Canadian Journal of History articles from August 2004

Canadian Journal of History archives from August 2004

"I will never consent to be wedded with you!": coerced marriage in the courts of medieval England (1).
August 1, 2004... By the time Isabel Grene of Yorkshire's bill of complaint reached the ears of the chancellor's officials in the later years of the fifteenth century, she had found herself in a position seemingly without remedy by normal procedures of the...

Cultural exchange and religious change: Buddhism, Vedanta and immortality in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain (1).
August 1, 2004... "Secularization" and "modernization" have traditionally been considered co-terminous. That is, theorists have traditionally defined secularization as an inevitable religious decline due to modernization, caused by industrialization,...

Aby Warburg and the public purposes of art in Hamburg (1).(Critical Essay)
August 1, 2004... Aby Warburg (1866-1929) has been celebrated as many things: as a pioneering art historian, an historian of mentalities, an historical anthropologist, a cultural semiotician, a pioneer in the theory and study of collective memory, and as the...

Reconsidering political experience: new trends in interpretations of the French Revolution.(Reinterpreting the French Revolution: A Global-Historical Perspective)(The Jacobin Republic Under Fire: The Federalist Revolt in the French Revolution)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Reinterpreting the French Revolution: A Global-Historical Perspective, by Bailey Stone. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. viii, 292 pp. US$25.00 (paper), $70.00 US (cloth) The Jacobin Republic Under Fire: The Federalist Revolt in...

Cultural politics in Hamburg.(Art and the German Bourgeoisie: Alfred Lichtwark and Modern Painting in Hamburg, 1886-1914)(Provincial Modernity: Local Culture and Liberal Politics in Fin-de-Siecle Hamburg)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Art and the German Bourgeoisie: Alfred Lichtwark and Modern Painting in Hamburg, 1886-1914, by Carolyn Kay. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2002. x, 166 pp. $48.00 US (cloth). Provincial Modernity: Local Culture and Liberal Politics...

Writing, Society and Culture in Early Rus, c.950-1300.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Writing, Society and Culture in Early Rus, c.950-1300, by Simon Franklin. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvi, 325 pp. $98.00 Cdn (cloth). Writing about writing, a task which occupies a significant portion of a historian's...

The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386-1795.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386-1795, by Daniel Stone. A History of East Central Europe, volume 4. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. xvii, 374 pp. $50.00 US (cloth). It is not an easy task to write a historical survey...

Ivan the Terrible: Profiles in Power.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Ivan the Terrible: Profiles in Power, by Andrei Pavlov and Maureen Perrie. New York, Pearson-Longman, 2003. ix, 234 pp. $16.95 US (paper). Andrei Pavlov and Maureen Perrie have produced an excellent and very welcome biography of the...

Anti-Italianism in Sixteenth-Century France.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Anti-Italianism in Sixteenth-Century France, by Henry Heller. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2003. xii, 307 pp. $63.00 US (cloth). Most historians of sixteenth-century France are familiar with the anti-Roman sentiments of many...

The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe, by Daniel Goffman. New Approaches to European History, volume 24. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002. 273 pp. $55.00 US (cloth), $20.00 US (paper). This book has a mission. Goffman...

Louis XIV and the Parlements: the Assertion of Royal Authority.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Louis XIV and the Parlements: The Assertion of Royal Authority, by John J. Hurt. Manchester and New York, Manchester University Press, 2002. xvii, 217 pp. $74.95 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). When Richard Bonney asked the question...

The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV. Royal Service and Private Interest, 1661-1701.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV. Royal Service and Private Interest, 1661-1701, by Guy Rowlands. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvii, 404pp. $75.00 US (cloth). In...

The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800, by David A. Bell. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2003. xvi, 304 pp. $18.95 US (paper). First published in hardcover in 2001, this book surely merits...

Twisted Sisters: Women, Crime and Deviance in Scotland since 1400.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Twisted Sisters: Women, Crime and Deviance in Scotland since 1400, edited by Yvonne Galloway Brown and Rona Ferguson. East Linton, Scotland, Tuckwell Press, 2002. x, 212 pp. $36.95 Cdn (paper). Histories of English criminals and criminal...

The Education of the Eye: Painting, Landscape, and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Education of the Eye: Painting, Landscape, and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain, by Peter de Bolla. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2003. xv, 274 pp. $55.00 US (cloth), $21.95 US (paper). The title of this book is...

Townspeople and Nation: English Urban Experiences, 1540-1640.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Townspeople and Nation: English Urban Experiences, 1540-1640, by Robert Tittler. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2001. xvi, 251pp. $55.00 US (cloth), $21.95 US (paper). For some time now the focus of early modern English urban history...

