Canadian Journal of History articles from April 2003

Canadian Journal of History archives from April 2003

The London Gazette as a primary source for the biography of General Patrick Gordon.(introduction in French)
April 1, 2003... Patrick Gordon d 'Auchleurchries (1635-1699) a laisse pour la posterite un journal de langue anglaise concernant principalement son service militaire dans les armees suedoises, polonaises et russes, de meme que ses activites en tant que...

Culture in the cities: provincial academies during the early years of Louis XIV's reign.(introduction in French)(17th century France)
April 1, 2003... L'interpretatin traditionnelle suggere que l'absolutisme culturel de Louis XIV incluait la creation d'academies provinciales sous la direction de l'Academie francaise. Cet article soutient que des hommes de lettres de Caens, Soissons, Angers,...

Death in the afternoon: the Croke Park massacre, 21 November 1920.(controversial event of the Irish War of Independence )
April 1, 2003... Le 21 novembre 1920 rut le premier 'dimanche sanglant' de l'histoire irlandaise moderne. Ce dimanche la, dans l'apres-midi, quatorze personnes furent tuees ou blessees mortellement lorsque la police tira dans la foule a un match de football au...

Book history unbound: transactions of the written word made public.
April 1, 2003... Un examen critique, a partir du point de vue des disciplines historiques, d 'un champ d'etude multidisciplinaire, cet article suggere que la methode et theorie rattachees a l'histoire du livre sont importantes parce qu 'elles ont la possibilite...

Libraries in the Ancient World. (Book review).(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Lionel Casson. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2001, ix-xii, 177 pp. $22.95 U.S. (cloth). That a book so small and economical could mean to encompass the subject of its title is initial cause for concern. Can only so little...

Imperial Women: a Study in Public Images.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... 40 B.C.-A.D. 68, by Susan E. Wood. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1999 (cloth), 2001 (paperback). xi, 370 pp. $157.00 U.S. (cloth), $34.90 U.S. (paper). Interest in the history of women continues to grow. However, due to the relatively scant...

The Emergence of Monasticism: From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Marilyn Dunn. Oxford, Blackwell, 2000. viii, 280 pp. $64.95 U.S. (cloth). Over the last generation, the religious history of later antiquity and the early middle ages has become one of the most exciting areas of research in pre-modern...

Henry I.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by C. Warren Hollister. Edited and completed by Amanda Clark Frost. Yale English Monarchs Series. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2001. xx, 554 pp. $39.95 U.S. (cloth). The long-awaited volume for Henry I in the Yale English...

Queering the Middle Ages.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... edited by Glenn Burger and Steven F. Kruger. Minneapolis, Minnesota, University of Minnesota Press, 2001. xxiii, 318 pp. $49.95 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper). "If modernity is constructed in part over against the medieval, and if...

Modelling the Middle Ages: the History and Theory of England's Economic Development.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by John Hatcher and Mark Bailey. Oxford Ethics Series. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001. xiii, 254 pp. $49.95 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper). Modelling the Middle Ages is an elegant and intelligent retrospective on the theories and...

The Universities of the Italian Renaissance.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Paul F. Grendler. Baltimore & London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xx, 592 pp. $49.50 U.S. (cloth). There were sixteen universities in Italy, founded in waves. The first wave was founded in the early thirteenth century, largely:...

The Politics of Exile in Renaissance Italy.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Christine Shaw. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000. x, 257 pp. $64.95 U.S. (cloth). Dr. Shaw's investigation covers primarily the second half of the fifteenth century, or the period from the peace of Lodi to the invasion of...

The Cultural Politics of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... edited by Konrad Eisenbichler. Aldershot, Ashgate, 2001, xxi, 262 pp. $79.95 U.S. (cloth). This book is a collection of fifteen articles on Duke Cosimo I de' Medici (1519-72) and his use of culture to support his power. The first three...

Perfect Wives, Other Women: Adultery and Inquisition in Early Modern Spain.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Georgina Dopico Black. Durham, Duke University Press, 2001. xx, 307 pp. $59.95 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper). In this wide-ranging literary study Georgina Dopico Black explores the anxieties surrounding the body of the wife in...

