Canadian Journal of History articles from August 2000

Canadian Journal of History archives from August 2000

Romanitas and the Roman Family: The Evidence of Apuleius's Apology(1).
August 1, 2000... I At the turn of the third century Tertullian claimed that the pallium traditionally worn at Carthage was altogether being replaced by the Roman toga, a change of taste the theologian found irritating enough to provoke in the De pallio an...

`Escheat with Heir': Guardianship, Upward Mobility, and Political Reconciliation in the Reign of Edward III.(feudalism in 12th century England)
August 1, 2000... The later Middle Ages was a period when royal feudal rights are usually considered to have been in retreat in England.(1) The importance of the military summons had gone into decline in the thirteenth century and most knights' fees were so...

Commerce, Industry, and the Laws of Newtonian Science: Weber Revisited and Revised.(Max Weber)
August 1, 2000... I am happy that you are at liberty to confound your enemies. Invention is so rare and so useful a quality that it ought to be protected and encouraged to the utmost. It is a misfortune to your cause that it is to be determined...

Mercenary Companies and the Decline of Siena.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Mercenary Companies and the Decline of Siena, by William Caferro. Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. xx, 251 pp. $39.95 U.S. The Victorian writer J.A. Symonds once characterized the Renaissance as "the most...

Padua under the Carrara, 1318-1405.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Padua under the Carrara, 1318-1405, by Benjamin G. Kohl, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. xxvi, 466 pp. $45.00 U.S. The Victorian writer J.A. Symonds once characterized the Renaissance as "the most marvellous...

Sport and Society in Ancient Greece.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Sport and Society in Ancient Greece, by Mark Golden. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiii, 216 pp. $59.95 (cloth) $19.95 (paper). Sport and Society in Ancient Greece is the latest volume in the successful Cambridge series, "Key...

Spectacle Entertainments of Early Imperial Rome.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Spectacle Entertainments of Early Imperial Rome, by Richard C. Beacham. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1999. xii, 306 pp. $35.00. In April, 44 B.C., at the height of the chaos and uncertainty which followed the...

A History of the Byzantine State and Society.(Review)
August 1, 2000... A History of the Byzantine State and Society, by Warren Treadgold. Stanford California, Stanford University Press, 1997. xxiii, 1019 pp. $79.50 U.S. (cloth), $34.95 U.S. (paper). George Ostrogorsky's A History of the Byzantine State and...

Five Euphemias: Women in Medieval Scotland 1200-1420.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Five Euphemias: Women in Medieval Scotland 1200-1420, by Elizabeth Sutherland. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1999. 282 pp. $35.00. Despite the proliferation in recent years of scholarly works on the social and familial lives of medieval...

Medievalia et Humanistica: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture, New Series -- Number 25: Transitions.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Medievalia et Humanistica: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture, New Series -- Number 25: Transitions, edited by Paul Maurice Clogan. Lanham, Maryland, Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. xiii, 177 pp. $68.00 U.S. The latest volume in...

Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century, by Richard Kieckhefer. University Park, Pennsylvania, Penn State University Press, 1997. viii, 384 pp. $60.00 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper). The history of literate...

The German Reformation.(Review)
August 1, 2000... The German Reformation, edited by C. Scott Dixon. Malden, Massachusetts, Blackwell Publishers, 1999. vii, 288 pp. $26.95. In this volume of the Blackwell Essential Readings in History series, the editor has collected eight "key essays on...

Frontiers of the Reformation: Dissidence and Orthodoxy in Sixteenth-Century Europe.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Frontiers of the Reformation: Dissidence and Orthodoxy in Sixteenth-Century Europe, by Auke Jelsma. Brookfield, Vermont, Ashgate Publishing, 1998. xii, 192 pp. $76.95 U.S. In this book the author has collected a series of eleven previously...

The Identity of Geneva: The Christian Commonwealth, 1564-1864.(Review)
August 1, 2000... The Identity of Geneva: The Christian Commonwealth, 1564-1864, edited by John B. Roney and Martin I. Klauber. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1998. xiv, 228 pp. $59.95 U.S. The title is slightly misleading. Only half of the essays...

