Canadian Journal of History articles from August 2003

Canadian Journal of History archives from August 2003

The perversion of nature: Johannes Baptista Van Helmont, the Society of Jesus, and the magnetic cure of wounds.(Abstract/Resume analytique)
August 1, 2003... THE PERVERSION OF NATURE: JOHANNES BAPTISTA VAN HELMONT, THE SOCIETY OF JESUS, AND THE MAGNETIC CURE OF WOUNDS (1) In 1621, the Flemish physician Johannes Baptista van Helmont (1579-1644) published a treatise on the magnetic cure of wounds,...

Soi et l'Autre dans la perspective de l'antagonisme <<barbarie-civilisation>>: le cas de la Bulgarie et de ses voisins balkaniques.(Abstract/Resume analytique)
August 1, 2003... Cet article s'inscrit dans le cadre de la problematique de la perception de Soi et de l'Autre. Plus precisement, il s'agit de l'Autre envisage sous l'angle des pays voisins de la Bulgarie : la Roumanie au nord, la Serbie a l'ouest, ainsi que la...

'Loyal sons of the Church and Fatherland'? Center-Polish relations in Upper Silesia, 1871-1907.(Abstract/Resume analytique)
August 1, 2003... 'LOYAL SONS OF THE CHURCH AND FATHERLAND'? CENTER-POLISH RELATIONS IN UPPER SILESIA, 1871-1907 (1) In 1871 the incumbent Free Conservative deputy of Pless-Rybnik, Viktor Moritz Karl, Duke of Ratibor, Prince of Corvey, Prince zu...

Gilbert, translated: Silvanus P. Thompson, the Gilbert Club, and the tercentenary edition of De Magnete.(Abstract/Resume analytique)
August 1, 2003... GILBERT, TRANSLATED: SILVANUS P. THOMPSON, THE GILBERT CLUB, AND THE TERCENTENARY EDITION OF DE MAGNETE (1) Translation can have many meanings. In this essay, I examine an act of linguistic translation that constituted two other kinds of...

Renaissance studies in the new millennium.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Early Modern Italy, 1550-1796, edited by John A. Marino. Short Oxford History of Italy series. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002. xiii, 313 pp. $55.00 US (cloth); 616 pp. $19.95 US (paper). A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance,...

Tocqueville: Frenchman for All Seasons?(Bibliography)
August 1, 2003... Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, translated, edited, and with an introduction by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2000. xciii, 722 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth). Alexis de...

Storming the Heavens: Soldiers, Emperors, and Civilians in the Roman Empire.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... by Antonio Santosuosso. Boulder, Colorado, Westview Press, 2001. xi, 265 pp. $26.00 US (cloth). Antonio Santosuosso has done it again. Storming the Heavens is a finely crafted follow-up to his earlier work Soldiers, Citizens, and the...

At the Dawn of Modernity: Biology, Culture, and Material Life in Europe after the Year 1000.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... by David Levine. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 2001. vii, 431 pp. $50.00 US (cloth). When historians attempt to trace the origins of the modern, western, way of life, they generally concentrate on the social,...

The Spiritual Franciscans: From Protest to Persecution in the Century after Saint Francis.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... by David Burr. University Park, Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001, 427 pp. $45.00 US (cloth), $25.00 US (paper). David Burr's The Spiritual Franciscans is an illuminating study of conflict within the Franciscan...

Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern Europe.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... edited by Pamela H. Smith and Paula Findlen. New York and London, Routledge, 2002. ix, 437 pp. $95.00 US (cloth), $27.95 (paper). A book comprising eighteen essays and organized around three highly complex keywords--commerce, science,...

Emperor Maximilian II.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... by Paula Sutter Fichtner. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2001. xii, 344 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). Almost two decades ago Professor Fichtner gave us the standard biography in English of the Habsburg emperor, Ferdinand 1. She has...

The Cossacks and Religion in Early Modern Ukraine.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... by Serhii Plokhy. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001. x, 401 pp. $80.00 US (cloth). This book summarizes Cossack and church history and then examines the influence of religious ideas on the attitudes and politics of Cossack leaders...

Catholic Reformation in Ireland: the Mission of Rinuccini, 1645-1649.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... by Tadgh O hAnnrachain. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002. 324 pp. $74.00 US (cloth). This volume--a tighter version of O hAnnrachain's 1995 doctoral thesis--joins recent monographs by Micheal O Siochru and Padraig Lenihan as essential...

Popular Politics and the English Reformation.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... by Ethan H. Shagan. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2003. xiii, 341 pp. $70 US (cloth), $25.00 US (paper). With this revision of his doctoral dissertation, Ethan Shagan offers a thoughtful, well-researched intervention into the...

