Canadian Journal of History articles from April 2001

Canadian Journal of History archives from April 2001

Discourse on History, Geography, and Law: John Dee and the Limits of the British Empire, 1576-80.
April 1, 2001... DISCOURSE HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, AND LAW: JOHN DEE AND THE LIMITS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, 1576-80(*) Historians have examined in some detail John Dee's efforts on behalf of the British Empire.(1) From the mid-1550s he was recognized as an...

Anatomy of Observation: From the Academie royale de la Chirurgie to the Salons of Denis Diderot.
April 1, 2001... I. Introduction In the early eighteenth century four milestones in the history of surgery marked its ascent as a profession and as a discipline in the Royal Academic system of France: (1) Louis XV's 1724 letter patent, creating the College...

Church, State, and Education in France From the Falloux to the Ferry Laws: A Reassessment(*).
April 1, 2001... CHURCH, STATE, AND EDUCATION IN FRANCE FROM THE FALLOUX TO THE FERRY LAWS: A REASSESSMENT(*) In an oft-quoted passage Ernest Lavisse described the pernicious results of the Falloux Law: Ecclesiastical schools in competition with...

British Consciousness and Identity: the Making of Britain, 1533-1707.(Review)
April 1, 2001... British Consciousness and Identity: the making of Britain, 1533-1707, by Brendan Bradshaw and Peter Roberts. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xii, 354 pp. $69.95U.S. Historians courageous enough to explore and begin to unravel...

Protestantism and National Identity: Britain and Ireland, c. 1650-c. 1850.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Protesatantism and National Identity: Britain and Ireland, c. 1650-c. 1850, by Tony Claydon and Ian McBride. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998. ix, 317 pp. $64.95U.S. Historians courageous enough to explore and begin to unravel...

British Identities before Nationalism: Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600-1800.(Review)
April 1, 2001... British Identities before Nationalism: Ethnicity and nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600-1800, by Colin Kidd. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999. viii, 302 pp. $59.95U.S. Protestantism and National Identity: Britain and Ireland,...

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England, edited by Michael Lapidge, John Blair, Simon Keynes, and Donald Scragg. Oxford, England, Blackwell Publishers, 1999. xviii, 537 pp. $99.95 U.S. (cloth). Blackwell Publishers have filled an...

The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the Twelfth Century.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the Twelfth Century, Volume I, Legislation and Its Limits, by Patrick Wormald. Malden, Massachusetts, Blackwell, 1999. xvii, 574 pp. $99.95 U.S. This is, the author claims, "an old-fashioned book"...

Young Medieval Women.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Young Medieval Women, edite par Katherine J. Lewis, Noel James Menuge, et Kim M. Phillips. New York, St. Martins Press, 1999. vii, 202 pp. $35.00 U.S. Dans les premieres lignes de l'introduction du collectif Young Medieval Women, les...

Medieval Gentlewoman: Life in a Gentry Household in the Later Middle Ages.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Medieval Gentlewoman: Life in a Gentry Household in the Later Middle Ages, by ffiona Swabey. New York, Routledge, 1999. xiii, 210 pp. $53.00 Cdn. The lives of medieval people of all ranks and sorts have long been of enduring interest to...

Muscovy and the Mongols: Cross-Cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier, 1304-1589.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Muscovy and the Mongols: Cross-Cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier, 1304-1589, par Donald Ostrowski. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xvi, 329 pp. $64.95 U.S. La rarete, le silence et le caractere souvent contradictoire...

The Common Good in Late Medieval Political Thought.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Common Good in Late Medieval Political Thought, by M. S. Kempshall. New York, Oxford University Press, 1999. 401 pp. $55.00 U. S. This is an ambitious book. It seeks to assess afresh the influence of Aristotelian philosophy on the...

The Local Merchants of Prato: Small Entrepreneurs in the Late Medieval Economy.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Local Merchants of Prato: Small Entrepreneurs in the Late Medieval Economy, by Richard K. Marshall. Series: The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, 117th Series. Baltimore, Maryland, The Johns Hopkins...