Early Modern Catholicism: Essays in Honour of John W. O'Malley, S.J.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... edited by Kathleen M. Comerford and Hilmar M. Pabel. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2001. xxxiii, 324 pp. $70.00 Cdn (cloth), $27.50 Cdn (paper). This book is intended to be both a Festschrift prepared by former students of Father...

At the Borders of the Human: Beasts, Bodies and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... edited by Erica Fudge, Ruth Gilbert, and Susan Wiseman. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1999. xii, 269 pp. $59.95 U.S. (cloth). At the Borders of the Human: Beasts, Bodies and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period is a collection of...

Press Censorship in Jacobean England.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Cyndia Susan Clegg. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001. ix, 286 pp. $59.95 U.S. (cloth). Press censorship is an issue of perennial interest for early modern scholars, and has been the focal point for profound historiographical...

Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by J.M. Beattie. Oxford University Press, 2001. xix, 491 pp. $74.00 U.S. (cloth), $35.00 U.S. (paper). As emeritus professor at the Centre of Criminology at the University of Toronto and as a highly esteemed specialist in the history of...

Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1688-1783.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Jeremy Black. Palgrave History of Britain, volume 1. Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2001. viii, 312 pp. $69.95 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper). Jeremy Black is a phenomenon. In a career that has so far spanned only two decades, he has edited...

Enlightenment Aberrations: Error and Revolution in France.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by David W. Bates. Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2002. xiii, 262 pp. $39.95 U.S. (cloth). We do not live in an enlightened age. We live in an age that must rethink Enlightenment error. This may well encapsulate David Bates's...

The French Revolution: the Essential Readings.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... edited by Ronald Schechter. Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, Ltd., 2001. viii, 344 pp. $29.95 U.S. (paper). Any attempt to identify the "essential readings" in a field of scholarship as rich as that of the French Revolution is inherently...

Making Democracy in the French Revolution.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by James Livesey. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2001. vii, 326 pp. $49.95 U.S. (cloth). Over two hundred years on, the French Revolution is constantly undergoing metamorphosis in terms of interpretation and emphasis....

French Anti-Slavery: The Movement for the Abolition of Slavery in France, 1802-1848.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Lawrence C. Jennings. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. x, 320 pp. $54.95 U.S. (cloth). The movement for the "second emancipation" of slaves in the French empire has attracted less scholarly attention than the liberation of...

The Search for Good Government: Understanding the Paradox of Italian Democracy.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Filippo Sabetti. Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. xii, 313 pp. $44.95 Cdn. In a challenging, interesting book Filippo Sabetti, professor of political science at McGill University, tries to explain why Italy,...

Art, War and Revolution in France, 1870-1871: Myth, Reportage and Reality.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by John Milner. New Haven, Connecticut and London, Yale University Press, 2000. xi, 243 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cloth). The traumatic French experience of 1870-71 has recently attracted the attention of art historians. The most notably example is...

A Social Laboratory for Modern France: the Musee Social and the Rise of the Welfare State.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... par Janet R. Home. Durham, North Carolina and London, Duke University Press, 2002. 353 pp. $59.95 E.U. (couverture rigide), $19.95 E.U. (poche). Issu d'une these de doctorat, l'ouvrage de Janet Home s'inscrit dans le cadre des etudes sur...

Lenin: a Biography.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Robert Service. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001. xxv, 561 pp. $18.95 U.S. (paper). Any biographer of Lenin has an unenviable task. To write about someone whose life has been scrutinized with...

Deutsche Umbruche im 20. Jahrhundert.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... edited by Dietrich Papenfuss and Wolfgang Schieder. Cologne, Germany and Vienna, Austria, Bohlau Press, 2000. x, 691 pp. 75.50 The years 1918, 1933, 1945, and 1989 are without doubt watersheds in German history. While the end of the First...

The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War Against the Jews.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Harold James. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001. xi, 268 pp. $24.95 U.S. (cloth). Harold James is a member of a commission formed by Deutsche Bank to examine the bank's history during the Nazi era and this study is based...

