Canadian Journal of History articles from April 2004

Canadian Journal of History archives from April 2004

"A delusion, a mockery, and a snare": array challenges and jury selection in England and Ireland, 1800-1850.
April 1, 2004... The western criminal trial took its modern form during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Historians have explored the changes in the criminal trial during this important period, but several issues remain unexplored. (1) One topic...

Le travail politique necessaire de la Grande Migration. Idealisme et pragmatisme a Gary, Indiana (1919-1924) (1).
April 1, 2004... De 1915 a 1920, plus de 500 000 Americains africains quitterent les regions rurales et urbaines du Sud pour les centres industriels du Nord. Au cours du demi-siecle qui a suivi, des villes comme Chicago, New York, Detroit, Philadelphie,...

Why none of Britain's long-term POWs in Nazi Germany were repatriated during World War II.
April 1, 2004... Article 72 of the Prisoners of War Convention (Geneva, 27 July 1929) reads: "Throughout the duration of hostilities and for humane considerations, belligerents may conclude agreements with a view to the direct repatriation or hospitalization in...

Reading Empire, chasing Tikka Masala: the contested state of imperial history.(After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation)(Captives: Britain, Empire and the World, 1600-1850)(Imperial Fault Lines: Christianity and Colonial Power in India, 1818-1940)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation, edited by Antoinette Burton. New York, Routledge, 2003. vi + 360 pp. $69.95 US (cloth), $23.95 US (paper). Captives: Britain, Empire and the World, 1600-1850, by Linda Colley....

Arabic Administration in Norman Sicily; The Royal Diwan.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Arabic Administration in Norman Sicily; The Royal Diwan, by Jeremy Johns. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xviii, 389 pp. $75.00 US (cloth). The bilingual Arabic-Greek and Arabic-Latin documents of Norman Sicily have been...

The Holy Blood: King Henry III and the Westminster Blood Relic.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Holy Blood: King Henry III and the Westminster Blood Relic, by Nicholas Vincent. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001. xiii, 245 pp. $53.00 US (cloth). In 1247, Robert, Patriarch of Jerusalem, wrote to King Henry III of England:...

Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England, by Mary C. Erler. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xii, 226 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). In this elegant and useful study of the networks of women's book ownership between 1350 and...

Erasmus in the Twentieth Century. Interpretations c. 1920-2000.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Erasmus in the Twentieth Century. Interpretations c. 1920-2000, by Bruce Mansfield. Erasmus Studies series. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2003. xii, 324 pp. $70.00 US (cloth). This volume completes Bruce Mansfield's remarkable...

Ordinary Prussians: Brandenburg Junkers and Villagers, 1500-1840.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Ordinary Prussians: Brandenburg Junkers and Villagers, 1500-1840, by William W. Hagen. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xiii, 679 pp. $100.00 US (cloth). This lengthy, important monograph provides a detailed account of life on...

A Social History of the Cloister: Daily Life in the Teaching Monasteries of the Old Regime.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... A Social History of the Cloister: Daily Life in the Teaching Monasteries of the Old Regime, by Elizabeth Rapley. McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion. Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. xv, 379 pp. $60.00...

A Man of Three Worlds: Samuel Pallache, a Moroccan Jew in Catholic and Protestant Europe.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... A Man of Three Worlds: Samuel Pallache, a Moroccan Jew in Catholic and Protestant Europe, by Mercedes Garcia-Arenal and Gerard Wiegers, and translated by Martin Beagles. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xxiv, 173 pp. $40.00...

Dynasty and Diplomacy in the Court of Savoy: Political Culture and the Thirty Years' War.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Dynasty and Diplomacy in the Court of Savoy: Political Culture and the Thirty Years' War, by Toby Osborne. Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xii, 304 pp. $70.00 US (cloth). To Napoleon Bonaparte is credited the...

Military Migration and State Formation: the British Military Community in Seventeenth-Century Sweden.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Military Migration and State Formation: The British Military Community in Seventeenth-Century Sweden, by Mary Elizabeth Ailes. Lincoln, Nebraska and London, University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xiv, 192 pp. $50.00 US (cloth). During the...

Fabricating Women: the Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791, by Clare Haru Crowston. Durham, North Carolina and London, Duke University Press, 2001. xviii, 508 pp. $79.95 US (cloth), $25.95 US (paper). If there were ever anything...

Venice and the Slavs: the Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Venice and the Slavs: The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment, by Larry Wolff. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2001. xii, 408 pp. $60.00 US (cloth), $25.95 US (paper). Although at one level absolutely...

