Canadian Journal of History articles from April 1999

Canadian Journal of History archives from April 1999

A Game of Cat and Mouse: Henri De Navarre and the Huguenot Campaigns of 1584-89.
April 1, 1999... In the eighteenth century, King Frederick II "the Great" of Prussia once commented that "the business of war is too important to be left to generals." His statement applies especially to the period between 1584 and 1589, during the last of the...

Foreign Bodies: Travel, Empire and the Early Royal Society of London. Part II. The Land of Experimental Knowledge.
April 1, 1999... ... the English are great lovers of themselves, and of everything belonging to them; they think that there are no other men than themselves, and no other world but England; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner, they say...

Sex, Simians, and Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century France; Or, How to Tell a "Man" from a Monkey.
April 1, 1999... On March 16, 1825 the comic actor and dancer Mazurier launched a craze that swept western Europe and America.(1) Dressed in a monkey suit, he played the central character in a ballet called Jocko, le Singe du Bresil at the Theatre de la...

Women's Monasticism and Medieval Society: Nunneries in France and England 890-1215.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Women's Monasticism and Medieval Society: Nunneries in France and England, 890-1215, par Bruce L. Venarde. Ithaca et Londres, Cornell University Press, 1997. xv, 243 pp. Ce premier ouvrage de B. Venarde constitue un remaniement de sa these...

Domesday Book and the Law: Society and Legal Custom in Early Medieval England.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Domesday Book and the Law: Society and Legal Custom in Early Medieval England, by Robin Fleming. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xix, 548 pp. $95.00. King William's great inquest of 108e and the enormous Domesday Book that it...

Eleanor of Provence: Queenship in Thirteenth Century England.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Eleanor of Provence: Queenship in Thirteenth Century England, by Margaret Howell. Oxford, England, Blackwell, 1998. xxii, 349 pp. $59.95. Fewer than half the medieval queens of England have been the subjects of biographies, either because...

Abelard: A Medieval Life.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Abelard: A Medieval Life, by M.T. Clanchy. Oxford, England, Blackwell, 1997. xiii, 416 pp. $59.95 U.S. This is a difficult book. At dual purposes and, indeed, cross purposes, it consequently falls into a grey area between academic...

Contrary Things: Exegesis, Dialectic, and the Poetics of Didacticism.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Contrary Things: Exegesis, Dialectic, and the Poetics of Didacticism, by Catherine Brown. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1998. xvi 210 pp. $45.00 U.S. Teaching through contradiction or the pairing of opposites was a...

Stories of the Rose: The Making of the Rosary in the Middle Ages.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Stories of the Rose: The Making of the Rosary in the Middle Ages, by Anne Winston-Allen. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. viii, 210 pp. $28.50. The innovative work of Anne Winston-Allen proves...

England's Empty Throne: Usurpation and the Language of Legitimation, 1399-1422.(Review)
April 1, 1999... England's Empty Throne: Usurpation and the Language of Legitimation, 1399-1422, by Paul Strohm. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1998. xiv, 274 pp. $55.25 Can. Upon deposing Richard II and seizing the English throne in 1399,...

Erasmus of the Low Countries.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Erasmus of the Low Countries, by James D. Tracy. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1996. ix, 297 pp. $40.00 (cloth). Twenty years ago James Tracy published a fine study on Erasmus's perception of politics while residing...

Witchcraft Persecutions in Bavaria: Popular Magic, Religious Zealotry and Reason of State in Early Modern Europe.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Witchcraft Persecutions in Bavaria: Popular Magic, Religious Zealotry and Reason of State in Early Modern Europe, by Wolfgang Behringer, translated by J.C. Grayson and David Lederer. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiv, 476 pp....

The Practice of Patriarchy: Gender and the Politics of Household Authority in Early Modern France.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The Practice of Patriarchy: Gender and the Politics of Household Authority in Early Modern France, by Julie Hardwick. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania University Press, 1998. xvi, 240 pp. $55.00 (cloth), $19.95 (paper). It is...

