Canadian Journal of History articles from August 2005

Canadian Journal of History archives from August 2005

Sleeping bodies, jubilant souls: the fate of the dead in Sweden 1400-1700.
August 1, 2005... On New Years Eve in 1520 the Swedish forces were in full retreat. Their leader, Sten Sture the Younger, was mortally wounded and would die on the road to Stockholm. Danish forces besieged the castle of Stockholm, and the defenders led by...

Mill's liberty, the ribald press, and the politics of war.
August 1, 2005... I. Introduction John Stuart Mill's On Liberty is one of the most enduring documents in the intellectual history of the English language. It is not merely debated by each subsequent generation of political theorists, but brought to bear in...

Resale price maintenance and the character of resistance in the conservative party: 1949-64.
August 1, 2005... Resale price maintenance (rpm), the system by which individual firms stipulated the minimum price at which their goods could be sold in retail outlets, was abolished by the short-lived government of Sir Alec Douglas-Home in 1964. The...

Multiculturalisme et transferts culturels : pour une histoire des mouvements europeens au [20.sup.e] siecle.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Expressionnisme, Dada, surrealisme et autres ismes, par Serge Fauchereau. Paris, Denoel, 2001. 573 p. Prix : 28 Euros, 52 CAN$. L'Ecole de Paris 1904-1929, la part de l'autre (Colleetif), Paris, Musee d'art moderne de la ville de Paris et...

Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain, 850-1520.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain, 850-1520, by Christopher Dyer. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2002. viii, 403 pp. $40.00 US (cloth), $20.00 US (paper). Economic historians come in two kinds: the...

Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages, edited by Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 2003. ix, 269 pp. $52.50 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). Reading this collection...

The Lost Italian Renaissance: Humanists, Historians, and Latin's Legacy.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... The Lost Italian Renaissance: Humanists, Historians, and Latin's Legacy, by Christopher S. Celenza. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. 210 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). For some time now, intellectual historians of Renaissance Italy...

Beyond Florence: The Contours of Medieval and Early Modern Italy.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Beyond Florence: The Contours of Medieval and Early Modern Italy, edited by Paula Findlen, Michelle M. Fontaine, and Duane J. Osheim. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2003. xviii, 324 pp. $65.00 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). This is a...

Love and Death in Renaissance Italy.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Love and Death in Renaissance Italy, by Thomas V. Cohen. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2004. viii, 306 pp. $27.50 US (cloth). Microhistorians, in Thomas V. Cohen's own words, often go for the quirky. Two of microhistory's most...

The Spacious Word: Cartography, Literature, and Empire in Early Modern Spain.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... The Spacious Word: Cartography, Literature, and Empire in Early Modern Spain, by Ricardo Padron. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2004. xv, 287 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). Since Edmundo O'Gorman's The Invention of America was published...

Rembrandt's Jews.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Rembrandt's Jews, by Stephen Nadler. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2003. 250 pp. $25.00 US (cloth), $15.00 US (paper). One of the many areas of speculation regarding Rembrandt van Rijn's artistic output has been his depiction of...

The Jesuits and the Thirty Years War: Kings, Courts, and Confessors.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... The Jesuits and the Thirty Years War: Kings, Courts, and Confessors, by Robert Bireley. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii, 300 pp. $70.00 US (cloth). Protestant statesmen of the Thirty Years War despised the Jesuits,...

Crown, Church and Episcopate under Louis XIV.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Crown, Church and Episcopate under Louis XIV, by Joseph Bergin. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2004. ix, 526 pp. $60.00 US (cloth). Joseph Bergin's 1996 book, The Making of the French Episcopate, 1589-1661, had as its goal...

Condorcet and Modernity.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Condorcet and Modernity, by David Williams. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004. xi, 306 pp. $75.00 US (cloth). The career of Jean-Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet is relevant to historical assessments of...

Women's Utopias of the Eighteenth Century.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Women's Utopias of the Eighteenth Century, by Alessa Johns. Urbana and Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 2003. xv. 212 pp. $34.95 US (cloth). In this impressive new study, Alessa Johns seeks to highlight the significant tradition of...

'Full of all knowledg': George Herbert's Country Parson and Early Modern Social Discourse.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... 'Full of all knowledg': George Herbert's Country Parson and Early Modern Social Discourse, by Ronald W. Cooley. Mental and Cultural World of Tudor and Stuart England. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2004. vii, 238 pp. $53.00 US (cloth)....