The Road from Versailles: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and the Fall of the French Monarchy.(When the King Took Flight)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Road from Versailles: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and the Fall of the French Monarchy, by Munro Price. New York, St. Martin's Press, 2002. xxi, 425 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). When the King Took Flight, by Timothy Tackett. Cambridge,...

The Making of Revolutionary Paris.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Making of Revolutionary Paris, by David Garrioch. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2002. xiv, 382 pp. $34.95 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). In spite of the wealth of monographs on aspects of eighteenth-century Paris, few...

Fashioning Adultery: Gender, Sex and Civility in England, 1660-1740.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Fashioning Adultery: Gender, Sex and Civility in England, 1660-1740, by David M. Turner. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. x, 236 pp. $55.00 US (cloth). This book's central point is that earlier views of adultery as a punishable...

British Identities and English Renaissance Literature.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... British Identities and English Renaissance Literature, edited by David J. Baker and Willy Maley. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvi, 297 pp. $60.00 US (cloth). In this essay collection, literary critics examine the paradigm of...

Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason, by Jessica Warner. New York, Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002. xviii, 267 pp. $24.95 US (cloth) $13.95 US (paper). The Much-lamented Death of Madam Geneva: The Eighteenth-Century Gin Craze, by...

Character and Public Spirit in Britain and France, 1750-1914.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Character and Public Spirit in Britain and France, 1750-1914, by Roberto Romani. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. ix, 348 pp. $70.00 US (cloth). It is a commonplace of political discourse that there is some relation between a...

The Emancipation of Writing: German Civil Society in the Making, 1790s-1820s.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Emancipation of Writing: German Civil Society in the Making, 1790s-1820s, by Ian F. McNeely. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 2003. xii, 329 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). This erudite, somewhat cryptically titled...

Music & German National Identity.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Music & German National Identity, edited by Celia Applegate and Pamela Potter. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2002. x, 319 pp. $45.00 US (cloth), $20.00 US (paper). Obscured for too long by densely nettled musicological thickets,...

The Defense of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Northern Italy, 1813-1814.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Defense of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Northern Italy, 1813-1814, by George F. Nafziger and Marco Gioannini. Westport, Connecticut and London: Praeger, 2002. xix, 381 pp. $99.95 US (cloth). In Napoleonic military campaigns, one of the...

Press, Revolution, and Social Identities in France, 1830-1835.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Press, Revolution, and Social Identities in France, 1830-1835, by Jeremy D. Popkin. University Park, Pennsylvania, Penn State University Press, 2002. x, 329 pp. $65.00 US (cloth), $22.50 US (paper). Jeremy Popkin has published widely on the...

Creating the Welfare State in France, 1880-1940.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Creating the Welfare State in France, 1880-1940, by Timothy B. Smith. Montreal, Quebec and Kingston, Ontario, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. viii, 241 pp. $75.00 US (cloth). This forcefully argued, though somewhat repetitive, book...

The Red Count: the Life and Times of Harry Kessler.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Red Count: The Life and Times of Harry Kessler by Laird M. Easton. Weimar and Now, German cultural Criticism, volume 30. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 2002. xv, 497 pp. $24.50 US (cloth). Early in 1918 Harry...

Russia: a State of Uncertainty.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Russia: a State of Uncertainty, by Neil Robinson. Postcommunist States and Nations series. London, Routledge, 2002. xxvii 187 pp. $85.00 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). Neil Robinson's accessible and concisely-written survey of the Russian...

Songs for Fat People: Affect, Emotion, and Celebrity in the Russian Popular Song, 1900-1955.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Songs for Fat People: Affect, Emotion, and Celebrity in the Russian Popular Song, 1900-1955 by David MacFadyen. Montreal, Quebec and Kingston, Ontario, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. viii, 354 pp. $75.00 US (cloth). Estrada?! Grand...

The Last Revolutionaries: German Communists and Their Century.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Last Revolutionaries: German Communists and Their Century, by Catherine Epstein. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2003. xi, 322 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). The central idea behind this book is a good one. Catherine Epstein...

Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany, edited by Robert Gellately and Nathan Stoltzfus. Princeton, New Jersey and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2001. vi, 332 pp. $70.00 US (cloth), $23.95 US (paper). This excellent collection of essays...

The Spanish Republic at War, 1936-1939.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Spanish Republic at War, 1936-1939, by Helen Graham. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xiv, 472 pp. $70.00 US (cloth), $26.00 US (paper). Shortly after the beginning of the Spanish Civil War (July 1936 to April 1939), a...

