Canadian Journal of History articles from August 1993

Canadian Journal of History archives from August 1993

Algernon Sidney and the Restoration Crisis: 1677-1683.
August 1, 1993... The restoration of Charles II was, on one interpretation, an attempt to banish the memories of the past, but the politics of the next thirty years showed that this could not be done. The issues of the years from the 1620s to the 1650s would not...

The Revolution of 1688-89: Changing Perspectives.
August 1, 1993... The restoration of Charles II was, on one interpretation, an attempt to banish the memories of the past, but the politics of the next thirty years showed that this could not be done. The issues of the years from the 1620s to the 1650s would not...

Liberty Secured? Britain Before and After 1688.
August 1, 1993... The restoration of Charles II was, on one interpretation, an attempt to banish the memories of the past, but the politics of the next thirty years showed that this could not be done. The issues of the years from the 1620s to the 1650s would not...

Whiggery and Reform: 1830-41, The Politics of Government.
August 1, 1993... At no point during the Victorian period was the identity of the Liberal party (Gladstonian or otherwise) devoid of problematic elements. For analytical purposes, those elements can be assigned to one of two categories: that which chiefly...

Palmerston and Liberalism: 1855-1865.
August 1, 1993... At no point during the Victorian period was the identity of the Liberal party (Gladstonian or otherwise) devoid of problematic elements. For analytical purposes, those elements can be assigned to one of two categories: that which chiefly...

Liberty, Retrenchment and Reform: Popular Liberalism in the Age of Gladstone, 1860-1880.
August 1, 1993... At no point during the Victorian period was the identity of the Liberal party (Gladstonian or otherwise) devoid of problematic elements. For analytical purposes, those elements can be assigned to one of two categories: that which chiefly...

Law, Sexuality and Society: The Enforcement of Morals in Classical Athens.
August 1, 1993... A trained lawyer, an ancient historian, a member of a department of rhetoric - David Cohen is well suited to undertake a comparative approach to issues of social control, especially the regulation of sexuality, in classical Athens. Indeed, this...

Theopompus the Historian.
August 1, 1993... The historical works of Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon provide something approaching a connected account of Greek affairs from 546 to 362 B.C. The Hellenica of Xenophon, covering the years 411-362, begin where the unfinished history of...

Philip II of Macedon: A Life from the Ancient Sources.
August 1, 1993... Philip Il of Macedon (382-336 B.C.), conqueror of Greece and founder of the Macedonian empire, is best known to the modern world as the father of Alexander the Great. This is partly because his achievement was eclipsed by the accomplishment of...

Alexander the Great: The Invisible Enemy.
August 1, 1993... A.B. Bosworth, in the "Preface" to his Conquest and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the Great (Cambridge, 1988), commented on how in the 1970s and 1980s "books on Alexander were appearing at the rate of more than one a year" and added that "[a]...

John Lydus and the Roman Past: Antiquarianism and Politics in the Age of Justinian.
August 1, 1993... John Lydus is not a highly-ranked author by any standard. Michael Maas calls him, with justice, "a disgruntled civil servant and antiquarian" of the first half of the sixth century, which was dominated by the emperor Justinian whose rule...

Kings and Lords in Conquest England.
August 1, 1993... The eleventh century was pivotal in the development of virtually all societies in the British Isles. In England, the successive Danish and Norman conquests transformed and revitalized an English monarchy that would soon begin to cast its eyes...

Ireland, Wales, and England in the Eleventh Century.
August 1, 1993... The eleventh century was pivotal in the development of virtually all societies in the British Isles. In England, the successive Danish and Norman conquests transformed and revitalized an English monarchy that would soon begin to cast its eyes...

An Island for Itself: Economic Development and Social Change in Late Medieval Sicily.
August 1, 1993... Stephan Epstein's book stands as a critique of the View that the origins of the economic disparities between the north and south in Italy can be found in the middle ages. The books title both disguises and reveals its author's purpose: to...

The Bailiffs' Minute Book of Dunwich: 1404-1430.
August 1, 1993... The attention to detail and critical skills that are the hallmarks of a well edited document are abundantly evident in Mark Bailey's treatment of The Bailiffs' Minute Book of Dunwich 1404-1430. This kind of source material, quasi-ephemeral in...

The King's Mother: Lady Margaret Beaufort Countess of Richmond and Derby.
August 1, 1993... The Beaufort family has been fortunate in its biographers, first G.L. Harriss's Cardinal Beaufort (reviewed ante XXVI, 1991) and now, for his great-niece, the work under review. Margaret Beaufort is more lightly treated by the joint authors,...