The Art and Ritual of Childbirth in Renaissance Italy.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Art and Ritual of Childbirth in Renaissance Italy, by Jacqueline Made Musacchio. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1999. xiv, 212 pp. $55.00 U.S. This study of the decorative art created to commemorate childbirth in Renaissance Italy...

The Catholic Reformation.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Catholic Reformation, by Michael A. Mullett. New York, Routledge, 1999. xi, 258 pp. $113.00 U.S. (cloth), $34.99 (paper) U.S. As the author indicates, in choosing his title rather than the "more traditional" term, Counter Reformation,...

The Crime of Crimes: Demonology and Politics in France, 1560-1620.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Crime of Crimes: Demonology and Politics in France, 1560-1620, by Jonathan L. Pearl. Waterloo, Ontario, Wilfrid Laurier Press, 1999. $39.95 Cdn. The "postmodern condition" of the discipline of history is overproduction. Layer after...

At War With the Church: Religious Dissent in Seventeenth-Century Russia.(Review)
April 1, 2001... At War With the Church: Religious Dissent in Seventeenth-Century Russia, by Georg B. Michels. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1999. x, 368 pp. $65.00 U.S. In the present volume Georg Michels details the religious dissent...

The Enlightenment.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Enlightenment, edited by David Williams. Series: Cambridge Readings in the History of Political Thought, Volume 1. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1999. xii, 529 pp. $59.95 U.S. (cloth), $22.95 U.S. (paper). This anthology brings...

The Sciences in Enlightened Europe.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Sciences in Enlightened Europe, edited by William Clark, Jan Golinski, and Simon Schaffer. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1999. xiii, 566 pp. $85.00 U.S. (cloth), $27.50 U.S. (paper). Throughout the English-speaking...

The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette, by Chantal Thomas, translated by Julie Rose. New York, Zone Books, 1999. 255 pp. $26.00 U.S. Today most historians of the French Revolution are familiar with Marie-Antoinette's...

Music Science and Natural Magic in Seventeenth-Century England.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Music Science and Natural Magic in Seventeenth-Century England, by Penelope Gouk. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1999. xii, 308 pp. $35.00 U.S. The path between a completed Ph.D. dissertation and a published book whose...

Urban Patronage in Early Modern England: Corporate Boroughs, the Landed Elite, and the Crown, 1580-1640.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Urban Patronage in Early Modern England: Corporate Boroughs, the Landed Elite, and the Crown, 1580-1640, by Catherine Patterson. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1999. xii, 337 pp. $65.00 U.S. Catherine Patterson's close...

Home Divisions: Aristocracy, the State and Provincial Conflict.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Home Divisions: Aristocracy, the State and Provincial Conflict by Thomas Cogswell. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1998. xvi, 336 pp. $55.00 U.S. Thomas Cogswell informs us that Home Divisions was prompted by his dismay at...

The Causes of the English Civil War (Second Edition).(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Causes of the English Civil War (Second Edition), by Ann Hughes. Series: British History in Perspective. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1998. viii, 206 pp. $55.00 U.S. When the first edition of this book was published in 1991 Ann Hughes...

The English Horace: Anthony Alsop and the Tradition of British Latin Verse.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The English Horace: Anthony Alsop and the Tradition of British Latin Verse by D. K. Money. Oxford, England, Oxford University Press, 1998. 406 pp. $65.00 U.S. One might search in vain for more than a fleeting reference to Anthony Alsop in...

The Military Reforms of Nicholas I: The Origins of the Modern Russian Army.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Military Reforms of Nicholas I: The Origins of the Modern Russian Army, by Frederick W. Kagan. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1999. xii, 337. pp. $49.95 U.S. The conventional view of the reign of Nicholas I is that he, along with Count...

