Canadian Journal of History articles from April 1995

Canadian Journal of History archives from April 1995

Religious communism? Nicolai Berdyaev's contribution to Esprit's interpretation of communism.
April 1, 1995... Les origines du mouvement personnaliste francais (1930-39) ont ete retracees aux philosophies niocriticiste et thomiste francaise et existentialiste allemande. La contribution de la philosophie religieuse populaire russe au personnalisme n'a pas...

The promise and practice of deconstruction.
April 1, 1995... The current debate over deconstruction continues to burn and it does not appear that the argument will be put to rest any time soon. David Lehman (1991) speaks for a number of pundits like Ellis (1989), and Crews (1986), who regard deconstruction...

Ancient Medieval Memories: Studies in the Reconstruction of the Past.
April 1, 1995... New York, Cambridge University Press, 1992. xx, 646 pp. $85.00 U.S. These four books are all by medievalists, and all are explicitly or implicitly about memory. Each in its own way is a valuable and scholarly study. Yet as each one states its...

The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture.
April 1, 1995... Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 10. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1990. xiv, 393 pp. $54.00 U.S. These four books are all by medievalists, and all are explicitly or implicitly about memory. Each in its own way is a valuable...

Dreaming in the Middle Ages.
April 1, 1995... New York, Cambridge University Press, 1992. xii, 254 pp. $59.95 U.S. These four books are all by medievalists, and all are explicitly or implicitly about memory. Each in its own way is a valuable and scholarly study. Yet as each one states its...

History and Memory.
April 1, 1995... New York, Columbia University Press, 1992. xxiii, 265 pp. $29.50 U.S. These four books are all by medievalists, and all are explicitly or implicitly about memory. Each in its own way is a valuable and scholarly study. Yet as each one states its...

Art, ideology, and entertainment in Soviet cinema.
April 1, 1995... The historical simultaneity of cinema's emergence as a mass medium and the Bolshevik revolution virtually determined that the new regime would appropriate film as a key weapon of mass persuasion. Lenin's famous dictum that "for us the most...

Cinema and Soviet Society: 1917-1953.
April 1, 1995... New York, Cambridge University Press, 1992. ix, 281 pp. $64.95 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper). The historical simultaneity of cinema's emergence as a mass medium and the Bolshevik revolution virtually determined that the new regime would...

Movies for the Masses: Popular Cinema and Soviet Society in the 1920s.
April 1, 1995... New York, Cambridge University Press, 1992. xix, 259 pp. $49.95 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper). The historical simultaneity of cinema's emergence as a mass medium and the Bolshevik revolution virtually determined that the new regime would...

The Red Screen: Politics, Society, Art in Soviet Cinema.
April 1, 1995... New York, Routledge, 1992. vi, 360 pp. $67.50 U.S. (cloth), $22.50 U.S. (paper). The historical simultaneity of cinema's emergence as a mass medium and the Bolshevik revolution virtually determined that the new regime would appropriate film as...

Stalinism and Soviet Cinema.
April 1, 1995... New York, Routledge, 1993. xviii, 277 pp. $59.95 U.S. The historical simultaneity of cinema's emergence as a mass medium and the Bolshevik revolution virtually determined that the new regime would appropriate film as a key weapon of mass...

Eisenstein Rediscovered.
April 1, 1995... New York, Routledge, 1993. xx, 260 pp. $49.95 U.S. The historical simultaneity of cinema's emergence as a mass medium and the Bolshevik revolution virtually determined that the new regime would appropriate film as a key weapon of mass...

Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies.
April 1, 1995... Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies, edited by Jacob Ernest Cooke. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993. Vol. 1, xxxv, 745 pp.; Vol. II, X, 787 pp.; Vol. III, xi, 865 pp. $320.00 U.S. The intellectual impulse to compile, organize,...

Liu Tsung-yuan and Intellectual Change in T'ang China: 773-819.
April 1, 1995... by Jo-shui Chen. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1992. xii, 221 pp. $54.95 U.S. Liu Tsung-yuan was an outstanding poet, prose stylist, and thinker in mid-T'ang China, a period increasingly weakened by regionalism and factionalism but...