Daniel Zwicker, 1612-1678: Peace, Tolerance and God the One and Only.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Daniel Zwicker, 1612-1678: Peace, Tolerance and God the One and Only, by Peter G. Bietenholz. Firenze, Leo S. Olshki Editore, 1997. viii, 330 pp. Lire 62000. Although much scholarship over the past half-century has treated the radical...

A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-Century France: The Political Thought of Mably.(Review)
April 1, 1999... A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-Century France: The Political Thought of Mably, by Johnson Kent Wright. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1997. vii, 261 pp. $49.50. Although Mably was one of the more important voices in...

The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus: James Nayler and the Puritan Crackdown on the Free Spirit.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus: James Nayler and the Puritan Crackdown on the Free Spirit, by Leo Damrosch. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1996. 322 pp. $39.95. According to some of his contemporaries, James Nayler was...

Dismembering the Body Politic: Partisan Politics in England's Towns, 1650-1730.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Dismembering the Body Politic: Partisan Politics in England's Towns, 1650-1730, by Paul D. Halliday. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xvi, 393 pp. $69.95. From the Middle Ages, borough corporations were authorized by the king to...

War and British Society, 1688-1815.(Review)
April 1, 1999... War and British Society, 1688-1815, by H.V. Bowen. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. 100 pp. $39.95 (cloth), $11.95 (paper). The most salient point established by the recent historiography of the "long" eighteenth century is the...

The Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley: A Study of His Life and Work from 1733 to 1773.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley: A Study of His Life and Work from 1733 to 1773, by Robert E. Schofield. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. xii, 305 pp. $45.00 U.S. Robert Schofield begins his...

Before the Bobbies: The Night Watch and Police Reform in Metropolitan London, 1720-1830.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Before the Bobbies: The Night Watch and Police Reform in Metropolitan London, 1720-1830, by Elaine A. Reynolds. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1998. x, 235 pp. $49.50. Elaine Reynolds has written a judicious book, the...

Railways and the Formation of the Italian State in the Nineteenth Century.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Railways and the Formation of the Italian State in the Nineteenth Century, by Albert Schram. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. xvi, 180 pp. $59.95. All scholars interested in Italian history owe a debt of gratitude to the editors...

Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy: The Piedmontese Nobility, 1861-1930.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy: The Piedmontese Nobility, 1861-1930, by Anthony L. Cardoza. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiv, 248 pp. $59.95. All scholars interested in Italian history owe a debt of gratitude to the editors...

Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918, by Roger Chickering. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xvi, 227 pp. $54.95 (cloth), $16.95 (paper). This work, designed primarily as a textbook, presents a broad overview of the...

The Politics of Diplomacy: Britain and France in the Balkans in the First World War.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The Politics of Diplomacy: Britain and France in the Balkans in the First World War, by David Dutton. New York, I.B. Tauris (distributed by St. Martin's Press), 1998. viii, 248 pp. $59.50. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, David Dutton,...

Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews, by Albert S. Lindemann. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1996. xxi, 568 pp. $34.95. It is the author's contention in this original and well-balanced book that anti-Semitism...

Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in Comparison.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in Comparison, edited by Ian Kershaw and Moshe Lewin. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. xii, 358 pp. $54.95 U.S. (cloth), $18.95 (paper). This book originated from a 1991 conference on the...

Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia: Terror, Propaganda and Dissent, 1934-1941.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia: Terror, Propaganda and Dissent, 1934-1941, by Sarah Davies. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. xix, 236 pp. $59.95 U.S. During the inter-war years western diplomats often reported statements by...

Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power, by Anatol Lieven. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1998. xii, 436 pp. $35.00. Anatol Lieven, a correspondent for the London Times in the former Soviet Union from 1990 to 1996, and now a...

King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen: Victorian Britain through African Eyes.(Review)
April 1, 1999... King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen: Victorian Britain through African Eyes, by Neil Parsons. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1998. xi, 302 pp. $48.00 (cloth), $18.95 (paper). Theatre hoardings and book...

The Victorian Underworld.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The Victorian Underworld, by Donald Thomas. New York, New York University Press, 1998. vi, 346 pp. $26.95. The work under review is the latest popular treatment of that dark netherworld which gave Victorians such a frisson of fascinated...

