Professor Hynes's book deserves to be set alongside the long-standing masterpiece on the latter part of the same period, George Dangerfield's The Strange Death of Liberal England... It is done so ruthlessly well that Edwardian England will never recover its air of golden repose before the deluge.

Original and important.. It is a most impressive survey and succeeds in bringing coherent conceptual organization to a formidable mass of material.

This is a delightful book... often witty in its turn of phrase and often original in its own turn of mind.

An excellent account of the origins of our present intellectual and moral climate

There will be many more studies of the age. But few of them are likely to be so well-constructed and compulsively readable as The Edwardian Turn of Mind

Compulsively readable.

The mythologised vision of the Pilgrim Fathers we have today - their black hats, their lace collars, the landing on Plymouth Rock - is largely a sentimental Victorian fabrication, says this rewriting of one of America's most sacred fables

Timely... Nick Bunker has re-told an old story with aplomb, using a wealth of sources to capture the febrile mood of the time

Admirable

Sweeping, extensively researched

Butterworth writes lucidly, in fine detail

This is an exhilarating gallop through the history of anarchism

Historian Butterworth makes a first-rate addition to the growing list of books dealing with terrorism's origins and history... Delivering a virtuoso performance, Butterworth adds the hope that history will not repeat itself and that a successful new bloody ideology will not create the next scourge

This is entertaining stuff

Butterworth's fascination with his subject drips from the page...this is entertaining stuff

An astounding story of bitter civil warfare that raged across many countries for decades. Butterworth's passionate account of the anarchist movements born in the late 19th century describes a conflict that spawned its own "war on terror"