Canadian Journal of History articles from August 1998

Canadian Journal of History archives from August 1998

The legacy of "Bevolkerunspolitik": venereal disease control and marriage counseling in post-WW II Berlin.
August 1, 1998... Within weeks after the German defeat of May 1945, the health department in Berlin-Charlottenburg reopened its marriage counselling clinic. In their request for financial support, Charlottenburg marriage counsellors were unapologetic about...

Salaires, niveaux de vie et travail feminin, dans l'arrondisment de Lille au XIXe siecle. (text in French)
August 1, 1998... La place des femmes, surtout la place des femmes mariees, dans la vie active a-t-elle progressivement diminuee au cours du XIXe siecle? La litterature historique sur la question suggere soit que cela a ete le cas, soit que les femmes ont ete...

The Utopian Mayeux: Henri de Saint-Simon meets the bossu a la mode.
August 1, 1998... During the July Monarchy, a fictional hunchback dwarf named Mayeux (fig. 1) became a popular commentator on political and social life in France.(1) Much like England's John Bull, Mayeux represented the silent majority of the French population,...

Life in the Ancient Near East: 3100-332 B.C.E.
August 1, 1998... Life in the Ancient Near East, 3100-332 B.C.E., by Daniel C. Snell. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1997. xvii, 270 pp. $30.00 U.S. In his "Introduction," Snell promises a survey that highlights social and economic life rather...

The Aristocracy of Norman England.
August 1, 1998... The Aristocracy of Norman England, by Judith A. Green. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. xv, 497 pp. $69.95 U.S. In recent years Judith Green's research on the period that the late Frank Stenton dubbed the "first century of English...

The Rescue of the Innocents: Endangered Children in Medieval Miracles.
August 1, 1998... The Rescue of the Innocents: Endangered Children in Medieval Miracles, by Ronald C. Finucane. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1997. xii, 268 pp. $49.95 U.S. Miracle stories and saints' lives have long been appreciated for their value as...

The Quest for Compromise: Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna.
August 1, 1998... The Quest for Compromise: Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna, by Howard Louthan. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. xvi, 185 pp. $59.95 U.S. Louthan investigates the quest for religious peace at the court of Maximilian II. He...

Pretenders and Popular Monarchism in Early Modern Russia: The False Tsars of the Time of Troubles.
August 1, 1998... Pretenders and Popular Monarchism in Early Modern Russia: The False Tsars of the Time of Troubles, by Maureen Perrie. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1995. xvii, 269 pp. $59.95 U.S. Russia's "Time of Troubles" in the early seventeenth...

Urban Protest in Seventeenth-Century France: The Culture of Retribution.
August 1, 1998... Urban Protest in Seventeenth-Century France: The Culture of Retribution, by William Beik. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiii, 283 pp. $59.95 U.S. (cloth) $19.95 U.S. (paper). Around the Place de la Concorde, a driver may observe...

State Corporatism and Proto-Industry: The Wurttemberg Black Forest, 1580-1797.
August 1, 1998... State Corporatism and Proto-Industry: The Wurttemberg Black Forest 1580-1797, by Sheilagh Ogilvie. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. xx, 513 pp. $80.00 U.S. Ably informed by economic theory and by the latest empirical research, and...

The English Reformation and the Laity: Gloucestershire, 1540-1580.
August 1, 1998... The English Reformation and the Laity: Gloucestershire, 1540-1580, by Caroline Litzenberger. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. xvii, 218 pp. $54.95 U.S. The author claims that this book is an examination of the impact of the English...

Between Nations: Shakespeare, Spenser, Marvell and the Question of Britain.
August 1, 1998... Between Nations: Shakepear, Spenser, Marvell, and the Question of Britain, by David J. Baker. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1997. xii, 222 pp. $39.50 U.S. David J. Baker sets out to problematize further the already vexed...

God's Other Children: Protestant Nonconformists and the Emergence of Denominational Churches in Ireland, 1660-1700.
August 1, 1998... God's Other Children: Protestant Nonconformists and the Emergence of Denominational Churches in Ireland, 1660-1700, by Richard L. Greaves. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1997. xv, 472 pp. $55.00 U.S. One does not readily...

Weep Not for Me: Women, Ballads, and Infanticide in Early Modern Scotland.
August 1, 1998... Weep Not for Me: Women, Ballads, and Infanticide in Early Modern Scotland, by Deborah A. Symonds. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. xxi, 289, pp. $55.00 U.S. (cloth), $18.95 U.S. (paper). On July 12,...