Writing Geographical Exploration: James and the Northwest Passage, 1631-33.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Writing Geographical Exploration: James and the Northwest Passage 1631-33, by Wayne Davies. Calgary, University of Calgary Press, 2003. xviii, 318 pp. $49.95 US (cloth). Thomas James was an unlucky explorer. Chosen by the Company of...

The Yard of Wit: Male Creativity and Sexuality, 1650-1750.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... The Yard of Wit: Male Creativity and Sexuality, 1650-1750, by Raymond Stephanson. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. xv, 292 pp. $55.00 US (cloth). When early eighteenth-century moralists decried the disorder wrought by...

Errant Plagiary: The Life and Writing of Lady Sarah Cowper, 1644-1720.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Errant Plagiary: The Life and Writing of Lady Sarah Cowper, 1644-1720, by Anne Kugler. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2002. viii, 288 pp. $55.00 US (cloth). Well before the modern era of psychotherapy and anti-depressants, some women...

Crime and Punishment in the Royal Navy of the Seven Years' War, 1755-1763.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Crime and Punishment in the Royal Navy of the Seven Years' War, 1755-1763 by Markus Eder. Aldershot, England, Ashgate Publishing, 2004. 200 pp. $99.95 US (cloth). An expectation that this is a companion volume to J. Byrn's Crime and...

Women's Emancipation Movements in the Nineteenth Century: A European Perspective.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Women's Emancipation Movements in the Nineteenth Century: A European Perspective, edited by Sylvia Paletschek and Bianka Pietrow-Ennker. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2004. xiv, 428 pp. $60.00 US (cloth). This volume of research...

Paris: Capital of the World.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Paris: Capital of the World, by Patrice Higonnet. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002. 493 pp. $35.00 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). This is a large book on a large...

A Science for the Soul: Occultism and the Genesis of the German Modern.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... A Science for the Soul: Occultism and the Genesis of the German Modern, by Corinna Treitel. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. x, 366 pp. $46.95 US (cloth). As the Nazis consolidated their grip on power, Oswald Spengler...

Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe: The Political Culture of Limited Suffrage.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe: The Political Culture of Limited Suffrage, by Alan S. Kahan. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. vii, 239 pp. $90.00 US (cloth). Among the major political ideologies of the nineteenth century,...

Death in the Tiergarten: Murder and Criminal Justice in the Kaiser's Berlin.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Death in the Tiergarten: Murder and Criminal Justice in the Kaiser's Berlin, by Benjamin Carter Hett. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2004. ix, 291 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). In this excellent study, Benjamin Canner Hett...

Building Fascism, Communism, Liberal Democracy: Gaetano Ciocca - Architect, Inventor, Farmer, Writer, Engineer.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Building Fascism, Communism, Liberal Democracy: Gaetano Ciocca--Architect, Inventor, Farmer, Writer, Engineer, by Jeffrey T. Schnapp. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2004. 291 pp, $55.00 US (cloth). Neither in the Grove Dictionary of...

The Soviet Century.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... The Soviet Century, by Moshe Lewin. London, Verso, 2005. ix, 416 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). Soviet history is full of conundrums that have bedeviled scholarship for decades. The most advanced socio-political system (according to its advocates)...

Le Tumulte Noir: Modernist Art and Popular Entertainment in Jazz-Age Paris, 1900-1930.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Le Tumulte Noir: Modernist Art and Popular Entertainment in Jazz-Age Paris, 1900-1930, by Jody Blake. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. viii, 207 pp. $77.00 US (cloth), $27.95 US (paper). Jody...

The Orient Within: Muslim Minorities and the Negotiation of Nationhood in Modern Bulgaria.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... The Orient Within: Muslim Minorities and the Negotiation of Nationhood in Modern Bulgaria, by Mary Neuburger. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 2004. xvii, 204 pp. $42.50 US (cloth). The story of Bulgarian Muslims has only briefly...

France and the Great Way.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... France and the Great War, by Leonard V. Smith, Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau, and Annette Becker. New Approaches to European History. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvi, 202 pp. $58.00 US (cloth), $21.00 US (paper). There is a...

The Politics of Education: Teachers and School Reform in Weimar Germany.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... The Politics of Education: Teachers and School Reform in Weimar Germany, by Marjorie Lamberti. Monographs in German History. New York, Berghahn Books, 2002. ix, 272 pp. $70.00 US (cloth) $25.00 US (paper). "Culture wars" is a familiar term...

