Canadian Journal of History articles from August 2002

Canadian Journal of History archives from August 2002

Industrialisation, migration et anglicisation dans le sud du pays de Galles: Treherbert, vallee de la Rhondda, 1861-91.(effects of Welsh coal industry on immigration and Welsh language usage )
August 1, 2002... L'essor de l'industrie du charbon dans la seconde moitie du [XIX.sup.e] siecle transforma en profondeur le sud du pays de Galles. En moins de cinquante ans (de 1860 a 1901), cette region devint la premiere productrice de charbon du Royaume-Uni...

Negotiating lower-middle-class masculinity in Britain: the Leicester Young Men's Christian Association, 1870-1914.
August 1, 2002... Young male office and shop clerks occupied a precarious social and economic position on the margins of respectable middle-class Victorian society. Their status was compromised by the reality of their occupational experience; frequently subject...

The London YMCA: a haven of masculine self-improvement and socialization for the late-Victorian and Edwardian clerk.
August 1, 2002... In late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain, clerks struggled to maintain a toe-hold in middle-class society. Despite low salaries, they sought to construct positive and meaningful identities in their work and social environments. With full...

Politics and violence in the Middle Ages.(Nobles and Nobility in Medieval Europe; Fourteenth-Century England; Violence in Medieval Society)(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... Nobles and Nobility in Medieval Europe, edited by Anne J. Duggan. Woodbridge, Suffolk, Boydell, 2000. xi, 285 pp. $75.00 U.S. (cloth). Violence in Medieval Society, edited by Richard W. Kaeuper. Woodbridge, Suffolk, Boydell, 2000. xiii, 226...

Resurgent France or decadent France?: War origins once again.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... France and the Nazi Menace: Intelligence and Policy Making, 1933-1939, by Peter Jackson. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000. xii, 446 pp. $139.50 U.S. (cloth). The fall of France during World War II continues to attract the interest of...

The School of History: Athens in the Age of Socrates.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... The School of History: Athens in the Age of Socrates, by Mark Henderson Munn. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 2000. xii, 525 pp. $37.50 U.S. (cloth), $24.95 U.S. (paper). The School of History undertakes two...

Caesar Against Rome: the Great Roman Civil War.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Ramon L. Jimenez. Westport, Connecticut, Praeger, distributed by Greenwood Press, 2000. xiv, 282 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth). The author of this book about the Roman civil war started by Julius Caesar in 49 BC is described on the slip cover...

Late Antiquity: a Guide to the Postclassical World.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... edited by G. W. Bowersock, Peter Brown, and Oleg Grabar. Harvard University Press Reference Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999. xiii, 832 pp. $49.95 U.S. (cloth). Classical Studies used to...

Waldenses: Rejections of Holy Church in Medieval Europe.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... par Evan Cameron. Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, 2000. xi, 336 pp. $62.95 U.S. (couverture rigide), $28.95 U.S. (poche). si, depuis une trentaine d'annees, de nombreux travaux ont ete consacres aux vaudois, aucun n'avait, jusqu'a present,...

Scholastic Humanism and the Unification of Europe, Volume 2: The Heroic Age.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... Volume 2: The Heroic Age, by R. W. Southern, with notes and additions by Lesley Smith and Benedicta Ward. Malden, Massachusetts, Blackwell, 2001. xii, 228 pp. $64.95 U.S. (cloth), $29.95 U.S. (paper). The academic community was saddened...

The Register of Walter Bronescombe, Bishop of Exeter 1258-1280: Volume I.(The Register of Walter Bronescombe, Bishop of Exeter, 1258-1280: Volume II)(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... edited by O.F. Robinson. Canterbury and York Society series, volume 82. Rochester, New York, University of Rochester Press, 1995. xiv, 161 pp. $78.00 U.S. (cloth). The Register of Walter Bronescombe, Bishop of Exeter, 1258-1280: Volume II,...