The Language of Sex: Five Voices from Northern France Around 1200.
April 1, 1995... by John W. Baldwin. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1994. xxviii, 331 pp. $37.50 U.S. In The Language of Sex, John Baldwin brings his long familiarity with northern France in the late twelfth and early thirteenth century to a...

The Two Cities: Medieval Europe, 1050-1320.
April 1, 1995... Malcolm Barber. New York, Routledge, 1992. 581 pp. The book's title, The Two Cities, is a reference to Otto of Freising's universal history by that name completed in 1147. Otto sought to record, as he put it, "the conflicts and miseries of the...

Lithuania Ascending: A Pagan Empire Within East-Central Europe, 1295-1345.
April 1, 1995... S.C. Rowell. Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought. Fourth series, 25. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1994. xxxiv, 375 pp. $69.95 U.S. The period from the late thirteenth to the early fourteenth century was, in Eastern Europe,...

Marriage Alliance in Late Medieval Florence.
April 1, 1995... Anthony Molho. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1994. xvii, 458 pp. $59.00 U.S. While marriage seems to be quintessentially a private relationship, perhaps the most intimate of all ties, historians of the conjugal bond have...

The Order of Books: Readers, Authors and Libraries in Europe Between the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
April 1, 1995... Roger Chartier (translated by Lydia G. Cochrane). Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1994. xi, 126 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth), $12.95 U.S. (paper). Within the brief compass of nearly one hundred highly condensed pages, Roger...

Poverty and Deviance in Early Modern Europe.
April 1, 1995... by Robert Jutte. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1994. xvi, 239 pp. $49.95 U.S. (cloth), $14.95 U.S. (paper). The title of this book (the fourth volume in C.U.P.'s "New Approaches to European History") requires clarifying. For the...

The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire.
April 1, 1995... by Pamela H. Smith. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1994. xii, 308 pp. $45.00 U.S. The conception of capitalism had not yet been defined when Johann Joachim Becher (1635-82) recommended sweeping policies of commercial and...

Literature and Revolution in England: 1640-1660.
April 1, 1995... New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1994. xiv, 425 pp. $40.00 U.S. The periodization of English literature in the seventeenth century is a curious thing. As one writer has recently observed, scholars of the period have traditionally...

The New Model Army in England, Ireland and Scotland: 1645-1653.
April 1, 1995... Cambridge, Massachusetts, Blackwell, 1992. xii, 590 pp. $54.95 U.S. Drawing judiciously upon a great number of classic and recent studies of Britain in the 1640s and 1650s and upon considerable research into the printed and manuscript sources,...

Land, Politics and Society in Eighteenth-Century Tipperary.
April 1, 1995... Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1993. viii, 376 pp. $86.00. Tipperary is an inland county, with somewhat better economic resources than most of its neighbours. It is in some respects typically Irish, in that it has long been a centre of social...

Bristol and the Atlantic Trade in the Eighteenth Century.
April 1, 1995... New York, Cambridge University Press, 1993. xxii, 281 pp. $54.95 U.S. The eighteenth century was Bristol's golden age. Already, by 1700, it was the second largest port in Britain and the third largest town; in the course of the next hundred...

The Remaking of France: The National Assembly and the Constitution of 1791.
April 1, 1995... New York, Cambridge University Press, 1994. xvi, 273 pp. $59.95 U.S. The French National Assembly which, between 1789 and 1791, wrested political sovereignty away from Louis XVI and destroyed the corporate privileges that were the essence of...

Revolutionary Justice in Paris: 1789-1790.
April 1, 1995... New York, Cambridge University Press, 1993. xvii, 302 pp. $59.95 U.S. Recent studies of the French Revolution tend to be much more specialized than those published during the bicentenary year. The two books under review here follow this trend....

The Hebertistes to the Guillotine.
April 1, 1995... Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Louisiana State University Press, 1994. xvii, 280 pp. $37.50 U.S. Recent studies of the French Revolution tend to be much more specialized than those published during the bicentenary year. The two books under review...

