Canadian Journal of History articles from April 2000

Canadian Journal of History archives from April 2000

England and the Machinery of Reason 1780 to 1830.
April 1, 2000... The status of the machine and the application of an accompanying form of reason was an ambiguous subject in late eighteenth-century England. As Larry Stewart has recently shown, the meaning of machines was mutable, ambivalent and fiercely...

"Some mysterious agency": Women, Violent Crime, and the Insanity Acquittal in the Victorian Courtroom.
April 1, 2000... In June 1854 Mary Ann Brough, the middle-aged mother of a large family, slashed the throats of six of her children before unsuccessfully attempting to cut her own. Two months later she stood trial in Guildford to answer for her crimes. The...

The Battle of Cory Hall, November 1916: Patriots Meet Dissenters in Wartime Cardiff.
April 1, 2000... It is notoriously difficult for historians to write about the past without either importing into their discussion contemporary perceptions, or selecting for particularly close attention those events which appear most important within a...

The Savage Wars of Peace: England, Japan and the Malthusian Trap.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Savage Wars of Peace: England, Japan and the Malthusian Trap, by Alan Macfarlane. Oxford and Malden, Massachusetts, Blackwell Publishers, 1997. xvii, 427 pp. $66.95 (3 Maps, 1 Figure). Of the problems at the center of the "new social...

Urbane and Rustic England.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Urbane and Rustic England, by Carl Estabrook. Manchester, Manchester University Press; Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1999. xiv, 317 pp. $60.00. Zummerzet Ned, who introduces this very interesting book about Bristol and...

The Double Crown: A History of the Modern British Isles, 1603-1707.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Double Crown: A History of the Modern British Isles, 1603-1707, by David L. Smith. Malden, Massachusetts, Blackwell, 1998. xvii, 430 pp. $64.95 U.S. (cloth), $29.95 U.S. (paper). A problem recognized by Richard Cust and Anne Hughes, in...

Charles I.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Charles I, by Michael B. Young. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1997. vii, 223 pp. $49.95 U.S. (cloth), $17.95 U.S. (paper). A problem recognized by Richard Cust and Anne Hughes, in their introductory essay to their collection, is that the...

The English Civil War.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The English Civil War, edited by Richard Cust and Anne Hughes. London, Arnold, 1997. xi, 369 pp. $19.95 U.S. (paper). A problem recognized by Richard Cust and Anne Hughes, in their introductory essay to their collection, is that the...

The Civil Wars in Britain & Ireland, 1638-1651.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Civil Wars in Britain & Ireland, 1638-1651, by Martyn Bennett. Malden, Massachusetts, Blackwell. 1997. xiii, 446 pp. $26.95 U.S. (paper). A problem recognized by Richard Cust and Anne Hughes, in their introductory essay to their...

Cromwell Against the Scots: The Last Anglo-Scottish War, 1650-1652.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Cromwell Against the Scots: The Last Anglo-Scottish War, 1650-1652, by John D. Grainger. East Lothian, Scotland, Tuckwell Press, 1997. vi, 202 pp. 14.99 [pounds terling]. A problem recognized by Richard Cust and Anne Hughes, in their...

Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds, by Donald Harmon Akenson. Montreal, Quebec, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998. xii, 658 pp. $35.00 U.S. To recover a sense of awe and wonder at the network of themes and...

Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome, by D. G. Kyle. Routledge, New York, 1998. xii, 288 pp. $95.00 Cdn. Long considered to offer the historian little of value beyond a titillating -- if horrifying -- glimpse into the Roman psyche, Roman...

Water and Society in Early Medieval Italy, A. D. 400-1000.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Water and Society in Early Medieval Italy, A.D. 400-1000, by Paolo Squatriti. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xii, 195 pp. $54.95. Water, as every junior-high school student learns, is essential to life. Paolo Squatriti's...

Anglo-Norman Studies, XX: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1997.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Anglo-Norman Studies, XX: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1997, edited by Christopher Harper-Bill. Woodbridge, Suffolk, The Boydell Press, 1998. x, 246 pp. $72.00. Every year for over twenty years, the Anglo-Norman Conference has met...

Medicine in the English Middle Ages.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Medicine in the English Middle Ages, by Faye Getz. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1998. xiv, 174 pp. $32.50 U.S. Faye Getz has produced a modest volume comprising ninety-two pages of text supplemented by copious notes...

The Anatomical Renaissance: The Resurrection of the Anatomical Projects of the Ancients.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Anatomical Renaissance: The Resurrection of the Anatomical Projects of the Ancients, by Andrew Cunningham. Brookfield, Vermont, Scolar Press, distributed by Ashgate, 1997. xiv, 283 pp. $76.95 U.S. This intriguing book is part of a...