Liberty and Locality in Revolutionary France: Six Villages Compared, 1760-1820.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Liberty and Locality in Revolutionary France: Six Villages Compared, 1760-1820, by Peter Jones. New Studies in European History. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. xiv, 306 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). How does one access the views and...

The Night the Old Regime Ended: August 4, 1789 and the French Revolution.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Night the Old Regime Ended." August 4, 1789 and the French Revolution, by Michael P. Fitzsimmons. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. x, 245 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). In his new book, Michael Fitzsimmons argues that...

The Extreme Right in France, 1789 to the Present: From de Maistre to Le Pen.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Extreme Right in France, 1789 to the Present: From de Maistre to Le Pen, by Peter Davies. London and New York, Routledge Press, 2002. 209 pp. $34.95 US (paper). Much has been written about the extreme right in France over the past few...

Labelling People: French Scholars on Society, Race, and Empire, 1815-1848.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Labeling People: French Scholars on Society, Race, and Empire 1815-1848 by Martin S. Staum. Montreal and Kingston, McGillQueens University Press, 2003. xiv, 245 pp. $39.95 US (cloth). Martin Staum's survey of the complex history of racial...

National Cultures and International Competition: the Experience of Schering AG, 1851-1950.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... National Cultures and International Competition: The Experience of Schering AG, 1851-1950, by Christopher Kobrak. Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvii, 394 pp. $50.00 US...

Legislating the French Family: Feminism, Theater, and Republican Politics, 1870-1920.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Legislating the French Family: Feminism, Theater, and Republican Politics, 1870-1920, by Jean Elisabeth Pedersen. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 2003. xi, 270 pp. $60.00 US (cloth). In Legislating the French Family, Jean Elisabeth...

The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945, by Richard Steigmann-Gall. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvi, 294 pp. $30.00 US (cloth). It was once taken for granted that the Nazi regime was monolithic in...

Economics and Politics in the Weimar Republic.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Economics and Politics in the Weimar Republic, by Theo Balderston. New Studies in Economic and Social History. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. 123 pp. $35.00 US (cloth), $12.99 US (paper). The history of the first German...

National Bolshevism: Stalinist Mass Culture and the Formation of Modern Russian National Identity, 1913-1956.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... National Bolshevism: Stalinist Mass Culture and the Formation of Modern Russian National Identity, 1913-1956, by David Brandenberger. Russian Reasearch Center Series. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2002. xv, 378 pp. $49.95...

The Nazi Conscience.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Nazi Conscience, by Claudia Koonz. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003. 362 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). Claudia Koonz begins with an important point: "The Nazi conscience is not an...

Architects of Annihilation: Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Architects of Annihilation: Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction, by Gotz Aly and Susanne Heim. Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2002. 378 pp. $32.95 US (cloth). More than a decade ago (1991), two young, independent...

A Conspiracy of Decency: the Rescue of Danish Jews During World War II.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... A Conspiracy of Decency: the Rescue of Danish Jews During World War II, by Emmy E. Werner. Boulder, Colorado, Westview Press, 2002.xii, 212 pp. $26.00 US (cloth), $15.95 US (paper). On a hill in Jerusalem, in Yad Vashem (a memorial to the...

Marianne in Chains: in Search of the German Occupation, 1940-45.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Marianne in Chains: In Search of the German Occupation, 194045, by Robert Gildea. London, Macmillan, 2002. xix, 524 pp. $74.25 US (cloth). In the first decades after the Second World War, the history of France between 1940 and 1944 was a...

Jews and Gender in Liberation France.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Jews and Gender in Liberation France, by K.H. Adler. Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii, 273 pp. $60.00 US (cloth). K.H. Adler has written an important book that...

Soviet Workers and Late Stalinism: Labour and the Restoration of the Stalinist System after World War II.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Soviet Workers and Late Stalinism: Labour and the Restoration of the Stalinist System after World War II, by Donald Filtzer. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. 294 pp. $70.00 US (cloth). Historians range across a spectrum from...

Bosnia-Herzegovina: the End of a Legacy.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Bosnia-Herzegovina: The End of a Legacy, by Neven Andjelic. London, Frank Cass Publishers, 2003. 228 pp. $114.95 US (cloth), $34.95 US (paper). This book is a contribution to what has become a very crowded field. There are by now hundreds...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination, by Barbara Taylor. Cambridge Studies in Romanticism. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvi, 331 pp. $65.00 US (cloth), $22.95 US (paper). Since her death in 1797, Mary...