The Village in Court: Arson, Infanticide, and Poaching in the Court Records of Upper Bavaria: 1848-1910.
April 1, 1995... New York, Cambridge University Press, 1994. vii, 199 pp. $74.95 U.S. This translation of a study which first appeared in 1989 combines an older "new criminology" (all crimes are socially defined deviance) with social-anthropological methods to...

Bayreuth: A History of the Wagner Festival.
April 1, 1995... New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1994. x, 334 pp. $35.00 U.S. The life and legacy of Richard Wagner have provoked enduring controversy and a vast literature. Whether or not Bayreuth "has always been a paradigm of German national...

Serbien ist Judenfrei: Militarische, Besatzungspolitik und Judenvernichtung in Serbien 1941/42.
April 1, 1995... By Walter Manoschek. Munchen, R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Band 38, Beitrage zur Militargeschichte, Herausgegeben vom militargeschichtlichen Forschungsamt, 1993. 210 pp. This strong book, Manoschek's 1992 University of Vienna doctoral thesis, won the...

The Persistence of Regional Cultures: Rusyns and Ukrainians in their Carpathian Homeland and Abroad.
April 1, 1995... Edited by Paul Robert Magocsi. Boulder, Colorado, East European Monographs (distributed by Columbia University Press), 1993. x, 218 pp., and x, 220 pp. $42.00 U.S. The East Slavs, whose homeland is located in the north-central Carpathian...

The Social Legacy of Communism.
April 1, 1995... Edited by James R. Millar and Sharon L. Wolchik. Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press, 1994. xiii, 404 pp. $69.95 U.S. (cloth); $18.95 U.S. (paper). What legacy has communism bequeathed to Eastern Europe? The question,...

Our Ablest Public Servant: Sir Eyre Crowe GCB, GCMG, KCB, KCMG: 1864-1925.
April 1, 1995... by Sibyl Crowe and Edward Corp. Devon, England, Merlin Books, 1993. xxviii, 522 pp. 17.95 [pounds]. Eyre Crowe is known for two things: his tenure (1920-25) as permanent undersecretary (P.U.S.) at the Foreign Office and his often-quoted...

Intelligence, Defence and Diplomacy: British Policy in the Post-War World.
April 1, 1995... by Richard J. Alrich and Michael F. Hopkins. London, Frank Cass, 1994. x, 273 pp. $19.50 U.S. Under the broad roof provided by the title of this volume are housed an unusually wide-ranging collection of essays. The contributors, mostly British...

Conor: A Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien, 2 vols.
April 1, 1995... by Donald Harmon Akenson. Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994. xvi, 573 pp., and xiii, 356 pp. $34.95 and $39.95. From the time of D.P. Moran, the aggressive editor and proprietor of 7he Leader in the early years of this century,...

The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, vol. 2, Continental America: 1800-1867.
April 1, 1995... by D.W. Meinig. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1993. xix, 636 pp. $45.00 U.S. The second of D.W. Meinig's projected (now) four-volume magnum opus on America's past from an historical-geographic perspective has appeared. The...

The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics.
April 1, 1995... by George C. Rable. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 1994. x, 416 pp. Despite solid studies of the Confederate Congress, the issue of states' rights, and the controversies between Jefferson Davis and his...

Transforming Women's Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution.
April 1, 1995... by Thomas Dublin. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 1994. xviii, 324 pp. $35.00 U.S. The history of women's waged work in the United States has long been associated with the shoeworkers and mill hands of New England communities such...

Business Interest Groups in Nineteenth-Century Brazil.
April 1, 1995... by Eugene Ridings. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1994. xiv, 377 pp. $59.95 U.S. Eugene Ridings examines and evaluates the part played by organized business interest groups in Brazilian expansion between the 1834 foundation of the first...

