Canadian Journal of History articles from April 1994

Canadian Journal of History archives from April 1994

Apparitions and the public sphere in seventeenth-century France.
April 1, 1994... Durant la crise constitutionnelle de la Fronde en France (1648-52), plus de cinq mille differents pamphlets inonderent les marches parisiens en reponse aux demandes d'un public curieux et avide de lecture. La plupart de ces pamphlets, connus...

Enlightened nationalism in the early revolution: the nation in the language of the Societe de 1789.
April 1, 1994... ENLIGHTENED NATIONALISM IN THE EARLY REVOLUTION: THE NATION IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE SOCIETE DE 1789. The Societe de 1789 was a political club established in Paris in April 1790 by the abbe Sieye's and Condorcet....

Representations of the Republic at war: Lille and Toulon, 1792-1793. (France)
April 1, 1994... Les historiens ont toujours eu tendance a considerer les batailles de Valmy (le 20 septembre 1792) et Wattignies (du 15 au 16 octobre 1793) comme les moments decisifs de la defense de la France republicaine. Aux yeux des publicistes de...

Ethnicity, religion and repression: the denial of African heritage in Costa Rica.
April 1, 1994... Les experiences des Antillais de Costa Rica dans les premieres decennies du vingtieme siecle etaient remplies d' exemples de racisme et d'intolerance. Les immigrants Antillais de descendance africaine, etaient de langue anglaise et de religion...

The Popular Front and Central Europe: The Dilemmas of French Impotence, 1918-1940.
April 1, 1994... A round table discussion in Moscow in March 1989 on the origins of World War II led historians L. A. Bezymenskii and V. Ia. Sipols to conclude that Anglo-Franco-Soviet negotiations in 1939 for an alliance against Nazi Germany were headed down a...

The Engineering of Revolution: L.B. Krasin and the Bolsheviks, 1870-1926.
April 1, 1994... A round table discussion in Moscow in March 1989 on the origins of World War II led historians L. A. Bezymenskii and V. Ia. Sipols to conclude that Anglo-Franco-Soviet negotiations in 1939 for an alliance against Nazi Germany were headed down a...

Between the Revolution and the West: A Political Biography of Maxim M. Litvinov.
April 1, 1994... A round table discussion in Moscow in March 1989 on the origins of World War II led historians L. A. Bezymenskii and V. Ia. Sipols to conclude that Anglo-Franco-Soviet negotiations in 1939 for an alliance against Nazi Germany were headed down a...

Trading with the Bolsheviks: The Politics of East-West Trade, 1920-1939.
April 1, 1994... A round table discussion in Moscow in March 1989 on the origins of World War II led historians L. A. Bezymenskii and V. Ia. Sipols to conclude that Anglo-Franco-Soviet negotiations in 1939 for an alliance against Nazi Germany were headed down a...

The Chronicle of Hydatius and the "Consularia Constantinopolitana": Two Contemporary Accounts of the Final Years of the Roman Empire.
April 1, 1994... Cette etude est consacree a une nouvelle edition critique de deux des plus anciens documents histographiques du Bas-Empire tardif, Hydatii Limitici, Chronica Subdita et les Consularia Constantinopolitana, qui ont beneficie d'une longue...

Sainted Women of the Dark Ages.
April 1, 1994... Both of these books deal with the very early centuries of the Middle Ages. Sainted Women provides the biographies of eighteen extraordinary women of the sixth and seventh centuries who played an active part in the harsh transformation of Roman...

Anglo-Saxon Women and the Church.
April 1, 1994... Both of these books deal with the very early centuries of the Middle Ages. Sainted Women provides the biographies of eighteen extraordinary women of the sixth and seventh centuries who played an active part in the harsh transformation of Roman...

The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonisation and Cultural Change, 950-1350.
April 1, 1994... Western Europe in the middle ages was steadily expanding, and the process brought changes to the character, not just of the newly included areas, but of Europe itself. Bartlett contends that the steady enlargement of the edges of western Europe...

Spiritual Marriage: Sexual Abstinence in Medieval Wedlock.
April 1, 1994... This book raises many fascinating questions about the interplay of gender and institutions. Dyan Elliott shows how the gendered nature of spirituality can change over time, by examining the practice and perceptions of spiritual marriage, where...

The Medieval Surgery.
April 1, 1994... Montague Rhodes James, in volume three of his Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Manuscripts in the Trinity College, makes us aware of the fact that the 328 folios of Ms. 0.1.20 of this library contain eight treaties, seven of which are...

Chroniques. Livre 1: Le manuscrit d'Amiens, T.4, Depuis l'offensive anglaise dans le Toulousain jusqu'a une mobilisation preparee par le duc d'Anjou dans le Bordelais, 1367-1377.
April 1, 1994... L'ouvrage dont il est question ici constitue le quatrieme et dernier volume d'une edition du manuscrit d'Amiens des chroniques de Froissart, entreprise par George Differ sous les auspices des Textes litteraires francais. Les volumes precedents...