The Politics of Religion in the Age of Mary, Queen of Scots: the Earl of Argyll and the Struggle for Britain and Ireland.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... by Jane E. A. Dawson. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvii, 251 pp. $60.00 US (cloth). During the last decade, historians have increasingly recognized the importance studying the British Isles--Ireland, Scotland, England, and...

The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England. News Culture and the Overbury Affair, 1603-1660.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... by Alastair Bellany. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvii, 312 pp. $70.00 US (cloth). This book will ensure that court scandal is never more regarded as merely colour with...

Treason and the State: Law, Politics and Ideology in the English Civil War.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... by D. Alan Orr. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xii, 229 pp. $55.00 US (cloth). On January 30, 1649, the first sitting European monarch ever to be publicly tried and condemned lost his head on a scaffold outside Whitehall,...

The Emergence of the Eastern Powers, 1756-1775.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... by H. M. Scott. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2001, xvi, 285 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). The attractive jacket of this monograph reproduces an English print relating to the first partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772....

A Revolution in Language: the Problem of Signs in Late Eighteenth-Century France.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... by Sophia Rosenfeld. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2001. 424 pp. $60.00 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). Periodically over the past two decades, arguments have flared over what John Toews famously called the "linguistic...

An Irish Working Class: Explorations in Political Economy and Hegemony, 1800-1950.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... by Marilyn Silverman. Anthropological Horizons series. Toronto, Ontario, University of Toronto Press, 2001. xiv, 566 pp. $85.00 Cdn (cloth). The small town of Thomastown, County Kilkenny, in southeastern Ireland bas proved a remarkably...

German Travel Cultures.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Rudy Koshar. Leisure, Consumption and Culture Series. Oxford and New York, Berg Publishers, 2000. x, 241 pp. $65.00 US (cloth), $19.50 US (paper). In 1839, Karl Baedeker published his first of many tourist guide books, taking a...

German Atrocities, 1914: a History of Denial.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... par John Horne et Alan Kramer. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2001. xv, 608 pp. $50.00 US (couverture rigide). Le pouvoir d'evocation, la profondeur et l'importance historique de la Premiere Guerre mondiale sont de nouveau...

Martin Luther, German Saviour: German Evangelical Theological Factions and the Interpretation of Luther, 1917-1933.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... by James M. Stayer. McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion. Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. xv, 177 pp. $60.00 US (cloth). In Martin Luther, German Saviour, Queen's University historian James Stayer...

Reflections on a Ravaged Century.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Robert Conquest. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 2001. xv, 317 pp. $27.95 US (cloth), $15.95 US (paper). "Revolutions, like trees," Ignazio Silone once wrote, "should be judged by their fruit." Reflections on a Ravaged Century is both...

L'opinion allemande sous le nazisme: Baviere 1933-1945.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... par Ian Kershaw. (Traduit Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat.) Collection CNRS Plus. Paris, CNRS Editions, 2002 [1995], 375 pp. 29.50? (cloth). Cet ouvrage dense et remarquablement documente contient la traduction de l'anglais tiree d'un livre meconnu,...

Masters of Death: the SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... By Richard Rhodes. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. xii, 338 pp. $27.50 US (cloth), $14.95 US (paper). Among the baleful legacies of the "Holocaust" has been the permanent contamination of hitherto innocuous terms that were associated with...

Vichy and the Eternal Feminine: a Contribution to a Political Sociology of Gender.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... by Francine Muel-Dreyfus. (Translated by Kathleen A. Johnson.) Durham, North Carolina, and London, Duke University Press, 2001. 387 pp. $74.95 US (cloth), $23.95 US (paper). In the ideology of Vichy France, the tandem bicycle, that...

Lithuania: Stepping Westward.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... by Thomas Lane. Postcommunist States and Nations series. London and New York, Routledge, 2001. X1, 246 pp. $95.00 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). As the mammoth ice pack that was the Soviet empire in the Cold War began to shift and crack in...

Science and Medicine in the Scottish Enlightenment.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... edited by Charles W.J. Withers and Paul Wood. East Linton, Tuckwell Press, 2002. 364 pp. $39.95 US (cloth). This volume was dedicated to the memory of the late Roy Porter, "colleague, Londoner, historian." The studies are wide-ranging...

"More Than Mere Amusement": Working-Class Women's Leisure in England, 1750-1914.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... by Catriona M. Parratt. Boston, Massachusetts, Northeastern University Press, 2001. x, 294 pp. $50.00 US (cloth), $20.00 US (paper). While much has been written during the last thirty years on the history of leisure in England, there is a...

