Canadian Journal of History articles from April 2005

Canadian Journal of History archives from April 2005

Finding the nation in Bremen: the lower class and women after Napoleonic occupation (1).
April 1, 2005... Pour accroitre la connaissance de la nation allemande et son nationalisme durant la periode napoleonienne, nous examinons ici les ecrits et les opuscules d'une pedagogue, Betty Gleim, ainsi que les petitions de la classe moyenne des artisans et...

Workers in Risorgimento Bologna (1).
April 1, 2005... Quoique les historiens ont reexamine le Risorgimento ces dernieres annees, utilisant encore plus de subtilite dans leurs analyses, les erudits n'ont toujours pas d'opinion precise quant au comment la classe populaire italienne a fait...

"The fundamental things": Camp Fire Girls and authenticity, 1910-20.(history of Camp Fire Boys and Girls)
April 1, 2005... Camp Fire Girls etait une organisation populaire et influente qui etait remarquable pour son eloge, appropriation et fabrication de traditions indiennes. Nous examinons le commment et le pourquoi les Camp Fire Girls jouaient aux Indiennes...

The search for the real Aquinas.(After Aquinas: Versions of Thomism)(Aquinas)(Thomas Aquinas: Theologian of the Christian Life)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... After Aquinas: Versions of Thomism, by Fergus Kerr. Oxford, Blackwell, 2002. viii, 254 pp. $66.95 US (cloth), $28.95 US (paper). Aquinas, by Ralph McInerny. Classic Thinkers series. Cambridge, Polity, 2004. vii, 160 pp. $55.95 US (cloth),...

The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece, by Kurt Raaflaub, (transl. Renate Franciscono). Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2004. xii, 420 pp. $55.00 US (cloth). The Greeks had a name for it: eleutheria, "freedom," and Kurt...

Nero.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Nero, by Edward Champlin. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003. 346 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). Nero is brilliant and compelling. Unconventional in its structure and conclusions, and artfully written, it...

The Orphans of Byzantium: Child Welfare in the Christian Empire.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Orphans of Byzantium: Child Welfare in the Christian Empire, by Timothy S. Miller. Washington, DC, The Catholic University of America Press, 2003. xiv, 340 pp. $44.95 US (cloth). After researching his splendid, The Birth of the Hospital...

The Register of Walter Bronescombe, Bishop of Exeter 1258-1280, Volume III.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Register of Walter Bronescombe, Bishop of Exeter 1258-1280, Volume III, edited by O.F. Robinson. Canterbury and York Society, volume 94. Woodbridge, United Kingdom, Boydell, 2003. viii, 126 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). With this volume...

Fama: The Politics of Talk and Reputation in Medieval Europe.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Fama: The Politics of Talk and Reputation in Medieval Europe, edited by Thelma Fenster and Daniel Lord Smail. Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2003. xvii, 227 pp. $49.95 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). Much of medieval life was...

The Origins of the English Gentry.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Origins of the English Gentry, by Peter Coss. Past and Present Publications. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii, 329 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). Medieval historians are notoriously wary of explicitly acknowledging the...

The Faith and Fortunes of France's Huguenots, 1600-85.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Faith and Fortunes of France's Huguenots, 1600-85, by Philip Benedict. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot, United Kingdom, Ashgate, 2001. xiv, 336 pp. $109.95 US (cloth). Society and Cutlure in the Huguenot Worm...

Between Renaissance and Baroque: Jesuit Art in Rome, 1565-1610.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Between Renaissance and Baroque: Jesuit Art in Rome, 1565-1610, by Gauvin Alexander Bailey. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2003. xi, 406 pp. $88.00 US (cloth). The Jesuits are never far from characterisations of High Baroque art,...

The Rise of Commercial Empires: England and the Netherlands in the Age of Mercantilism, 1650-1770.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Rise of Commercial Empires: England and the Netherlands in the Age of Mercantilism, 1650-1770, by David Ormrod. Cambridge Studies in Modern Economic History. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvii, 400 pp. $80.00 US (cloth). ...

Enlightenment against Empire.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Enlightenment against Empire, by Sankar Muthu. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2003. xiv, 348 pp. $69.50 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). This is one of those rare books which dares to challenge established opinion. The fact that it...

