Canadian Journal of History articles from April 1998

Canadian Journal of History archives from April 1998

Gas and water feminism: Maud Adeline Brereton and Edwardian domestic technology.
April 1, 1998... On an afternoon in October 1913, with Christabel Pankhurst still commanding the militant suffragettes from Paris, while Annie Kenny starved in a London goal, and as politicians and constitutional suffragists continued to denounce the Women's...

"Neither mine nor thine": communist experiments in Hussite Bohemia.
April 1, 1998... "Henceforth, at Hradiste and Tabor there is nothing which is mine or thine. Rather, all things in the community shall be held in common for all time and no one is permitted to hold private property. The one who does commits sins mortally... No...

Control and citizenship: the case of St. Helenian agricultural workers in the U.K., 1949-51.
April 1, 1998... There have been two types of migration to the United Kingdom since 1945. The one that has received the most scholarly attention is the movement of Black Britons from the empire and commonwealth to the U.K. As the term Black Britons implies, these...

City of Capital: Politics and Markets in the English Financial Revolution.
April 1, 1998... City of Capital. Politics and Markets in the English Financial Revolution, by Bruce C. Carruthers. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1979. xiv, 303 pp. $45.00 U.S. Glorious, Bloodless, Respectable and Godly are words used to...

William III and the Godly Revolution.
April 1, 1998... The World of William and Mary: Anglo-Dutch Perspectives on the Revolution of 1688-89, edited by Dale Hoak and Mordechai Feingold. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1996. xv, 339 pp. $49.50 U.S. Glorious, Bloodless, Respectable...

The Business Community of Seventeenth-Century England.
April 1, 1998... The Business Community of Seventeenth-Century England, by Richard Grassby. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1995. xxx, 615 pp. $74.95 U.S. Glorious, Bloodless, Respectable and Godly are words used to describe the Revolution of 1688-89,...

The World of William and Mary: Anglo-Dutch Perspectives on the Revolution of 1688-89.
April 1, 1998... William III and the Godly Revolution, by Tony Claydon. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1996 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modem British History). xiv, 272 pp. $54.95 U.S. Glorious, Bloodless, Respectable and Godly are words used to describe...

Poverty Is Not a Vice: Charity, Society and the State in Imperial Russia.
April 1, 1998... Poverty Is Not a Vice: Charity, Society, and the State in Imperial Russia, by Adele Lindenmeyr. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1996. xiv, 33 5 pp. $49.50 U.S. In this long-awaited, painstakingly researched, and closely...

Soldiers, Citizens and the Symbols of War: From Classical Greece to Republican Rome.
April 1, 1998... Soldiers, Citizens, and the Symbols of War: From Classical Greece to Republican Rome, 500-167 B.C., par Antonio Santosuosso. Boulder, Colorado, Westview Press, 1997. x, 277 pp. $65.00 U.S. (relie), $22.00 (non relie). Monsieur Santosuosso...

Queen Emma and Queen Edith: Queenship and Women's Power in Eleventh=Century England.
April 1, 1998... Queen Emma and Queen Edith: Queenship and Women's Power in Eleventh-Century England, by Pauline Stafford. Oxford, Blackwell, 1997. xi, 371 pp. The recent surge in medieval queenship studies in North America, closely linked to social and...

The Aristocracy in Twelfth-Century Leon and Castile.
April 1, 1998... The Aristocracy in Twelfth-Century Leon and Castile, by Simon Barton. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. xv, 366 pp. $69.95 U.S. This is a splendid book, destined to become the standard reference volume on the subject for the next...

Peasant Economic Development Within the English Manorial System.
April 1, 1998... Peasant Economic Development Within the English Manorial System, by J.A. Raftis. Montreal, Quebec, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997. viii, 243 pp. $14.95. This book is a journey into Raftis country, with the master himself as our guide,...

The Great Famine: Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century.
April 1, 1998... The Great Famine: Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century, par William Chester Jordan. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1996. 317 pp. $29.95 U.S. William Chester Jordan appartient a cette generation d'historiens...

Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe: Gunpowder, Technology, and Tactics.
April 1, 1998... Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe: Gunpowder, Technology, and Tactics by Bert S. Hall. Baltimore, Maryland, Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii, 300 pp. $29.95 U.S. Hall, one of North America's leading specialists in the technical...

Spanish Naval Power, 1589-1665.
April 1, 1998... Spanish Naval Power, 1589-1665: Reconstruction and Defeat, by David Goodman, New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. xvi, 305 pp. $59.95 U.S. The quincentenary of Christopher Columbus' famous voyage of 1492, combined with the four...

Mazarin: The Crises of Absolutism in France.
April 1, 1998... Mazarin: The Crisis of Absolutism in France, by Geoffrey Treasure. New York, Routledge, 1995. 413 pp. $40.00 U.S. This book is not truly a biography, for as indicated clearly by the tide, Mazarin shares centre stage with the crisis of...