Education and Society in Germany.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Education and Society in Germany, by H. J. Hahn. New York, Berg Publishers, 1998. xi, 196 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cloth), $15.50 U.S. (paper). Hahn, professor of German at Oxford Brookes University in England, offers a survey of two centuries of...

Religion and the Rise of Historicism: W.M.L. de Wette, Jacob Burckhardt, and the Theological Origins of Nineteenth-Century Historical Consciousness.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Religion and the Rise of Historicism: W.M.L. de Wette, Jacob Burckhardt, and the Theological Origins of Nineteenth-Century Historical Consciousness, by Thomas Albert Howard. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. xi, 250 pp. $49.95 U.S....

Europe in Love. Love in Europe: Imagination and Politics Between the Wars.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Europe in Love. Love in Europe: Imagination and Politics Between the Wars, by Luisa Passerini. New York, New York University Press, 1999. viii, 358pp. $38.50 U.S. (cloth). Passerini's well-written and erudite work of cultural and...

Ethnic Cleansing in the U.S.S.R., 1937-1949.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Ethnic Cleansing in the U.S.S.R., 1937-1949, by J. Otto Pohl. Series: Contributions to the Study of World History, Number 65. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1999. xvii, 179 pp. $59.95 U.S. (cloth). The term "ethnic cleansing" has...

Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times. Soviet Russia in the 1930s.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times. Soviet Russia in the 1930s, by Sheila Fitzpatrick. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. x, 288 pp. $27.50 U.S. (cloth), $14.95 U.S. (paper). In this stimulating book, Sheila...

Under the Shadow of the Swastika: The Moral Dilemmas of Resistance and Collaboration in Hitler's Europe.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Under the Shadow of the Swastika: The Moral Dilemmas of Resistance and Collaboration in Hitler's Europe, by Rab Bennett. New York, New York University Press, 1999. ix, 318 pp. $40.00 U. S. At the core of this wide-ranging work of synthesis...

Hitler's Legacy: West Germany Confronts the Aftermath of the Third Reich.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Hitler's Legacy: West Germany Confronts the Aftermath of the Third Reich, by John P. Teschke. New York, Peter Lang Publishing, 1999. 429 pp. $65.95 U.S. Following the collapse of the Third Reich, the allies dismissed approximately 53,000...

Shouldering the Burdens of Defeat: West Germany and the Reconstruction of Social Justice.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Shouldering the Burdens of Defeat: West Germany and the Reconstruction of Social Justice, by Michael L. Hughes. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 1999. 265 pp. $82.50 Cdn. Prosperity frequently depends on a...

A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945-1963.(Review)
April 1, 2001... A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945-1963, by Marc Trachtenberg. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1999. xv, 424 pp. $60.00 US. The division of Germany provided the starkest evidence of the...

Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War, by Julie A. Mertus. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1999. xxii, 378 pp. $55.00 U. S. (cloth), $19.95 (paper) U. S. For most of the public in the United States, Kosovo burst...

Newspapers, Politics and Public Opinion in Late Eighteenth-Century England.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Newspapers, Politics and Public Opinion in Late Eighteenth-Century England, by Hannah Barker. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1998. xi, 202 pp. $65.00 U.S. (cloth), $30.00 U.S. (paper). For Macaulay and the Whig tradition, it was axiomatic that...

Congregational Missions and the Making of an Imperial Culture in 19th-Century England.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Congregational Missions and the Making of an Imperial Culture in 19th-Century England, by Susan Thorne. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1999. 247 pp. $49.50 U.S. The history of missions has not been extensively integrated...

Secure From Rash Assault: Sustaining the Victorian Environment.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Secure From Rash Assault: Sustaining the Victorian Environment, by James Winter. Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1999. xi, 342 pp, $35.00 U.S. Upon hearing of a projected railway line into the lake district in...

Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity, by Ian Baucom. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1999. x, 249 pp. $18.95 U.S. Ian Baucom has written an interesting and irritating book; interesting because...

