Canadian Journal of History articles from December 1994

Canadian Journal of History archives from December 1994

Common knowledge of the common law in later medieval England.
December 1, 1994... COMMON KNOWLEDGE OF THE COMMON LAW IN LATER MEDIEVAL ENGLAND On 23 February 1376 a Yorkshire labourer was committed to trial on an indictment that charged him with setting fire to a house, and in the process killing the occupant...

Patrician partisans: New York in the House of Representatives, 1789-1803.
December 1, 1994... PATRICIAN PARTISANS: NEW YORK IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 1789-1803 Historians have long debated how genuinely democratic the politics of the founding era were. Since Beard's An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution...

Defying infection: Argentine foot-and-mouth disease policy, 1900-1930.
December 1, 1994... DEFYING INFECTION: ARGENTINE FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE POLICY, 1900-1930 Between 1870 and 1914, propelled by the agricultural sector, Argentina realized prolonged export-led growth. Large-scale meat shipments from Argentina to...

Defining French fascism, finding fascists in France.
December 1, 1994... En France, on est toujours ou l'on a ete le fasciste de quelqu'un.(1) Although few historians would now deny that fascism in some form was an important part of France's political terrain in the 1930s, there is still little agreement about...

The Spanish Civil War: Revolution and Counterrevolution.
December 1, 1994... The historiographical debate over the Spanish Civil War shows little sign of abating, despite the gradual disappearance of the participants and witnesses whose personal investments, commitments and views so often enlivened the original...

Socialism and War: The Spanish Socialist Party in Power and Crisis, 1936-1939.
December 1, 1994... The historiographical debate over the Spanish Civil War shows little sign of abating, despite the gradual disappearance of the participants and witnesses whose personal investments, commitments and views so often enlivened the original...

Anarchosyndicalism, Libertarian Communism and the State: The CNT in Zaragoza and Aragon, 1930-1937.
December 1, 1994... The historiographical debate over the Spanish Civil War shows little sign of abating, despite the gradual disappearance of the participants and witnesses whose personal investments, commitments and views so often enlivened the original...

Anarquismo y revolucion en la sociedad rural aragonesa: 1936-1938.
December 1, 1994... The historiographical debate over the Spanish Civil War shows little sign of abating, despite the gradual disappearance of the participants and witnesses whose personal investments, commitments and views so often enlivened the original...

Morality and American Foreign Policy: The Role of Ethics in International Affairs.
December 1, 1994... Morality and American Foreign Policy: The Role of Ethics in International Affairs, by Robert W. McElroy. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1992. xii, 194 pp. $14.95 U.S.

Lives in the Balance: The Cold War and American Politics.
December 1, 1994... Lives in the Balance: The Cold War and American Politics, by Mati Nissana. Wakefield, New Hampshire, Hollowbrook Publishing, 1992. xvi, 323 pp. $37.00 U.S. (cloth), $12.00 U.S. (paper).

War and Responsibility: Constitutional Lessons of Vietnam and Its Aftermath.
December 1, 1994... War and Responsibility: Constitutional Lessons of Vietnam and Its Aftermath, by John Hart Ely. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1993, x, 244 pp. $24.95 U.S. The end of the cold war in the late 1980s has naturally...

Emperor, Prefects and Kings: The Roman West, 395-565.
December 1, 1994... Emperor, Prefects and Kings: The Roman West, 395-565, by P.S. Barnwell. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 1993. vii, pp. $62.95. At the very beginning of the book, the author tells us "the subject of this book is...

The Church in Western Europe from the Tenth to the Early Twelfth Century.
December 1, 1994... The Church in Western Europe from the Tenth to the Early Twelfth Century, by Gerd Tellenbach. Translated by Timothy Reuter. New York , Cambridge University Press, 1993. xix, 403 pp. $79.95 (cloth) U.S. $22.95 (paper) U.S. More than fifty years...

Le Terrier de la famille d'Orbec a Cideville (Haute-Normandie) XIVe-XVIe siecles.
December 1, 1994... Le Terrier de la famile d'Orbec a Cideville (Haute-Normandie) XIVe-XVIe siecles, par Denise Angers. Montreal, Les Presses de l'Universite de Montreal/Societe de L'Histoire de Normandie, 1993. 300 pp. Dans le cercle des specialistes de...

Blood and Belief: Family Survival and Confessional Identity Among the Provincial Huguenot Nobility.
December 1, 1994... Blood and Belief: Family Survival and Confessional Identity Among the Provincial Huguenot Nobility, by Raymond A. Mentzer, Jr. Lafayette, Indiana, Purdue University Press, viii, 272 pp. $32.95 U.S. Blood and Belief by the well-known historian...

