Canadian Journal of History articles from December 1993

Canadian Journal of History archives from December 1993

La richesse des femmes: Patrimoines et gestion a Manosque au XIVe siecle.
December 1, 1993... Dans ce livre riche en details sur la vie manosquine Andree Courtemanche publie les fruits de sa these de doctorat soutenue a l'Universite Laval en 1987. Il s'agit d'une etude approfondie de la vie et de la fortune des femmes a Manosque et de...

Discovering the Roman Family: Studies in Roman Social History.
December 1, 1993... In no subject in Roman history has more interest been shown, or more progress made, in the last decade than in Roman family studies. The central thrust of this work has been to explore the essential configuration of the Roman family, and a...

Das Frauenhaus: Stadtische Bordelle in Deutschland, 1350-1600.
December 1, 1993... Prostitution occurs in almost every human society - but the way in which it is organized can vary enormously over time and place. In the late middle ages, for example, virtually every city in Germany had a Frauenhaus - an official house of...

The Nobility of Holland: From Knights to Regents, 1500-1650.
December 1, 1993... For generations the decline of the European nobility in the late middle ages and the early modern period was as much of a commonplace amongst historians as was the rise of the bourgeoisie, and the failure of the former was partly attributed to...

Lille and the Dutch Revolt: Urban Stability in an Era of Revolution, 1500-1582.
December 1, 1993... The city of Lille does not normally loom very large in accounts of the Dutch Revolt. Of course there was nothing very "Dutch" about Lille, a French-speaking community which lay in the southernmost part of the Netherlands. But the Dutch Revolt...

The Armada of Flanders: Spanish Maritime Policy and European War, 1568-1668.
December 1, 1993... Recent research suggests that reports of the "decline of Spain," like those of Mark Twain's death, may have been premature and exaggerated; decline seems to have been a more complex and long-drawn affair than we supposed. A revision is under...

Index de Rome 1557, 1559, 1564: Les premiers index romains et l'index du Councile de Trente.
December 1, 1993... The Index de Rome is Volume VIII in the series Index des Livres Interdits issued by the Centre d'Etudes de la Renaissance at the University of Sherbrooke under the direction of J.M. De Bujanda. The five volumes which have appeared so far...

The Fabrication of Louis XIV.
December 1, 1993... During the past ten years, scholars from a variety of disciplines have brought renewed critical attention and innovative perspectives to the study of the complex theatre of seventeenth-century France and its intriguing actors, scenarios,...

Man on His Own: Interpretations of Erasmus, c. 1750-1920.
December 1, 1993... This book is the worthy sequel to the author's Phoenix of His Age. Interpretations of Erasmus c 1550-1750. Once again Mansfield has produced an erudite yet highly readable account of the changing fortunes of Erasmus's reputation. The book...

Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict, and London's Overseas Traders, 1550-1653.
December 1, 1993... In Professor Brenner's words this is socio-economic and socio-political history. The book is divided into three sections, the first of which considers long-term changes (1550-1650) in England's overseas trade and in the London merchant...

Ships, Money, and Politics: Seafaring and Naval Enterprise in the Reign of Charles I.
December 1, 1993... Anyone interested in early modern England needs to read these eight new essays, by one of the most distinguished historians of early modem seafaring. They relate, as a loose unity, to a theme often neglected by landlubber historians: the...

Public Duty and Private Conscience in Seventeenth-Century England: Essays Presented to G.E. Aylmer.
December 1, 1993... Forty years ago, an obdurate believer in the "Puritan Revolution" wrote that Aylmer's views might carry more weight when he had "devoted a lifetime to Stuart History" (History, NS 38, p. 95). Since then, the recipient of this tribute has kept...

The Journals of James Boswell: 1762-1795.
December 1, 1993... In reading many of the memoirs and reminiscences of eighteenth-century England, one often is left with the feeling that the greatest part of the lives of the upper classes was spent in travel and talk. People travelled in increasing numbers,...

