Canadian Journal of History articles from August 1996

Canadian Journal of History archives from August 1996

Rituals of majesty: France, Siam, and court spectacle in royal image-building at Versailles in 1685 and 1686.
August 1, 1996... In his relation of the kingdom of Siam published in IN@, Father Nicolas Gervaise of the Societe des Missions-Etrangeres described in detail the deep distinction that the Siamese monarch drew between envoys of neighbouring rulers who were...

The third generation: the young Socialists in Italy, 1907-1915.
August 1, 1996... Entre 1907 and 1915, la Federation des Jeunesses Socialistes Italiennes (F.G.S.I.) changeat d'orientation: apres avoir ete une organisation moderee, elle devint l'une des plus militantes du mouvement socialiste italien. Les conflits entre la...

The making and putative implementation of a British foreign policy of gesture, December 1905 to August 1914: the Anglo-French entente revisited.
August 1, 1996... I The Liberal cabinet of Campbell-Bannerman inhefited in December 1905 from its Conservative predecessor a commitment to France that was both specific and vague. This commitment was embodied in Article IX of the Anglo-French Agreement...

"Goak here": A.J.P. Taylor and 'The Origins of the Second World War.'
August 1, 1996... "GOAK HERE": A.J.P. TAYLOR AND THE ORIGINS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR(1) Alan John Percivale Taylor could never resist a dig. In the introduction to the second edition of The Origins of the Second World War he wrote that he "ought...

Theodosius: The Empire at Bay.
August 1, 1996... Theodosius, The Empire al Bay begins in 376 with the Tervingian Goths asking the emperor Valens to be allowed to enter the Roman Empire, and ends in 451 with the defeat of Attila the Hun. There is no introduction, and thus it is left to the...

Bede, the Schools and Computus.
August 1, 1996... Charles W. Jones (1905-89) was something of a rarity in American historical scholarship. Trained by Wolf Laistner at Cornell, he followed his master's path of minute philological and textual scholarship. Jones also worked on Laistner's chosen...

Medieval Women: A Social History of Women in England, 450-1500.
August 1, 1996... These two books are testimony to the vitality of medieval field is now at a stage where syntheses of the last decades of research are necessary. Henrietta Leyser's Medieval Women meets that need; it should become the recommended textbook on...

Power of the Weak: Studies on Medieval Women.
August 1, 1996... These two books are testimony to the vitality of medieval field is now at a stage where syntheses of the last decades of research are necessary. Henrietta Leyser's Medieval Women meets that need; it should become the recommended textbook on...

Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages.
August 1, 1996... Under Crescent and Cross is not just another history of "the Jews in the Middle Ages." Rather, it seeks to make a point, namely, that "Jewish-Muslim and Jewish-Christian relations followed strikingly different courses in the Middle Ages" (p....

Family Power in Southern Italy: The Duchy of Gaeta and Its Neighbours, 850-1139.
August 1, 1996... In Family Power in Southern Italy: The Duchy of Gaeta and its Neighbours, 850-1139, Patricia Skinner takes up the neglected history of southern Italy in the period prior to the coming of the Normans. Her study focuses upon the changes...

The Origins of Modern Freedom in the West.
August 1, 1996... If the other books in the series "The Making of Modern Freedom" are as solid and stimulating as this one, general editor R.W. Davis deserves a profound vote of appreciation by all the world's educators and other persons active in governance,...

From Renaissance Monarchy to Absolute Monarchy: French Kings, Nobles and Estates.
August 1, 1996... Historians of early modern France, writes Russell Major in his new book, traditionally attribute the rise of centralized, absolute monarchy by the end of the seventeenth century to an alliance between kings and the third estate against the...

From Madrid to Purgatory: The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth-Century Spain.
August 1, 1996... Over the past two decades the subject of death, or more precisely, its social and religious meaning for the women and men of early modern Europe has attracted increasing scholarly attention. Professor Eire provides the first comprehensive...

Charity and Power in Early Modern Italy: Benefactors and Their Motives in Turin, 1541-1789.
August 1, 1996... For a book whose subject matter is several centuries old, Sandra Cavallo's Charity and Power in Early Modern Italy, is remarkably timely given current debates about welfare reform. The northern Italian city of Turin was chosen for the study...

Pastors and Parishioners in Wurttemberg During the Late Reformation: 1581-1621.
August 1, 1996... The visitation records of the Wurttemberg church form the basis for this interesting study of the relations between the Protestant clergy and their flocks. By comparing visitation records of the urban district of Tubingen and the rural enclave...

