Canadian Journal of History articles from August 2001

Canadian Journal of History archives from August 2001

The Good of this Service Consists in Absolute Secrecy: The Earl of Dunbar, Scotland and the Border (1603-1611).
August 1, 2001... I. It is true there be some affairs which require extreme secrecy, which will hardly go beyond one or two persons besides the king: neither are those councils unprosperous, for, besides the secrecy, they commonly go on constantly in one...

GENDER AND THE SHIFTING GROUND OF REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS: THE CASE OF MADAME ROLAND.(Jeanne-Marie Roland)
August 1, 2001... Marie-Jeanne (Manon) Roland's death, as much as her life, has captured the imagination of modern historians and literary scholars, and it has everything to do with timing. As a supporter of the Brissotins(1) and a woman active in politics, her...

Technical Knowledge and the Mental Universe of Manchester's Early Cotton Manufacturers.
August 1, 2001... This essay focuses on the role that learned knowledge -- as distinct from practice -- played in the First Industrial Revolution. It departs from the view that only skilled artisans, who seldom cracked a book, held the key to British industrial...

Pandora's Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Pandora's Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies by Bruno Latour. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1999, x, 324 p. $29.75 Cdn. Like some fine wine, the publisher's blurbs announce "Latour nouveau!" These are...

The Black Book of Communism. Crimes, Terror, Repression.(Review)
August 1, 2001... The Black Book of Communism. Crimes, Terror, Repression by Stephane Courtois, Nicolas Werth, Jean-Louis Panne, Andrzej Paczkowski, Karel Bartosek and Jean-Louis Margolin. Translated by Jonathan Murphy and Mark Kramer. Cambridge, Massachusetts,...

The Passing of an Illusion. The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century.(Review)
August 1, 2001... The Passing of an Illusion. The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century by Francois Furet. Translated by Deborah Furet. Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 1999. xiii, 596 pp. $35.00. As East European archives open for...

The Revolutions of 1989 (Re-Writing Histories).(Review)
August 1, 2001... The Revolutions of 1989 (Re-Writing Histories) edited by Vladimir Tismaneanu. London and New York: Routledge. 1999. x, 270 pp. $Can HB. 135.00. As East European archives open for researchers and more and more facts continue to emerge,...

Horace: Poetics and Politics.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Horace: Poetics and Politics, by V.G. Kiernan. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1999. xi, 204 pp. $61.95 U.S. (cloth). V.G. Kiernan is, I gather, an eminent marxisant historian of the modern world. As a boy in the 1920s he conceived an undying...

Romanization in the Time of Augustus.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Romanization in the Time of Augustus, by Ramsay MacMullen. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2000. xii, 222 pp. $25.00 U.S. (cloth). The American classicist Henry T. Rowell was once heard to proclaim from the cavea of a...

Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate, by Susan P. Mattern. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1999. xviii, 259 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth). Twenty-five years ago, Edwin Luttwak's The Grand Strategy of the...

The Collapse and Recovery of the Roman Empire.(Review)
August 1, 2001... The Collapse and Recovery of the Roman Empire, by Michael Grant. New York, Routledge, 1999. xviii, 121 pp. $45.00 Cdn (cloth). If there is a cottage industry in the world of classical scholarship, it takes the form of Michael Grant, Inc....

Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading, by Paul Saenger. (Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture). Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1997. xx, 480 pp. $65.00 U.S. (cloth), $29.95 U.S. (paper). In Space Between...

Berengaria: In Search of Richard the Lionheart's Queen.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Berengaria: In Search of Richard the Lionheart's Queen, by Ann Trindade. Dublin, Ireland, Four Courts Press, 1999. 240 pp. $29.95 U.S. (cloth). Writing the lives of medieval women is no simple task, and this new biography of Berengaria is...

Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World, by John Larner. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1999. xiii, 250 pp. $29.95 U.S. (cloth). Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World is another engaging work by John Larner, the...

Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500. Volume II, East Anglia, Central England and Wales.
August 1, 2001... Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500, Volume II, East Anglia, Central England and Wales, by Anthony Emery. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. xv, 724 pp. $195.00 U.S. (cloth). Outside of the relatively full...

Neue Impulse der Reiseforschung.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Neue Impulse der Reiseforschung, edited by Michael Maurer. Berlin, Germany, Akademie Verlag, 1999.420 pp. 126.74 DM or 64.80 EU. This valuable book emerged from a 1993 conference and contains the presentations plus a lengthy research report...

Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture, by Leonard Barkan. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1999. xxxiv, 428 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper). What happens when...

From Poliziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance.(Review)
August 1, 2001... From Poliziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance, by Peter Godman. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1998. xiv, 366 pp. $62.50 U.S. (cloth). The volume is an in-depth analysis of Florentine...