The British Abroad: The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century.
December 1, 1993... In reading many of the memoirs and reminiscences of eighteenth-century England, one often is left with the feeling that the greatest part of the lives of the upper classes was spent in travel and talk. People travelled in increasing numbers,...

Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837.
December 1, 1993... Nationalism as a force in the nineteenth century threatened the survival of nearly every state in Europe. Some like Austria were too large and combined diverse populations in an artificial union. Others like Naples and Bavaria were too small...

Merchant Enterprise in Britain: From the Industrial Revolution to World War I.
December 1, 1993... The extraordinary transformation of the world in the last two centuries appears inextricably bound to mass production. Cotton, iron, steel, chemicals, power, wave after wave of new and improved gadgets and machines revolutionized travel,...

The Victorians and Renaissance Italy.
December 1, 1993... Early in the nineteenth century, Thomas Carlyle thought he saw in the "death throes" of the "whirlwind" of events the emergence of "tones" of a more "melodious birthsong" (Sartor Resartus, 1834). By the 1860s the Victorians were more certain...

Popular Anti-Catholicism in Mid-Victorian England.
December 1, 1993... In this book, D.G. Paz explores the reasons "ordinary people" in mid-Victorian England had for becoming anti-Catholics. He argues that anti-Catholicism was a complicated phenomenon that served a number of social, political, and theological...

A Prescription for Murder: The Victorian Serial Killings of Dr. Thomas Neill Cream.
December 1, 1993... Murder in general and the murder of women in particular, is a topic of perennial interest, a seller of books and films, a near guarantee of commercial success. In late nineteenth-century London, it was, of course, the serial killings of the...

Labour's Apprentices: Working-Class Lads in Late Victorian and Edwardian England.
December 1, 1993... In Labour's Apprentices Michael Childs has attempted to reconstruct the world of late Victorian and Edwardian working-class adolescents "in as complete a degree as possible" (p. xiv). An example of traditional social history at its best, the...

Walter Long, Ireland, and the Union: 1905-1920.
December 1, 1993... If Walter Long's name does not strike a note of familiarity with the reader it is not from want of admirers. He published his own Memories in 1923, a year before he died. Sir Charles Petrie wrote his biography in 1936 and two doctoral theses...

Politics and Morale: Current Affairs and Citizenship Education in the British Army, 1914-1950.
December 1, 1993... The advent of total war in this century has meant the raising of what largely amount to citizen armed forces to do the fighting. The creation of such forces seems to be relatively simple for totalitarian states, although their effectiveness is...

British Politics and Foreign Policy in the Age of Appeasement: 1935-39.
December 1, 1993... Ever since the opening of the official documents and many private archives in the late 1960s, which followed on the heels of A.J.P. Taylor's controversial but heuristic The Origins of the Second World War (1961), there has been a steady...

Louis XVI.
December 1, 1993... Surveys of public opinion on the bicentennial of the death of Louis XVI showed that the modern French public, while critical of the king, is markedly more sympathetic of his position than were the legislators who condemned him to death. It is...

Vom alten zum neuen Burgertum: Die mitteleuropaische Stadt im Umbruch, 1780-1820.
December 1, 1993... The purpose of the fourteen essays in this volume is to learn more about the sociopolitical role of towns, specifically of the Burgertum, in the transition to the modern world, to clarify the process which saw bourgeois society emerge from an...

The Village of Cannibals: Rage and Murder in France, 1870.
December 1, 1993... These two books complement one another. The Village of Cannibals analyses the meaning of a very public form of violence, the torture and burning of a nobleman before a crowd of several hundred people in a small provincial commune in August of...

Crimes of Passion: Dramas of Private Life in Nineteenth-Century France.
December 1, 1993... In some of the essays one detects an inclination to place citizens more firmly into the ranks of a modernizing vanguard than the evidence seems to warrant. Thus one of Regina Jeske's findings for Gottingen is the strength of the continuities in...

The Politics of the Body in Weimar Germany: Women's Reproductive Rights and Duties.
December 1, 1993... Much has written about the Nazis' attempts to institute their policies of race hygiene. Cornelie Usborne, in exploiting a wide range of sources, clearly demonstrates in her insightful study that such undertakings mere well-rooted in the early...

