Canadian Journal of History articles from August 1999

Canadian Journal of History archives from August 1999

"TREACHERY IN THE REMOTEST TERRITORIES OF SCOTLAND:" NORTHERN RESISTANCE TO THE CANMORE DYNASTY, 1130-1230(1).
August 1, 1999... The Annals of Ulster, a rich source of information for events in medieval Scotland, note in laconic style under the year 1130, "a battle between the men of Scotland and the men of Moray, and in it four thousand of the men of Moray fell,...

GREEN IS THE COLOUR OF HOPE?: THE CRUMBLING FACADE OF POSTWAR BYT THROUGH THE PUBLIC EYES OF VECHERNIAIA MOSKVA(1).
August 1, 1999... "Well, we live very well," replied migrant worker Tashauza Shamrad Chaldyrov when asked by a Vecherniaia Moskva (Evening Moscow) correspondent about everyday life in Moscow. Her assessment appeared in an article about a "freshly painted pink"...

VETERANS' ASSOCIATIONS AND POLITICAL RADICALISM IN WEST GERMANY 1951-54: A CASE STUDY OF THE TRADITIONSGEMEINSCHAFT GROSSDEUTSCHLAND.
August 1, 1999... Following the annulment of the Allied law forbidding soldiers to hold meetings in December 1949, and the founding of the Bund versorgungsberechtigter ehemaliger Wehrmachtsangehoriger und deren Hinterbliebenen (BvW) on 28 April 1950, the doors...

Heretics and Scholars in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1200.(Review)
August 1, 1999... Heretics and Scholars in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1200, by Heinrich Fichtenau. Translated by Denise A. Kaiser. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. viii, 403 pp. $45.00 U.S. In a chronicle written...

The Reformation and the Towns in England: Politics and Political Culture, c. 1540-1640.
August 1, 1999... The Reformation and the Towns in England: Politics and Political Culture, c. 1540-1640, by Robert Tittler. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1998. 395 pp. $134.50 Cdn. As the author himself states, urban history is "a newish and non-traditional...

Schools of Asceticism: Ideology and Organization in Medieval Religious Communities.
August 1, 1999... Schools of Asceticism: Ideology and Organization in Medieval Religious Communities, by Lutz Kaelber. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. viii, 278 pp. $55.00 (cloth). $19.95 (paper) U.S. In a chronicle written...

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire.
August 1, 1999... The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire, by Raymond Pearson. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1998. xix, 194 pp. $55.00 (cloth), $19.95 (paper). In recent years conventional wisdom asserted that Marxists failed to appreciate the force of...

The Communist Movement Since 1945.
August 1, 1999... The Communist Movement Since 1945, by Willie Thompson. Malden, Massachusetts, Blackwell Publishers, 1998. x, 26 pp. $26.95. In recent years conventional wisdom asserted that Marxists failed to appreciate the force of nationalism in their...

Soviet History in the Yeltsin Era.
August 1, 1999... Soviet History in the Yeltsin Era, by Robert William Davies. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1997. viii, 264pp. $26.95. In recent years conventional wisdom asserted that Marxists failed to appreciate the force of nationalism in their analysis...

The Living and the Dead: The Rise and Fall of the Cult of World War II in Russia.
August 1, 1999... The Living and the Dead. The Rise and Fall of the Cult of World War II in Russia, by Nina Tumarkin. New York, Basic Books, 1994. xii, 242 pp. $22.00. In recent years conventional wisdom asserted that Marxists failed to appreciate the force...

From Rome to Byzantium: The Fifth Century AD.(Brief Article)
August 1, 1999... From Rome to Byzantium: The Fifth Century AD, par Michael Grant. Londres, et New York, Routledge, 1998. xiii, 203 pp. $56.00. Ce dernier tome du celebre Michael Grant s'inscrit dans une serie de livres abordant les grandes epoques de...

The First Crusaders: 1095-1131.
August 1, 1999... The First Crusaders, 1095-1131, by Jonathan Riley-Smith. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. xvi, 300 pp. $49.95 U.S. This book is an important way-station on the route of the pilgrim's progress, the "pilgrim" in this case being the...

Clement V.
August 1, 1999... Clement V, by Sophia Menache. Cambridge, University Press, 1998. xiv, 351 pp. $69.95. Sophia Menache indicates in the foreword of this volume that in spite of the numerous studies that have been conducted on the career of Clement V,...