Imagining Home: Gender, `Race' and National Identity, 1945-64.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Imagining Home: Gender, `Race' and National Identity, 1945-64, by Wendy Webster. Preston, England, University of Central Lancashire Press, 1998. xxiv, 185 pp. $19.95 U.S. In April, 1948 the Dowager Marchioness of Reading, addressing a...

Gotham: A History of New York to 1898.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Gotham: A History of New York to 1898, by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace. New York, Oxford University Press, 1999. xxiv, 1,383 pp. $42.00 U.S. This book is a major achievement in historical scholarship, entirely worthy of its Pulitzer...

Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans, by Anthony F.C. Wallace. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999. xi, 378 pp. $29.95 U.S. (cloth), $18.95 U.S. (paper). Anthony...

Women and Nature: Saving the "Wild" West.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Women and Nature: Saving the "Wild" West, by Glenda Riley. Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1999. xviii, 279 pp. $60.00 U.S. (cloth), $24.95 U.S. (paper). In this ambitious study Glenda Riley examines American women' s...

Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy 1900-1930.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900-1930, by Emily S. Rosenberg. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1999. x, 334 pp. $45.00 U.S. The title of this book, Financial...

In Search of Woodrow Wilson: Beliefs and Behavior.(Review)
April 1, 2001... In Search of Woodrow Wilson: Beliefs and Behavior, by Robert M. Saunders. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1998. viii, 273 pp. $59.95 U. S. Not having been exposed to the race, class, and gender enthusiasms of the modern historical...

The Nervous Liberal: Propaganda Anxieties from World War I to the Cold War.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Nervous Liberal: Propaganda Anxieties from World War I to the Cold War, by Brett Gary. New York, Columbia University Press, 1999. xii, 323 pp. $49.50 U.S. (cloth); $19.00 U.S. (paper). In the aftermath of World War I, government...

American Science in an Age of Anxiety: Scientists, Anticommunism, and the Cold War.(Review)
April 1, 2001... American Science in an Age of Anxiety: Scientists, Anticommunism, and the Cold War, by Jessica Wang. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xiv, 375 pp. $82.50 Cdn (cloth), $32.95 Cdn (paper). In American...

Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison, A True Story of Abuse and Exploitation in the Name of Medical Science.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison, A True Story of Abuse and Exploitation in the Name of Medical Science, by Allen M. Hornblum. New York, Routledge, 1998. xxii, 320 pp. $31.95 U.S. (cloth), $16.00 U.S. (paper). ...

Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism, par Judith Stein. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, distribue par Scholarly Book Services, 1998. xvi, 410 pp. $98.95 Cdn...

Public Lives, Private Secrets: Gender, Honor, Sexuality, and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Public Lives, Private Secrets: Gender, Honor, Sexuality, and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America, by Ann Twinam. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1999. xiii, 442 pp. $60.00 U.S. (cloth), $24.95 U.S. (paper). During the...

Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World.
April 1, 2001... Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World, by Jeremy Adelman. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1999. x, 293 pp. $55.00 U.S. Republic of Capital is an engaging, well-researched and...

Father of the Poor? Vargas and His Era.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Father of the Poor? Vargas and His Era, by Robert M. Levine. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. 193 pp. $54.95 U.S. The figure of Getulio Vargas continues to cast a long shadow over the history of twentieth-century Brazil. Vargas...

Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan, by Mark Ravina. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1999. xx, 278 pp. $45.00 U.S. Mark Ravina has presented in Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan a thought-provoking study which...

Talons and Teeth: County Clerks and Runners in the Qing Dynasty.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Talons and Teeth: County Clerks and Runners in the Qing Dynasty, by Bradly W. Reed. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2000. xxvi, 318 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cloth). This study of the sub-bureaucratic system of clerks and runners in...