Family Affairs: a History of the Family in 20th Century England.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Family Affairs: A History of the Family in 20th Century England, by Mary Abbott. New York, Routledge, 2003. 195 pp. $34.95 US (paper). This is a fascinating and well-written book, a follow-up to Abbott's earlier book, Family Ties: English...

The Unquiet Western Front: Britain's Role in Literature and History.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Unquiet Western Front: Britain's Role in Literature and History, by Brian Bond. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. x, 128 pp. $30.00 US (cloth). Pity the poor military historians of the First World War. According to one of...

L'histoire des Rolling Stones.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... L 'histoire des Rolling Stones, par Bill Wyman (et Richard Havers). Editions Libre expression, Outremont, 2003. 512 pp. $79.95 EU (couverture rigide). Le musicien anglais Bill Wyman (de son vrai nom Perks de Penge) aura ete durant trente...

The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862, edited by Gary W. Gallagher. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, The University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xxii, 255 pp. $57.75 Cdn (cloth). The American Civil War continues to fascinate nearly a century...

The Nasca.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Nasca, by Helaine Silverman and Donald A. Proulx. Peoples of America Series. Malden, Massachusetts, Blackwell, 2002. xix, 339 pp. $64,.95 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). This book is one of the most recent additions to Blackwell's...

The Guarani Under Spanish Rule in the Rio de la Plata.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Guarani Under Spanish Rule in the Rio de la Plata, by Barbara Ganson. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2003. xii, 290 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). The history of the Jesuit missions in the Rio de la Plata, much like other...

Surprise Heirs, I: Illegitimacy, Patrimonial Rights, and Legal Nationalism in the Luso-Brazilian Inheritance, 1750-1821.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Surprise Heirs, I: Illegitimacy, Patrimonial Rights, and Legal Nationalism in the Luso-Brazilian Inheritance, 1750-1821, by Linda Lewin. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2003. Xxix, 214 pp. $55.00 US (cloth). Surprise...

Muddied Waters: Race, Region, and Local History in Colombia, 1846-1948.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Muddied Waters: Race, Region, and Local History in Colombia, 1846-1948, by Nancy P. Appelbaum. Latin America Otherwise Series. Durham, North Carolina and London, Duke University Press, 2003. xvii, 297 pp. $64.95 US (cloth), $21.95 US (paper)....

The Mexican Economy, 1870-1930: Essays on the Economic History of Institutions, Revolution, and Growth.(The Power and the Money: The Mexican Financial System, 1876-1932)(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Mexican Economy, 1870-1930: Essays on the Economic History of Institutions, Revolution, and Growth, edited by Jeffrey L. Bortz and Stephen Haber. Social Science History Series. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2002. xvii, 348 pp. $65.00...

Blood and Fire: La Violencia in Antioquia, Colombia, 1946-1953.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Blood and Fire: La Violencia in Antioquia, Colombia, 1946-1953, by Mary Roldan. Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina and London, 2002. 392 pp. $89.95 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). This insightful historical study is a substantial...

Israel: Challenges to Identity, Democracy and the State.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Israel: Challenges to Identity, Democracy and the State, by Clive Jones and Emma C. Murphy. The Contemporary Middle East series. London and New York, 2002. xxv, 146 pp. $104.95 US (cloth), $34.95 US (paper). Clive Jones and Emma C. Murphy...

The Straits of Malacca: Gateway or Gauntlet?(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Straits of Malacca: Gateway or Gauntlet? by Donald B. Freeman. Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. xxiv, 249 pp. $44.95 US (cloth). Students of Asian affairs, historical and contemporary, can hardly afford not to know...

Cultural Centrality and Political Change in Chinese History: Northeast Henan in the Fall of the Ming.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Cultural Centrality and Political Change in Chinese History: Northeast Henan in the Fall of the Ming, by Roger V. Des Forges. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2003. xxi, 422 pp. $75.00 US (cloth). In the spring of 1644, the rebel...

Building Culture in Early Qing Yangzhou.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Building Culture in Early Qing Yangzhou, by Tobie S. Meyer-Fong. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2003. xv, 208 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). This study deals with aspects of the cultural history of Yangzhou in the period 1645 to...

The Social Life of the State in Subarctic Siberia.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Social Life of the State in Subarctic Siberia, by Nikolai V. Ssorin-Chaikov. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2003. xiv, 261 pp. $55.00 US (cloth). Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov's Social Life of the State in Subarctic Siberia...

Treading Softly: U.S. Marines in China, 1819-1949.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Treading Softly: U.S. Marines in China, 1819-1949, by George B. Clark. Westport, Connecticut, Praeger, 2001. xviii, 208 pp. $92.95 US (cloth). During the first three-and-a-half decades of the twentieth century, the US Marines acquired a...