Marcello Cervini and Ecclesiastical Government in Tridentine Italy.
August 1, 1993... Marcello Cervini (1501-1555) was a prominent figure in the Catholic church of the sixteenth century. A client and friend of the powerful Farnese family, he was created a Cardinal in 1539 and served in the positions of papal legate to the...

The Cost of Empire.
August 1, 1993... The author and editors are to be congratulated for making a real effort to make this book as easy to read as is possible. For example, translations of non-English words and terms are consistently supplied, saving trips to the dictionary. The...

The Continuity of Feudal Power, The Caracciolo di Brienza in Spanish Naples.
August 1, 1993... The stated theme of this book is "the continuity of social and economic power of the old feudal aristocracy [in the Kingdom of Naples during the Spanish period] and the persisting importance of its feudal character" (p.20). The author's...

Law, Family and Women: Toward a Legal Anthropology of Renaissance Italy.
August 1, 1993... The importance of law as a mechanism for entry into the complex structures of Renaissance Europe has recently been powerfully reinforced by a number of studies which look beyond traditional legal and institutional history and into the social...

Interpretation and Meaning in the Renaissance: The Case of Law.
August 1, 1993... The importance of law as a mechanism for entry into the complex structures of Renaissance Europe has recently been powerfully reinforced by a number of studies which look beyond traditional legal and institutional history and into the social...

God in La Mancha: Religious Reform and the People of Cuenca.
August 1, 1993... Few recent historical endeavours have been so profitable as the examination of early-modern changes in religious practices, attitudes, and institutions. Scholars are gradually mapping the evidence of European religious change and exploring at...

Becoming a French Aristocrat: The Education of the Court Nobility, 1580-1715.
August 1, 1993... The recent scholarly debate on how education changed the nobility's social role during the seventeenth century is based largely on prescriptive literature and theoretical writings. Little is known about actual educational practices, a gap in...

The Salzburg Transaction: Expulsion and Redemption in Eighteenth-Century Germany.
August 1, 1993... Though most German historians have come to regard the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 as the terminal point of the age of religious wars, it is important to remember that confessional issues and confessional sensibilities remained volatile and...

Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834.
August 1, 1993... Subject to Others is a book difficult to assess as history, not only because Moira Ferguson is a professor of English whose critical analyses are primarily literary, but because she so often lacks a historical perspective. In her first chapter...

Revolutionary France: 1770-1880.
August 1, 1993... In 1978, Francois Furet published one of the most important books on the French Revolution to appear this century, Penser la Revolution Francaise (English translation Interpreting the French Revolution, 1981). In this work, Furet argued that...

The Production, Distribution and Readership of a Conservative Journal of the Early French Revolution: The Ami du Roi of the Abbe Royou.
August 1, 1993... In response to the current interest in eighteenth-century political culture, historians are looking more and more to the periodical press as a source for answers to some of the major questions about continuity and change in the French...

Lafayette and the Liberal Idea: 1814-1824, Politics and Conspiracy in an Age of Reaction.
August 1, 1993... In Lafayette and the Liberal Ideal 1814-1824 Sylvia Neely sets out to clarify the brand of liberalism Lafayette stood for, to explain how early Restoration politics actually worked, and to examine the international context of French liberal...

The Humane Comedy: Constant, Tocqueville and French Liberalism.
August 1, 1993... Paradoxically there is no liberal party in contemporary France, but George Armstrong Kelly's The Humane Comedy. Constant, Tocqueville and French Liberalism reveals the varying nineteenth-century liberalisms having a decisive place in French...

Police and the Social Order in German Cities: The Dusseldorf District, 1848-1914.
August 1, 1993... Elaine Spencer finds much truth in the stereotype of the Prussian policeman as an intrusive, overbearing representative of state authority, but her study of the Dusseldorf region also reveals the limitations and pressures on the police in an...

How the War Was Won: Command and Technology in the British Army on the Western Front, 1917-1918.
August 1, 1993... Tim Travers has provided a sequel to his Killing Ground which examines the last year of the First World War on the western front. In both works he is highly critical of the high command of the British Army, but here he completes a massive job...

Survival and Consolidation: The Foreign Policy of Soviet Russia, 1918-1921.
August 1, 1993... In 1979, Richard Debo published Revolution and Survival. The Foreign Policy of Soviet Russia, 1917-18. This book took Soviet foreign policy from its inception to the end of the First World War, and left Lenin and his fellow Bolsheviks in a...