Social Power and Legal Culture: Litigation Masters in Late Imperial China.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Social Power and Legal Culture: Litigation Masters in Late Imperial China, by Melissa Macauley. Stanford, California. Stanford University Press, 1998. xii, 416 pp. $55.00 U.S. When Shakespeare had Dick the Butcher muse that on coming to...

Cadres and Kin: Making a Socialist Village in West China, 1921-1991.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Cadres and Kin: Making a Socialist Village in West China, 1921-1991, by Gregory A. Ruf. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1999. xx, 249 pp. $49.50 U. S. The scale of the Chinese revolution was immense, but as Gregory Ruf...

After the Propaganda State: Media, Politics, and "Thought Work" in Reformed China.(Review)
April 1, 2001... After the Propaganda State: Media, Politics, and "Thought Work" in Reformed China, by Daniel C. Lynch. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1999. xiii, 327 pp. $45.00 U. S. How far toward "post-socialism" has China really gone?...

The History Highway 2000: A Guide to Internet Resources.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The History Highway 2000: A Guide to Internet Resources, Second Edition, by Dennis A. Trinkle and Scott A. Merriman. Armonk, New York, M. E. Sharpe, 2000. xvi, 600 pp. $79.95 U. S. I approached Dennis A. Trinkle's and Scott A. Merriman's...

Memory.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Memory, edited by Patricia Fara and Karalyn Patterson. Series: Darwin College Lectures. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1999. 201 pp. $24.95 U.S. In a late fifteenth-century illustrated German manuscript on Aristotle's De anima we...

A History of Celibacy.(Review)
April 1, 2001... A History of Celibacy, by Elizabeth Abbot. Toronto, Ontario, Harper Collins Publishers, 1999. 559 pp. $32.00 Cdn. "[W]hat didn't happen in the bedrooms of history, and why?" is the thread that links together this lively, wide-ranging but...

The History of Diplomatic Immunity.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The History of Diplomatic Immunity, by Linda S. Frey and Marsha L. Frey. Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State University Press, 1999. xiii, 727 pp. $80.00 U.S. Since the beginning of recorded civilization, most societies have extended a certain...

The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times, Volume I, The Dynastic Periods: From Antiquity to the Fourteenth Century.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times, Volume I, The Dynastic Periods: From Antiquity to the Fourteenth Century, edited by Richard Hovannisian. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1997. xii, 372 pp. $49.95 U.S. The history of the...

The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times, Volume II, Foreign Dominion to Statehood: The Fifteenth Century to the Twentieth Century.
April 1, 2001... The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times, Volume II, Foreign Dominion to Statehood: The Fifteenth Century to the Twentieth Century, edited by Richard Hovannisian. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1997. xii, 493 pp. $49.95 U.S. The...

The Armenians.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Armenians, by A. Elizabeth Redgate. Oxford, Blackwell, 1999. 320 pp. $59.95 U.S. Most books on Armenian history are written either by Armenians, their friends, or their enemies. It is a distinct pleasure, therefore, to find an...

Theories of Empire, 1450-1800.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Theories of Empire, 1450-1800, edited by David Armitage. Series: An Expanding World: The European Impact on World History, 1450-1800, Volume 20. Aldershot, England, Ashgate Variorum, 1998. xxxiv, 388 pp. $125.95 U.S. Theories of Empire,...

Settlement Patterns in Early Modern Colonization, 16th-18th Centuries.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Settlement Patterns in Early Modern Colonization, 16th-18th Centuries, edited by Joyce Lorimer. Brookfield, Vermont, Ashgate Publishing, 1998. xxxiii, 448 pp. $135.95 U.S. This volume is part of a large multi-volume collection, titled An...

Ideas in Action: Political Tradition in the Twentieth Century.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Ideas in Action: Political Tradition in the Twentieth Century, by Stephen Eric Bronner. Lanham, Maryland, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999. xi, 349 pp. $69.00 U.S. (cloth), $24.95 U.S. (paper). This is a book about the many gods that...