Canadian Journal of History articles from August 1994

Canadian Journal of History archives from August 1994

Pour la sauvegarde du roi et du royaume: L'expulsion des Jesuites de France a la fin des guerres de religion.
August 1, 1994... Le 12 juillet 1594 s'ouvre devant le parlement de Paris un proces opposant l'Universite de Paris e les cures de la capitale a la Societe de Jesus. Ce proces eut un grand retentissement, Antoine Arnauld, avocat de l'Universite, acccusant les...

Bismarck and the containment of France: 1873-1877.
August 1, 1994... Entre 1873 el 1877 l'Allemagne s'immisca a plusieurs replises dans ks affaires internes des voisin de la France Bismarck employa une pression forte et continue pour donner son appui a lelection ou a la nomination de gouvernements liberaux et...

The careers of graduates of the Ecoles d'Arts et Metiers in the French automobile industry, 1880-1940.
August 1, 1994... This article examines the careers of graduates of the Ecoles Nationales d'Arts et Metiers employed in the French automobile industry from the late nineteenth century to 1940. Since publishing a book on the Ecoles d'Arts et Metiers in 1987...

"A completely immoral and cowardly attitude": the British Foreign Office, American neutrality and the Hoare-Laval plan.
August 1, 1994... L'imbroglio abyssinien des annees 1935-1936 genera une crise majeure parmi les decideurs anglais de la Defense et des Affaires Etrangeres. Avant qu'elle n'envahisse l'Abyssinie, l'Italie n'etait pa consideree comme un ennemi de L'Angleterre....

The Creation of the Republican Empire: 1776-1865.
August 1, 1994... By Bradford Perkins. Volume 1 of 7he Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, edited by Warren I. Cohen. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1993. xii, 254 pp. $24.95 U.S. The last twenty-five years have been turbulent for the...

The American Search for Opportunity: 1865-1913.
August 1, 1994... By Walter LaFeber. Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, edited by Warren I. Cohen. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1993. xvi, 263 pp. $24.95 U.S. The last twenty-five years have been turbulent for the study...

The Globalizing of America: 1913-1945.
August 1, 1994... By Akira Iriye. Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, edited by Warren I. Cohen. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1993. xii, 240 pp. $24.95 U.S. The last twenty-five years have been turbulent for the study of...

America in the Age of Soviet Power.
August 1, 1994... By Warren I. Cohen. Volume 4 of The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, edited by Warren I. Cohen. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1993. xiv, 283 pp. $24.95 U.S. The last twenty-five years have been turbulent for the...

Dark Age Naval Power: A Reassessment of Frankish and Anglo-Saxon Seafaring Activity.
August 1, 1994... By John Haywood. New York, Routledge, 1991. $45.00 U.S. The Medieval Siege, by Jim Bradbury. Rochester, New York, Boydell, 1992. $50.00 US. The relationship of the history of technology to that of warfare is very close, as interested...

Medieval Military Technology.
August 1, 1994... By Kelly DeVries. Peterborough, Ontario, Broadview, 1992. $24.95 US. (cloth) $14.95 U.S. (paper) The relationship of the history of technology to that of warfare is very close, as interested historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists...

The Medieval Siege.
August 1, 1994... By Jim Bradbury. Rochester, New York, Boydell, 1992. $50.00 US. The relationship of the history of technology to that of warfare is very close, as interested historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists well know. In the cave paintings...

The Tudor Navy: An Administrative, Political and Military History.
August 1, 1994... By David Loades. Brookfield, Vermont, Scolar, 1992. x, 317 pp. $69.95 U.S. The relationship of the history of technology to that of warfare is very close, as interested historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists well know. In the cave...

Importing the European Army: The Introduction of European Military Techniques and Institutions into the Extra-European World, 1600-1914.
August 1, 1994... By David B. Ralston. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1990. xiii, 198 pp. $29.95 U.S. The relationship of the history of technology to that of warfare is very close, as interested historians, anthropologists, and...