Rank and Privilege: The Military and Society in Latin America.
April 1, 1995... by Linda Alexander Rodriguez. Wilmington, Delaware, SR Books, 1994. xxii, 239 pp. $40.00 U.S. (cloth), $14.95 U.S. (paper). This selection of previously published articles and chapters is the eighth in SR Books's new line of "Jaguar Books on...

Revolution in the Countryside: Rural Conflict and Agrarian Reform in Guatemala, 1944-1954.
April 1, 1995... by Jim Handy. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 1994. xii, 272 pp. Whereas most works on the Guatemalan revolution (1944-1954) focus on the C.I.A.-sponsored coup and international politics, Jim Handy, professor...

The New Cambridge History of India: The Mughal Empire.
April 1, 1995... by John E Richards. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1993. xvi, 320 pp. $44.95 U.S. In twelve chapters of his book, The Mughal Empire, John Richards encapsulates a very complex panorama of the Mughal emperors: their revenue management,...

John Stuart Mill and India.
April 1, 1995... by Lynn Zastoupil. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1994. viii, 280 pp. $39.40 U.S. India gets but passing mention in John Stuart Mill's autobiography yet he spent thirty-five years working in the East India Company's home...

The Forgotten Army: India's Armed Struggle for Independence.
April 1, 1995... by Peter Ward Fay. Ann Arbor, Michigan, University of Michigan Press, 1993. ix, 573 pp. $35.00 U.S. As one who teaches Chinese history as well as my own specialist field of South Asia I have long been familiar with the Peter Fay's detailed...

Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North.
April 1, 1995... by Yuri Slezkine. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 1994. xi, 456 pp. $32.95 U.S. Interest in the global environment in the 1990s increased attention on the northern frontier and the aboriginal peoples of Siberia. This work joins...

The Russian Far East: A History.
April 1, 1995... A History, by John J. Stephan. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1994. xxiii, 481 pp. $49.50 U.S. In the introduction to this book, Professor Stephan clearly defines the geographic limits of the Russian Far East whose history...

American Pioneers and the Japanese Frontier: American Experts in Nineteenth-Century Japan.
April 1, 1995... American Experts in Nineteenth-Century Japan, by Fumiko Fujita. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1994. xi, 189 pp. $55.00 U.S. In 1871, a mere three years after collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate, a group of American experts arrived in...

British Imperialism and Australian Nationalism: Manipulation, Conflict and Compromise in the Late Nineteenth Century.
April 1, 1995... Manipulation, Conflict and Compromise in the Late Nineteenth Century, by Luke Trainor. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1994. xi, 213 pp. $49.95 U.S. In this ambitious, challenging work of synthesis, Luke Trainor sets out to demonstrate...

The History and Power of Writing.
April 1, 1995... by Henri-Jean Martin, translated by Lydia G. Cocbrane. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1994. xv, 591 pp. $39.95 U.S. To attempt to cover the history of written language from primitive scratchings to the infobahn in a single...

Great Powers and Little Wars: The Limits of Power.
April 1, 1995... edited by A. Hamish Ion and E.J. Errington. Westport, Connecticut, Praeger, 1993. vi, 246 pp. $49.95 U.S. Originating with the Seventeenth Military History Symposium held at the Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, the present study...

The Retreat of Scientific Racism: Changing Concepts of Race in Britain and the United States Between the World Wars.
April 1, 1995... by Elazar Barkan. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1992. xiii, 381 pp. Scientific racism claims that biological inheritance determines the character and behaviour of social groups we identify as races. Despite its history of oppression...

Political Memoir: Essays on the Politics of Memory.
April 1, 1995... edited by George Egerton. London, Frank Cass, 1994. xix, 351 pp. $47.50 U.S. Six years ago, George Egerton was host to a conference on political memoirs, whose edited proceedings constitute the present volume. He himself had previously...

Rediscovering History: Culture, Politics, and the Psyche.
April 1, 1995... edited by Michael Roth. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1994. xvii, 535 pp. $65.00 U.S. (cloth) $24.95 U.S. (paper). Has cultural history's moment finally arrived? It has never quite gained "official" subdisciplinary status in...