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• Great Britain -- History -- 20th century

• The Novel and the Menagerie: Totality, Englishness, and Empire (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2007), by Kurt Koenigsberger (PDF at Ohio State)

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• Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by William Beatty Warner (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange: Aesthetics and Heterodoxy (originally published 1995; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Ronald Paulson (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Reading London: Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-century Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Erik Bond (PDF at Ohio State)

• Beastly Journeys: Travel and Transformation at the Fin de Siècle (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, c2013), by Tim Youngs
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust
• The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-Century English Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Stefanie Markovits (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
• Nerves and Narratives: A Cultural History of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century British Prose (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Peter Melville Logan (HTML at UC Press)
• The Chartist Imaginary: Literary Form in Working-Class Political Theory and Practice (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Margaret A. Loose (PDF at Ohio State)
• London, Radical Culture, and the Making of the Dickensian Aesthetic (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Sambudha Sen (PDF at Ohio State)
• Crime in Verse: the Poetics of Murder in the Victorian Era (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Ellen L. O'Brien (PDF at Ohio State)
• Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siècle (c2008), by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (HTML at Michigan)
• The Novel and the Menagerie: Totality, Englishness, and Empire (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2007), by Kurt Koenigsberger (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Psychological Element in the English Sociological Novel of the Nineteenth Century (Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1927), by Sijna de Vooys (page images at delpher.nl)

• Perspectives: Modes of Viewing and Knowing in Nineteenth-Century England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Linda M. Shires (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Affective Life of the Average Man: The Victorian Novel and the Stock-Market Graph (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Audrey Jaffe (PDF at Ohio State)

• Rogues and Early Modern English Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), ed. by Craig Dionne and Steve Mentz (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media and the British Public, 1932-53 (London: Royal Historical Society, Institute for Historical Research, University of London Press, 2019), by Edward Owens (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• The Reign of George VI, 1900-1925: A Forecast Written in the Year 1763, Republished, With Preface and Notes (apparently a different work from Madden's similarly-conceived Memoirs of the Twentieth Century; London: Rivingtons, 1899), ed. by Charles Oman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Memories of Forty-Eight Years' Service (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1925), by Horace Smith-Dorrien (page images at HathiTrust)

• Managing Industrial Decline: The British Coal Industry Between the Wars (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1992), by Michael Dintenfass (PDF files at Ohio State Press)

• The Resurgence of Conservatism in Anglo-American Democracies (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1988), ed. by Barry Cooper, Allan Kornberg, and William Mishler, contrib. by Joel Smith, Neil Nevitte, Marilyn B. Hoskin, Roy E. Fitzgerald, Norman C. Thomas, William James Booth, F. L. Morton, A. Kenneth Pye, James E. Alt, Ivor Crewe, Donald Searing, Mark N. Franklin, Roger Gibbins, Harold D. Clarke, Henry W. Chappell, William R. Keech, Michael Allen Gillespie, Michael Lienesch, and Morris P. Fiorina (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lytton Strachey (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1943), by Max Beerbohm (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• The Afterlife of Empire (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2012), by Jordanna Bailkin (multiple formats with commentary at escholarship.org)

• The Conscription Controversy in Great Britain, 1900-18 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1987), by R. J. Q. Adams and Philip P. Poirier (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Trouble and Strife Reader (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2009), ed. by Deborah Cameron and Joan Scanlon (HTML at Bloomsbury Academic (registration optional))

• Les Troupes de Couleur à la Guerre (in French; Paris: Dubois, 1918), by Albert Geouffre de Lapradelle (page images here at Penn)

• A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2011), by Ann Oakley (HTML at Bloomsbury Academic (registration optional))

• The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2011), ed. by Simon Gunn and James Vernon (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)

• Healthcare in Ireland and Britain From 1850: Voluntary, Regional and Comparative Perspectives (London: Institute of Historical Research, c2014), ed. by Donnacha Seán Lucey and Virginia Crossman (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• For Their Own Good: The Transformation of English Working-Class Health Culture, 1880-1970 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Lucinda McCray Beier (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Men Behind Hitler: A German Warning to the World, by Bernhard Schreiber, trans. by H. R. Martindale (HTML at toolan.com)

• The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media and the British Public, 1932-53 (London: Royal Historical Society, Institute for Historical Research, University of London Press, 2019), by Edward Owens (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• Dilemmas of Decline: British Intellectuals and World Politics, 1945-1975 (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2012), by Ian Hall (multiple formats with commentary at escholarship.org)

• Modernist Heresies: British literary History, 1883-1924 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Damon Franke (PDF at Ohio State)

• Romancing the Revolution: The Myth of Soviet Democracy and the British Left (Edmonton: AU Press, c2011), by Ian Bullock (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• After Brecht: British Epic Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by Janelle G. Reinelt (page images at HathiTrust)

• After Brecht: British Epic Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by Janelle G. Reinelt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Romancing the Revolution: The Myth of Soviet Democracy and the British Left (Edmonton: AU Press, c2011), by Ian Bullock (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• The Theatre of the Real: Yeats, Beckett, and Sondheim (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Gina Masucci MacKenzie (PDF at Ohio State)

• Toward a Theater of the Oppressed: The Dramaturgy of John Arden (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1995), by Javed Malick (page images at HathiTrust)

• Uganda's Katikiro in England: Being the Offical Account of His Visit to the Coronation of His Majesty King Edward VII (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1904), by Ham Mukasa, trans. by Ernest Millar, contrib. by Harry Johnston (multiple formats at archive.org)

• British Women Surgeons and Their Patients, 1860-1918 (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2017), by Claire Brock (PDF and HTML with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• British Labor and the War: Reconstructors for a New World (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919), by Paul Underwood Kellogg and Arthur Gleason (multiple formats at archive.org)