Canadian Journal of History articles

Recent articles from Canadian Journal of History

Favour and patronage: dancers in the court ballets of early seventeenth-century France.(Report)
December 22, 2008... I. Introduction There has been surprisingly little published on the ballets de cour, the court ballets of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France, since Margaret McGowan's path-breaking study in 1963. (1) The reason is mystifying, because her book is excellent and the topic...

"The bells, too, are fighting": the fate of European church bells in the second world war.(Report)
December 22, 2008... In the aftermath of the Second World War, Allied governments sent experts to Germany in search of resources, intelligence, scientific data, and personnel. (2) Project Paperclip was the codename for the well-known Ameriean programme that brought foreign scientists to the United States. Canada...

The conservative capture of anti-relativist discourse in postwar America.(Report)
December 22, 2008... The years during and immediately following World War II were not only a time of ideological reconfiguration in American politics, but also a time of reflection on the relation between philosophical assumptions and political ideals. The war and its attendant horrors caused both sides of the...

Roman slavery: retrospect and prospect.(Report)
December 22, 2008... For who can bear to feel himself forgotten? W. H. Auden, Night Mail ... for we possess nothing certainly except the past E. Waugh, Brideshead Revisited The session this afternoon concerns, as I understand it, the modern historiography of ancient slavery. (1) My...

Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe.(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe, edited by William Monter; general editor Robert Muchembled. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. Four volumes, 1750 pp. $615.00 US (cloth). Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe, volume I: Religion and Cultural Exchange in Europe,...