The Murthly Hours: Devotion, Literacy and Luxury in Paris, England and the Gaelic West.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by John Higgitt. British Library Studies in Medieval Culture and Society. London, British Library and National Library of Scotland and Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2000. xxii, 362 pp. incl. CD-Rom. $80.00 U.S. (cloth). John...

Natural Particulars: Nature and the Disciplines in Renaissance Europe.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... edited by Anthony Grafton and Nancy Siraisi. Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press, 2000. xi, 426 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cloth). The Renaissance has long held an ambivalent place in the history of science. Caught between medieval science (the...

Renaissance Civic Humanism: Reappraisals and Reflections.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... edited by James Hankins. Ideas in context series. Cambridge, United Kingdom, Cambridge University Press, 2000. x, 314 pp. $59.95 U.S. (cloth). This excellent collection of essays aims, as the editor James Hankins writes in the...

Town and Country in Europe, 1300-1800.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... edited by S.R. Epstein. Themes in International Urban History, volume 5. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2001. xii, 343 pp. $64.95 U.S. (cloth). One of the lesser noticed effects of the European Union and the trans-national...

Early Modern Italy, 1550-1800: Three Seasons in European History.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Gregory Hanlon. European Studies series. New York, St. Martin's Press, 2000. 444 pp. $65.00 U.S. (cloth) $19.95 U.S. (paper). This well-written book, by an author with earlier works on early-modern France and Italy, helps to demonstrate...

The Unfinished Mechanics of Giuseppe Moletti: an Edition and English Translation of His Dialogue on Mechanics.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... 1576, by W. R. Laird. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2000. 222 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cloth). In the most general terms historians of science have approached their subject in three distinct ways. The first, followed by many historians...

Healers and Healing in Early Modern Italy.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by David Gentilcore. Social and Cultural Values in Early Modern Europe series. New York, Manchester University Press, distributed by St. Martin's Press, 1998. xv, 240 pp. $79.95 U.S. (cloth). David Gentilcore's book is welcome on several...

La Grande Mademoiselle at the Court of France 1627-1693.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Vincent J. Pitts. Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xiv, 367 pp. $47.00 U.S. (cloth). This biography of Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orleans, granddaughter of King Henri IV and cousin to King Louis XIV, offers a vivid...

Naples in the Eighteenth Century: the Birth and Death of a Nation State.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... edited by Girolamo Imbruglia. Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. ix, 204 pp. $59.95 U.S. (cloth). This collection, edited by Girolamo Imbruglia, is a useful update on scholarship...

Linnaeus: Nature and Nation.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Lisbet Koerner. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1999. 298 pp. $42.00 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper). This book proposes to bring to light a "new" Linnaeus. From the time of his death in 1778, Linnaeus enjoyed a...

John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Deborah Harkness. Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 1999. xii, 252 pp. $69.95 U.S. (cloth), $24.95 U.S. (paper). To someone living in the latter part of the sixteenth century, the possibility that one could have a...

Providence in Early Modern England.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Alexandra Walsham. New York, Oxford University Press, 1999. xvi, 387 pp. $145.00 Cdn (cloth). This book is a wonderful read (in both early modern and modern senses of the word). Narratives of signs, portents, prodigies, apparitions,...

Samuel Pepys a Life.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Stephen Coote. New York, Palgrave, 2001. xiii, 386 pp. $38.95 Cdn (cloth). It takes a bold writer to attempt a biography of one of the most recognized and cited of Restoration Englishmen. Yet, fresh from the study of his royal master,...

The Making of the Eighteenth-Century Irish Constitution: Government, Parliament and the Revenue, 1692-1714.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... 1692-1714, by Charles Ivar McGrath. Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2001. 314 pp. $50.00 U.S. (cloth). The Making of the Eighteenth-Century Irish Constitution: Government, Parliament and the Revenue, 1692-1714 is a well-researched, informative...