Philip of Spain.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Philip of Spain, by Henry Kamen. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1997. xvi, 384 pp. $37.50 U.S. (cloth); $17.95 U.S. (paper). Two years after its publication, Henry Kamen's biography of Philip II has become an authentic...

The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History, by Derek Sayer. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1998. xv, 442 pp. $29.95. This book owes its title to William Shakespeare who, in the Winter's Tale, endowed Bohemia with a...

English Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Italy.(Review)
April 1, 2000... English Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Italy, by Gigliola Pagano de Divitiis. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. xv, 202 pp. $59.95. Historians have long appreciated that the northward shift of Europe's financial centre from the...

Industrial Espionage and Technology Transfer. Britain and France in the Eighteenth Century.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Industrial Espionage and Technology Transfer. Britain and France in the Eighteenth Century by J.R. Harris. Aldershot, England, and Brookfield, Vermont, Ashgate, 1998. xviii, 655 pp. $113.95 U.S. In the middle of the siecle des lumieres a...

Visions and Revisions of Eighteenth-Century France.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Visions and Revisions of Eighteenth-Century France, edited by Christine Adams, Jack R. Censer, and Lisa Jane Graham. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. viii, 214 pp. $16.95. This volume consists of...

The Criminal Trial in Later Medieval England: Felony before the Courts from Edward I to the Sixteenth Century.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Criminal Trial in Later Medieval England: Felony before the Courts from Edward I to the Sixteenth Century, by J.G. Bellamy. Toronto, Ontario, University of Toronto Press, 1998. 208 pp. $50.00. Over the years J.G. Bellamy's publications...

Health and Healing in Early Modern England: Studies in Social and Intellectual History.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Health and Healing in Early Modern England: Studies in Social and Intellectual History, by Andrew Wear. Brookfield, Vermont, Ashgate, 1998. ix, 179 pp. $99.95 U.S. Andrew Wear is an historian based at the Wellcome Institute for the History...

The Drama of Landscape: Land, Property and Social Relations on the Early Modern Stage.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Drama of Landscape: Land, Property and Social Relations on the Early Modern Stage, by Garrett A. Sullivan Jr. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1998. xi, 292 pp. $39.50. The Drama of Landscape: Land, Property and Social...

Imagining Peace: A History of Early English Pacifist Ideas.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Imagining Peace: A History of Early English Pacifist Ideas, by Ben Lowe. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. xiv, 362 pp. $60.00 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper). During the course of the First World...

Contours of Death and Disease in Early Modern England.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Contours of Death and Disease in Early Modern England, by Mary J. Dobson. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. xx, 648 pp. $64.95 U.S. Mary Dobson has written two books, both of them enclosed in a single cover. This volume contains,...

The House of Lords in the Reign of Charles II.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The House of Lords in the Reign of Charles II, by Andrew Swatland. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1996. xv, 287 pp. $59.95. This book is the first comprehensive study of the House of...

Sex and the Gender Revolution, Volume One: Heterosexuality and the Third Gender in Enlightenment London.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Sex and the Gender Revolution, Volume One: Heterosexuality and the Third Gender in Enlightenment London, by Randolph Trumbach. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1998. xiv, 509 pp. $35.00 U.S. This long-awaited work by Randolph...

Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945, by John G. Gibson. Montreal, Quebec, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998. xviii, 406 pp. $45.00. This book is an historical reconstruction of traditional Highland bagpiping in a broad political...

Goodness beyond Virtue: Jacobins during the French Revolution.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Goodness beyond Virtue: Jacobins during the French Revolution, by Patrice Higonnet. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1998. 397 pp. $59.95 (cloth), $24.95 (paper). Any interpretation of the French Revolution must suggest...

The Parisian Worlds of Frederick Chopin.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Parisian Worlds of Frederick Chopin, by William G. Atwood. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1999. viii, 447 pp. $35.00. Polish composer and pianist Frederick Chopin went to Paris in September 1831 at the age of twenty-one...

Village Bells: Sound and Meaning in the Nineteenth Century French Countryside.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Village Bells: Sound and Meaning in the Nineteenth Century French Countryside, by Alain Corbin, translated by Martin Thom. New York, Columbia University Press, 1998. xx, 418 pp. $35.00 U.S. Traditionally, book reviewers warn potential...

Contagion: Disease, Government, and the "Social Question" in Nineteenth-Century France.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Contagion: Disease, Government, and the "Social Question" in Nineteenth-Century France, by Andrew R. Aisenberg. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1999. ix, 238 pp. $45.00. This book aims to examine how medicine and science,...