The Early Modern European Economy.(Review)
August 1, 2000... The Early Modern European Economy, by Peter Musgrave. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1999. xii, 236 pp. $59.95 (cloth), $22.95 (paper). The self-proclaimed purpose of this book is to present a revisionist essay on the late twentieth century...

Tommaso Campanella and the Transformation of the World.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Tommaso Campanella and the Transformation of the World, by John M. Headley. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1997. xxv, 399 pp. $55.00. In Tommaso Campanella and the Transformation of the World, John Headley has written...

Patrons, Artisans and Instruments of Science, 1600-1750.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Patrons, Artisans and Instruments of Science, 1600-1750, by Silvio A. Bedini. Aldershot, England, Variorum, distributed by Ashgate, 1999. xvi, 336 pp. $120.95 U.S. The thirteen essays in this richly rewarding volume range over the...

France in the Enlightenment.(Review)
August 1, 2000... France in the Enlightenment, by Daniel Roche. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1998.723 pp. $39.95. Arguably Daniel Roche is the most important living French historian writing on the...

The Impact of the English Reformation, 1500-1640.(Review)
August 1, 2000... The Impact of the English Reformation, 1500-1640, edited by Peter Marshall. Don Mills, Ontario, Arnold, distributed by Oxford University Press, 1997. xi, 344 pp. $40.50. Readers of the twelve scholarly essays and excellent introduction by...

Flamsteed's Stars: New Perspectives on the Life and Work of the First Astronomer Royal (1646-1719).(Review)
August 1, 2000... Flamsteed's Stars: New Perspectives on the Life and Work of the First Astronomer Royal (1646-1719), edited by Frances Willmoth. New York, Boydell Press, 1997. xiv, 271 pp. $81.00. A first-rate sheaf of essays complementing each other,...

Britain as a Military Power, 1688-1815.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Britain as a Military Power, 1688-1815, by Jeremy Black. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, UCL Press, distributed by Taylor & Francis, 1999. viii, 332 pp. $49.95. In this wide-ranging book, Jeremy Black, a prolific producer of publications on...

Acts of Union: Scotland and the Literary Negotiation of the British Nation, 1707-1830.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Acts of Union: Scotland and the Literary Negotiation of the British Nation, 1707-1830, by Leith Davis. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1998. viii, 219 pp. $39.50 U.S. Leith Davis explores a century-long struggle to define a...

The Russian Empire in the Eighteenth Century: Searching for a Place in the World.(Review)
August 1, 2000... The Russian Empire in the Eighteenth Century: Searching for a Place in the World, by Aleksandr B. Kamenskii, translated and edited by David Griffiths. Armonk, New York, M.E. Sharpe, 1997. xii, 306 pp. $65.95 (cloth), $24.95 (paper). At...

The End of Imperial Russia, 1855-1917.(Review)
August 1, 2000... The End of Imperial Russia, 1855-1917, by Peter Waldron. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1997. vii, 189 pp. $49.95 (cloth), $18.95 (paper). At first glance, these three studies share only their interest in the history of the Russian empire....

Social Identity in Imperial Russia.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Social Identity in Imperial Russia, by Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter. DeKalb, Illinois, Northern Illinois University Press, 1997. xi, 260 pp. $35.00. At first glance, these three studies share only their interest in the history of the...

Tactics and Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Tactics and Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon, by Rory Muir. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1998. x, 342 pp. $35.00. Rory Muir is a young historian of great talent who was educated at Adelaide University...

Modern Germany: An Encyclopedia of History, People, and Culture, 1871-1990.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Modern Germany: An Encyclopedia of History, People, and Culture, 1871-1990, edited by Dieter Buse and Juergen Doerr. New York, Garland Publishing, 1998. 1iii, 1,158 pp. 2 volumes, $175.00. It is striking that prior to 1998 there existed no...

Studies in the Interwar European Economy.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Studies in the Interwar European Economy, by Derek H. Aldcroft. Brookfield, Vermont, Ashgate. x, 229 pp. $72.95 U.S. Modern scholarship on the economic history of the interwar period has generally avoided focussing on a single factor to...