The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Andrew Wilson. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2000. xvii, 366 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth). Second edition 2002. 368 pp. $17.95 U.S. (paper). In the 1990s, Andrew Wilson established himself as a scholar on contemporary...

Revolution and Environment in Southern France: Peasants, Lords and Murder in the Corbieres, 1780-1830 .(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Peter McPhee. New York, Oxford University Press, 1999. xi, 272 pp. $80.00 U.S. (cloth). Regional studies are perilous enterprises. Regional studies of the French Revolution are even more perilous, lacking the inherent fascination of...

Politics and Theater: the Crisis of Legitimacy in Restoration France, 1815-1830.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Sheryl Kroen. Studies in the History of Society and Culture. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2000. xiv, 394 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cloth). The political history of the second Bourbon Restoration in France was long written from...

The Rise of Professional Women in France: Gender and Public Administration Since 1830.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... par Linda L. Clark. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. 324 pp. $64.95 U.S. (couverture rigide). Linda Clark produit avec ce livre un essai remarquable, par l'ampleur de sa recherche et des resultats qu'elle en tire. Fermement...

Crime, Cultural Conflict, and Justice in Rural Russia, 1856-1914.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... par Stephen P. Frank. Studies on the History of Society and Culture, 31. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1999. xxii, 352 pp. $55.00 U.S. (couverture rigide). En depit du desir des autorites gouvernementales russes,...

France since 1870: Culture, Politics and Society.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... par Charles Sowerwine. New York, Palgrave, 2001. xxv, 505 pages. $65.00 U.S. (couverture rigide), $21.95 U.S. (poche). Charles Sowerwine, professeur aux Universites de Melbourne (Australie) et de Versaillles-Saint-Quentin en Yvelines...

Public Spheres, Public Mores, and Democracy: Hamburg and Stockholm, 1870-1914.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Madeleine Hurd. Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2000. viii, 316 pp. $54.50 U.S. (cloth). This suggestive study challenges an older model of liberal-democratic...

The Development of the Radical Right in France: From Boulanger to Le Pen.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... edited and translated by Edward J. Arnold. New York, St. Martin's Press, 2000. xxi, 288 pp. $65.00 U.S. (cloth). The French far right remains a subject of enduring interest to scholars, partly because of the disturbing staying power of...

The Hunchback's Tailor: Giovanni Giolitti and Liberal Italy from the Challenge of Mass Politics to the Rise of Facism, 1882-1922.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Alexander De Grand. Westport, Connecticut, Praeger, 2000. x, 294 pp. $74.95 U.S. (cloth). As Alexander De Grand ably demonstrates in this first full biography in English, except for Camillo Cavour, Giovanni Giolitti was the greatest...

German Encounters with Modernism, 1840-1945.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Peter Paret. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001. ix, 271 pp. $70.00 U.S. (cloth), $24.95 U.S. (paper). In the 1990s two important books were published that altered scholarly perceptions of German art in the twentieth century....

Lenin.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Helene Carrere d'Encausse. Translated by George Holoch. New York and London, Holmes and Meier, 2001. xi, 371 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth), $24.00 U.S. (paper). For many years, the French scholar Helene Carrere d'Encausse has written about...

Nazi Terror. The Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germans.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Eric A. Johnson. New York, Basic Books, 2000. xx, 636 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth), $21.00 U.S. (paper). Nazi Terror is Eric A. Johnson's attempt to evaluate the magnitude and extent of Gestapo terror in everyday German life and its role in...

Studying the Holocaust: Issues, Readings and Documents.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Ronnie S. Landau. London, Routledge, 1998. xv, 182 pp., $105 Cdn (cloth), $31.99 Cdn (paper). Studying the Holocaust is a presented as, "a guide to the philosophical, historical and moral issues involved when studying or teaching the...

Islam in the Soviet Union: From World War II to Perestroika.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Yaacov Ro'i. New York, Columbia University Press, 2000. xxvii, 764 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cloth). Prior to the breakup of the USSR, Islam's position under the Soviet power had long interested Western scholars. Some, like Helene Carrre...