Science and Social Status: The Members of the Academie des Sciences, 1666-1750.
August 1, 1996... The Academie des Sciences has been well served in the past generation by historians writing in English. James McClellan III has given us a splendid account of the world into which the Academie was born (Science Reorganized, 1985). Roger Hahn's...

The Treaties of the War of the Spanish Succession: An Historical and Critical Dictionary.
August 1, 1996... Some dozen or more treaties signed at Utrecht or elsewhere (for example, Rastaat, Baden), 1713-15, together make up the Pacification of Utrecht. This complex, interlocking set of agreements attracts historians of widely differing specialties....

The Ceremonial City: Toulouse Observed, 1738-1780.
August 1, 1996... Writing municipal history has provided the first stepping stone to many academic careers and Toulouse, regional capital of south-western France, displays a particularly rich bibliography of such studies. In 1989 Robert A. Schneider published...

Kent at Law: 1602, vol. 1, The County Jurisdiction: Assizes and Sessions of the Peace.
August 1, 1996... The 1970s and 1980s saw an efflorescence of social histories of crime and law enforcement in early modern England. Among the most important things this work revealed was that, in some sense, all early modem law was local law, open to the...

The Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641.
August 1, 1996... Perceval-Maxwell's book on the outbreak of the Irish rebellion in October 1641 is a monumental achievement and a welcome addition to the growing body of research on a crucial event m early modem Irish history. The Byzantine complexity of the...

Politics and Opinion in Crisis: 1678-81.
August 1, 1996... This book which is based on the author's Blair Worden-supervised Oxford thesis revises a number of orthodoxies concerning the politics of the Exclusion period. Most notably, the view that Mark Knights most persistently challenges is that...

A Union for Empire: Political Thought and the Union of 1707.
August 1, 1996... British historians have of late been much exercised by the problem of national identity. Prompted by the loss of empire, economic decline, Thatcherism, social fragmentation, and closer ties with Europe, scholars have tried to reconstruct how...

Innocent Espionage: The La Rochefoucauld Brothers' Tour of England in 1785.
August 1, 1996... In 1785, a particularly traumatic Anglo-French war was barely two years in the past, yet the teenage sons of the military Duc de Liancourt had spent most of the interval in Bury St. Edmunds, as guests of the professor of modern history at...

Quantification and the Quest for Medical Certainty.
August 1, 1996... Social constructionist interpretations now capture even the formerly pristine field of mathematical techniques. This important, if labored, recent Duke dissertation demonstrates that concepts of medical objectivity depended partly on...

Jews and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Russia.
August 1, 1996... The subject of this provocative study is the emergence of Jews of the Russian Empire in that country's revolutionary movement during its pre-Marxist period. The author believes that too little attention has been paid to this subject,...

Russian Rightists and the Revolution of 1905.
August 1, 1996... Students of modem Russian political history will welcome Dr. Rawson's monograph on the Russian right as a valued addition to a field which until recently was largely ignored by western and even Russian scholarship. As Dr. Rawson's work...

The Fall of the Romanovs: Political Dreams and Personal Struggles in a Time of Revolution.
August 1, 1996... The Fall of the Romanovs reflects both the renewed interest in Nicholas II and also the scholarly windfall being reaped with the gradual opening of Russian archives. Until recently the literature on Nicholas, despite the obvious...

Art and the French Commune: Imagining Paris After War and Revolution.
August 1, 1996... Deux matieres cohabitent dans ce volume; le titre ne decrit que la premiere. L'auteur, qui est professeur d'histoire de l'art a l'University of California at Los Angeles, se propose de revisiter la naissance de l'impressionnisme francais i la...

Grandeur and Misery: France's Bid for Power in Europe, 1914-1940.
August 1, 1996... Anthony Adamthwaite, a British historian teaching in the United States, has studied and written on inter-war European diplomacy and on France and the coming of the Second World War. He has now produced an overview of the collapse of France as...

Bourgeois Politics in France: 1945-1951.
August 1, 1996... This book is at once enlightening and disconcerting. While each chapter is well researched, tightly constructed and interspersed with profound insights, the general thesis is more baffling than convincing. In this work, the sum of the parts...