Allianz and the German Insurance Business, 1933-1945.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Gerald D. Feldman. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001. xxii, 568 pp. $59.95 U.S. (cloth). Some years ago, the Allianz, Germany's largest private insurer, was confronted by serious criticism concerning its business operations...

War Stories: the Search for a Useable Past in the Federal Republic of Germany.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Robert G. Moeller. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 2001. 385 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth). All individuals and all peoples have selective memories. The Germans are no exception as robert G. Moeller demonstrates with...

The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Jonathan Rose. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2001. ix, 534 pp. $39.95 U.S. (cloth). This is a big book: big in size, big in its ambitions, and big-hearted. It surveys popular literacy from the early eighteenth century to...

Women, Privilege and Power: British Politics, 1750 to the Present.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... edited by Amanda Vickery. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2001. vii, 413 pp. $60.00 U.S. (cloth). Women, Privilege and Power is a uniformly very well-written volume whose coherence is enhanced by an excellent introductory...

The Demography of Victorian England and Wales.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Robert Woods. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxv, 447 pp. $69.95 U.S. (cloth). I did not like this book. Woods has not written a bad book but, rather, it could have been a much better one. It would be impossible to gainsay...

British Quakerism 1860-1920: the Transformation of a Religious Community.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Thomas C. Kennedy. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001. xv, 477 pp. $159.00 Cdn (cloth). Wilfrid Littleboy, a chartered accountant, served twenty-eight months in London's Wormwood Scrubs prison during the First World War. He was a...

Reconciling Science and Religion: the Debate in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Peter J. Bowler. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2001. xiii, 479 pp. $40.00 U.S. (cloth). Bowler's book shows that interest in the relationship between science and religion did not fade away after the Darwinian...

Feminine Fascism: Women in Britain's Fascist Movement 1923-1945.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Julie V. Gottlieb. London, I.B. Tauris Publishers, 2000. x, 378 pp. $59.50 U.S. (cloth). Julie Gottleib's valuable study of British women fascists sets out to do several things. In addition to achieving a full account of women's place...

Bones: Discovering the First Americans.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Elaine Dewar. Toronto, Random House, 2001. 628 pp. $39.95 Cdn (cloth). Readers are well prepared to read Bones if they keep in mind that it is the work of a journalist, not a scholar. Like Dewar's previous book, Cloak of Green, it is...

Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier: the Historiography of Sixteenth-Century New Mexico and Florida and the Legacy of Conquest.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier: The Historiography of Sixteenth-Century New Mexico and Florida and the Legacy of Conquest by Jose Rabasa. Durham, Duke University Press, 2000. xiv, 359 pp. $59.95 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper). ...

Upon These Shores: Themes in the African-American Experience, 1600 to the Present.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... edited by William R. Scott and William G. Shade. New York, Routledge, 2000. xxix, 450 pp. $128.00 Cdn (cloth), $37.95 Cdn (paper). While African-American studies carve out a niche in liberal arts programs across the continent, there are...

The Great Frontier War: Britain, France, and the Imperial Struggle for North America.(The First Global War: Britain, France, and the Fate of North America, 1756-1775)('Haughty Conquerors': Amherst and the Great Indian Uprising of 1763)(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... The Great Frontier War: Britain, France, and the Imperial Struggle for North America, 1607-1755, by William R. Nester. Westport, Connecticut, Praeger, 2000. xiii, 326 pp. $69.50 U.S. (cloth). The First Global War: Britain, France, and the...

The United States and Imperialism.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Frank Ninkovich. Problems in American History Series. Malden, Massachusetts, Blackwell Publishers, 2001. ix, 299 pp. $26.95 U.S. (paper). Frank Ninkovich assays three tasks in this ambitious volume, which will work well in classroom...

The "Jewish Threat": Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Joseph W. Bendersky. New York, Basic Books, 2000. xvii, 539 pp. $30.00 U.S. (cloth). The U.S. Army Officer Corps was a good deal more ethnically homogeneous between 1900 and 1941 than it is today. For the most part they were men of...