Urban Decline in Early Modern Germany: Schwabisch Hall and its Region, 1650-1750.
April 1, 1998... Urban Decline in Early Modern Germany: Schwabisch Hall and its Region, 1650-1750, by Terence McIntosh. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xix, 317 pp. $34.95 U.S. With this study of economic developments in...

"There Are No Slaves in France": The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Regime.
April 1, 1998... "There Are No Slaves in France": The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Rigime, by Sue Peabody. Don Mills, Ontario, Oxford University Press, 1996. x, 210 pp. $59.50. French identity rests on the presumption that France was a...

Royal and Republican Sovereignty in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Memory of Ragnhild Hatton.
April 1, 1998... Royal and Republican Sovereignty in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Memory of Ragnhild Hatton, edited by Robert Oresko, G.C. Gibbs, and H.M. Scott. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. 671 pp. $95.00 U.S. Historians of early modern Europe...

A Course in Russian History: The Time of Catherine the Great.
April 1, 1998... A Course in Russian History: The Time of Catherine the Great, by V. O. Kliuchevsky. Translated and edited by Marshall S. Shatz. Armonk, New York, M.E. Sharpe, 1997. xxvii, 215 pp. $62.95 U.S. (cloth), $22.95 U.S. (paper). V.O. Kliuchevsky's...

The Abolition of Feudalism: Peasants, Lords, and Legislators in the French Revolution.
April 1, 1998... The Abolition of Feudalism: Peasants, Lords, and Legislators in the French Revolution, by John Markoff. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. xviii, 689 pp. $85-00 U.S. (cloth), $25.00 U.S. (paper). For the...

War, Revolution and the Bureaucratic State: Politics and Army Administration in France, 1791-1799.
April 1, 1998... War, Revolution and the Bureaucratic State: Politics and Army Administration in France, 1791-1799, by Howard G. Brown. Clarendon Press (distributed by Oxford University Press), 1995. ix, 361 pp. $108.00. Professor Howard Brown's remarkable...

Discourse on History, Law, and Governance in the Public Career of John Selden.
April 1, 1998... Discourse on History, Law, and Governance in the Public Career of John Selden, 1610-1635, by Paul Christianson. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1996. xiii, 451 pp. $65.00. The lawyer and historian John Selden (1584-1654) was one of the...

POlitics, Religion and the British Revolutions: The Mind of Samuel Rutherford.
April 1, 1998... Politics, Religion and the British Revolutions: Die Mind of Samuel Rutherford, by John Coffey. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. xii, 304 pp., $59.95. U.S. Samuel Rutherford (c. 1609-61), the Scottish Presbyterian cleric, Reformed...

Historic Hamilton: The Archaeological Implications of Development.
April 1, 1998... Historic Hamilton: The Archaeological Implications of Development, by E.P. Dennison Torie and R. Coleman. Aberdeen, Historic Scotland in Association with Scottish Cultural Press, 1996. vii, 92 pp. 14.95 [pounds sterling]. This slim, attractive...

The Siege of Derry in Ulster Protestant Mythology.
April 1, 1998... The Siege of Derry in Ulster Protestant Mythology, by Ian McBride. Dublin, Four Courts Press (distributed by I.S.B.S.), 1997. 93 pp. $35.00 U.S. This is a good little book, and that is not a dismissive phrase. Ian McBride has taken a...

Romantics, Reformers, Reactionaries: Russian Conservative Thought and Politics in the Reign of Alexander I.
April 1, 1998... Romantics, Reformers, Reactionaries: Russian Conservative Thought and Politics in the Reign of Alexander I, by Alexander M. Martin. Dekalb, Illinois, Northern Illinois University Press, 1997. x, 294 pp. $35.00 U.S. One consequence of the...

The Kaiser's Voters: Electors and Elections in Imperial Germany.
April 1, 1998... The Kaiser's Voters: Electors and Elections in Imperial Germany, by Jonathan Sperber. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. Xiii, 389 pp. $59.95 U.S. Election studies of the Kaiserreich constitute a field in which there is room for much...

Capital Cities at War: London, Paris, Berlin, 1914-1919.
April 1, 1998... Capital Cities at War: London, Paris, Berlin, 1914-1919 edited by Jay Winter and Jean-Louis Robert. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. xvii, 622 pp. $90.00 U.S. "On the last Saturday in January 1918 the Metropolitan Police counted...

Britain and the Spanish Civil War.
April 1, 1998... Britain and the Spanish Civil War, by Tom Buchanan. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. xii, 241 pp. $64.95 U.S. With the powerful example before us of how grassroots endeavours led to the successful signing of the landmines treaty, it...