Books of the Body: Anatomical Ritual and Renaissance Learning.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Books of the Body: Anatomical Ritual and Renaissance Learning, by Andrea Carlino. Translated by John Tedeschi and Anne C. Tedeschi. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1999. xiv, 266 pp. $29.00 U.S. (cloth). In 1587 the cadaver...

Judging the French Reformation: Heresy Trials by Sixteenth-Century Parlements.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Judging the French Reformation: Heresy Trials by Sixteenth-Century Parlements, by William Monter. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1999. vi, 324 pp. $49.95 U.S. (cloth). Until recently, study of the religious crisis in...

The Power of Kings: Monarchy and Religion in Europe, 1589-1715.(Review)
August 1, 2001... The Power of Kings: Monarchy and Religion in Europe, 1589-1715, by Paul Kleber Monod. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1999. x, 417 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth), $19.00 U.S. (paper). Weber's disenchanted world lurks behind the...

Early Modern Spain: A Social History.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Early Modern Spain: A Social History, by James Casey. New York, Routledge, 1999. x, 305 pp. $150.00 Cdn (cloth), $49.99 Cdn (paper). As in Juan Bautista Martinez del Mazo's (1612-67) beautiful View of the City of Zaragoza on the cover of...

War for the Every Day Generals: Knowledge, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe, 1680-1740.(Review)
August 1, 2001... War for the Every Day Generals: Knowledge, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe, 1680-1740, by Erik A. Lund. (Series: Contributions in Military Studies, number 181). Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1999. xii, 242 pp. $65.00 U.S. (cloth)....

Mutua Christianorum Tolerantia: Irenicism and Toleration in the Netherlands: The Stinstra Affair, 1740-1745.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Mutua Christianorum Tolerantia: Irenicism and Toleration in the Netherlands: The Stinstra Affair, 1740-1745, by Joris van Eijnatten. (Series: Studi e Testi per la Storia della Tolleranza in Europa nei Secoli XVI-XVIII). Florence, Italy, Leo S....

Conservative Tradition in Pre-Revolutionary France: Parisian Salon Women.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Conservative Tradition in Pre-Revolutionary France: Parisian Salon Women, by Jolanta T. Pekacz. (Series: The Age of Revolution and Romanticism, volume 25). New York, Peter Lang, 1999. 256 pp. $51.95 U.S. (cloth). The role of women in the...

Henry VIII's Divorce: Literature and the Politics of the Printing Press.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Henry VIII's Divorce: Literature and the Politics of the Printing Press, by J. Christopher Warner. Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, New York, Boydell Press, 1998. ix, 163 pp. $75.00 U.S. (cloth). Although examinations of Henrician...

Protestant Identities: Religion, Society, and Self-Fashioning in Post-Reformation England.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Protestant Identities: Religion, Society, and Self-Fashioning in Post-Reformation England, edited by Muriel C. McClendon, Joseph P. Ward, and Michael MacDonald. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1999. xiii, 372 pp. $55.00 U.S....

Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women's Alliances in Early Modern England.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women's Alliances in Early Modern England, edited by Susan Frye and Karen Robertson. New York, Oxford University Press, 1999. xviii, 350 pp. $40.00 U.S. (cloth). While far from the first examination...

Society and Sentiment: Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Society and Sentiment: Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820, by Mark Salber Phillips. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2000. xvii, 369 pp. $57.50 U.S. (cloth), $25.95 U.S. (paper). This is a challenging, yet...

Tosca's Rome: The Play and the Opera in Historical Perspective.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Tosca's Rome: The Play and the Opera in Historical Perspective, by Susan Vandiver Nicassio. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1999. xxi, 335 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth), $19.00 U.S. (paper). The theatre is rarely a successful...

Fontanka 16: The Tsars' Secret Police.
August 1, 2001... Fontanka 16: The Tsars' Secret Police, by Charles A. Ruud and Sergei A. Stepanov. Montreal, Quebec, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999. ix. 394 pp: $39.95 Cdn (cloth). In late nineteenth-century St. Petersburg, the address "Fontanka 16"...

Making Peasants Backward: Agricultural Cooperatives and the Agrarian Question in Russia, 1861-1914.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Making Peasants Backward: Agricultural Cooperatives and the Agrarian Question in Russia, 1861-1914, by Yanni Kotsonis. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1999. 272 pp. $65.00 U.S. (cloth). Historians have often presented -- without serious...

The Spirit of 1914: Militarism, Myth, and Mobilization in Germany.(Review)
August 1, 2001... The Spirit of 1914: Militarism, Myth, and Mobilization in Germany, by Jeffrey Verhey. (Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of modern Warfare 10). New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. xiv, 268 pp. $59.95 U.S. (cloth). ...