Meanings of Manhood in Early Modern England.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Meanings of Manhood in Early Modern England, by Alexandra Shepard. Oxford Studies in Social History. Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2003. xii, 292 pp. $74.00 US (cloth). Although men's actions have long formed the focus of...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain, par Joad Raymond. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003, xviii, 384 pp. 80,00$ EU (couverture rigide). Joad Raymond donne aux pamphlets...

The Duel in Early Modern England: Civility, Politeness and Honour.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Duel in Early Modern England: Civility, Politeness and Honour, by Markku Peltonen. Ideas in Context series. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. x, 355 pp. $70.00 US (cloth). This autumn, entering freshmen at this reviewer's...

Blown by the Spirit: Puritanism and the Emergence of an Antinomian Underground in Pre-Civil-War England.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Blown by the Spirit: Puritanism and the Emergence of an Antinomian Underground in Pre-Civil-War England, by David R. Como. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2004. xiv, 513 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). This is an excellent book and an...

John Selden: Measures of the Holy Commonwealth in Seventeenth Century England.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... John Selden: Measures of the Holy Commonwealth in Seventeenth Century England, by Reid Barbour. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2003. x, 381 pp. $70.00 Cdn (cloth). This book, by a scholar of literature, deals with a subject...

Law, Crime and English Society, 1660-1830.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Law, Crime and English Society, 1660-1830, edited by Norma Landau. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xii, 264 pp. $75.00 US (cloth). John Beattie, the pre-eminent historian of English crime and punishment, has already been...

Eating Out in Europe: Picnics, Gourmet Dining and Snacks since the Late Eighteenth Century.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Eating Out in Europe: Picnics, Gourmet Dining and Snacks since the Late Eighteenth Century, edited by Marc Jacobs and Peter Scholliers. New York, Berg, 2003. xiii, 411 pp. $99.95 US (cloth), $30.95 US (paper). In the last decade, the social...

French Salons: High Society and Political Sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... French Salons: High Society and Political Sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848, by Steven Kale. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. x, 308 pp. $48.00 US (cloth). Compared to the voluminous scholarship...

Inventing a Soviet Countryside: State Power and the Transformation of Rural Russia, 1917-1929.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Inventing a Soviet Countryside: State Power and the Transformation of Rural Russia, 1917-1929, by James W. Heinzen. Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004. x, 297 pp. $44.95 US...

A Social History of Soviet Trade: Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917-1953.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... A Social History of Soviet Trade: Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917-1953, by Julie Hessler. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2004. xvi, 366 pp. The Soviet Union beat the Nazi invaders with its heavy...

Flesh to Metal: Soviet Literature and The Alchemy of Revolution.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Flesh to Metal: Soviet Literature and The Alchemy of Revolution, by Rolf Hellebust. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 2003. x, 221 pp. $42.50 US (cloth), $18.95 US (paper). Anyone with even a cursory acquaintance with Soviet...

Stalin's Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Stalin's Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination, by Serhy Yekelchyk. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2004. xi, 231 pp. $53.00 US (cloth). In 1993, Ronald G. Suny argued in The Revenge of the...

Curative Powers: Medicine and Empire in Stalin's Central Asia.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Curative Powers: Medicine and Empire in Stalin's Central Asia, by Paula A. Michaels. Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003. xvii, 239 pp. $34.95 US (cloth). There have been some...

An Artist against the Third Reich: Ernst Barlach, 1933-1938.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... An Artist against the Third Reich." Ernst Barlach, 1933-1938, by Peter Paret. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. 246 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). The lot of artists and intellectuals under dictatorships in the twentieth century was...

Benjamin Disraeli Letters, 1857-1859.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Benjamin Disraeli Letters, 1857-1859, edited by M.G. Wiebe, Mary S. Millar, Ann P. Robson, and Ellen Hawman. Benjamin Disraeli Letters, volume 7. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2004. lxvi, 578 pp. $190.00 US (cloth). The latest...

British Foreign Policy, 1874-1914: The Role of India.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... British Foreign Policy, 1874-1914: The Role of India, by Sneh Mahajan. Routledge Studies in Modern European History. London, Routledge, 2002. xiii, 205 pp. $135.00 US (cloth). Fifty years ago, the title of Sneh Mahajan's book would have...