Britain, France and Appeasement: Anglo-French Relations in the Popular Front Era.
April 1, 1998... Britain, France and Appeasement: Anglo-French Relations in the Popular Front Era, by Martin Thomas. New York, Berg, 1996. x, 268 pp. $17.50 U.S. This is a useful addition to the works on European politics in the Nazi years, if it elicits...

Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany.
April 1, 1998... Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany, by Charles Maier. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1997. xx, 404 pp. $29.95 U.S. In his preface, Charles Maier states that he intends to write a synthetic...

Balfour and Foreign POlicy: The International Thought of a Conservative Statesman.
April 1, 1998... Balfour and Foreign Policy: The International thought of a Conservative Statesman, by Jason Tomes. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. ix, 323 pp. $59-95 U.S. This is an exposition and analysis of the imperial and foreign policy views...

Whitewashing Britain: Race and Citizenship in the Postwar Era.
April 1, 1998... Whitewashing Britain: Race and Citizenship in the Postwar Era, by Kathleen Paul. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 1997. xvii, 253 pp. $23.60 U.S. The division between social and political history always seemed to be more about left...

Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673-1800.
April 1, 1998... Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673-1800, by Eric Hinderaker. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. xv, 299 pp. $49.95 U.S. This thoughtful and well-written synthesis postulates three successive types of...

In the mIdst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820.
April 1, 1998... In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820, by David Waldstreicher. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xiii, 364 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth), $15.95 U.S. (paper). David...

The Degradation of American History.
April 1, 1998... The Degradation of American History, by David Harlan. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press. 1997. xxxiii, 289 pp. $15.95 U.S. David Harlan is a very fine writer. What he has to say about academic historical writing is written with...

A Visit to the Ranquel Indians.
April 1, 1998... A Visit to the Ranquel Indians (Una excursion a los indios ranqueles), by Lucio V. Mansilla, translated by Eva Gillies. Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1997. xl, 453 pp. $50.00 U.S. (cloth), $20.00 U.S. (paper). Lucio V....

Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah Oajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896.
April 1, 1998... Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah Oajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896, by Abbas Amanat. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1997. xxiii, 536 pp. $45.00 U.S. Amanat treats the question "how did monarchy, the...

Prologue to Manifest Destiny: Anglo-American Relations in the 1840s.
April 1, 1998... Prologue to Manifest Destiny: Anglo-American Relations in the 1840s, by Howard Jones and Donald A. Rakestraw. Wilmington, Delaware, Scholarly Resources, 1997. xvi, 342 pp. $77.50 U.S. (cloth), $29.50 U.S. (paper). This detailed study of...

Navies and Global Defense: Theories and Strategy.
April 1, 1998... Navies and Global Defense: Theories and Strategy, edited by Keith Neilson and Elizabeth Jane Errington. Westport, Connecticut, Praeger (distributed by Greenwood Publishing). 238 pp., $55.00 U.S. This series of essays marks an attempt to explore...

Top Secret Exchange: The Tizard Mission and the Scientific War.
April 1, 1998... Top Secret Exchange: The Tizard Mission and the Scientific War, by David Zimmerman. Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queens University Press, 1996. xx, 252 pp. $29.95. In the late summer of 1940, only a few weeks after the German expulsion of the...

Imagined Battles: Reflections of War in European Art.
April 1, 1998... Imagined Battles: Reflections of War in European Art, by Peter Paret. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 128 pp. $34.95 U.S. In this extended and illustrated essay, distinguished historian Peter Paret...

Crime History and Histories of Crime: Studies in the Historiography of Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern History.
April 1, 1998... Crime History and Histories of Crime: Studies in the Historiography of Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern History, edited by Clive Emsley and Louis A. Knafla. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1996. viii, 313 pp. $75.00 U.S. This...

Paths of Fire: An Anthropologist's Inquiry into Western Technology.
April 1, 1998... Paths of Fire: An Anthropologist's Inquiry into Western Technology, by Robert McCormick Adams. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1996. xvi, 332 pp. $29.95 U.S. Historians are notorious storytellers. We believe in narrative, and...

Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest.
April 1, 1998... Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest, by Adrian Desmond. Reading, Massachusetts, Addison-Wesley, 1997. xx, 820 pp. $37.50 U.S. Adrian Desmond's smashing biography of T.H. Huxley should appeal to a number of different...

The Platypus and the Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination.
April 1, 1998... The Platypus and the Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination, by Harriet Ritvo. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1997. xiv, 288 pp. $29.95 U.S. Imagine some historian a hundred years from now researching a...

Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Heath Science.
April 1, 1998... Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science, by Christopher C. Sellers. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xv, 331 pp. $69.75 U.S. Soon after Thomas Wagner went in to clean the...