Inventing a Republic: The Political Culture of the English Commonwealth, 1649-1653.
August 1, 1998... Inventing a Republic: The Political Culture of the English Commonwealth, 1649-1653, by Sean Kelsey. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1997. x, 254 pp. $49.50 U.S. More an extended essay on aspects of' the style of the English...

The Rise and Fall of Revolutionary England: An Essay on the Fabrication of Seventeenth-Century History.
August 1, 1998... The Rise and Fall of Revolutionary England: An Essay on the Fabrication of Seventeenth-Century History, by Alastair MacLachlan. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1996. vii, 431 pp. $39.95 U.S. In 1993, at the launch of the festschrift in his...

The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender and the Family in England, 1680-1780.
August 1, 1998... The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender and the Family in England, 1680-1780, by Margaret R. Hunt, Los Angeles, California, University of California Press, 1996. xi, 343 pp. $48.00 U.S. Finally, the bourgeoisie is rising from its historiographical...

Eighteenth-Century English Society: Shuttles and Swords.
August 1, 1998... Eighteenth-Century English Society: Shuttles and Swords, by Douglas Hay and Nicholas Rogers. Don Mills, Ontario, Oxford University Press, 1997. x, 253 pp. $24.50. We begin by "piking to the start": and though we arrive via Heath Row rather...

Radical Artisans in England and France: 1830-1870.
August 1, 1998... Radical Artisans in England and France, 1830-1870, by Iorwerth Prothero. Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press, 1997. xvi, 424 pp. $74.95 U.S. In the conclusion to Artisans and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century London: John Gast...

Forgotten Crisis: The Fin-de-Siecle Crisis of Democracy in France.
August 1, 1998... Forgotten Crisis: The Fin-de-Siecle Crisis of Democracy in France, by Robert Elliot Kaplan. Berg (Distributed by New York University Press), 1995. xii, 211 pp. $47.50 U.S. Like other liberal democracies in the generation before 1914 the French...

The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1914-1918.
August 1, 1998... The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914-1918, by Holger H. Herwig. London, Arnold, 1997. xix, 490 pp, $45.95. For those accustomed to think of the First World War from the allied point of view with the main focus on the western...

The Rise and Fall of Weimar Democracy.
August 1, 1998... The Rise and Fall of Weimar Democracy, by Hans Mommsen. Translated by Elborg Forster and Larry Eugene Jones. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xv, 604 pp. $65.00 U.S. (cloth), $24.95 U.S. (paper). This...

Ernst Junger and Germany: Into the Abyss, 1914-1945.
August 1, 1998... Ernst Junger and Germany: Into the Abyss, 1914-1945, by Thomas Nevin. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 1996. x, 284 pp. $24.95 U.S. When he died on 17 February 1998, six weeks short of his 103rd birthday, Ernst Junger was...

Hitler's Foreign Workers: Enforced Foreign Labor in Germany Under the Third Reich.
August 1, 1998... Hitler's Foreign Workers: Enforced Foreign Labor in Germany Under the Third Reich, by Ulrich Herbert. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. xxi, 510 pp. $80.00 U.S. Cambridge University Press has done well to translate Ulrich Herbert's...

Chemistry and the Chemical Industry in the Nineteenth Century: The Henrys of Manchester and Other Studies.
August 1, 1998... Chemistry and the Chemical Industry in the Nineteenth Century: The Henrys of Manchester and Other Studies, by Wilfred Farrar, edited by Richard L. Hills and W.H. Brock. Aldershot, Variorum, 1997. xiv, 334 pp. $94.95 U.S. This volume in the...

Peace Through Law: Britain and the International Court in the 1920s.
August 1, 1998... Peace Through Law: Britain and the International Court in the 1920s, by Lorna Lloyd, Suffolk, Royal Historical Society, 1997. xiv, 306 pp. $81.00 U.S. Lorna Lloyd has produced a thoughtful discussion and analysis of how, in the 1920s, the...

The Important Things of Life: Women, Work, and Family in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 1880-1929.
August 1, 1998... The Important Things of Life: Women, Work, and Family and Sweet-water County, Wyoming, 1880-1929, by Dee Garceau. Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1997. x, 215 pp. $45.00 U.S. The Important Things of Life is a careful study of...

Reconstructing Women's Thoughts: The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Before World War II.
August 1, 1998... Reconstructing Women's Thoughts: The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Before World War II, by Linda K. Schott. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1997. ix, 211 pp. $39.50 U.S. By "reconstructing women's...