Which People's War?: National Identity and Citizenship in Britain, 1939-1945.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Which People's War?: National Identity and Citizenship in Britain, 1939-1945, by Sonya O. Rose. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003. xiii, 328 pp. $55.00 US (cloth), $34.29 US (paper). Nations live through their myths. For the British...

Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield, by Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney. Native Americans of the Northeast series. Boston, University of Massachusetts Press, 2003. xv, 376 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). Early-modern...

Immigration and American Diversity: A Social and Cultural History.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Immigration and American Diversity: A Social and Cultural History, par Donna R. Gabaccia. Problems in American History. Malden, Massachusetts, Blackwell Publishers, 2002, 306 pp. 70,95$ EU (couverture rigide), 33,95$ EU (poche). Depuis les...

Fanatics and Fire-Eaters: Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil War.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Fanatics and Fire-Eaters: Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil War, by Lorman A. Ratner and Dwight L. Teeter Jr. The History of Communication series. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 2003. xvi, 138 pp. $34.95 US (cloth). In the...

Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development, by David C. Engerman. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2003. 399 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). David Engerman's fascinating...

Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America, by Todd DePastino. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2003. xxv, 325 pp. $32.50 US (cloth), $20.00 US (paper). Historians have investigated union halls, fraternal lodges, and...

City of Courts: Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... City of Courts: Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago, by Micheal Willrich. Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. xxxix, 332 pp. $70.00 US (cloth), $24.99 US (paper). ...

A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory, by Emily S. Rosenberg. American Encounters/Global Interactions series. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2003. x, 226 pp. $24.95 US (cloth). Emily Rosenberg, in her very...

Eyes off the Prize: The United Nations and the African-American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Eyes off the Prize: The United Nations and the African-American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955, by Carol Anderson. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. vii, 302 pp. $65.00 US (cloth), $23.99 US (paper). Carol Anderson, an...

America, the Vietnam War, and the World: Comparative and International Perspectives.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... America, the Vietnam War, and the World: Comparative and International Perspectives, edited by Andreas W. Daum, Lloyd C. Gardner, and Wilfried Mausbach. Publications of the German Historical Institute. New York, Cambridge University Press,...

Slavery and the Economy of Sao Paulo: 1750-1850.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Slavery and the Economy of Sao Paulo: 1750-1850, by Francisco Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2003. 273 pp. $60.00 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). This book is the product of a long period of research...

Wandering Paysanos: State Order and Subaltern Experience in Buenos Aires during the Rosas Era.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Wandering Paysanos: State Order and Subaltern Experience in Buenos Aires during the Rosas Era, by Ricardo D. Salvatore. Durham, North Carolinda, Duke University Press, 2003. xi, 427 pp. $59.95 US (cloth). This is an important book....

Juan Soldado: Rapist, Murderer, Martyr, Saint.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Juan Soldado: Rapist, Murderer, Martyr, Saint, by Paul J. Vanderwood. American Encounters/Global Interactions series. Durham, North Carolina and London, Duke University Press, 2004. xi, 332 pp. $79.95 US (cloth), $22.95 US (paper). Paul J....

The Struggle for Water in Peru: Comedy and Tragedy in the Andean Commons.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Struggle for Water in Peru." Comedy and Tragedy in the Andean Commons, by Paul Trawick. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2003. xiv, 351 pp. $75.00 US (cloth), $27.95 US (paper). Over the past few decades, conflicts over water have...

Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960, by Sarah E. Fraser. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2004. xvi, 342 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). Performing the Visual is a fascinating study of...

Mughal Warfare: Indian Frontiers and Highroads to Empire 1500-1700.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Mughal Warfare: Indian Frontiers and Highroads to Empire 1500-1700, by Jos Gommans. Warfare and History Series. London and New York, Routledge, 2002. xvi, 268 pp. $114.95 US (cloth), $34.95 US (paper). Gommans, a distinguished scholar of...