Consuming Anxieties: Consumer Protest, Gender, and British Slavery, 1713-1833.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Charlotte Sussman. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2000. iv, 267 pp. $49.50 U.S. (cloth). "You are what you eat" claim modern health activists. Similarly, what passes our lips bespeaks passive acquiescence or active...

England's Disgrace? J. S. Mill and the Irish Question.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Bruce L. Kinzer. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2001. x, 292 pp. $60.00 U.S. (cloth). One of J. S. Mill's perplexing interests was his recurring attention to what is now known as "the Irish Question." Perplexing in that at...

Working-Class Culture, Women, and Britain, 1914-1921.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Claire A. Culleton. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1999. xii, 221 pp. $49.95 U.S. (cloth). Claire Culleton embarked on her study of working-class women in the First World War with the intention of writing "a study of the cultural and...

Feminist Freikorps: the British Voluntary Women Police, 1914-1940.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by R. M. Douglas. Westport, Connecticut and London, Praeger, distributed by Greenwood Press, 1999. 171 pp. $62.95 U.S. (cloth). Was British feminism definitively aligned with a liberal democratic ethos, or was it just as susceptible to the...

Fascism, Anti-Fascism, and Britain in the 1940s.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Dave Renton. Basingstoke and London, Macmillan, 2000. ix, 203 pp. $69.95 U.S. (cloth). Whilst its topic has been covered before, this is the first detailed, book-length study of the attempts of fascism in general, and Sir Oswald...

Governmentality and the Master of Territory in Nineteenth-Century America.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Matthew G. Hannah. Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. xiv, 245 pp. $65.00 U.S. (cloth), $23.00 U.S. (paper). Matthew G. Hannah's contribution to the Cambridge Studies in Historical...

The Virgin, the King, and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre: Negotiating Freedom in Colonial Cuba, 1670-1780.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Maria Elena Diaz. Cultural Sitings series. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2000. xviii, 440 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cloth). The expropriation of property is a familiar scenario. But, what happens when the property includes not only some...

Indians, Merchants, and Markets: a Reinterpretation of the Repartimiento and Spanish-Indian Economic Relations in Colonial Oaxaca 1750-1821.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Jeremy Baskes. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2000. 306 pp. $60.00 U.S. (cloth). Cochineal--a red dye made from insects harvested from the nopal cactus--was the most lucrative export item after silver that Spain extracted from...

A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth Century Cuba.(State and Revolution in Cuba: Mass Mobilization and Political Change, 1920-1940,)(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Alejandro De La Fuente. Envisioning Cuba series. Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xi, 449 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper). State and Revolution in Cuba: Mass Mobilization and Political...

A History of Inner Asia.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Svat Soucek. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000. xiv, 369 pp. $64.95 U.S. (cloth), $24.95 U.S. (paper). Spanning the heart of the Eurasian landmass, the fascinating mosaic of Inner Asia has received less historiographical...

Dust: a History of the Small and Invisible.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Joseph A. Amato. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 2000. xii, 250 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth), $15.95 U.S. (paper). Dust was a very good idea for a book. When did people first become conscious of it? When was it first...

Books and the Sciences in History.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... edited by Marina Frasca-Spada and Nick Jardine. New York, Cambridge University Press, xiv, 438 pp. $90.00 U.S. (cloth), $29.95 U.S. (paper). The idea of surveying the significance of books in the development of science is a laudable one....

The Rise of the Fiscal State in Europe, c. 1200-1815.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... c. 1200-1815, edited by Richard Bonney. New York, Oxford University Press, 1999. xii, 527 pp. $174.00 Cdn (cloth). Interest in European state formation continues unabated. And with good reason. The topic is undeniably important to...

A Social History of Knowledge: From Gutenberg to Diderot.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Peter Burke. Malden, Massachusetts, Polity Press, 2000. vii, 268 pp. $64.95 U.S. (cloth), $27.95 U.S. (paper). An historian confronted with the twenty-first century notion that we inhabit a "knowledge-based society" is apt to retort that...