Dr. Strangelove's America: Society and Culture in the Atomic Age.
August 1, 1998... Dr. Strangelove's America: Society and Culture in the Atomic Age, by Margot A. Henriksen. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1997. xxvi, 451 pp. $34.95 U.S. In this elegantly written book, Margot Henriksen discusses American...

Crisis and Commitment: United States Policy Toward Taiwan, 1950-1955.
August 1, 1998... Crisis and Commitment: United States Policy Toward Taiwan, 1950-1955, by Robert Accinelli. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xvi, 358 pp. This is a sunset book. A product of years of research and reflection,...

Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam.
August 1, 1998... Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam, by H.R. McMaster. New York, HarperCollins, 1997. xviii, 446 pp. $27.50 U.S. In Dereliction of Duty, Major H.R. McMaster argues...

Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970: Bicentennial Edition, on CD-ROM.
August 1, 1998... Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970 -- Bicentennial Edition, on CD-ROM, edited by Susan Carter, Scott Gartner, Michael Haines, Alan Olmstead, Richard Sutch, and Gavin Wright. New York, Cambridge University Press,...

Learning to Heal: The Medical Profession in Mexico, 1767-1831.
August 1, 1998... Learning to Heal. The Medical Profession in Colonial Mexico, 1767-1831, by Luz Maria Hernandez Saenz. New York, Peter Lang, 1997. viii, 301 pp. $48.95 U.S. Despite decades of intense interest in things medical on the part of historians of...

Struggles for Freedom: Essays on Slavery, Colonialism and Culture in the Caribbean and Central America.
August 1, 1998... Struggles for Freedom: Essays on Slavery, Colonialism and Culture in the Carribean and Central America, by O. Nigel Bolland. Belize City, Belize, Angelus Press, 1997. 334 pp. One of the most common problems with the literature on the Caribbean...

Demanding Democracy: Reform and Reaction in Costa Rica and Guatemala, 1870s-1950s.
August 1, 1998... Demanding Democracy: Reform and Reaction in Costa Rica and Guatemala, 1870s-1950s, by Deborah J. Yashar. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1997. xi, pp. $49.50 U.S. This study will be welcomed by two very different reading...

Peronism Without Peron: Unions, Parties and Democracy in Argentina.
August 1, 1998... Peronism without Peron: Unions, Parties and Democracy in Argentina, by James W. McGuire. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1997. xviii, 388 pp. $55.00 U.S. In the midst of the disputes over the choice of candidates for the next...

Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade.
August 1, 1998... Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade, by Boubacar Barry. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xxi, 358 pp. $59.95 U.S. (cloth), $18.95 U.S. (paper). Professor Barry's book, originally published in French as La Senegambie du...

Hate the Old and Follow the New: Khoekhoe and Missionaries in Early Nineteenth-Century Namibia.
August 1, 1998... Hate the Old and Follow the New: Khoekhoe and Missionaries in Early Nineteenth-Century Namibia, by Tilman Dedering. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997. 205 pp. DM 76. Tilman Dedering's magisterial exploration of the early nineteenth-century...

Fruits of Empire: Exotic Produce and British Taste, 1660-1800.
August 1, 1998... Fruits of Empire: Exotic Produce and British Taste, 1660-1800, by James Walvin. New York, New York University Press, 1997 xiv, 219 pp. $45.00 U.S. When an accomplished historian of slavery writes a brief social history of the impact of exotic...

Edward Gibbon and Empire.
August 1, 1998... Edward Gibbon and Empire, edited by Rosamond McKitterick and Roland Quinault, New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997, xvi, 351 pp. $64.95 U.S. This set of essays commissioned on the occasion of the bicentenary of Gibbon's death in 1794...

Nature and Society in Historical Context.
August 1, 1998... Nature and Society in Historical Context, edited by Mikulas Teich, Roy Porter, and Bo Gustafsson. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. xv, 404 pp. $69.95 U.S. (cloth), $24.95 U.S. (paper). This volume is one of a series edited jointly by...

Victorian Science in Context.
August 1, 1998... Victorian Science in Context, edited by Bernard Lightman. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1997. viii, 489 pp. $70.00 U.S. (cloth), $22.50 U.S. (paper). Landmark books, by definition, are far and few between. In many ways the...

Thinking About the Earth: A History of Ideas in Geology.
August 1, 1998... Thinking about the Earth: A History of Ideas in Geology, by David Oldroyd. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1996. xxx, 410 pp. $45.00 U.S. This is the first volume in a new series of Studies in the History and Philosophy of...