A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia, vol. 1, Inner Eurasia from Prehistory to the Mongol Empire.(Brief Article)
August 1, 1999... A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia, Volume I: Inner Eurasia from Prehistory to the Mongol Empire, by David Christian. Malden, Massachusetts, Blackwell Publishers, 1998. xxiii, 459 pp. $41.97 Cdn., $27.95 U.S. Though the study...

The Singular Beast: Jews, Christians, and the Pig.(Review)
August 1, 1999... The Singular Beast: Jews, Christians, and the Pig, by Claudine Fabre-Vassas. Translated by Carol Volk. New York, Columbia University Press, 1997. x, 401 pp. $35.00. In the normal course of events, the academy is divided into departments,...

Vom Lehnhof zur Reichsritterschaft. Strukturen des frankischen Niederadels am Ubergang vom spaten Mittelalter zur fruhen Neuzeit.(Review)
August 1, 1999... Vom Lehnhof zur Reichsritterschaft. Strukturen des frankischen Niederadels am Ubergang vom spaten Mittelalter zur fruhen Neuzeit, by Cord Ulrichs. Vierteljahrschrift fur Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Beiheft No. 134. Stuttgart, Franz...

State and Nobility in Early Modern Germany: The Knightly Freud in Franconia, 1440-1567.(Review)
August 1, 1999... State and Nobility in Early Modern Germany: The Knightly Feud in Franconia, 1440-1567, by Hillay Zmora. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997. 232 pp. $59.95. These two dissertations,...

A History of the University in Europe, Volume II: Universities in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800).(Review)
August 1, 1999... A History of the University in Europe, Volume II: Universities in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800), edited by Hilde de Ridder-Symoens. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 1996. xxv, 693 pp. $95.00. For much of...

The Culture of Merit: Nobility, Royal Service, and the Making of Absolute Monarchy in France, 1600-1789.(Review)
August 1, 1999... The Culture of Merit: Nobility, Royal Service, and the Making of Absolute Monarchy in France, 1600-1789, by Jay M. Smith. Ann Arbor, Michigan, University of Michigan Press, 1996. vii, 305 pp. $47.50. This work focuses on the role of both...

Giant of the Grand Siecle: The French Army, 1610-1715.(Review)
August 1, 1999... Giant of the Grand Siecle: The French Army, 1610-1715, by John A. Lynn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xx, 651 pp. $64.95 U.S. Giant of the Grand Siecle: The French Army, 1610-1715 delivers far more than its title promises....

Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815.(Review)
August 1, 1999... Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815, by Ken Alder. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1997. xvi, 476 pp. $65.00. This book is about the initial success and ultimate failure of...

The Quiet Reformation: Magistrates and the Emergence of Protestantism in Tudor Norwich.(Review)
August 1, 1999... The Quiet Reformation: Magistrates and the Emergence of Protestantism in Tudor Norwich, by Muriel C. McClendon. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1999. xii, 340 pp. $55.00 U.S. Towns have been understudied in the...

Gender and History in Western Europe.(Review)
August 1, 1999... Gender and History in Western Europe, edited by Robert Shoemaker and Mary Vincent. London, Arnold Publishers, 1998. 388 pp. $46.95. The editors of this "Arnold Reader" are lecturers in the Department of History of the University of...

War, Medicine and Modernity.(Review)
August 1, 1999... War, Medicine and Modernity, edited by Roger Cooter, Mark Harrison and Steve Sturdy. Stroud, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998. vi, 258 pp. $82.95 Cdn. The chapters in this book cover the period between the Franco-Prussian War and...

From Peace to War: Germany, Soviet Russia and the World, 1939-1941.(Review)
August 1, 1999... From Peace to War: Germany, Soviet Russia and the World, 1939-1941, edited by Bern Wegner. Providence, Rhode Island, Berghahn Books, 1997. vii, 632 pp. $75.00. On 22 June 1941, German forces rolled across the Soviet border and began what...

Using Europe, Abusing the Europeans: Britain and European Integration, 1945-63.(Review)
August 1, 1999... Using Europe, Abusing the Europeans: Britain and European Integration, 1945-63, by Wolfram Kaiser. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1996. xviii, 274 pp. $59.95. This book represents a particularly weighty contribution to the slowly burgeoning...