Modernizing the Provincial City: Toulouse, 1945-1975.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Modernizing the Provincial City: Toulouse, 1945-1975, by Rosemary Wakeman. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1987. xii, 323 pp. $45.00. Rosemary Wakeman's book is about the transformation of Toulouse during the trentes...

Urban Government and the Rise of the French City: Five Municipalities in the Nineteenth Century.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Urban Government and the Rise of the French City: Five Municipalities in the Nineteenth Century, by William B. Cohen. New York, Saint Martin's Press, 1998. xiv, 338 pp. $49.95. Rosemary Wakeman's book is about the transformation of...

German-Jewish History in Modern Times, Volume Three: Integration in Dispute, 1871-1918.
April 1, 2000... German-Jewish History in Modern Times, Volume Three: Integration in Dispute, 1871-1918, edited by Michael Meyer. New York, Columbia University Press, 1997. viii, 466 pp. $52.50 U.S. This is the third installment of a comprehensive,...

The Great War 1914-18.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Great War 1914-18, by Spencer C. Tucker. Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Press, 1998. xx, 272 pp. $39.95 U.S. (cloth), $16.95 U.S. (paper). Interest in the First World War has revived in the last decade as a number of...

Armistice 1918.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Armistice 1918, by Bullitt Lowry. Kent, Ohio, Kent State University Press, 1996. xv, 245 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth). Interest in the First World War has revived in the last decade as a number of monographs exploring various themes have...

War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century.(Review)
April 1, 2000... War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century, edited by Jay Winter and Emmanuel Sivan. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1999. vii, 260 pp. $59.95 U.S. Both of these books centre on the theme of collective memory of war. Winter and...

Memorials of the Great War in Britain: The Symbolism and Politics of Remembrance.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Memorials of the Great War in Britain: The Symbolism and Politics of Remembrance, by Alex King. Oxford, England, Berg, 1998. xii, 274 pp. $19.50 U.S. (paper). Both of these books centre on the theme of collective memory of war. Winter and...

The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939, by J. Arch Getty and Oleg V. Naumov. Annals of Communism Series. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1999. xxvii, 635 pp. $35.00 U.S. This thick...

The Victorian Spinster and Colonial Emigration: Contested Subjects.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Victorian Spinster and Colonial Emigration: Contested Subjects, by Rita S. Kranidis. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1999. x, 226 pp. $45.00. Victorian women's interaction with the Empire is a growing area of research in modern British...

Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City, by Peter Bailey. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. x, 258 pp. $59.95. On the dust jacket of Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City is a cartoon of a comic...

English Pasts: Essays in History and Culture.(Review)
April 1, 2000... English Pasts: Essays in History and Culture, by Stefan Collini. New York, Oxford University Press, 1999. 348 pp. $40.00 U.S. Intellectual history suffers as a discipline from the unfavourable connotations of the word "intellectual": it's...

The Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914: Liberalism, Imagination and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914: Liberalism, Imagination and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life, by W.C. Lubenow. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xvi, 458 pp. $59.95 U.S. Intellectual history suffers as...

Strikes and Solidarity: Coalfield Conflict in Britain, 1889-1966.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Strikes and Solidarity: Coalfield Conflict in Britain, 1889-1966, by Roy Church and Quentin Outram. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xx, 314 pp. $69.95. In Britain and the U.S.A. coalminers have been the stereotypical militant...

The Basis and Making of British Grand Strategy, 1940-1943: Was There A Plan?(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Basis and Making of British Grand Strategy, 1940-1943: Was There A Plan? by Brian P. Farrell. Lewiston, New York, Edwin Mellen Press, 1998. Two volumes, vi, 871 pp. $109.95 U.S. The short answer to the question posed in the sub-title of...

Border Life: Experience and Memory in the Revolutionary Ohio Valley.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Border Life: Experience and Memory in the Revolutionary Ohio Valley, by Elizabeth A. Perkins. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 1998. 253 pp. $71.95 Cdn (cloth), $28.75 Cdn (paper). What was it really like in...

American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Social and Economic Histories.(Review)
April 1, 2000... American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Social and Economic Histories, par Daniel H. Usner, Jr. Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1998. xvi, 189 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth). Dans une etude qui vise a exposer les...

The Brainerd Journal: A Mission to the Cherokees, 1817-1823.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Brainerd Journal: A Mission to the Cherokees, 1817-1823, edited by Joyce B. Phillips and Paul Gary Phillips. Indians of the Southeast series. Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1998. xix, 584 pp. $55.00 U.S. Documentary...

The Voyage of the Frolic: New England Merchants and the Opium Trade.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Voyage of the Frolic: New England Merchants and the Opium Trade, by Thomas N. Layton. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1997. xi, 227 pp. $24.95. What a wonderful treat this slim volume is to read. Thomas Layton has...