The Rising Sun and the Turkish Crescent, New Perspectives on the History of Japanese and Turkish Relations.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Rising Sun and the Turkish Crescent, New Perspectives on the History of Japanese and Turkish Relations, by Selguk Esenbel and Inaba Chiharu. Istanbul, Bogazigi University Press, 2003. ix, 307 pp. 11,950,000 TL (cloth). The sight of...

Street Culture in Chengdu: Public Space, Urban Commoners, and Local Politics, 1870-1930.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Street Culture in Chengdu: Public Space, Urban Commoners, and Local Politics, 1870-1930, by Di Wang. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2003. xiv, 355 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). This work helps history come alive. Exploring a range of...

Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, by Rebecca E. Karl. Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2002. xii, 314 pp. $79.95 US (cloth), $22.95 US (paper). By the turn of the twentieth century,...

Reversing the Gaze: Amar Singh's Diary: a Colonial Subject's Narrative of Imperial India.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Reversing the Gaze: Amar Singh's Diary: A Colonial Subject's Narrative of Imperial India, edited and commentary by Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph with Mohan Singh Kanota. Boulder, Colorado, Westview Press, 2002. v, 633 pp. $40.00...

The New Japanese Woman, Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The New Japanese Woman, Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan, by Barbara Sato. Asia-Pacific Series. Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2003. xiv, 241 pp. $59.95 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). This fine study of Japanese...

Empires of the Mind: I. A. Richards and Basic English in China, 1929-1979.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Empires of the Mind: I. A. Richards and Basic English in China, 1929-1979, by Rodney Koeneke. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2004. 256 pp. $55.00 US (cloth). One of the most pronounced features of the increasingly...

Not the Slightest Chance: The Defense of Hong Kong, 1941.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Not the Slightest Chance: The Defense of Hong Kong, 1941, by Tony Banham. Vancouver, UBC Press, 2003. xx, 431 pp. $85.00 US (cloth), $29.95 US (paper). When the Japanese ground forces attacked Hong Kong on 8 December 1941, the outcome...

Private Life Under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Private Life Under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999, by Yunxiang Yan. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2003. 320 pp. $55.00 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). Subtle shifts, not...

The Afghanistan Wars.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Afghanistan Wars by William Maley. New York, Palgrave McMillan, 2002. x, 340 pp. $21.95 US (paper). Professor Maley's present book is a straightforward chronological narrative of events spanning the coming of Afghan Communists to power...

Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography, by Stephen Knight. Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2003. xxiv, 247 pp. $25.00 US (cloth). Over the past decade, Professor Knight has spearheaded a resurgence in the literary study of Robin Hood...

The Savage Wars of Peace: England, Japan and the Malthusian Trap.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Savage Wars of Peace: England, Japan and the Malthusian Trap, by Alan Macfarlane. Basingstoke, Hampshire, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. vii, 427 pp. $87.95 US (cloth), $26.95 US (paper). In its broadest sense, The Savage Wars of Peace is a...

Chasing Empire Across the Sea: Communications and the State in the French Atlantic, 1713-1763.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Chasing Empire Across the Sea: Communications and the State in the French Atlantic, 1713-1763, by Kenneth J. Banks. Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. xvi, 319 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). This superb book offers a...

Voyages of Delusion: the Quest for the Northwest Passage.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Voyages of Delusion: The Quest for the Northwest Passage, by Glyn Williams. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2003. xx, 467 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). For several decades, the discussion about the existence and importance of a navigable route...

Native American in the Land of the Shogun: Ranald MacDonald and the Opening of Japan.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Native American in the Land of the Shogun: Ranald MacDonald and the Opening of Japan, by Frederik L. Schodt. Berkeley, Stone Bridge Press, 2003. xiv, 418 pp. $39.95 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). In 1848, five years before Commodore Matthew...

The Rule of Freedom: Liberalism and the Modern City.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... The Rule of Freedom: Liberalism and the Modern City, by Patrick Joyce. London, Verso, 2003.276 pp. $26.00 US (cloth). Patrick Joyce's The Rule of Freedom is a complex study that operates on three distinct but clearly-related levels. It is...

Jazz Planet.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Jazz Planet, edited by E. Taylor Atkins. Jackson, Mississippi, University Press of Mississippi, 2003. 272 pp. $46.00 US (cloth), $18.00 US (paper). Jazz Planet fires a shot across the bow of traditional jazz scholarship in the US by making...

Canadian Policy Toward Khrushchev's Soviet Union.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... Canadian Policy Toward Khrushchev's Soviet Union, by Jamie Glazov. Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. xxi, 251 pp. $75.00 US (cloth), $27.95 US (paper). Canadians are smarter than everyone else. At least, Canadian...