Canadian Journal of History articles from December 1 1992

Canadian Journal of History archives from December 1 1992

Property, Production, and Family in Neckarhausen: 1700-1870.
December 1, 1992... David Sabean has been an assiduous student of Wurttemberg social history for well over two decades (his Landbesitz und Gesellschaft am Vorabend des Bauernkrieges was published in 1972). A firm command of the material and a wonderfully subtle...

Images of Faith: Expressionism, Catholic Folk Art, and the Industrial Revolution.
December 1, 1992... One needs to look beyond its title to discover that this book is a history of glasspainting in a small region of Upper Bavaria. According to Helena Lepovitz, although the technique of painting on glass had emerged in the middle ages, glass...

The Politics of French Business: 1936-1945.
December 1, 1992... The Politics of French Business: 1936-1945, by Robert Vinen. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1991.xv, 245 pp. $54.50 U.S. In the tumultuous decade that began with the election of the Popular Front and ended with the victory over Nazi...

Three Cheers for the Unemployed: Government and Unemployment Before the New Deal.
December 1, 1992... We have the good fortune of receiving this work from Professor Udo Sautter of the University of Windsor at a time when rising unemployment concerns us, and when we witness the rise of social movements dedicated to rolling the clock back by...

Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America.
December 1, 1992... This is a sociological work which ought to be of considerable interest to historians of modern America. Although Hunter's focus is very clearly on the present, he provides nonetheless a framework within which much of the conflict in American...

Disappearance of the Dowry: Women, Families, and Social Change in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1600-1900.
December 1, 1992... For several centuries, and in many parts of the western world, dowries were a essential signifier of womanhood. The transition from single to married life was marked by an economic evaluation of the bride which meant as much a form of...

Radical Thought in Central America.
December 1, 1992... Radical Thought in Central America is the third of Sheldon Liss's examinations of the radical or socialist intellectual tradition in Latin America and is, in many ways, a fitting addition to his earlier works: Marxist Thought in Latin America...

School, State, and Society: The Growth of Elementary Schooling in Nineteenth-Century France, a Quantitative Analysis.
December 1, 1992... School, State, and Society: The Growth of Elementary Schooling in Nineteenth-Century France. A Quantitative Analysis, by Raymond Grew and Patrick J. Harrigan. Ann Arbor, Michigan, University of Michigan Press, 1991. 324 pp. $39.50 U.S. ...

Dictionnaire des constituants: 1789-1791.
December 1, 1992... This elegant dictionary was published to commemorate the bicentenary of the first French constitution of 1791. It is a biographical inventory of over 1,000 pages of meticulous details devoted to the founders of parliamentary democracy in...

Revolution francaise et "vandalism revolutionnaire:" Actes du colloque international de Clermont-Ferrand 15-17 decembre 1988.
December 1, 1992... The term "vandalisme revolutionnaire" was first employed by the deputy Abbe Gregoire in his Rapport sur les inscriptions des monuments publics to the French National Convention on 21 nivose an II (10 January 1794). In this report, he ordered...

Revolution in Russia: Reassessments of 1917.
December 1, 1992... Revolution in Russia: Reassessments of 1917, edited by Edith Rogovin Frankel, Jonathan Frankel, and Baruch Keni-Paz. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1992. xx, 434 pp. $59.95 U.S. The book has an introduction plus five parts,...

National Crisis and National Government: British Politics, the Economy and Empire, 1926-1932.
December 1, 1992... National Crisis and National Government: British Politics, the Economy and Empire 1926-1932, by Philip Williamson. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1992. xviii, 569 pp. $89.95 U.S. When it is explained that the sub-title of this...

Governor and Settlers: Images of Authority in the British Colonies, 1820-1860.
December 1, 1992... Governor and Settlers: Images of Authority in the British Colonies, 1820-60, by Mark Francis. London, England, Macmillan, 1992. ix, 331 pp. $45.00. After a generation of detailed studies of individual British colonies emphasizing local...

Gentlemen Capitalists: The Social and Political World of the Victorian Businessman.
December 1, 1992... Gentlemen Capitalists: The Social and Political World of the Victorian Businessman, by H.L. Malchow. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1992. xii, 423 pp. $47.50 U.S. Who were they, these ubiquitous presences, these...

Revenue and Reform: The Indian Problem in British Politics, 1757-1773.
December 1, 1992... This latest work of scholarship from Huw Bowen is a milestone in imperial history. This new book provides scholars and students of imperial history with an innovative synthesis of British politics and British activity in India in the period...

Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol.
December 1, 1992... Although Mary Fissell's study is unique in its focus on the provision of health care to the poorer inhabitants of eighteenth-century Bristol and area, many of the themes which she explores have a certain familiarity. Among these is the...

The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century.
December 1, 1992... This is a large and important book, and as rumbustious as the characters who fill its pages. Its subject is the lives and deaths of men and women brought to hang at Tyburn. Its context, however, is nothing less than eighteenth-century...

Prosecution and Punishment: Petty Crime and the Law in London and Rural Middlesex, c. 1660-1725.
December 1, 1992... Most studies of crime in English, as well as European and North American history, focus on felonies or what historians call "serious" crime. From time to time scholars have suggested that the study of felonies provides a distorted view of the...

An Uncounselled King: Charles I and the Scottish Troubles, 1637-1641.
December 1, 1992... Peter Donald's published version of his 1987 PhD thesis enters a market already seemingly saturated with narratives of this period (by Gardiner, C.V. Wedgwood, and David Stevenson), and now apparently cornered by Conrad Russell's The Fall of...