Closer to the Masses: Stalinist Culture, Social Revolution, and Soviet Newspapers.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Closer to the Masses: Stalinist Culture, Social Revolution, and Soviet Newspapers, by Matthew Lenoe. Russian Research Center Studies. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2004. x, 315 pp. $52.50 US (cloth). In his study of...

Architecture in the Age of Stalin: Culture Two.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Architecture in the Age of Stalin: Culture Two, by Vladimir Papernyi. Translated by John Hill and Roann Barris. Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xxviii, 371 pp. $95.00 US (cloth)....

Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia, by Wendy Z. Goldman. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvi, 298 pp. $65.00 US (cloth), $23.99 US (paper). Though labour historians have written about Soviet...

A Gallant Company: The True Story of "The Great Escape".(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... A Gallant Company: The True Story of "The Great Escape," by Jonathan F. Vance. John Gresham Military Library series. New York, ibooks (distributed by Simon & Schuster), 2003. xxi, 329 pp. $29.95 US (cloth), $14.95 US (paper). Can there...

On the Battlefields of the Cold War: A Soviet Ambassador's Confession.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... On the Battlefields of the Cold War: A Soviet Ambassador's Confession, by Victor Israelyan. Stephen Pearl, translator. University Park, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. xvii, 414 pp. $45.00 US (cloth), $27.00 US (paper). Based upon...

The Light Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... The Light Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000, by Michael Bess. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2003. xxii, 369 pp. $48.00 US (cloth), $18.00 US (paper). Michael Bess examines the rise of...

The British General Staff: Reform and Innovation 1890-1939.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... The British General Staff: Reform and Innovation, 1890-1939, edited by David French and Brian Holden Reid. Cass Series--Military History and Policy, No. 10. London, Frank Cass Publishers, 2002. ix, 246 pp. $125.00 US (cloth). This...

Our Shadowed Present: Modernism, Postmodernism, and History.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Our Shadowed Present: Modernism, Postmodernism, and History, by Jonathan Clark. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2004. 352 pp. $22.95 US (paper). The title of this book might lead one to expect yet another prolonged jeremiad against...

The American Indian Mind in a Linear World: American Indian Studies and Traditional Knowledge.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... The American Indian Mind in a Linear World: American Indian Studies and Traditional Knowledge, by Donald L. Fixico. New York, Routledge, 2003. xvi, 207 pp. $95.00 US (cloth), $33.95 US (paper). In this interesting book, Donald Fixico of the...

Rethinking American History in a Global Age.(Fictions of U.S. History: A Theory and Four Illustrations)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Rethinking American History in a Global Age, edited by Thomas Bender. Berkele, University of California Press, 2002. ix, 427 pp. $60.00 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). Fictions of U.S. History: A Theory and Four Illustrations, by Frances...

Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930, by Patricia A. Schechter. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xx, 386 pp. $59.95 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). In late 1894 William A. Dunning, in...

Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical, by Andrea Most. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2004. 253 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). This study offers an interpretation of the Broadway musical through a reading of six...

From Apocalypse to a Way of Life: Environmental Crisis in the American Century.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... From Apocalypse to a Way of Life: Environmental Crisis in the American Century, by Frederick Buell. New York, Routledge Press, 2004. ix, 400 pp. $32.05 US (cloth), $23.95 US (paper). This award winning account of American environmental...

Freedom's Sword: The NAACP and the Struggle Against Racism in America, 1909-1969.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Freedom's Sword: The NAACP and the Struggle Against Racism in America, 1909-1969, by Gilbert Jonas. New York, Routledge, 2004. 240 pp. $30.95 US (cloth). The book covers the first sixty years of the NAACP (National Association for the...

Picturing Poverty: Print Culture and FSA Photographs.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Picturing Poverty: Print Culture and FSA Photographs, by Cara A. Finnegan. Washington DC, Smithsonian Books, 2003. xxvii, 264 pp. $36.95 US (cloth). Picturing Poverty is a significant attempt to unite two distinct themes. While concerned...

The Church Universal and Triumphant: Elizabeth Clare Prophet's Apocalyptic Movement.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... The Church Universal and Triumphant: Elizabeth Clare Prophet's Apocalyptic Movement, by Bradley C. Whitsel. Syracuse, New York, Syracuse University Press, 2003. xvi, 221 pp. $39.95 US (cloth), $19.95 US (paper). It is hard to imagine...