The Weimar Republic.(Review)
August 1, 2000... The Weimar Republic, by Stephen J. Lee. New York, Routledge, 1998. viii, 136 pp. $11.99 U.S., $17.99 Can. It is undoubtedly a specialist's conceit to argue that the Weimar Republic is one of the periods in German history whose...

The Weimar Republic, 1919-1933.(Review)
August 1, 2000... The Weimar Republic, 1919-1933, by Ruth Henig. New York, Routledge, 1998. xix, 87 pp. $11.99 U.S., $17.99 Can. It is undoubtedly a specialist's conceit to argue that the Weimar Republic is one of the periods in German history whose...

Dispatches from the Weimar Republic: Versailles and German Fascism.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Dispatches from the Weimar Republic: Versailles and German Fascism, by Morgan Philips Price, edited by Tania Rose. London, Pluto Press, 1999. xxiv, 220 pp. $39.95 Can. It is undoubtedly a specialist's conceit to argue that the Weimar...

Heinrich Bruning and the Dissolution of the Weimar Republic.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Heinrich Bruning and the Dissolution of the Weimar Republic, by William L. Patch, Jr. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. ix, 358 pp. $54.95. Few figures of the Weimar Republic's troubled last years have received more historical...

A Time of Silence: Civil War and the Culture of Repression in Franco's Spain, 1936-1945.(Review)
August 1, 2000... A Time of Silence: Civil War and the Culture of Repression in Franco's Spain, 1936-1945, by Michael Richards. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xii, 314 pp. $59.95. One of General Franco's central post-war objectives was to...

The Mind Aflame: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Conflict In and After the Soviet Union.(Review)
August 1, 2000... The Mind Aflame: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Conflict In and After the Soviet Union, by Valery Tishkov. Thousand Oaks, California, Sage Publications, 1997. xv, 334 pp. $29.95 (paper). Inspired by the devastating and tragic ethnic wars and...

1939: The Alliance That Never Was and the Coming of World War II.(Review)
August 1, 2000... 1939: The Alliance That Never Was and the Coming of World War II, by Michael Jabara Carley. Chicago, Illinois, Ivan R. Dee, 1999. xxv, 321 pp. $39.95. Michael Jabara Carley's monograph on the Anglo-French-Soviet alliance negotiations...

World War Two in Europe: An Encyclopedia.(Review)
August 1, 2000... World War Two in Europe: An Encyclopedia, edited by David T. Zabecki. New York, Garland Publishing, 1999. xvii, 1920 pp. Two volumes, $195.00. David Zabecki's Encyclopedia is a research tool serving an audience of both scholars and...

The Causes of the Second World War.(Review)
August 1, 2000... The Causes of the Second World War, by Andrew J. Crozier. Malden Massachusetts, Blackwell, 1997. xvi, 320 pp. $64.95 U.S. (cloth), $26.95 U.S. (paper). A retrospective view at the end of the twentieth century may indeed place the Second...

Deadly Imbalances: Tripolarity and Hitler's Strategy of World Conquest.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Deadly Imbalances: Tripolarity and Hitler's Strategy of World Conquest, by Randall L. Schweller. New York, Columbia University Press, 1998. x, 268 pp. $57.00 U.S. (cloth), $21.50 U.S. (paper). A retrospective view at the end of the...

Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia, by Gabriel Gorodetsky. New Haven, Connecticut. Yale University Press, 1999. xvi, 408 pp. $29.95 U.S. Gabriel Gorodetsky is a professor of history at the Tel Aviv University and has...

Les relations economiques franco-allemandes de 1945 a 1955: De l'occupation a la cooperation.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Les relations economiques franco-allemandes de 1945 a 1955: De l'occupation a la cooperation, by Sylvie Lefevre. Paris, Comite pour l'histoire economique et financiere, 1998. xviii, 527 pp. 249 FF. Sylvie Lefevre's book on postwar...

The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II.(Review)
August 1, 2000... The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II, by Gabrielle Hecht. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The MIT Press, 1998. xiv, 453 pp, $45.00. In 1945 peace returned to Europe, but it did not bring relief from the...

