
- The Interface of Documentary and Fiction: The Amber Film Workshop and Regional Documentary Practice (2009) (2)
- Brown’s journey from reformism to neoliberalism (2007) (1)
- Covering Conflict: the making and unmaking of new militarism (2018) (1)
- The priest in the Irish novel: James Plunkett's Strumpet City (1989) (1)
- Book reviews : Dead poet: the Larkin letters (1993) (1)
- The Dredd Phenomenon: Comics and Contemporary Society (1999) (1)
- Taking Baghdad: some US Marine memoirs of the invasion of Iraq (2011) (1)
- "The gangrene in one limb" : British political memoirs and the troubles (1997) (1)
- 'The duty of Social Democrats in this labour unrest': justice, the British Socialist Party and the Dublin Lockout (2013) (1)
- Sean O'casey, Larkinism and literature (2004) (1)
- British counterinsurgency. 2nd ed (2015) (1)
- Them and us : fighting the class war 1910-1939 (2015) (1)
- The Easter Rebellion: Defeat or Victory? (1982) (1)
- Ulster and the downfall of the Labour government 1974-79 (1991) (1)
- America’s Wars: Afghanistan and Iraq (2015) (1)
- Insurgent Empire: anticolonial resistance and British dissent by Priyamvada Gopal (2019) (1)
- Mau Mau—30 Years Later (1985) (1)
- 'In the Hunger-Cry of the Nation's Poor is Heard the Voice of Ireland': Sean O'Cosey and Politics 1908-1916 (1985) (1)
- Churchill, Stalin, and the Greek Revolution (1999) (1)
- Wars Past and Wars to Come (2015) (1)
- Sylvia Pankhurst, the Easter Rising and the Woman's Dreadnought (2016) (1)
- Soapbox revisionism: Fool's gold? (1992) (1)
- “Most humble day”: the Murdoch empire on the defensive (2012) (1)
- Britain’s noxious history of imperial warfare (2013) (1)
- Revolution and Counterrevolution: The Case of Finland 1917-1918 (1990) (1)
- The Struggle for South Yemen (2002) (0)
- Review: The Infernal Machine: a history of terrorism By MATTHEW CARR (New York, The New Press, 2007), 416 pp. Cloth, $26.95 (2007) (0)
- The famished Raj (2015) (0)
- Review: Civilizing Torture: an American tradition by W. Fitzhugh Brundage (2020) (0)
- George Orwell and the revolutionary left (2005) (0)
- The revolutionary journalism of Big Bill Haywood: on the picket line with the IWW (2016) (0)
- Commentary (2000) (0)
- Elgin en China (2002) (0)
- Book reviews : An Insular Possession By TIMOTHY MO (London, Chatto and Windus 1986). 593pp. £9.95 (1987) (0)
- Book reviews : Policing and Decolonisation: nationalism, politics and the police 1917-65 Edited by DAVID M. ANDERSON and DAVID KILLINGRAY (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1992). 227pp., £35 (1994) (0)
- Book Review: Responses to Nazism in Britain 1933-1939 (2004) (0)
- Book reviews : Anticolonialism in British Politics By STEPHEN HOWE (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1993). 373pp. £40 (1995) (0)
- Liberal apologists autopsied [book review] (2009) (0)
- ‘The truth, the whole truth …’: Some British political and military memoirs of the Troubles (2016) (0)
- Book reviews : Post-military Society By MARTIN SHAW (Cambridge, Polity Press, 1991). 229pp. £10.95 paper (1993) (0)
- Lesley Henderson, Social Issues in Television Fiction (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007), pp. viii + 200, ISBN 978 0 7486 2532 1 (pb), £16.99. (2009) (0)
- Book reviews : The Ambiguities of Power: British foreign policy since 1945 By MARK CURTIS (London, Zed Press, 1995). 250pp. £12.95 (1996) (0)
- The Labour Party and the World, Vol. 2: Labour’s foreign policy since 1951 (2012) (0)
- Book reviews : Hearts and Minds in Guerilla Warfare: the Malayan Emergency 1948-1960 By RICHARD STUBBS (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1989). 286pp. £25 Make For The Hills By ROBERT THOMPSON (London, Leo Cooper, 1989). 218pp. £17.50 (1990) (0)
- Cables from Kabul: the inside story of the West’s Afghanistan campaign (2013) (0)
- Reviewed by Carl Freedman (2006) (0)
- A few doubles more (1997) (0)
- Reviews (2003) (0)
- Review: Blood and Rage: a cultural history of terrorism By MICHAEL BURLEIGH (London, Harper Press, 2008), 545 pp. £25.00 (2009) (0)
- US : Me Disney, you Tarzan (2000) (0)
- The Destruction of the Soviet Myth (1999) (0)
- 1937: the year of the sitdown (2010) (0)
- “Better workplaces are good for everyone” (2022) (0)
- Ponting's Churchill—A Response; Reply to Lukin Robinson; Response to the Editors' Comments; Responsibility of the Press: NPR and Mumia Abu-Jamal (1996) (0)
- Book reviews : The British Empire as a Superpower 1919-1939 By ANTHONY CLAYTON (London, Macmillan, 1986). 545 pp. £35 (1988) (0)
- The Skull of Alum Bheg: the life and death of a rebel of 1857 by Kim A. Wagner (2019) (0)
- Book Review: Churchill: walking with destiny by Andrew Roberts (2019) (0)
- The Running Dog War: Malaya (2002) (0)
- Book Review: ‘Hurrah For The Blackshirts!’: fascists and fascism in Britain between the wars, The Culture of Fascism: visions of the far Right in Britain (2006) (0)
- At War with Zion (2015) (0)
- Cyprus and EOKA (2002) (0)