The Word and the Sword: How Techniques of Information and Violence Have Shaped Our World.
August 1, 1994... By Leonard M. Dudley. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Blackwell Publishers, 1991. xii, 356 pp. $29.95 U.S. The relationship of the history of technology to that of warfare is very close, as interested historians, anthropologists, and...

Androtion and the "Atthis."
August 1, 1994... By Phillip Harding. Don Mills, Ontario, Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press), 1994. xi, 236 pp. $64.50. Few contemporary scholars have been willing and able to pursue the pioneering work of U. von Wilamowitz and F. Jacoby on the...

The Medieval Spains.
August 1, 1994... By Bernard E Reilly. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1993. xii, 228 pp. $54.95 U.S. (cloth), $17.95 U.S. (paper). A textbook is expected to cover a large amount of material and, on the whole, to avoid controversy. Reilly's book does...

A History of the University in Europe, vol. 1, University in the Middle Ages.
August 1, 1994... Sous la direction de Walter Ruegg. Vol. I, University in the Middle Ages, Hilde de Ridder-Symoens (edit.). New York, Cambridge University Press, 1992. xxviii, 506 pp. $90.00 U.S. Euniversite est une des institutions les plus stables que...

The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos: 1143-1180.
August 1, 1994... By Paul Magdalino. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1993. xxvii, 557 pp. $89.95 U.S. The beginning of the "decline" of the East Roman or Byzantine empire has been, by a rather boring and inaccurate textbook consensus, assigned to the...

England in the Thirteenth Century.
August 1, 1994... By Alan Harding. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1993. xiv, 351 pp. $59.95 U.S. (cloth), $18.95 U.S. (paper). English historians usually divide up their country's history by the reigns of monarchs. The result is a certain...

Thirteenth Century England, vol. 4, Proceedings of the Newcastle Upon Tyne Conference, 1991.
August 1, 1994... Edited by P.R. Coss and S.D. Lloyd. Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 1992, xiii, 202 pp. $70.00 U.S. The "highlighter" has become an indispensable tool for many readers these days, and particularly for the reviewer. How else does one deal with a...

Henry V.
August 1, 1994... By Christopher Allmand. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1992, xvi, 480 pp. $35.00 U.S. Who, besides Joan of Arc, offers easier primary documentation for a medieval biography than England's Henry V? He had an official...

Not by Reason Alone: Religion, History, and Identity in Early Modern Political Thought.
August 1, 1994... By Joshua Mitchell. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1993. xi, 252 pp. $32.00 U.S. Joshua Mitchell has provided an original and generally useful interpretation of modern political thought by examining Luther, Hobbes, Locke,...

Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome: Trials before the Papal Magistrates.
August 1, 1994... By Thomas V. Cohen and Elisabeth S. Cohen. Toronto, Ontario, University of Toronto Press, 1993. x, 306 pp. $19.95 (paper), $50.00 (cloth). Thomas V. Cohen and Elizabeth S. Cohen's book presents nine sixteenth-century criminal trials found...

The Political Thought of the Dutch Revolt: 1555-1590.
August 1, 1994... By Marin van Gelderen. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1992. xi, 330 pp. $59.95 U.S. In contrast with the Dutch Revolt itself, the political thought of the revolt has never received much attention from scholars, including Dutch and...

Aristocratic Experience and the Origins of Modern Culture: France, 1570-1715.
August 1, 1994... By Jonathan Dewald. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1993. xii, 231 pp. Lauteur de ce fort interessant livre a voulu montrer que le [17.sup.e] siecle n'a rien de fige - comme certains historiens ont tendance a le...

The Rise of Richelieu.
August 1, 1994... By Joseph Bergin. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1991. xvi, 282 pp. $30.00 U.S. There has long been a tendency among historians of early modern French history to compartmentalize in a modern bureaucratic manner the various...