Merging Lines: American Railroads 1900-1970.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Richard Saunders Jr. DeKalb, Illinois, Northern Illinois University Press, 2001. xix, 486 pp. $49.95 U.S. (cloth). Railroads in the last half of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries were a critically important...

Before Guadalupe: the Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Louise M. Burkhart. IMS Monograph series, No. 13. Albany, New York, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, University of Albany, 2001. viii, 165 pages. $25.00 U.S. (paper). The study of Christianity in early Latin America has ceased for...

The West Indians of Costa Rica: Race, Class, and the Integration of an Ethnic Minority.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Ronald N. Harpelle. Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. vii, 233 pp. $70.00 U.S. (cloth), $24.95 U.S. (paper). Ronald Harpelle's book is a valuable addition to the historiography of the Afro-Caribbean presence in Central...

Revolution in the Street: Women, Workers, and Urban Protest in Veracruz, 1870-1927.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Andrew Grant Wood. Wilmington, Delaware, SR Books, 2001. xxiii, 239 pp. $60.00 U.S. (cloth). As recently as fifteen years ago, many of the shibboleths of an entrenched decades-old revolutionary leadership were reflected in how scholars...

Labors Appropriate to their Sex: Gender, Labor, and Politics in Urban Chile, 1900-1930.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Elizabeth Quay Hutchison. Durham, North Carolina, and London, Duke University Press, 2001. xvii, 342 pp. $64.95 U.S. (cloth), $21.95 U.S. (paper). This exceptional study of women's paid employment and its regulation in early...

"This Matter of Women is Getting Very Bad": Gender, Development and Politics in Colonial Lesotho.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Marc Epprecht. Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, University of Natal Press, 2000. ix, 281 pp. $34.95 U.S. (paper). In this book, Marc Epprecht sets out to challenge several enduring stereotypes of African women in Southern Africa: that...

Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa. 1959-1976.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Piero Gleijeses. Chapel Hill, North Carolina. University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xix, 552 pp. $39.95 U.S. (cloth). This study is the definitive work on the role of Cuba in Africa. It is extremely well-researched, proceeds in a...

Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Laura Hostetler. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2001. xviii, 257 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth). During the past few years, much interesting and creative work has been done on Chinese ethnicity and cartography by scholars in...

Preserving the Self in the South Seas 1680-1840.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Jonathan Lamb. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2001. xii, 345 pp. $52.00 U.S. (cloth), $18.00 U.S. (paper). On the palm-lined outskirts of their world, eighteenth-century explorers experienced not only a startling array...

The Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, Resistance, and Collaboration in Modern China.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Rana Mitter. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 2000. xi, 295 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth). This excellent book offers a thorough, revealing, and persuasive analysis of the repercussions in Chinese politics and ideology of...

Nanking: Anatomy of an Atrocity.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Masahiro Yamamoto. Westport, Connecticut and London, Praeger, 2000. xv, 352 pp. $39.95 U.S. (cloth). Of the many horrors of the Second World War that have been revisited in recent years, the Nanking [Nanjing] massacre, known also as the...

Peter the Great through British Eyes: Perceptions and Representations of the Tsar since 1698.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Anthony Cross. New York and London, Cambridge University Press, 2000. xii, 172 pp. $54.95 U.S. (cloth). The acknowledged stimulus to writing this book was the tercentenary of Peter the Great's visit to England in 1696. Its theme is an...

The Tragedy of Childbed Fever .(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Irvine Loudon. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000. xiv, 236 pp. $116.00 Cdn (cloth). A favoured approach among medical historians at the end of the twentieth century was the study of a particular disease. Notable among contributions...

Social Science and the Politics of Modern Jewish Identity.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... by Mitchell B. Hart. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2000. viii, 340 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cloth). What disciplines constitute the broad field of Jewish Studies has long been a subject of scholarly debate. Philosophy and theology,...

Joseph de Maistre's Life, Thought, and Influence: Selected Studies.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... edited by Richard A. Lebrun. Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. x, 338 pp. $75.00 U.S. (cloth). One of the first, and one of the most brilliant, critics of modernity, Joseph de Maistre remains an iconic figure in...