War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945: Occupation and Collaboration.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945: Occupation and Collaboration, by Jozo Tomasevich. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2001. xx, 842 pp. $69.50 US (cloth). Jozo Tomasevich's Occupation and Collaboration, the...

Hitler's Volkssturm: the Nazi Militia and the Fall of Germany, 1944-1945.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Hitler's Volkssturm: The Nazi Militia and the Fall of Germany, 1944-1945, by David K. Yelton. Lawrence, Kansas, University Press of Kansas, 2002. xix, 305 pp. $39.95 US (cloth). For a long time, the origin of the Third Reich consumed the...

The Lonely Cold War of Pope Pius XII.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Lonely Cold War of Pope Pius XII, by Peter C. Kent. Montreal, Quebec and Kingston, Ontario, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. viii, 321 pp. $45.00 Cdn (cloth). Peter C. Kent, a professor of history at the University of New...

The New Russia: Transition Gone Awry.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The New Russia: Transition Gone Awry, edited by Lawrence R. Klein and Marshall Pomer. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2001. xxiii, 454 pp. $70.00 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). The question of "whither Russia?" remains...

The Middlemost and the Milltowns: Bourgeois Culture and Politics in Early Industrial England.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Middlemost and the Milltowns: Bourgeois Culture and Politics in Early Industrial England, by Brian Lewis. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2001. 580 pp. $70.00 US (cloth). To fashion a book of over 500 pages around three...

Artful Dodgers: Youth and Crime in Early Nineteenth-Century London.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Artful Dodgers: Youth and Crime in Early Nineteenth-Century London, by Heather Shore. Royal Historical Studies in History Series. Woodbridge, Suffolk and London, Boydell and Brewer and the Royal Historical Society, 1999. xiii, 193 pp. $55.00 US...

The Private Trustee in Victorian England.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Private Trustee in Victorian England, by Chantal Stebbings. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xxvii, 201 pp. $70.00 US (cloth). This is a study of the legal and social role of the trustee in nineteenth-century England. It...

Shell-Shock: Traumatic Neurosis and the British Soldiers of the First World War.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Shell-Shock: Traumatic Neurosis and the British Soldiers of the First World War, by Peter Leese. London, Palgrave, Macmillan, 2002. xi, 229 pp. $55.00 US (cloth). Peter Leese has written a carefully researched book on shell-shock, which...

The Writing of America: Literature and Cultural Identity from the Puritans to the Present.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Writing of America: Literature and Cultural Identity from the Puritans to the Present, by Geoff Ward. Cambridge and Malden, Massachusetts, Polity Press, 2002. vii, 235 pp. $64.95 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). This is not a good book....

Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence by Bruce H. Mann. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2002. viii, 344 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). For the Reverend Samuel Moody of Maine the laws governing...

Southern History Across the Color Line.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Southern History Across the Color Line, by Nell Irvin Painter. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 247 pp. $61.95 US (cloth), $29.75 US (paper). Concluding the first of six essays advocating the need to...

Jeffersonian America.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Jeffersonian America, by Peter S. Onuf and Leonard J. Sadosky. Problems in America Series. Malden, Massachusetts, Blackwell Publishers, 2002. ix, 270 pp. $66.95 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). Peter Onuf and Leonard Sadosky argue that the...

Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands, by James F. Brooks. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 2002. viii, 419 pp. $55.00 US (cloth), $22.50 US. (paper). In the spring...

Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement, by Paul S. Sutter. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books. Seattle and London, University of Washington Press, 2002. xvi, 343 pp. $35.00 US As indicated in...

American Empire: the Realities and Consequences of US Diplomacy.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of US Diplomacy, by Andrew Bacevich. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2002. ix, 295 pp. $29.95 US (cloth), $15.95 US (paper). For most of this century, it was not terribly...

Acheson and Empire: the British Accent in American Foreign Policy.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Acheson and Empire: The British Accent in American Foreign Policy, by John T. McNay. Columbia, Misssouri, University of Missouri Press, 2001, x, 210 pp. $34.95 US (cloth). During the Cold War's early years, conservative and radical...

Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 1945-1953.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 1945-1953, by Arnold A. Offner. Stanford Nuclear Age Series. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2002. 656 pp. $45.00 US (cloth), $27.95 US (paper). Arnold A. Offner's...

Natural and Moral History of the Indies.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Natural and Moral History of the Indies by Jose de Acosta, translated by Frances Lopez-Morillas, edited by Jane E. Mangan, with an introduction and commentary by Walter D. Mignolo. Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2002. xxii, 535 pp....