Pietism and the Making of Eighteenth-Century Prussia.
August 1, 1994... By Richard L. Gawthorp. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1993. xiii, 305 pp. $54.95 U.S. German Pietism has been identified with English and American Puritanism. The political systems in which these Protestant religious movements...

The Reforms of Peter the Great: Progress Through Coercion in Russia.
August 1, 1994... By Evgenii V. Anisimov (translated by John T. Alexander). Armonk, New York, M.E. Sharpe, 1993. xi, 327 pp. $39.95 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper). Progress Through Coercion is as valuable for what it reveals about the author and the...

Maps in Tudor England.
August 1, 1994... By P.D.A. Harvey. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1993. 120 pp. $29.95 U.S. The study of early modern maps has undergone an important transformation in the past few years. Earlier investigations concentrated on the beauty...

Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain.
August 1, 1994... Edited by Nicholas Phillipson and Quentin Skinner. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1993. xiii, 444 pp. $59.95 U.S. When is a Festschrift not a Festschrift? The book under review is such a tribute in almost every sense of the word,...

The Cambridge Companion to Hume.
August 1, 1994... Edited by David Fate Norton. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1993, xiv, 400 pp. $59.95 U.S. (cloth), $17.95 U.S. (paper). This collection of eleven essays adds another distinguished volume to the lengthening series of Cambridge...

Hegel, Marx, and the English State.
August 1, 1994... By David MacGregor. Boulder, Colorado, Westview Press, 1992. x, 345 pp. $44.50 U.S. Both Hegel and Marx were close students of Britain. For Hegel Britain was an historical aberration that could not be ignored because of its wealth and...

A History of the University of Cambridge, vol. 4, 1870-1990.
August 1, 1994... By Christopher N.L. Brooke. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1993. xxiii, 652 pp. $89.95 U.S. This is the fourth in a series of four volumes which comprise the first substantial history of Cambridge University in modern times. Dr....

Parliament and Politics in the Age of Baldwin and MacDonald: The Headlam Diaries, 1923-1935.
August 1, 1994... Edited by Stuart Ball. London, The Historians' Press, 1992. x, 365 pp. 30 [pounds]. Cuthbert Headlam had an income of almost 2,000 [pounds] a year, which should have been enough for a happy life in the England of the 1920s, but instead he...

The Popular Front and the Progressive Tradition: Socialists, Liberals, and the Quest for Unity, 1884-1939.
August 1, 1994... By David Blaazer. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1992. xi, 247 pp. $54.95 U.S. This book focuses on the anti-fascist United Front and Popular Front campaigns in Britain in the 1930s, which drew support from both the Communist and...

Feminism, Socialism, and French Romanticism.
August 1, 1994... By Claire Goldberg Moses and Leslie Wahl Rabine. Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Press, 1993. 371 pp. $39.95 U.S. (cloth) and $19.95 U.S. (paper). The introduction to this combination of two interpretive essays on utopian...

Kiev: A Portrait, 1800-1917.
August 1, 1994... By Micheal F. Hamm. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1993. xviii, 304 pp. $29.95 U.S. Michael F. Hamm is well known to students of late Imperial Russia for his work on its urban history. He has edited two books and written...

Anglo-French Naval Rivalry: 1840-1870.
August 1, 1994... By C.I. Hamilton. Don Mills, Ontario, Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press), 1993. xiii, 359 pp. $90.00. The traditional charge levelled against naval history is that it is parochial, often narrowly fixed on technology, and treats its...

Italian Anarchism: 1864-1892.
August 1, 1994... by Nunzio Pernicone. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1993. xiv, 326 pp. $39.50 U.S. Given the significance of the subject, it is surprising that the history of Italian anarchism has captured the imagination of only a...

The Chamberlain-Hitler Deal.
August 1, 1994... by Clement Leibovitz Edmonton, Alberta, Les Editions Duval, 1993. viii, 544 pp. This book's purpose is to resurrect an ancient interpretation, namely, that behind British appeasement in the 1930s lay a sinister plan to use Hitler's Germany...