The Long Entanglement: NATO's First Fifty Years.(Review)
August 1, 2000... The Long Entanglement: NATO's First Fifty Years, by Lawrence S. Kaplan. Westport, Connecticut, Praeger, distributed by Greenwood Press, 1999. xii, 280 pp, $22.50 (paper), $65.00 (cloth). In 1945 peace returned to Europe, but it did not...

Children, Childhood and English Society, 1880-1990.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Children, Childhood and English Society, 1880-1990, by Harry Hendrick. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. 114 pp. $44.95 (cloth), $12.95 (paper). This book provides an overview of the current literature on the history of children...

Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick: Britain, 1800-1854.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick: Britain, 1800-1854, by Christopher Hamlin. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. vii, 368 pp. $64.95. The name of Edwin Chadwick is synonymous with Victorian public health....

The British Imperial Century, 1815-1914: A Worm History Perspective.(Review)
August 1, 2000... The British Imperial Century, 1815-1914: A Worm History Perspective, by Timothy H. Parsons. Lanham, Maryland, Rowman and Littlefield, 1999. xi, 153 pp. $53.00 U.S. (cloth), $11.95 U.S. (paper). This is the first work in a new series...

Twisting in the Wind: The Murderess and the English Press.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Twisting in the Wind: The Murderess and the English Press, by Judith Knelman. Toronto, Ontario, University of Toronto Press, 1998. xii, 322 pp. $50.00 (cloth), $21.95 (paper). It is difficult to resist the grim allure of accounts of...

Women at Cambridge.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Women at Cambridge, by Rita McWilliams Tullberg. Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xxvii 230 pp. $22.95 U.S. Groucho Marx is supposed to have said: "I don't want to belong to any club that would have me." This saying...

Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution, by Nicholas Lambert. Columbia, South Carolina, University of South Carolina Press, 1999. xvi, 410 pp. $39.95 U.S. Nicholas Lambert has written what amounts to a lengthy defence of Sir John Fisher and his...

British Foreign Policy, 1919-1939: "Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst".(Review)
August 1, 2000... British Foreign Policy, 1919-1939: "Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst," by Paul W. Doerr. New York, Manchester University Press (distributed by St. Martin's Press), 1998. xi, 291 pp. $28.50. In this book, Paul W. Doerr takes a...

The Royal Navy and German Naval Disarmament 1942-1947.(Review)
August 1, 2000... The Royal Navy and German Naval Disarmament, 1942-1947, by Chris Madsen. London, England, Frank Cass, distributed by I.S.B.S., 1998. xx, 277 pp. $55.00 U.S. This work examines a perfect naval victory and an unknown one -- Britain's...

New Labour in Power: Precedents and Prospects.(Review)
August 1, 2000... New Labour in Power: Precedents and Prospects, edited by Brian Brivati and Tim Bale. New York, Routledge, 1997. xi, 212 pp. $31.99. Nineteen hundred and six, 1945, 1979, and now, apparently, 1997: these are the counters in the historical...

The Lord Cornbury Scandal: The Politics of Reputation in British America.(Review)
August 1, 2000... The Lord Cornbury Scandal: The Politics of Reputation in British America, by Patricia U. Bonomi. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xiv, 290 pp. $29.95. The most serious scandal about Edward Hyde,...

The Popular Press, 1833-1836.(Review)
August 1, 2000... The Popular Press, 1833-1836, by William E. Huntzicker. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1999. xii, 210 pp. $65.00. Bemidji, Minnesota, known for Babe the Blue Ox and Bob Dylan, is also the home of William E. Huntzicker, Assistant...

Substance and Shadow: Women and Addiction in the United States.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Substance and Shadow: Women and Addiction in the United States, by Stephen R. Kandall. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1996. x, 353 pp. $29.95 U.S. In Substance and Shadow, Stephen Kandall, Chief of Neonatology at Beth...

Narratives and Spaces: Technology and the Construction of American Culture.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Narratives and Spaces: Technology and the Construction of American Culture, by David E. Nye. New York, Columbia University Press, 1997. xiv, 224 pp. $45.00 (cloth), $17.50 (paper). The relationship between land, landscape, and technological...