Justice Under Pressure: The Saint Albans Raid and Its Aftermath.
August 1, 1993... The 1860s was a decade of change and turmoil in North America as Americans found themselves being forced apart in the tragic circumstances of a civil war while British North Americans contemplated the advantages and disadvantages of coming...

Explaining Epidemics and Other Studies in the History of Medicine.
August 1, 1993... The history of medicine was once the sole purview of physicians writing for other physicians. As such it was the chronicle of discovery and success where knowledge gradually but inexorably supplanted superstition. Only physicians were endowed...

The Origins of American Social Science.
August 1, 1993... This is a complex and important book. It is at once an intellectual history of the social sciences through the first half-century after the Civil War, a damning critique of the political culture of American exceptionalism, and an elaborate...

American Trade and Power in the 1960s.
August 1, 1993... Much of the writing about American foreign policy in the 1960s has focused on crisis situations: the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile crisis, and Vietnam. Thomas Zeiler has directed his attention to the less dramatic but equally important issue...

The Nahuas After the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries.
August 1, 1993... The impact of conquest and colonization upon indigenous peoples within Latin America is mostly written using Iberian produced documents faute de mieux. In central Mexico, the speakers of Nahuatl or the Nahuas, as James Lockhart designates them,...

Divine Violence: Spectacle, Psychosexuality, and Radical Christianity in the Argentine "Dirty War."
August 1, 1993... This book is one of the first efforts to grapple with the extremely delicate issue of repression, torture, and disappearance of thousands of Argentines during the last dictatorship (1976-83). It would be hard to exaggerate to brutality and...

The Writing of Official History Under the T'ang.
August 1, 1993... Historians of premodern China frequently encounter the problem of discrepancies and inconsistencies in their most essential sources - the dynastic or standard histories - whose primary components are the basic annals of the emperors,...

A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony, 1581-1990.
August 1, 1993... James Forsyth's A History of the Peoples of Siberia is the first ethnohistory of Siberia to appear in English analyzing the ethnographic and linguistic features of the native peoples, tracing native history from the Russian conquest to the end...

Sowing the Seeds of Change: Chinese Students, Japanese Teachers, 1895-1905.
August 1, 1993... This much welcome addition to studies of the late Qing Dynasty, explores the roots and implications of the first decade of Chinese students in Japan 1895-1905. China's defeat at the hands of Japan in the 1894-95 war helped, spur the sending of...

God's Peoples: Covenant and Land in South Africa, Israel, and Ulster.
August 1, 1993... Many scholars have been intrigued by the similarity in development in the societies in places like South Africa and Northern Ireland which have evolved out of seventeenth-century Calvinist cultures. Their transformation has usually been...

The Armature of Conquest: Spanish Accounts of the Discovery of America, 1492-1589.
August 1, 1993... Of all the books inspired by the Columbian quincentenary, this is easily one of the most challenging. Bodmer, a professor of Spanish at Dartmouth college, uses early Spanish chronicles to take the reader on a journey of exploration into the...

The Hispanic World in Crisis and Change: 1598-1700.
August 1, 1993... The history of seventeenth-century Spain typically reads like the denouement of a classical tragedy. From the high point of its imperial power during the late sixteenth-century, Spain experienced a century of prolonged and inexorable decline....

The Little Slaves of the Harp: Italian Child Street Musicians in Nineteenth-Century Paris, London, and New York.
August 1, 1993... The Little Slaves of the Harp is an original and enterprising study which follows an itinerant trade from its home bases in Italy to its three primary working locations abroad. While at first glance the subject may appear narrow and of limited...

To the Ends of the Earth: Women's Search for Education in Medicine.
August 1, 1993... This lively narrative history of European and North American women's struggle for medical education is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the histories of education and medicine as well as to more general questions in women's...

The End of the Twentieth Century and the End of the Modern Age.
August 1, 1993... Readers who expect to find in this book an overview of the history of the last several decades will be disappointed. John Lukac's The End of the Twentieth Century is in fact neither historical narrative nor analysis but rather a series of brief...

English and French Towns in Feudal Society: A Comparative Study.
August 1, 1993... Plus que son titre ne l'indique, l'ouvrage du professeur Hilton se veut la demonstration d'une problematique qui a longtemps hante les historiens marxistes et que lon pourrait formuler de la maniere suivante: comment peuton articuler le monde...