Fundamental Authority in Late Medieval English Law.
April 1, 1994... Doe's able monograph on late medieval jurisprudence has the self-contained serenity of a scholastic treatise in which the theme is clearly delineated and the parameters of inclusion carefully drawn. His subject is an important one because the...

Pilgram Marpeck: His Life and Social Theology.
April 1, 1994... In recent years intellectual historians have, begun to take seriously the findings of social historians, resulting in a spate of new social-intellectual biographies. Steven Boyd's monograph (a revision of his Th.D. Harvard dissertation) is a...

Zurcher Beitrage zur Reformationsgeschichte, vol. 16, Clerical Discipline and the Rural Reformation: The Synod in Zurich, 1532-1580.
April 1, 1994... In 1991 Pamela Biel used Heinrich Bullingers writings to present his theory of the pastoral office (Doorkeepers of the House of Righteousness, Heinrich Bullinger and the Zurich Clergy, 1535-1575). Bruce Gordon now shows us that theory in...

Venice's Hidden Enemies: Italian Heretics in a Renaissance City.
April 1, 1994... John Martin divides the scholarship on the Italian Reformation into two main trends - descriptions of several aspects of religious dissent but only with a sense of "the contexts or the contours" (p. x) of the religious movements, and...

Le droit de marc d'or des offices, Tarifs de 1583, 1704, 1748: Reconnaissance, fidelite, noblesse.
April 1, 1994... Dans un livre tres original, l'historien francais Jean Nagle tire parti d'un evenement, a premiere vue tout a fait banal, la mise sur pied en 1578 d'un nouveau droit, le marc d'or, pour nous aider a approfondir notre connaissance de l'Ancien...

Richelieu and His Age.
April 1, 1994... Contrairement a ce que son titre pourrait laisser croire, ce livre n'est pas un manuel universitaire, ni une grande synthese des principales realisations de Richelieu en France et en Europe. Les editeurs Joseph Bergin et Laurence Brockliss ont...

After the Deluge: Poland-Lithuania and the Second Northern War, 1655-1660.
April 1, 1994... In the past decade several outstanding English-language monographs have been published relating to various fields of history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The following authors and titles deserve to be mentioned: Anna Kaminska...

The Land and the Loom: Peasants and Profit in Northern France, 1680-1800.
April 1, 1994... Professor Vardi has reconstructed the economic life of a village, Montigny, and its surrounding region, the Cambresis on the Belgian border of northwestern France, in an innovative book that is important because of the long-accepted notions it...

The Estates of the English Crown: 1558-1640.
April 1, 1994... The crown, even in diminished times, wielded unequalled social clout as both monarch and landlord of all England. That was the abiding message of Domesday Book, but there is no place for it in this volume about the crown lands, incoherent but...

The Two Gods of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes on Religion and Politics.
April 1, 1994... A good deal of recent work, beginning with John Pocock's "Time, History and Eschatology in the Thought of Thomas Hobbes" (1970), has taken Hobbes's theology seriously. Most of it has presumed that Hobbes's' views on religion are to be read...

Theatre and Disorder in Late Georgian London.
April 1, 1994... As Marc Baer points out in Theatre and Disorder in Late Geogian London, the metaphor of theatre has become extremely popular with historians looking at eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century public protest. Baer cites more than a dozen recent...

The Largest Amount of Good: Quaker Relief in Ireland, 1654-1921.
April 1, 1994... Despite its title, and ostensible chronology, this book focuses almost exclusively on the notorious Irish famine of the late 1840s. The reality of famine, with mass mortality from outright starvation and malnutrition-driven disease, is familiar...

Sons of the Empire: The Frontier and the Boy Scout Movement, 1890-1918.
April 1, 1994... Any scholar who ventures to inquire into the origins of the Boy Scout movement or the motives of its founder, General Robert Baden-Powell risks the fate of Ham who derided Noah, his father, for falling into a naked, drunken stupor after...

Jean-Paul Marat.
April 1, 1994... Despite a recent resurgence of interest in Jean-Paul Marat, Olivier Coquard's new biography of the revolutionary journalist is the first to appear in over thirty years. Three decades of research into the scientific and learned communities of...

German Radicals Confront the Common People: Revolutionary Politics and Popular Politics, 1789-1849.
April 1, 1994... This ambitious, well-researched, argumentative, and occasionally truculent book sets out to arrest what has tended to be the main direction of research on popular politics in nineteenth-century Germany since the end of the 1960s. Inspired...

France and the Crystal Palace: Bourgeois Taste and Artisan Manufacture in the Nineteenth Century.
April 1, 1994... This is a curious book which promises much but yields little. At first blush, the thesis the author proposes appears important. She announces in her introduction that she will challenge current orthodoxies in economic history concerning the...

Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France.
April 1, 1994... Historians, preoccupied by the eclipsing of the vigorous female helpmate by the model helpless housewife, have devoted a good deal of attention to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries' refashioning of the concept of the feminine. The...