Intellectuals and the German Nation: Collective Identity in an Axial Age.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Intellectuals and the German Nation: Collective Identity in an Axial Age, by Bernhard Giesen. Translated by Nicholas Levis and Amos Weisz. (Series: Cambridge Cultural Studies). New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. x, 246 pp. $74.95 U.S....

The Hidden Encyclical of Pius XI.(Review)
August 1, 2001... The Hidden Encyclical of Pius XI, by Georges Passelecq and Bernard Suchecky. Introduction by Garry Wills, translated by Steven Rendall. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1997. xxiv, 319 pp. $25.00 U.S. (cloth), $14.00 U.S. (paper). John Cornwell's...

Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII, by John Cornwell. New York, Viking, 1999. xi, 430 pp. $42.00 Cdn (cloth). There was no more controversial figure in the twentieth-century papacy than Pius XII. Many in the Catholic...

Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers, by Christopher R. Browning. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. xii, 185 pp. $42.95 U.S. (cloth), $15.95 U.S. (paper). In his new book Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers, the...

The Nazi War on Cancer.(Review)
August 1, 2001... The Nazi War on Cancer, by Robert N. Proctor. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1999. x, 380 pp. $49.50 U.S. (cloth), $16.95 U.S. (paper). There are few smokers who, while forced to spend a cigarette break outdoors on a...

Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower by Sergei N. Khrushchev. Translated by Shirley Benson. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. ix, 765 pp. $54.95 U.S. (cloth). If one were to set aside...

George IV.(Review)
August 1, 2001... George IV, by E. A. Smith. (Series: Yale English Monarchs). New Haven, Connecticut. Yale University Press, 1999. xiv, 306 pp. $40.00 U.S. (cloth), $18.50 U.S. (paper). The case against George IV which E. A. Smith seeks to redress was...

The Changing Shape of English Nonconformity.(Review)
August 1, 2001... The Changing Shape of English Nonconformity, 1825-1925, by Dale A. Johnson. New York, Oxford University Press, 1999. 248 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth). Although many studies of religion in particular communities or periods in modern Britain have...

Dividing Ireland: World War I and Partition.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Dividing Ireland: World War I and Partition, by Thomas Hennessey. New York, Routledge, 1998. xxi, 280 pp. $128.00 Cdn (cloth), $39.99 Cdn (paper). Dr. Hennessey helpfully states his premise in the book's opening line: namely, "that a...

The Evolution of British General Practice.(Review)
August 1, 2001... The Evolution of British General Practice, 1850-1948, by Anne Digby. New York, Oxford University Press, 1999. xiv, 376 pp. $127.50 U.S. (cloth). Anne Digby has followed up her recent work on the economics of medical practice in...

"The Battle for Health": A Political History of the Socialist Medical Association.(Review)
August 1, 2001... "The Battle for Health": A Political History of the Socialist Medical Association, 1930-51, by John Stewart. (Series: History of Medicine in Context). Brookfield, Vermont and Aldershot, Ashgate, 1999. v, 259 pp. $99.95 U.S. (cloth). Anne...

Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans, by Joyce Appleby. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2000. viii, 322 pp. $26.00 U.S. (cloth), $16.00 U.S. (paper). In her latest book Joyce Appleby examines...

Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War, by Michael A. Morrison. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, distributed by Scholarly Book Services, 1997. xii, 396 pp....

Working at Play: A History of Vacations in the United States.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Working at Play: A History of Vacations in the United States, by Cindy Aron. New York, Oxford University Press, 1999. xi, 324 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth), $17.95 U.S. (paper). This interesting examination of the rise of vacationing in...

Cultures in Conflict: The American Civil War.
August 1, 2001... Cultures in Conflict: The American Civil War, by Steven E. Woodworth. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 2000. xx, 220 pp. $45.00 U.S. Steven E. Woodworth notes that the concept of "Culture Wars" so "aptly used" by presidential...

Card Sharps and Bucket Shops: Gambling in Nineteenth-Century America.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Card Sharps and Bucket Shops: Gambling in Nineteenth-Century America, by Ann Fabian. New York, Routledge, 1999. xiii, 250 pp. $28.99 Cdn (paper). Here is a question for the moral theorist in our age of dot-com instant millionaires and Wall...

The Republic According to John Marshall Harlan.(Review)
August 1, 2001... The Republic According to John Marshall Harlan, by Linda Przybyszewski. (Series: Studies in Legal History). Chapel Hill, North Carolina, The University of North Carolina Press, distributed by Scholarly Book Services, 1999. xii, 286 pp. $82.50...

An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society.(Review)
August 1, 2001... An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society, by Jennifer Terry. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1999. ix, 537 pp. $75.00 U.S. (cloth), $20.00 U.S. (paper). An American Obsession is a...