Emigration and the Labouring Poor: Australian Recruitment in Britain and Ireland, 1831-60.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Emigration and the Labouring Poor: Australian Recruitment in Britain and Ireland, 1831-60, by Robin F. Haines. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1997. xvi, 397 pp. $69.95. Robin Haines's valuable study of United Kingdom migrants to Australia...

Sir Arthur Newsholme and State Medicine, 1885-1935.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Sir Arthur Newsholme and State Medicine, 1885-1935, by John M. Eyler. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. xviii, 422 pp. $64.95. This study of health policy and practice in late Victorian and early Edwardian England upholds the...

Indians in the United States and Canada: A Comparative History.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Indians in the United States and Canada: A Comparative History, by Roger L. Nichols. Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1998. xvii, 383 pp. $60.00 (cloth). At long last, thanks to Roger Nichols, we have a comprehensive and...

With My Own Eyes: A Lakota Woman Tells Her People's History.(Review)
April 1, 1999... With My Own Eyes: A Lakota Woman Tells Her People's History, by Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun and Josephine Waggoner, edited and introduced by Emily Levine. Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1998. xi, 187 pp. $35.00. Between...

Early American Railroads: Franz Anton Ritter von Gerstner's `Die innern Communicationen,' 1842-1843.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Early American Railroads: Franz Anton Ritter yon Gerstner's `Die innern Communicationen,' 1842-1843, by Franz Anton Ritter von Gerstner, edited by Frederick C. Gamst, translated by David J. Diephouse and John C. Decker. Stanford, California,...

Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage, by Ellen Carol DuBois. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1997. x, 353 pp. $35.00 U.S. Last summer marked the 150th anniversary of the woman's rights convention at...

A History of Latin America: Empires and Sequels, 1450-1930.(Review)
April 1, 1999... A History of Latin America: Empires and Sequels 1450-1930, by Peter Bakewell. Malden, Massachusetts, Blackwell, 1997. xxiv, 520 pp. $24.95. This is the first volume of the series of sixteen that will make up the Blackwell's History of the...

Forging Mexico, 1821-1835.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Forging Mexico, 1821-1835, by Timothy E. Anna. Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1998. xiii, 330 pp. $40.00 U.S. Scholars and commentators have often found it easy to dismiss early nineteenth-century Mexican history as the...

Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930, by Jose C. Moya. Berkeley, Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1998. xviii, 567 pp. $25.00. This book is an extremely impressive piece of scholarship. It is an...

New Found Lands: Maps in the History of Exploration.(Review)
April 1, 1999... New Found Lands: Maps in the History of Exploration, by Peter Whitfield. New York, Routledge, 1998. viii, 200 pp. $56.00. In this beautiful and lavishly illustrated volume, Peter Whitfield sets out to place European exploration within the...

Archives of the Scientific Revolution: The Formation and Exchange of Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Europe.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Archives of the Scientific Revolution: The Formation and Exchange of Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Europe, edited by Michael Hunter. Rochester, New York, Boydell Press, 1998. xiii, 216 pp. $81.00. We are offered here papers born in a 1996...

The Operational Art: Developments in the Theories of War.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The Operational Art: Developments in the Theories of War, edited by J.C. McKercher and Michael A. Hennessy. Westport, Connecticut, Praeger, 1996. vi, 224 pp. $59.95. During the last twenty years, the concept of operational art has come...

What Have We Learned about Science and Technology from the Russian Experience?(Review)
April 1, 1999... What Have We Learned about Science and Technology from the Russian Experience? by Loren R. Graham. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1998. xiv, 177 pp. $32.50 (cloth), $19.75 (paper). Loren R. Graham introduces his new book...

The Cold War: An International History, 1947-1991.(Review)
April 1, 1999... The Cold War: An International History, 1947-1991, by S.J. Ball. London, Arnold (distributed by St. Martin's Press), 1998. xii, 260 pp. $18.95. While the Cold War raged, the desire to exonerate, accuse, or vilify one or the other...