Why the Senate Slept: The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the Beginning of the Vietnam War.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Why the Senate Slept: The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the Beginning of the Vietnam War, by Ezra Y. Siff. Westport, Connecticut, Praeger, 1999. xix, 172 pp. $49.95. On August 2, 1964, there was a brief clash between a U.S. destroyer and...

In the Stream of History.(Review)
August 1, 2000... In the Stream of History, by Warren Christopher. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1998. xvii, 566 pp. $60.00 (cloth), $22.95 (paper). As political power changes hands early in 2001, followers of U.S. public affairs should...

The Essential Codex Mendoza.(Review)
August 1, 2000... The Essential Codex Mendoza, edited by Frances F. Berdan and Patricia Reiff Anawalt. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1997. xiii, 268 pp. $39.95 U.S. Among the many first peoples of the Americas, the Mesoamericans had...

Campanha Gaucha: A Brazilian Ranching System, 1850-1920.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Campanha Gaucha: A Brazilian Ranching System, 1850-1920, by Stephen Bell. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1998. xv, 292 pp. $55.00. Brazil's far south has more in common with Uruguay and eastern Argentina than with the...

Intimate Ironies: Modernity and the Making of Middle Class Lives in Brazil.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Intimate Ironies: Modernity and the Making of Middle Class Lives in Brazil, by Brian P. Owensby. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1999. xv, 334 pp. $45.00 U.S. Brazilian historiography, particularly that of the 1980s, had a...

Port Cities and Intruders: The Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the Early Modern Era.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Port Cities and Intruders: The Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the Early Modern Era, by Michael N. Pearson. Baltimore, Maryland, John Hopkins University Press, 1998. x, 202 pp. $35.95 U.S. (cloth). A distinguished scholar of early...

War on the Savannah: The Military Collapse of the Sokoto Caliphate Under the Invasion of the British Empire, 1897-1903.(Review)
August 1, 2000... War on the Savannah: The Military Collapse of the Sokoto Caliphate Under the Invasion of the British Empire, 1897-1903, by Risto Marjomaa. Helsinki, Finland, The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 1998. 305 pp. At the turn of the...

A History of Japan: From Stone Age to Superpower.(Review)
August 1, 2000... A History of Japan: From Stone Age to Superpower, by Kenneth G. Henshall. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1999. xvi, 242 pp. $45.00 U.S. The book covers, as advertised, the entire history of Japan from the Stone Age to the present, getting...

Sun Yat-sen.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Sun Yat-sen, by Marie-Claire Bergere, translated from the French by Janet Lloyd. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1998. ix, 480 pp. $49.50 U.S. This timely biography of Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), written by Marie-Claire...

Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Science and Technology in Worm History: An Introduction, by James T. McClellan III and Harold Dom. Baltimore, Maryland, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. viii, 404 pp. $18.95. If I could attach bells and whistles and flashing lights to...

The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making.(Review)
August 1, 2000... The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making, by Adrian Johns. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1998. xxi, 753 pp. $40.00 U.S. As with any good book, Adrian Johns's opus is full of tensions. It is packed with...

Borders, Exiles, Diasporas.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Borders, Exiles, Diasporas, edited by Elazar Barkan and Marie-Denise Shelton. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1998. 340 pp. $18.95 (paper), $49.50 (cloth). Emerging from the 1994 meeting of the American Comparative...

Destined for Equality: The Inevitable Rise of Women's Status.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Destined for Equality: The Inevitable Rise of Women's Status, by Robert Max Jackson. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1998.316 pp. $35.00. Sociologist Robert Max Jackson advances a powerful theoretical model accounting...

Identity and Intolerance: Nationalism and Xenophobia in Germany and the United States.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Identity and Intolerance: Nationalism and Xenophobia in Germany and the United States, edited by Norbert Finzsch and Dietmar Schirmer. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xxxix, 422 pp. $59.95. The question of whether German racism...

Free Trade, Free World: The Advent of GATT.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Free Trade, Free World: The Advent of GATT, by Thomas W. Zeiler. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xii, 267 pp. $65.95. At this writing, the World Trade Organization (W.T.O.) is under intense media...