Sozialstruktur, politische Traditionen und Liberalismus: Eine empirische Langsschnittstudie zur Wahlentwicklung in Deutschland, 1871-1933.
August 1, 1996... This important new book investigates exactly what its title advertises: the influence of social structures and political traditions on the fate of liberalism in Germany, by means of an empirical study of long-term developments in electoral...

National Socialist Cultural Policy.
August 1, 1996... This collection of essays sheds light both on an important, relatively neglected topic and, more broadly, on the administrative character of the Third Reich. It includes treatments of five of the seven branches represented in the Reich Chamber...

Reconstructing the Subject: Modernist Painting in Western Germany, 1945-1950.
August 1, 1996... Yule Heibel's intentions in this book are laudable. By concentrating on a group of abstract painters -- in the western zones of occupied Germany, she wants to show how Germans struggled with artistic expression and particularly with the notion...

The Road to Romanian Independence.
August 1, 1996... Frederick Kellogg's work is a balanced, meticulously researched political study of how Romania achieved independence by 1880. The central thesis is that the Romanians did not achieve independence swiftly or unilaterally from the Ottomans, but...

The Crisis of the Italian State: From the Origins of the Cold War to the Fall of Berlusconi.
August 1, 1996... Patrick McCarthy has rewritten the history of Italy since 1945 from the perspective of Italy's political metamorphosis from the First Republic to the so-called Second Republic of 1994. Italy is passing though the crisis of systemic clientelism...

Measuring the Mind: Education and Psychology in England, c. 1860-1990.
August 1, 1996... Here comes Adrian Wooldridge, riding in on a world-wide wave of right wing sympathies. His very competent, very well-written book celebrates the return to respectability of some items that we have tended to assume were buried in history:...

Britain Confronts the Stalin Revolution: Anglo-Soviet Relations and the Metro-Vickers Crisis.
August 1, 1996... In March 1933, six British engineers working in the Soviet Union for the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Export Company were arrested on charges of espionage. These charges were vigorously denied by both the company and the British government...

The Fragility of Freedom: Tocqueville on Religion, Democracy, and the American Future.
August 1, 1996... Now that the Cold War is over Americans have one more chance to nurture the battered and fragile plant of democracy back to health. The stark, oversimplified alternatives of Karl Marx and Adam Smith must give way to a third alternative...

Improving Poor People: The Welfare State, the "Underclass," and Urban Schools as History.
August 1, 1996... In this book, Michael Katz explores the boundary between advocacy and conventional scholarly analysis, combining historical interpretation and his own personal experience into a compelling commentary on past and present issues in social...

A Muted Fury: Populists, Progressives and Labor Unions Confront the Courts, 1890-1937.
August 1, 1996... William G. Ross's study has implications far beyond the limits suggested by the title. It does indeed give a meticulously researched and competently written account of the origins and careers of numerous proposals made in this period to curb...

Telltale Hearts: The Origins and Impact of the Vietnam Antiwar Movement.
August 1, 1996... Two decades after Saigon fell, Americans are still fighting the Vietnam war. The Bosnia peacekeeping mission, Bill Clinton's election, the Iran-Contra scandal, were all affected by the continuing debate about America's losing effort in...

Shanghai: From Market Town to Treaty Port, 1074-1858.
August 1, 1996... To recount in a scholarly fashion almost eight centuries of urban history in 346 pages is a formidable challenge. Making use of a wide variety of sources, including local gazetteers, Linda Johnson has met that challenge in an impressive manner....

The Origins of the Great Leap Forward: The Case of One Chinese Province.
August 1, 1996... The Great Leap Forward of 1958-60, like the equally misnamed Cultural Revolution of 1966-69, was a catastrophe of devastating proportions inflicted by Mao Zedong on the Chinese nation. Estimates of the numbers of victims of the man-made famine...

Building the Railways of the Raj: 1850-1900.
August 1, 1996... The literature on miles constructed (twenty-five thousand by 1900), and the types of locomotive employed as well as the costs and financing of Indian railways is extensive. This information is summarized by Ian Kerr as background to a much less...

Development for Exploitation: German Colonial Policies in Mainland Tanzania, 1884-1914, 2d ed.
August 1, 1996... The author is concerned with the relationship between colonialism, exploitation, and development. He believes this demands a detailed examination of what colonialists did, and holds that this emphasis results not in a general history of...

William Pitt, Earl of Chatham and British colonial policy: a neglected source.
August 1, 1996... British historians have traditionally agreed that William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, was the driving force behind England's victories in the Seven years War and that he was a visionary imperialist: a statesman with a clear appreciation of...