The Wilsonian Century: U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1900.(Review)
August 1, 2001... The Wilsonian Century: U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1900, by Frank Ninkovich. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1999. ix, 320 pp. $27.50 U.S. (cloth), $18.00 U.S. (paper). No president figures more centrally in the history of...

The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War.(Review)
August 1, 2001... The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, by Andrew E. Hunt. New York, New York University Press, 1999. xi, 259 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth). In 1965, Undersecretary of State George Ball advised President Lyndon Johnson that...

Victors and Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views of the Conquest of Mexico.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Victors and Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views of the Conquest of Mexico, edited by Stuart B. Schwartz. Boston and New York, Bedford/St. Martin's Press, 2000. xvi, 271 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth). The overthrow of the "Aztec Empire" by...

Dead Giveaways: Indigenous Testaments of Colonial Mesoamerica and the Andes.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Dead Giveaways: Indigenous Testaments of Colonial Mesoamerica and the Andes, edited by Susan Kellogg and Matthew Restall. Salt Lake City, Utah, University of Utah Press, 1998. vi, 328 pp. $40.00 U.S. (cloth). Last wills and testaments have...

The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom.(Review)
August 1, 2001... The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom, by Grant D. Jones. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1998. xxvii, 568 pp. $69.50 U.S. (cloth), $24.95 U.S. (paper). Here, ostensibly, is an account of the conquest of the Itza Maya, the...

Tangled Destinies: Latin America and the United States.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Tangled Destinies: Latin America and the United States, by Don M. Coerver and Linda B. Hall. Albuquerque, New Mexico, University of New Mexico Press, 1999. x, 289 pp. $39.95 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper). The study of U.S.-Latin...

The Danger of Dreams: German and American Imperialism in Latin America.(Review)
August 1, 2001... The Danger of Dreams: German and American Imperialism in Latin America, by Nancy Mitchell. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, distributed by Scholarly Book Services, 1999. xiv, 312 pp. $82.50 Cdn (cloth), $32.95...

Pan-Arabism Before Nasser: Egyptian Power Politics and the Palestine Question.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Pan-Arabism Before Nasser: Egyptian Power Politics and the Palestine Question, by Michael Doran. (Series: Studies in Middle Eastern History). New York, Oxford University Press, 1999. x, 230 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth). With the trend of...

Honour Due: The Story of Dr. Leonora Howard King.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Honour Due: The Story of Dr. Leonora Howard King, by Margaret Negodaeff-Tomsik. Ottawa, Canadian Medical Association, 1999. 236 pp. $24.95 Cdn (paper). Margaret Negodaeff-Tomsik has written an interesting book on the life of Dr. Leonora...

Intelligence and the War Against Japan: Britain, America and the Politics of Secret Service.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Intelligence and the War Against Japan: Britain, America and the Politics of Secret Service, by Richard J. Aldrich. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxiv, 500 pp. $34.95 U.S. (cloth). Richard J. Aldrich's impressive new study...

Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults, and Millennial Beliefs Through the Ages.
August 1, 2001... Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults, and Millennial Beliefs Through the Ages, by Eugen Weber. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1999. 294 pp. $26.50 U.S. (cloth), $17.95 U.S. (paper). It is not easy to get this book under...

Museums and Memory.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Museums and Memory, edited by Susan A. Crane. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2000. x, 257 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper). "Memory," observed John Locke, is "the Storehouse of our Ideas." Reciprocally,...

The Sciences in Enlightened Europe.(Review)
August 1, 2001... The Sciences in Enlightened Europe, edited by William Clark, Jan Golinski, and Simon Schaffer. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1999. xiii, 566 pp. $85.00 U.S. (cloth), $27.50 U.S. (paper). Throughout the English-speaking...

Felix d'Herelle and the Origins of Molecular Biology.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Felix d'Herelle and the Origins of Molecular Biology, by William C. Summers. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1999. xii, 230 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth). This is the biography of a great Canadian scientist, whose discoveries were...

Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery, by Sander L. Gilman. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1999. 396 pp. $60.00 U.S. (cloth), $16.95 U.S. (paper). Making the Body Beautiful is an exploration...

An Intimate History of Killing: Face to Face Killing in 20th Century Warfare.(Review)
August 1, 2001... An Intimate History of Killing: Face to Face Killing in 20th Century Warfare, by Joanna Bourke. New York, Basic Books, 1999. xxiii, 509 pp. $43.50 Cdn (cloth). Joanna Bourke's An Intimate History of Killing is, to say the least, a...

Natural Enemies: The United States and the Soviet Union in the Cold War 1917-1991.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Natural Enemies: The United States and the Soviet Union in the Cold War, 1917-1991, by Robert C. Grogin. Lanham, Maryland, Lexington Books, 2001. xi, 353 pp. $29.95 U.S. (paper). Historical writing on the Cold War has gone through three...