- The Future we Love to Hate: Technology in Sci-Fi — A Review Article (2003) (0)
- Monsoon Revolution: republicans, sultans and empires in Oman 1965-1976 (2014) (0)
- America Right or WronG: Anglo-American Relations Since 1945 (2008) (0)
- Book reviews : Taking sides: the juvenile fiction of Rhodri Jones (1994) (0)
- The Long War: Northern Ireland (2015) (0)
- Return of the King: the battle for Afghanistan and Churchill’s First War: young Winston and the fight against the Taliban (2014) (0)
- The Roast Beef of Old England (1997) (0)
- Defending the Realm? The Politics of Britain’s Small Wars since 1945, by Aaron Edwards (2014) (0)
- Book reviews : The Star Raft By PHILIP SNOW (London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988). 250pp. £14.95 (1989) (0)
- Hearts and minds: the myth and reality of British counter-insurgency (2015) (0)
- England, whose England? (1999) (0)
- Marie Equi, Wobbly [book review] (2016) (0)
- The Reconstruction of Bourgeois Order in Northern Ireland (1998) (0)
- The British Intervention in Vietnam, 1945–1946 (1991) (0)
- Book Reviews (2002) (0)
- A Doctor Treating an All but Hopeless Case (1999) (0)
- European feature docs (2020) (0)
- Philadelphia Wobblies [book review] (2008) (0)
- Book reviews : Robert Leeson - socialist storyteller (1987) (0)
- In Praise of Sean O'Casey (1977) (0)
- History and Politics (2007) (0)
- British Intervention and the Greek Revolution (2002) (0)
- Counterrevolution: The Malayan Example (1994) (0)
- Spilling the Spanish Beans (1999) (0)
- Review: Amritsar 1919: an empire of fear and the making of a massacre by Kim A. Wagner, Britain’s Pacification of Palestine: the British Army, the colonial state, and the Arab Revolt 1936–1939 by Matthew Hughes (2019) (0)
- Lyrics by The Flying Turkey (1983) (0)
- The Martian Trilogy (1997) (0)
- America right or wrong: the Labour Party and Uncle Sam's wars (2009) (0)
- Introduction (2020) (0)
- Book Review: Maoist Insurgency Since Vietnam (1999) (0)
- Book reviews : Mean streets: the SAS as lifestyle (1997) (0)
- Book Review: The British Occupation of Indonesia 1945-1946; Britain and the Yemen Civil War 1962-1965 (2007) (0)
- Review: Waging War in Waziristan: the British struggle in the land of Bin Laden 1849—1947 By ANDREW M. ROE (Lawrence, University Press of Kansas, 2010), 313 pp. £31.50 (2011) (0)
- Historical Materialism and the Catholic Church: The Irish Example (1986) (0)
- Only Revolution Can Save England (1999) (0)
- Orwell's socialism (2015) (0)
- That Bread Should Be so Dear (2002) (0)
- Jim Larkin and the Irish worker (2013) (0)
- 1917: Russia's red year - a graphic novel (2016) (0)
- A Choice of Evils (1999) (0)
- Book Review: The Anatomy of Fascism (2005) (0)
- “The Curse of Larkinism”: Patrick Mcintyre, the Toiler, and the Dublin Lockout of 1913 (2017) (0)
- Defusing George Orwell [book review] (2014) (0)
- Reviews (2011) (0)
- Review: Forgotten Wars: the end of Britain's Asian empire (2008) (0)
- Identity Policies: Regional Film Policy and Regional Identity in England (2009) (0)
- The united Irishmen: the autobiography of James Hope (2001) (0)
- Orwell and America (2016) (0)
- The Unknown Wars: Oman and Dhofar (2002) (0)
- Bookreviews : 'We Ask for British Justice': workers and racial difference in late imperial Britain By Laura Tabili (Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1994), 255pp., £28.95 (1996) (0)
- "The lesser evil": Orwell and America (2016) (0)
- True crime stories: some New Labour memoirs [book review] (2011) (0)
- Churchill: Myth and Imperialist History (1995) (0)
- Life After Death: The Relevance of George Orwell (2013) (0)
- Crisis: the comic revolution? (1990) (0)
- Our boys in the north (1996) (0)
- Orwell and the Spanish Revolution (2005) (0)
- "If there is hope": George Orwell and the Left (2017) (0)
- The Memorial Day Massacre: violence, repression and the US Labour Movement (2015) (0)
- When old Labour went to war [book review] (2008) (0)
- George Orwell and Searchlight: a radical initiative on the home front (2005) (0)
- The Mau Mau Revolt (2002) (0)
- Shaking the World: John Reed's Revolutionary Journalism (1999) (0)
- New Labour, New Thatcherites (1999) (0)
- Empire’s Violent End: comparing Dutch, British and French wars of decolonization 1945–1962 Edited by Thijs Brocades Zaalberg and Bart Luttikhuis (2023) (0)
- Public film funding in the UK: The Corporate Welfare System and its Discontents (2020) (0)
- What Did You Do During the War? The last throes of the British pro-Nazi Right, 1940–45 (2017) (0)
- Book Review: Foreign Military Intervention: The Dynamics of Protracted Conflict (2000) (0)
- Editors’ Notes (2017) (0)
- Down Among the Oppressed (1999) (0)
- Recension: "La politique selon Orwell" de John Newsinger (Agone, 2006) (2007) (0)
- The Taiping Peasant Revolt (2000) (0)
- Peter Miskell, A Social History of the Cinema in Wales 1918–1951: Pulpits, Coal Pits and Fleapits (2007) (0)
- The Long War: Northern Ireland, 1969–97 (2002) (0)
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