Regulating the Social: The Welfare State and Local Politics in Imperial Germany.
April 1, 1994... Sociologists have for many years offered a plethora of explanations for the emergence of the modern welfare state. Steinmetz is a sociologist, and in this work, which covers the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the outbreak of World...

Elections, Mass Politics, and Social Change in Modern Germany: New Perspectives.
April 1, 1994... This well-produced and thoughtfully edited collection comprises the majority of contributions presented during a 1990 conference at the University of Toronto sponsored jointly with the German History Society of the U.K. and the German...

Reichswehr und Rote Armee 1920-1933: Wege und Stationen einer ungewuhn lichen Zusammenarbeit.
April 1, 1994... On 6 December 1926, the Manchester Guardian accused German military and industrial circles of secretly collaborating with the Soviet government. The article created a sensation abroad and a scandal for Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann, who...

Wilhelm Groener: Reichswehrminister am Ende der Weimarer Republik, 1928-1932.
April 1, 1994... Wilhelm Groener (1867-1939) was almost uniquely distinguished among German generals for having been regarded both by some of his contemporaries as well as by knowledgeable historians of the Weimar Republic as a democrat and even a pacifist....

The Republic in Danger: General Maurice Gamelin and the Politics of French Defence, 1933-1940.
April 1, 1994... Le general Maurice Gamelin fut le chef d'etat-major de I'armee Eranghe de janvier 1935 jusqu'au 19 mai 1940 alors qu'il fut renvoye par Paul Reynaud apres la debacle militaire francaise. Plusieurs de ses contemporains et des historiens lui ont...

Policing a Socialist Society: The German Democratic Republic.
April 1, 1994... Since the fall of the Berlin wall in November 1989, there has been a flood of revelations about the former German Democratic Republic (G.D.R.). Although most people in the G.D.R. could hardly have been unaware of the regime's Ministry for State...

French America: Mobility, Identity and Minority Experience Across the Continent.
April 1, 1994... First published in French in 1983 by Les Presses de l'Universite Laval under the title Du continent perdu a l'archipel retrouve. Le Quebec et l'Amerique francaise, this addresses the central issue put into focus the rise of Quebec nationalism,...

Origins of Instability in Early Republican Mexico.
April 1, 1994... Mexico began its postcolonial era with high prospects for the future, indeed. Former antagonists from both the royalist and insurgent camps nervously pinned their hopes for the cessation of destructive revolutionary turmoil, to Iturbide's...

Servants and Shophands, and Laborers in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan.
April 1, 1994... In the last twenty years the number of studies on Japanese peasants and rural life has multiplied noticeably, and along with the standard works on the Japanese elite and merchant classes, these works have increased the scope and the depth of...

The Cross and the Rising Sun: The British Protestant Missionary Movement in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, 1865-1945, vol. 2.
April 1, 1994... As a sequence to his study of the Canadian Protestant movement in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan (that is, the core of the prewar Japanese Empire), which he published as Volume 1 of The Cross and the Rising Sun in 1990, A. Hamish Ion has now...

General History of Africa, vol. 5, Africa from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century.
April 1, 1994... This ambitious series covering the history of Africa from "pre-historical" to contemporary times originated in the mid-1960s. Its goals were laudable: to assist in the collection and processing of documentation (written and oral), to promote...

The European City.
April 1, 1994... The objective of the series (The Making of Europe), of which this volume is a part, is to answer three questions: (1) Who are the Europeans? (2) Where have they come from? (3) Whither are they bound? Benevolo asserts that the development of...

The Protestant Evangelical Awakening.
April 1, 1994... The evangelical revival is often seen as a movement belonging to the English world with John Wesley at work in Britain, Jonathan Edwards in America, and George Whitefield straddling the Atlantic. In his new book, W.R. Ward reminds us properly...

Trial by Friendship: Anglo-American Relations, 1917-1918.
April 1, 1994... The United States has been a reluctant and tardy participant in the two world wars of the twentieth century. In both conflicts, this fact, and the influence of differing national perspectives and goals, has resulted in co-operation between...

The Struggle Against the Bomb, vol. 1, One World or None: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement Through 1953.
April 1, 1994... In the early years of the Cold War, exiled pacifist Heinz Kraschutzki insisted that his former East German countrymen mere "firmly convinced that the West is preparing to attack the East and, in their opinion, the only possible means of defense...

The Baltic States and the Great Powers: Foreign Relations, 1938-1940.
April 1, 1994... In the Baltic States and the Gmat Pomrs the author quotes Izvestia of 16 May 1940 to the effect that the neutrality of small states, which do not have the power to preserve it, is a mere fantasy Therefore, there are very few chances for small...

The Baltic and the Outbreak of the Second World War.
April 1, 1994... In the Baltic States and the Gmat Pomrs the author quotes Izvestia of 16 May 1940 to the effect that the neutrality of small states, which do not have the power to preserve it, is a mere fantasy Therefore, there are very few chances for small...