Roman Canon Law in Reformation England.
December 1, 1992... This book, a revision and expansion of the Maitland Lectures that Professor Helmholz delivered at Cambridge in 1987, explores what we might have thought was familiar territory in the light of material that is not familiar at all. First,...

Historical Dictionary of Tudor England.
December 1, 1992... This historical dictionary consists of 295 signed entries on a range of topics, events and personalities between 1485 and 1603. The contributors, sixty-seven in all, are predominatly scholars based in the U.S. (42), followed in descending...

Locality and Polity.
December 1, 1992... Christine Carpenter has written a monumental study of landed society in fifteenth-century Warwickshire. Her main objective in the book is to show the inter-relationship between the social and economic realities of "gentle" society in...

A Rural Society After the Black Death: Essex, 1350-1525.
December 1, 1992... A Rural Society After the Black Death: Essex 1350-1525, by L.R. Poos. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1991. xiv, 330 pp. $59.50 U.S. With a high proportion of wage earners, a modest industrial sector driven partly by export demand,...

Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae Occidentalis ab initio usque ad annum MCXCVIII, Series 6, Britannia, Scotia et Hibernia, Scandinavia, Tomus 1 Eclesia Scotiana.
December 1, 1992... Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae Occidentalis ab initio usque ad annum MCXCVIII; Series VI Britannia, Scotia et Hibernia, Scandinavia, Tomus 1 Ecclesia Scoticana, general editors Odilo Engels and Stefan Weinfurter with cooperation of H....

International Organizations: 1918-1945, A Guide to Research and Research Materials.
December 1, 1992... German Foreign Policy 1918-1945: A Guide to Research and Research Materials, edited by Christoph Kimmich. Wilmington, Delaware, Scholarly Resources, 1991 (revised edition). xii, 264 pp. $40.00 U.S. French Policy 1918-1945: A Guide to...

Soviet Foreign Policy: 1918-1945, A Guide to Research and Research Materials.
December 1, 1992... German Foreign Policy 1918-1945: A Guide to Research and Research Materials, edited by Christoph Kimmich. Wilmington, Delaware, Scholarly Resources, 1991 (revised edition). xii, 264 pp. $40.00 U.S. French Policy 1918-1945: A Guide to...

Italian Foreign Policy: 1918-1945, A Guide to Research and Research Materials.
December 1, 1992... German Foreign Policy 1918-1945: A Guide to Research and Research Materials, edited by Christoph Kimmich. Wilmington, Delaware, Scholarly Resources, 1991 (revised edition). xii, 264 pp. $40.00 U.S. French Policy 1918-1945: A Guide to...

British Foreign Policy: 1918-1945, A Guide to Research and Research Materials.
December 1, 1992... German Foreign Policy 1918-1945: A Guide to Research and Research Materials, edited by Christoph Kimmich. Wilmington, Delaware, Scholarly Resources, 1991 (revised edition). xii, 264 pp. $40.00 U.S. French Policy 1918-1945: A Guide to...

French Policy: 1918-1945, A Guide to Research and Research Materials.
December 1, 1992... German Foreign Policy 1918-1945: A Guide to Research and Research Materials, edited by Christoph Kimmich. Wilmington, Delaware, Scholarly Resources, 1991 (revised edition). xii, 264 pp. $40.00 U.S. French Policy 1918-1945: A Guide to...

German Foreign Policy: 1918-1945, A Guide to Research and Research Materials.
December 1, 1992... German Foreign Policy 1918-1945: A Guide to Research and Research Materials, edited by Christoph Kimmich. Wilmington, Delaware, Scholarly Resources, 1991 (revised edition). xii, 264 pp. $40.00 U.S. French Policy 1918-1945: A Guide to...

A Change of Dynasties: Loyalism in Thirteenth-Century China.
December 1, 1992... Themes of social and economic histories have dominated the western studies of pre-modern China in recent years, in part spurred by the improved access to the primary sources in China, and in part influenced by the trends in the western...

On the brink of oblivion: the post-war crisis of British liberalism.
December 1, 1992... We have been forced to realize that the world is faced with the possible eclipse of British Liberalism.(1) The recent parliamentary extinction of the Social Democratic Party has served as a timely reminder of the deep-seated difficulties...

Revolution and rebellion: students in Soviet institutes of higher education, 1921-1928.
December 1, 1992... One of the important tasks facing the Bolshevik regime in Soviet Russia after its consolidation of power in 1921 was to transform higher education into a class-oriented system producing specialists for a burgeoning Soviet state and society....

Tsara and commissars: W. Somerset Maugham, "Ashenden" and images of Russia in British adventure fiction, 1890-1930.
December 1, 1992... W. Somerset Maugham is generally recognized as one of the fathers of modern spy fiction.(1) His novel Ashenden: or the British Agent (1928), is acknowledged as the work that broke spy fiction out of the mould established by romantic works of...

Educating child labourers in France: the parliamentary debates of 1840.
December 1, 1992... One of the most difficult tasks the historian faces is that of understanding human motives. Evidence is hard to come by: few historical personalities leave records of their deliberations to guide us, and those few who do often leave...

The Engineer of Revolution: L.B. Krasin and the Bolsheviks, 1870-1926.
December 1, 1992... The fascinating career of Leonid Borisovich Krasin (1870-1926), who lived a double life as a leading revolutionary Bolshevik and as a successful engineer and business manager in Tsarist Russia, is the subject of this third and latest book by...