Honour and Violence.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Anton Blok. Cambridge, United Kingdom, Polity, distributed by Blackwell, 2001. xii, 358 pp. $28.95 U.S. (cloth). Few social anthropologists have taken history so seriously as Anton Blok. From his earliest publications on a Sicilian...

The Jesuits: Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... edited by John W. O'Malley SJ., Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Steven J. Harris, and T. Frank Kennedy SJ. Toronto, Ontario, University of Toronto Press, 1999. xx, 772 pp. $80.00 Cdn (cloth). Here is a model of what published conference...

Spirit Wars: Native North American Religion in the Age of Nation Building.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Ronald Niezen, with contributions by Manley Begay Jr., Kim Burgess, Phyllis Fast, Valerie Long Lambert, Bernard C. Perley, and Michael Wilcox. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 2000. xviii, 256 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth),...

Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 13, Plains.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... Volume 13, Plains, edited by Raymond J. DeMallie. Handbook of North American Indians Series. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institute, 2001.1360 pages over two volumes, $126.25 U.S. (cloth). Plains is the tardy twelfth release in the ambitious...

The French Overseas Empire.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Frederick Quinn. Westport, Connecticut, Praeger, 2000. xx, 292 pp. $75.95 U.S. (cloth), $25.00 U.S. (paper). So many works on French colonial history have appeared in the last twenty years, it is time for an overall assessment of that...

The Early Modern Atlantic Economy.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... edited by John J. McCusker and Kenneth Morgan. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. xiv, 369 pp. $59.95 U.S. (cloth). Special expectations accompany essays in honour of that "historian's historian," Jacob M. Price. The editors are...

Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Alison Games. Harvard Historical Studies, volume 133. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1999. xiii, 322 pp. $47.50 U.S. (cloth), $22.00 U.S. (paper). This book invites favourable comparison with Bernard Bailyn's...

The Autonomy of History: Truth and Method from Erasmus to Gibbon.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Joseph M. Levine. Chicago, Chicago University Press, 1999. xviii. 249 pp. $27.50 U.S. (cloth). This collection of essays, the sixth book for distinguished historian Joseph Levine, ranges across Renaissance historiography, the sense of...

Patterns of Social Capital: Stability and Change in Historical Perspective.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... edited by Robert I. Rotberg. Cambridge, United Kingdom, Cambridge University Press, 2001. viii, 394 pp. $54.95 U.S. (cloth), $18.95 U.S. (paper). In recent years, Robert D. Putnam has become one of the United States's most influential...

Hard Work: the Making of Labor History.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Melvyn Dubofsky. The Working Class in American History series. Urbana and Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 2000. ix, 249 pp. $49.95 U.S. (cloth), $17.95 U.S. (paper). Back in the 1960s, Melvyn Dubofsky was one of a select group of...

Japanese Diplomats and Jewish Refugees: a World War II Dilemma.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Pamela Rotner Sakamoto. Westport, Connecticut, Praeger, 1998. xvi, 188 pp. $49.95 U.S. (cloth). During World War II, Japanese diplomats helped tens of thousands of Jews flee western Europe. The assistance of one consul, Sugihara Chiune,...

The Effect of Science on the Second World War.(Book Review)
August 1, 2002... by Guy Hartcup. London, MacMillan, 2000. xv, 214 pp. $59.95 U.S. (cloth). This short book attempts to summarize the vast topic of the influence of science on the world's greatest conflict. The author is eminently qualified to undertake...

Le prix Hilda Neatby prize *. (Notes & Advertisements).
August 1, 2002... Susan Dalton: "Gender and the Shifting Ground of Revolutionary Politics: The Case of Madame Roland," Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d'histoire, 36 (August 2001), 259-82. Susan Dalton's use of gender to reinterpret women's...