An Ascendancy Army. The Irish Yeomanry 1796-1834.(Review)
August 1, 1999... An Ascendancy Army. The Irish Yeomanry, 1796-1834, by Allan B. Blackstock. Dublin, Four Courts Press, 1998.320 pp. $45.00 Usually, historical anniversaries are disasters. For example, much of the work that superated from the recent...

The Early Feminists: Radical Unitarians and the Emergence of the Women's Rights Movement; 1831-5.(Review)
August 1, 1999... The Early Feminists: Radical Unitarians and the Emergence of the Women's Rights Movement, 1831-5, by Kathryn Gleadle. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1995, reprinted 1998.260 pp. $19.95. Kathryn Gleadle would like to redate the emergence of...

Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain.(Review)
August 1, 1999... Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain, by Alison Winter. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1998. xiv, 464 pp., $30.00 It is hard to imagine a modern equivalent of Victorian mesmerism and indeed the thrust of Alison...

Speaking for the People: Party, Language and Popular Politics in England 1867-1914.(Review)
August 1, 1999... Speaking for the People: Party, Language and Popular Politics in England, 1867-1914, by Jon Lawrence. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiii, 289 pp. $64.95. Jon Lawrence is a "historian from below" with a deconstructionist...

"This Rash Act": Suicide across the Life Cycle in the Victorian City.(Review)
August 1, 1999... "This Rash Act": Suicide across the Life Cycle in the Victorian City, by Victor Bailey. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1998. xvi, 349 pp. $55.00 U.S. In October 1895, a news-vendor named Charles Glew forged a newsagent's...

Friends of the Family: The English Home and its Guardians, 1850-1940.(Review)
August 1, 1999... Friends of the Family: The English Home and its Guardians, 1850-1940, by George K. Behlmer. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1998. x, 455 pp. $55.00. In his first book -- Child Abuse and Moral Reform in England, 1870-1908...

The IRA and its Enemies: Violence and Community in Cork, 1916-23.(Review)
August 1, 1999... The IRA and its Enemies: Violence and Community in Cork, 1916-23, by Peter Hart. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1998. xv, 350 pp. $108.00. This is a great book. The first work on the Irish revolution which can stand comparison with the best of...

Fighting for Ireland: the Military Strategy of the Irish Republican Movement.(Review)
August 1, 1999... Fighting for Ireland: the Military Strategy of the Irish Republican Movement, by M.L.R. Smith. London and New York, Routledge, 1997. xxvii, 265 pp. $18.95 (paper). The significance of this study is vested in two comments made by former...

United Irishmen, United States: Immigrant Radicals in the Early Republic.(Review)
August 1, 1999... United Irishmen, United States: Immigrant Radicals in the Early Republic, by David A. Wilson. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 1998. x, 223 pp. $29.95. This is an excellent book, important for the specialist and of interest to...

Seductive Journey: American Tourists in France from Jefferson to the Jazz Age.(Review)
August 1, 1999... Seductive Journey: American Tourists in France from Jefferson to the Jazz Age, by Harvey Levenstein. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1998. xiv, 378 pp. $30.00. Harvey Levenstein's Seductive Journey is an engagingly written...

Darwinism Comes to America.(Review)
August 1, 1999... Darwinism Comes to America, by R. Numbers. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1998. 216 pp. $39.95 (cloth), $18.95 (paper). Ronald Numbers is one of the world's leading historians of the relationship between science and...

Creating Born Criminals.(Review)
August 1, 1999... Creating Born Criminals, by Nicole Hahn Rafter. Chicago, Illinois, University of Illinois Press, 1997. xi, 284 pp. $36.95. No topic of historical study is more relevant to contemporary ethical and policy health care issues than eugenics....

Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishoners in Eighteenth-Century Mexico.(Review)
August 1, 1999... Magistrates of the Sacred:Priests and Parishoners in Eighteenth-Century Mexico, by William B. Taylor. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1996. xiv, 868 pp. $75.00 U.S. After many years of archival research, William Taylor has...

Empire, Enslavement, and Freedom in the Carribean.(Review)
August 1, 1999... Empire, Enslavement, and Freedom in the Carribean, by Michael Craton. New York, Marcus Wiener, 1997. xxiv, 520 pp. $39.95 (cloth), $24.95 (paper). For over thirty years Michael Craton has studied slavery and slave societies in the...