Astorian Adventure: The Journal of Alfred Seton, 1811-1815.
August 1, 1994... by Robert F. Jones. New York, Fordham University Press, 1993. 221 pp. $25.00 U.S. Readers paging through the May and July 1835 issues of the American Monthly Magazine were sure to come upon two short but interesting essays on life at the...

The Great Road: The Building of the Baltimore and Ohio, the Nation's First Railroad, 1828-1853.
August 1, 1994... by James D. Diltz. Stanford, California, Stanford Univerisity Press, 1993. xix 472 pp. $60.00 U.S. With over ninety pages of black-and-white photographs, drawings, and maps, a celebratory tone, and a romantic narrative style, The Great...

Argentine Workers: Peronism and Contemporary Class Consciousness.
August 1, 1994... by Peter Ranis. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Univeristy of Pittsburgh Press, 1992. xi, 313 pp. $49.50 U.S. Based primarily on survey interviews conducted in 1985 and 1986, this study sets out to explain what Argentine workers thought of...

The Cambridge History of Japan, vol. 1, Ancient Japan.
August 1, 1994... edited by Delmer M. Brown. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1993. xxv. 602 pp. $110.00 U.S. The first volume of a projected six-volume work (four of which have already appeared) is designed to cover the period from the beginnings of...

Voluntary Death in Japan.
August 1, 1994... By Maurice Pinguet. Translated by Rosemarie Morris. Cambridge, England, Polity Press (distributed by Blackwell Publishers), 1993. 365 pp. $27.95 U.S. Professional historians will not find this book impressive or useful unless they are...

Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor.
August 1, 1994... By Elizabeth Perry. Stanford, California, Stanford University press, 1993. ix, 327 pp. $35.00 U.S. Studies of the Chinese labour movement have been highly politicized in the sense that they have reflected the involvement of China's rival...

Pragmatism in the Age of Jihad: The Precolonial State of Bundu.
August 1, 1994... The Precolonial State of Bundu, par Michael A. Gomez. new York, Cambridge University Press, 1992, xiii, 252 pp. $55.95 U.S. Peu de choses ont ete ecrites sur le Bondou. Ce petit etat situe les hautes vallees du Senegal et de la Gambie,...

White Supremacy and Black Resistance in Pre-Industrial South Africa: The Making of the Colonial Order in the Eastern Cape, 1770-1865.
August 1, 1994... By Clifton, C. Crais. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1992, xvi, 284 pp. $59.95 U.S. The author sets out to explore "the ways in which various peoples with radically different ways of perceiving the world around them participated in...

Europe and the Sea.
August 1, 1994... By Michel Mollat du Jourdin, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Blackwell, 1993. xiii, 269 pp. $24.95 U.S. As she was gathering flowers along the shore Zeus seized Europa and carried her through marine space on...

Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3.
August 1, 1994... Edited by Danylo Husar Struk. Toronto, Ontario, University of Toronto Press, 1993. 864 pp. $480.00 (set, vols III V). The much heralded Encyclopedia of Ukraine is indeed an impressive publication. It is a combination of something old and...

Publishing and Readership in Revolutionary France and America: A Symposium at the Library of Congress, Sponsored by the Center for the Book and the European Division.
August 1, 1994... Edited by Carol Armbruster. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1993, xv, 215 pp. $45.00 U.S. In this collection of twelve essays on French and American publishing, bookselling, reading, and book collecting in the eighteenth century,...

Politics and Industrialization: Early Railroads in the United States and Prussia.
August 1, 1994... By Colleen, A. Dunlavy. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1994, xiv, 303 pp. $39.50 U.S. How political structures influence industrial development is Colleen Dunlavy's central theme. She presents the early history of...

Birth Weight and Economic Growth: Women's Living Standards in the Industrializing West.
August 1, 1994... By Peter Ward. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1993. xv, 218 pp. $38.00 U.S. Peter Ward's book is based on an accumulation of a phenomenal amount of data; the amount of research needed to prepare such a data base is...