Incoherent Empire.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Incoherent Empire, by Michael Mann. London, Verso, 2003. viii, 278 pp. $25.00 US (cloth). Michael Mann, who is a sociologist by profession and not a historian, provocatively challenges many of the assumptions of recent American foreign...

From Liberal to Revolutionary Oaxaca: The View from the South, Mexico, 1867-1911.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... From Liberal to Revolutionary Oaxaca: The View from the South, Mexico 1867-1911, by Francie R. Chassen-Lopez. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004. xv, 608 pp. $85.00 US (cloth), $30.00 US (paper). For...

Moments of Progress: Modernization and Public Health in Mexico City, 1876-1910.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Monuments of Progress: Modernization and Public Health in Mexico City, 1876-1910, by Claudia Agostoni, Calgary, University of Calgary Press; Boulder, Colorado, University Press of Colorado, 2003. xvii, 228 pp. $39.95 (paper), $49.95 (cloth)....

Soldiers of the Patria: A History of the Brazilian Army, 1889-1937.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Soldiers of the Patria: A History of the Brazilian Army, 1889-1937, by Frank D. McCann. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2004. xxvi, 593 pp. $75.00 US (cloth). Frank McCann argues that the foundation of the roles played by the military...

Modernity in the Flesh: Medicine, Law, and Society in Turn-of-the-Century Argentina.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Modernity in the Flesh." Medicine, Law, and Society in Turn-of-the-Century Argentina, by Kristin Ruggiero. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2004. x, 244 pp. $49.50 US (cloth). Kristin Ruggiero's Modernity in the Flesh is a fascinating...

Yankee Don't Go Home!: Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920-1950.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Yankee Don't Go Home!: Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920-1950, by Julio Moreno. Luther Hartwell Lodges Series on Business, Society, and the State. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of...

Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda, by Romeo Dallaire with Brent Beardsley. Toronto, Random House, 2003. xviii, 562 pp. $39.95 Cdn (cloth). The story of Romeo Dallaire and his experience as force commander for...

Orientalism and Empire: North Caucasus Mountain People and the Georgian Frontier, 1845-1917.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Orientalism and Empire: North Caucasus Mountain People and the Georgian Frontier, 1845-1917, by Austin Jersild. Kingston, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. xxix, 253 pp. $80.00 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper)....

Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1867-1937.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1867-1937, by Christopher A. Reed. Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 2004. xxvi, 391 pp. $85.00 US (cloth), $24.00 US (paper). In Gutenberg in Shanghai, Christopher Reed...

Gandhi in His Time and Ours: The Global Legacy of His Ideas.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Gandhi in His Time and Ours: The Global Legacy of His Ideas, by David Hardiman. New York, Columbia University Press, 2003. xiv, 338 pp. $32.50 US (cloth). Gandhi's story has been told countless times, but David Hardiman shows that there is...

Organizing for Empire: Individualism, Collective Agency and India.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Organizing for Empire." Individualism, Collective Agency and India, by Purnima Bose. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2003. xi, 278 pp. $79.95 US (cloth), $22.95 US (paper). The advent of postmodernism late in the twentieth...

Sex and Pleasure in Western Culture.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Sex and Pleasure in Western Culture, by Gail Hawkes. Cambridge, Polity Press, 2004. viii, 208 pp. $59.95 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper). Do we need another book on sex and pleasure? Well, it rather depends on who "we" are. There is an...

A History of Hungary: Millennium in Central Europe.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... A History of Hungary: Millennium in Central Europe, by Laszlo Kontler. New York, Palgrave MacMillan, 2002. 544 pp. $26.95 US (cloth). Since the political changes in the East Central European states, the "smooth" revolutions of 1989, the...

Orthodox Russia: Belief and Practice Under the Tsars.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Orthodox Russia: Belief and Practice Under the Tsars, edited by Valerie A. Kivelson and Robert H. Greene. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. xii, 291 pp. $65.00 US (cloth), $22.00 US (paper). This...

The Bible in English: Its History and Influence.(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... The Bible in English: Its History and Influence, by David Daniell. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2003. 900 pp. $40.00 US (cloth). David Daniell is an Emeritus Professor of English at University College London. He is also...