Farm, Shop, Landing: the Rise of a Market Society in the Hudson Valley, 1780-1860.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... by Martin Bruegel. Durham, North Carolina and London, Duke University Press, 2002. xiii, 305 pp. $74.95 US (cloth), $23.95 US (paper). This is an intensive and comprehensive study of several decades of cultural and economic change in two...

A Good and Wise Measure: the Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783-1842.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... by Francis M. Carroll. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2001. xxiii, 462 pp. $75.00 US (cloth), $29.95 US (paper). As a graduate student, I wrote a paper about the disputed Maine-New Brunswick boundary. A kindly supervisor urged me...

Crossing the 49th Parallel: Migration from Canada to the United States, 1900-1930.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... by Bruno Ramirez. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2001. xiv, 219 pp. $32.50 US (cloth). The forty-ninth parallel has figured prominently in discussions about Canadian-American relations since September 11, 2001. For several weeks in 2002...

Law and War. An American Story.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... by Peter Maguire. New York, Columbia University Press, 2000. xii, 446 pp. $30.00 US (cloth). It is a paradox that if the start of the Cold War prompted the Americans to hold a special series of Trials at Nuremberg, the Cold War issue of...

Theaters of Conversion: Religious Architecture and Indian Artisans in Colonial Mexico.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... by Samuel Y. Edgerton, with photographs by Jorge Perez de Lara. Albuquerque, New Mexico, University of New Mexico Press, 2001. xvii, 350 pp. $60.00 US (cloth). The monumental art and architecture of colonial Mexico bas long attracted the...

Bearing Arms for His Majesty: the Free-Colored Militia in Colonial Mexico.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... by Ben Vinson III. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2001. xii, 304 pp. $60.00 US (cloth). "And why must the blacks and mulatos in the companies of Spaniards be looked down upon as well?" (p. 168) Ben Vinson cites this...

Mexican Phoenix--Our Lady of Guadalupe: Image and Tradition Across Five Centuries.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... by D. A. Brading. Cambridge, United Kingdom, Cambridge University Press, 2001. xvii, 444 pp. $35.00 US (cloth), $22.00 US (paper). In 2002 the Catholic Church elevated the Nahua (Aztec) Juan Diego to sainthood. This was in recognition of...

The Spirit of Hidalgo: the Mexican Revolution in Coahuila.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... by Suzanne B. Pasztor. Calgary: University of Calgary Press and Michigan State University Press, 2002. xvi, 224 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). Let it be noted at the outset that this book has nothing to do with Miguel Hidalgo or the first revolt...

A History of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... par Donald Denoon et Philippa Mein-Smith avec Marivic Wyndham. Blackwell History of the World. Malden, Massachussetts, Blackwell Publishers, 2000. xviii, 523 pp. $72.95 US (couverture rigide), $32.95 (poche). Bien que les ouvrages sur...

Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology Through History.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... by Alfred W. Crosby. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xii, 206 pp. $26.00 U.S (cloth). Crosby, Professor Emeritus of American Studies, History and Geography at the University of Texas at Austin, has authored studies on the...

Christ's Churches Purely Reformed: a Social History of Calvinism.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... by Philip Benedict. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2002. xxvi, 670 pp. $50.00 US (cloth) Philip Benedict has provided an invaluable synthesis of the history of Calvinism from its origins to 1700 in all its geographical...

The Reformation World.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... edited by Andrew Pettegree. London and New York, Routledge, 2000. xvi, 576 pp. $200.00 US (cloth), $45.00 US (paper). Anyone looking for a comprehensive volume on the Reformation of the sixteenth century should seriously consider this book...

Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... by Emma Rothschild. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2001. ix, 353 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). Emma Rothschild aims to rediscover a moment when laissez-faire economic thinking was new, before it hardened into an essentially...

German Exploration of the Polar World: a History, 1870-1940.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... by David Thomas Murphy. Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 2002.xiii, 273 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). Arctic and Antarctic exploration remains a staple of the book publishing industry. Narratives, memoirs and diaries from the great...

Victorian Relativity: Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... by Christopher Herbert. Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 2001. xv, 302 pp. $45.00 US (cloth), $17.50 US (paper). Christopher Herbert has written a provocative work of intellectual and cultural history. Despite its title,...

The Gold Standard Illusion: France, the Bank of France, and the International Gold Standard.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... 1914-1939, by Kenneth Moure. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002. xiv, 297 pp. $72.00 US (cloth). "The gold standard" is one of those expressions that combine fact, hope and wishful thinking. Like "free market," "free trade" or "free...

Errata.(Correction Notice)
August 1, 2003... "The London Gazette as a Primary Source for the Biography of General Patrick Gordon" by Andrew B Pernal published in Volume 38, number 1, pp. 1-17 of the Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d'histoire Text: p. 7: Gda1/2sk...