State Building and Political Movements in Argentina, 1860-1916.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... State Building and Political Movements in Argentina, 1860-1916, by David Rock. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2002. x, 316 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). This book is an excellent historical synthesis of a period of tremendous...

Foundations of Despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in Dominican History.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Foundations of Despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in Dominican History, by Richard Lee Turits. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2003. x, 384 pp., $65.00 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). Richard Lee Turits...

The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East 600-1800.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East 600-1800, by Jonathan P. Berkey. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvi, 286 pp. $65.00 US (cloth), $22.00 US (paper). With the Islamic world so prominent in the...

Le piastre et le fusil: Le cout de la guerre d'Indochine 1945-1954.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Le piastre et le fusil: Le cout de la guerre d'Indochine 1945-1954, by Hugues Tertrais. Paris, Comite pour l'histoire economique et financiere de la France, 2002. x, 634 pp. $37.00 US (paper). "Surely the most expensive army in the world,...

Writing Women's History Since the Renaissance.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Writing Women's History Since the Renaissance by Mary Spongberg. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. xii, 308 pp. $75.00 US (cloth), $23.95 US (paper). With this book, Mary Spongberg has done those who teach historiography a great...

Geometrical Landscapes: the Voyages of Discovery and the Transformation of Mathematical Practice.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Geometrical Landscapes: The Voyages of Discovery and the Transformation of Mathematical Practice, by Amir R. Alexander. Writing Science series. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2002. xviii, 293 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). The...

Children and War: a Historical Anthology.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Children and War: A Historical Anthology, edited by James Marten. New York and London, New York University Press, 2002. xvi, 313 pp. $60.00 US (cloth), $21.00 US (paper). Children and War is an exhaustive collection of twenty-one essays,...

The Worlds of the East India Company.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Worlds of the East India Company, edited by H.V. Bowen, Margarette Lincoln, and Nigel Rigby. Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, New York, Boydell Press, 2002. xvii, 246 pp. $75.00 US (cloth), $29.95 US (paper). The Worlds of the East...

The Correspondence of Thomas Reid.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Correspondence of Thomas Reid, edited by Paul Wood. Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid. University Park, Pennsylvania, Penn State University Press and Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2002 [US edn published 2003]. xxvii, 356 pp. $95.00...

Experiment, Models, Paper Tools: Cultures of Organic Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Experiment, Models, Paper Tools: Cultures of Organic Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century, by Ursula Klein. Writing Science Series. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2003. xi, 305 pp. $65.00 US (paper). Until the early...

The History of Family Business, 1850-2000.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The History of Family Business, 1850-2000, by Andrea Colli. New Studies in Economic and Social History. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. v, 108 pp. $45.00 US (cloth), $15.00 US (paper). This book by Andrea Colli offers a...

Indian Treaty-Making Policy in the United States and Canada, 1867-1877.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Indian Treaty-Making Policy in the United States and Canada, 1867-1877, by Jill St. Germain. Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska and London, University of Nebraska Press, 2001. xxii, 243 pp. $45.00 US (cloth), $29.95 US (paper). Jill St. Germain...

Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the Far East, 1933-1939.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the Far East, 1933-1939, by Greg Kennedy. Cass Series--Strategy and History, number 5. London, Frank Cass, 2002. xii, 313pp. $58.99 US (cloth). In its most recent manifestation, the Anglo-American...

The End of Empire: Dependencies Since 1948, Part 1: the West Indies, British Honduras, Hong Kong, Fiji, Cyprus, Gibraltar, and the Falklands.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The End of Empire: Dependencies Since 1948, Part 1: The West Indies, British Honduras, Hong Kong, Fiji, Cyprus, Gibraltar, and the Falklands, edited by Frederick Madden. Select Documents on the Constitutional History of the British Empire and...

Errata.(Correction Notice)
April 1, 2004... An article written by Mark A. Waddell, entitled "The Perversion of Nature: Johannes Baptista Van Helmont, the Society of Jesus, and the Magnetic Cure of Wounds," was published in the Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d'histoire,...

Books received but not reviewed January-December 2003.(Bibliography)
April 1, 2004... Aberth, John, A Knight at the Movies: Medieval History on Film. New York, Routledge, 2003. xi, 332 pp. Adorno, Theodor W. (ed., Rolf Tiedemann; trans. Rodney Livingstone, and others) Can One Live after Auschwitz? A Philosophical Reader....