The Knight-Monks of Vichy France: Uriage, 1940-45.
December 1, 1993... This excellent monograph treats a controversial subject with great skill, subtlety, and insight. The Ecole Nationale des Cadres was established by the Vichy regime at the Chateau d'Uriage, in the Alps above Grenoble, to train future leaders of...

La France, l'aide americaine et la construction europeenne: 1944-1954, 2 vols.
December 1, 1993... North American historians usually consider American aid to Europe after World War Two in the context of the debate about the origins of the Cold War. It has been interpreted at the extremes, on the one hand, as a timely American response to the...

Russian Peasant Women.
December 1, 1993... This collection of fourteen previously published chapter-length essays (conference papers, journal articles, and book chapters) presents an instructive and revealing historical survey of many different and persistent problems in the lives of...

Quakers and Baptists in Colonial Massachusetts.
December 1, 1993... How Puritan was Puritan New England? The question never seems to go away - probably because it offers endless possibilities for debate. The primary question also spawns a series of secondary ones. Was there a cohesive body of Puritan ideology?...

The Jewish People in America, 5 vols.
December 1, 1993... Let it be said, and done with, for readers particularly of this journal, that what is meant here by "America" is the United States. There is virtually no reference to Canada in these volumes. They are published to mark the centenary of the...

Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States.
December 1, 1993... Protecting Soldiers and Mothers, an outstanding piece of historical sociology, is certain to influence academic debate on the origins and development of American welfare policies. The research base in published primary and secondary materials...

Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America.
December 1, 1993... This remarkable book, the sequel to the author's Revolution at the Table (1988), analyses changes in the American diet and nutritional ideas from 1930 to the present. Much more than a study of eating habits, Paradox of Plenty is a sophisticated...

Latin America Between the Second World War and the Cold War: 1944-1948.
December 1, 1993... To understand what they identify as a much-neglected historical period, Leslie Bethell and lan Roxborough have brought together eleven national studies that stress the mid- to late 1940s. The editors argue that the brief span between the end of...

Emperor Hirohito and Showa Japan: A Political Biography.
December 1, 1993... Miss Owada's recent marriage to Crown Prince Naruhito momentarily drew the world's attention to Japan's imperial family. Only four years earlier his grandfather, Hirohito, had attracted comparable attention when political leaders from around...

The Cambridge World History of Human Disease.
December 1, 1993... What were "St. Anthony's Fire", the "purples", "patriotic fever"? The Cambridge World History of Human Disease explains that "St. Anthony's Fire" was a historical synonym for ergotism, the "purples" was diphtheria, and "patriotic fever" was a...

Origins of Legislative Sovereignty and the Legislative State, vol. 4, Medieval or Renaissance Origins? Historical Debates and Deconstructions.
December 1, 1993... This must be the ultimate catalogue-in-prose for and about historians who have written on premodern European political thought. It is the fourth in a promised eight-volume study by Professor A. London Fell. The first three focused on the roles...

Portuguese Trade in Asia Under the Habsburgs: 1580-1640.
December 1, 1993... In a superbly researched work, rich in provocative and revisionist interpretations, whose sources, ideas, and references will be mined by scholars, Boyajian adopts a comparative approach to study Portuguese commercial links to Asia, reassess...

Frederick the Great, William Pitt, and Lord Bute: The Anglo-Prussian Alliance, 1756-1763.
December 1, 1993... If the Seven Years' War was a rare success for British arms, it proved a serious setback for the ambitions of Prussia, Britain's principal ally. Frederick had to evacuate Saxony and accept the status quo ante bellum. The economic impact on...

Posthistoire: Has History Come to an End?
December 1, 1993... Such a title as this is guaranteed to cause many historians to snort with disgust and walk away muttering about intellectual faddists, paradox-junkies, and theory-mongering vagrants of no fixed disciplinary address. That would be a pity, though...