Strong Wine: The Life and Legend of Agoston Haraszthy.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Strong Wine: The Life and Legend of Agoston Haraszthy, by Brian McGinty. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1998. xii, 579 pp. $65.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paper). Strong Wine traces the life of Agoston Haraszthy who immigrated...

Psychologists on the March: Science, Practice, and Professionalism in America, 1929-1969.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Psychologists on the March: Science, Practice, and Professionalism in America, 1929-1969, by James H. Capshew. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1999. xii, 276 pp. $59.95 U.S. Psychology occupies a unique place in the social sciences....

The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets From the Early Cold War and Korea.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets From the Early Cold War and Korea, by Stephen Endicott and Edward Hagerman. Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Press, 1998. xxi, 274 pp. $29.95 U.S. (cloth). One of the more...

The Scar That-Binds: American Culture and the Vietnam War.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Scar That-Binds: American Culture and the Vietnam War, by Keith Beattie. New York, New York University Press, 1998. x, 230 pp. $40.00. The Scar That Binds is a vigorous intellectual and ideological assault on Vietnam War revisionism,...

Codex Chimalpahin, Volume Two: Society and Politics in Mexico, Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahua Altepetl in Central Mexico (Continued): The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by Don Domingo de San Anton Munon Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, plus The Exercicio Quotidiano and Unsigned Nahuatl Materials and A Letter.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Codex Chimalpahin, Volume Two: Society and Politics in Mexico, Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahua Altepetl in Central Mexico (Continued): The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by Don...

The Story of Guadalupe: Luis Laso de la Vega's Huei tlamahuicoltica of 1649.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Story of Guadalupe: Luis Laso de la Vega's Huei tlamahuicoltica of 1649, edited and translated by Lisa Sousa, Stafford Poole, C.M., and James Lockhart. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, Latin American Studies, Volume 84,...

Reinterpreting the Banana Republic: Region and State in Honduras, 1870-1972.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Reinterpreting the Banana Republic: Region and State in Honduras, 1870-1972, by Dario A. Euraque. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, The University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xxvi, 242 pp. $39.95 (cloth), $18.95 (paper). A common assumption...

Authoritarianism and Democratization: Soldiers and Workers in Argentina, 1976-1983.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Authoritarianism and Democratization: Soldiers and Workers in Argentina, 1976-1983, by Gerardo L. Munck. University Park, Pennsylvania, Penn State University Press, 1998. xxxiii, 334 pp. $56.00 (cloth), $19.95 (paper). This book tackles...

The Mamluks in Egyptian Politics and Society.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Mamluks in Egyptian Politics and Society, edited by Thomas Philipp and Ulrich Haarmann. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiv, 306 pp. $59.95. This text is a collection of articles emanating from "a small conference" held in...

Liberals Against Apartheid: A History of the Liberal Party of South Africa, 1953-1968.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Liberals Against Apartheid: A History of the Liberal Party of South Africa, 1953-1968, by Randolph Vigne. London, England, MacMillan Press, 1997. xi, 268 pp. $65.00. This book is one of the more important additions to the growing...

The Agony of Algeria.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Agony of Algeria, by Martin Stone. New York, Columbia University Press, 1997. xiv, 274 pp. $45.00 (cloth), $16.50 (paper). This compact volume succeeds in its central purpose by providing English-speaking readers with an analytical...

The Origins of Japan's Medieval World: Courtiers, Clerics, Warriors, and Peasants in the Fourteenth Century.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Origins of Japan's Medieval World: Courtiers, Clerics, Warriors, and Peasants in the Fourteenth Century, edited by Jeffrey P. Mass. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1997. ix, 505 pp. $65.00 U.S. According to standard...

The Cambridge History of Modern China, Volume Eight: The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, Part 2.(Review)
April 1, 2000... The Cambridge History of Modern China, Volume Eight: The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, Part 2, edited by Denis Twitchett and Frederick W. Mote. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xxvii, 1203 pp. $130.00 U.S. This new volume adds weight...

To the Harbin Station: The Liberal Alternative in Russian Manchuria, 1898-1914.(Review)
April 1, 2000... To the Harbin Station: The Liberal Alternative in Russian Manchuria, 1898-1914, by David Wolff. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1999. xix, 249 pp. $49.50. Harbin will live in the memory of generations of Russian kharbintsy...

Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past, by Jeremy Black. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1997. ix, 267 pp. $35.00 U.S. This pair of books is both impressive and depressing: impressive for the amount of delving...

Maps and Politics.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Maps and Politics, by Jeremy Black. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1997. ix, 188 pp. $35.00 U.S. This pair of books is both impressive and depressing: impressive for the amount of delving into geographic and cartographic...