Civil and Corrupt Asia: Image and Text in the Itinerario and the Icones of Jan Huygen van Linschoten.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Civil and Corrupt Asia: Image and Text in the Itinerario and the Icones of Jan Huygen van Linschoten, by Ernst van den Boogaart. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2003. viii, 123 pp. $47.00 US (cloth). At the end of the sixteenth...

Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia, by Douglas Northrop. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 2004. xvii, 392 pp. $57.50 US (cloth), $25.95 US (paper). Veiled Empire takes, as its central subject, an article of...

Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese Cinemas.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese Cinemas, by Poshek Fu. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. 202 pp. $19.00 US (paper), $49.50 US (cloth). Between Shanghai and Hong Kong tells some rarely known, yet compelling,...

Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950, by Odd Arme Westad. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2003. viii, 413 pp. $65.00 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). The Chinese Civil War of 1946-50 was one of the decisive encounters...

Magic, Mystery, and Science: The Occult in Western Tradition.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Magic, Mystery, and Science: The Occult in Western Tradition, by Dan Burton and David Grandy. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2004. xii, 390 pp. $59.95 US (cloth), $21.95 US (paper). H. L. Mencken's Treatise on the Gods noted that...

Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900, by Lauren Benton. Studies in Comparative World History. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xiii, 285 pp. $75.00 US (cloth), $23.00 US (paper). Charles Darwin...

The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective, edited by Robert Gellately and Ben Kiernen. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. 396 pp. $65.00 US (cloth), $22.99 US (paper). The field of genocide studies grew by...

From Newton to Hawking: A History of Cambridge University's Lucasian Professors of Mathematics.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... From Newton to Hawking: A History of Cambridge University's Lucasian Professors of Mathematics, edited by Kevin C. Knox and Richard Noakes. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. xxiv, 486 pp. $50.00 US (cloth). From Newton to...

Barbarism and Religion: Volume Three, The First Decline and Fall.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Barbarism and Religion: Volume Three, The First Decline and Fall, by J. G. A. Pocock. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. xiii, 527 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). While Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman...

Bridging the Atlantic: The Question of American Exceptionalism in Perspective.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Bridging the Atlantic: The Question of American Exceptionalism in Perspective, edited by Elisabeth Glaser and Herman Wellenreuther. Publications of the German Historical Institute. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. ix, 310 pp. $79.95...

Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800-1930.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800-1930, by Patrick Brantlinger. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 2003. x, 248 pp. $52.50 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). In extinction discourse, the inevitable...

Race, Space, and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Race, Space, and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society, edited by Sherene H. Razack. London, Between the Lines, 2002. ix, 310 pp. $24.95 US (paper). How have the mythologies of a benevolent settler presence in Canada been perpetuated...

The Mind of Modernism: Medicine, Psychology, and the Cultural Arts in Europe and America, 1880-1940.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Mind of Modernism: Medicine, Psychology, and the Cultural Arts in Europe and America, 1880-1940, edited by Mark S. Micale. Cultural Sitings series. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2004. xv, 455 pp. $ 65.00 US (cloth), $26.95 US...

Navigating Worm History: Historians Create a Global Past.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Navigating Worm History: Historians Create a Global Past, by Patrick Manning. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. xiii, 425 pp. $89.95 US (cloth), $29.95 US (paper). Historians have always been immersed in the particular. Our source...

La genese de l'expedition franco-britannique de 1956 en Egypte.(The Genesis of the Franco-British Expedition of 1956 in Egypt)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... La genese de l'expedition franco-britannique de 1956 en Egypte, by Jean-Yves Bernard. Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2003. 414 pp. 25,00 Euros (cloth). Following Israel's attack on Egypt in October 1956, British and French military...

Refiguring History: New Thoughts on an Old Discipline.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Refiguring History: New Thoughts on an Old Discipline, by Keith Jenkins. London and New York, Routledge, 2003. xii, 75 pp. $88.95 US (cloth), $22.95 US (paper). New thoughts on an old discipline" is the subtitle Keith Jenkins chose for...

September 11 in History: A Watershed Moment?(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... September 11 in History: A Watershed Moment? edited by Mary L. Dudziak. American Encounters/Global Interactions series. Durham, North Carolina and London, Duke University Press, 2003. 240 pp. $79.95 US (cloth), $22.95 (paper). Was...