The Power of God against the Guns of Government: Religious Upheaval in Mexico at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century.(Review)
August 1, 1999... The Power of God against the Guns of Government: Religious Upheaval in Mexico at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century, by Paul Vanderwood. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1998. xi, 409 pp. $65.00 cloth; $24.95 paper. Paul...

Afro-Brazilian Culture and Politics: Bahia, 1790s to 1990s.(Review)
August 1, 1999... Afro-Brazilian Culture and Politics: Bahia, 1790s to 1990s, edited by Hendrick Kraay. Armonk, New York, M.E. Sharpe, 1998. xiv, 208 pp. $61.95 (cloth), $22.95 (paper). At the risk of being simplistic, if one word could ever be used to...

Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations.(Review)
August 1, 1999... Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations, edited by Gilbert M. Joseph, Catherine C. LeGrand, and Ricardo D. Salvatore. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 1998. xv, 575 pp. $59.95...

Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945: The Age of the Gods and Emperor Jinmu.(Review)
August 1, 1999... Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945: The Age of the Gods and Emperor Jinmu, by John S. Brownlee. Vancouver, British Columbia, University of British Columbia Press, 1997. ix, 256 pp. $75.00. In this historiographical...

Between Worlds: Early Exchanges Between Maori and Europeans 1773-1815.(Review)
August 1, 1999... Between Worlds: Early Exchanges Between Maori and Europeans 1773-1815, by Anne Salmond. Auckland, New Zealand, Viking/Penguin Books, 1997. 590 pp. $69.95 U.S. Anne Salmond has written a massive and impressive book on contact between Maori...

The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, Volume 3: The Coming of the Cataclysm 1961-1966.(Review)
August 1, 1999... The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, Volume 3: The Coming of the Cataclysm 1961-1966, by Roderick MacFarquhar. New York, Columbia University Press, 1997. xiv, 733 pp. $47.50 U.S. With this volume, Roderick MacFarquhar completes his...

Notes from the Minefield: United States Intervention in Lebanon and the Middle East, 1945-1958.(Review)
August 1, 1999... Notes from the Minefield: United States Intervention in Lebanon and the Middle East, 1945-1958, by Irene Gendzier. New York, Columbia University Press, 1997. xvii, 470 pp. $39.95. The scholar of the U.S. Middle Eastern policy between the...

The Making of Ireland from Ancient Times to the Present.(Review)
August 1, 1999... The Making of Ireland from Ancient Times to the Present, by James Lydon. New York, Routledge, 1998. ix, 425 pp. $31.99. This book takes care of a problem that has plagued me for years. I am sometimes asked -- typically by someone who is...

The Life Sciences in Eighteenth-Century French Thought.(Review)
August 1, 1999... The Life Sciences in Eighteenth-Century French Thought, by Jacques Roger. Translated by Robert Ellrich. Edited by K.R. Benson. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1997. xliv, 760 pp. $75.00. I have one good reason for not...

Picturing Empire: Photography and the Visualization of the British Empire.(Review)
August 1, 1999... Picturing Empire: Photography and the Visualization of the British Empire, by James R. Ryan. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1997. 272 pp. $38.00. Edward Said's Orientalism popularized the argument that European...

Revolutionary Armies in the Modern Era: A Revisionist Approach.(Review)
August 1, 1999... Revolutionary Armies in the Modern Era: A Revisionist Approach, by S.P. MacKenzie. New York, Routledge, 1997. ix, 235 pp. $75.00. S.P. Mackenzie has produced a stimulating collection of essays. The modern era here ranges from the English...

Tennis: A Cultural History.(Review)
August 1, 1999... Tennis: A Cultural History, by Heiner Gillmeister. New York, New York University Press, 1998. xii, 452 pp. $24.95 U.S. The eighteenth century Gabriel Bella painting is an excellent selection for the cover of Heiner Gillmeister's history of...

NOTES.(Brief Article)
August 1, 1999... It was recently announced in the Bulletin Canadian Historical Association - Societe historique du Canada (vol. 25.2, 1999, p. 25) that the author of an article published in the Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d'histoire was a...

ERRATUM.(Brief Article)(Correction Notice)
August 1, 1999... Please note that an incorrect picture was inadvertently published in Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d'histoire, volume 34, no. 1, 1999, p. 69, in the article by D. Snigurowicz entitled, "Sex, Simians, and Spectacle in...