The Conversion of Henri IV: Politics, Power, and Religious Belief in Early Modern France.
December 1, 1994... The Conversion of Henti TV: Politics, Power, and Religious Belief in Early Modem France, by Michael Wolfe. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1993 x, 253 pp. $39.95 U.S. Despite its title, this book is not a study of Henri IV's...

Urban Rivalries in the French Revolution.
December 1, 1994... One of the most enduring changes brought about by the French Revolution was the elimination of the old provincial divisions and the institution of the new departmental structure. Usually, this change has been ascribed to the development of...

Space and Revolution: Projects for Monuments, Squares, and Public Buildings in France, 1789-1799.
December 1, 1994... James Leith has synthesized years of wide-ranging research in Parisian and departmental collections in this superbly illustrated discussion of architects' proposals for government during the French revolutionary decade. Although he admits that...

Enclosure and the Yeoman: The Agricultural Development of the South Midlands, 1450-1850.
December 1, 1994... In this iconoclastic and consistently stimulating book, Robert Allen takes aim at a number of sacred cows in the literature of agricultural development in pre-industrial England. It is uppermost, a powerful indictment of the so-called...

Late Seventeenth-Century Edinburgh: A Demographic Study.
December 1, 1994... In this detailed demographic study of Edinburgh in the 1690s, Helen Dingwall provides historians of the early modern town, and social historians in general, with a great deal of fresh grist for their mills. The book has nine chapters in three...

A Measure of Wealth: The English Land Tax in Historical Analysis.
December 1, 1994... The English land tax is one of the longest series on record. First imposed in 1693, it was not abolished until 1963, and since its assessments (or their duplicates) have survived in many a county record office across the country, it has been...

William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778: A Bibliography.
December 1, 1994... This book is in the "Bibliographies of British Statesmen" series and it more than meets its objective. Schweizer offers a rich and comprehensive survey of the documents pertaining to this popular, yet enigmatic statesmen; one that moves beyond...

Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1848-1851.
December 1, 1994... This latest volume of the Disraeli Project is as handsomely edited as its predecessors. Chronologies, lists of correspondents, headnotes, footnotes, and indices are superbly informative and useful. Its short and sketchy "Introduction" - a mere...

Making Peace: The Reconstruction of Gender in Interwar Britain.
December 1, 1994... This is a short book (143 pages and notes) with an extraordinarily misleading title. Judging from the subtitle, the reader might naturally expect a work on the interwar period; instead the first two-thirds of the book discusses the war years...

A History of the French Working Class, vol. 1: The Age of Artisan Revolution, 1815-1871; Vol. 2: Workers and the Bourgeois Republic.
December 1, 1994... This welcome two-volume work, destined to be long and heavily consulted, could as well have been called a "historiography", as a "history" of the French working class, for what it primarily offers is not a narrative that integrates into a...

A Very Civil War: The Swiss Sonderbund War of 1847.
December 1, 1994... Two things can be said about this book. First, it is very nice; and second, it is written with a somewhat cavalier attitude towards historical fact. To begin with the second point, Calvin would have been highly puzzled at the claim that he was...

Marxist Intellectuals and the Working-Class Mentality in Germany: 1887-1912.
December 1, 1994... Socialism and socialists have long been faced with a puzzle. Simply put, how is it that a doctrine that claims to represent the interests and thoughts of the working class has usually been articulated by intellectuals of the middle class? The...

The AEF and Coalition Warmaking: 1917-1918.
December 1, 1994... Over the last fifteen years, the history of the First World War has been thoroughly rewritten. On the Allied side, the work of such people as Tim Travers, George Cassar, Richard Holmes, Kathleen Burk, Keith Grieves, David Woodward and,...

Hollywood in Berlin: American Cinema and Weimar Germany.
December 1, 1994... Hollywood in Berlin is a conscientious, narrow monograph which makes a contribution to a topic of interest to film scholars in recent years @ the impact of American culture through the distribution of American films in Europe during the 1920s....

Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR: 1923-1934.
December 1, 1994... During the 1920s, the Bolsheviks succeeded in establishing control over what remained of the Russian empire. The political state formation they eventually created in late 1992 consisted of a union of four national republics that by the end of...

Rossiiskoe Krest'ianstvo: om Stalina k Khrushchevu.
December 1, 1994... This survey of the conditions of the Russian peasantry from the late Stalin years through the reforms of Khrushchev begins to address the lacuna in both western and Russian historiography on this crucial period in the history of the Russian...

National Histories and European History.
December 1, 1994... Recent developments in Europe have been surprising and confusing. While states in the east, seized with resurgent nationalism, have been fragmenting, the west has been moving towards greater political and economic integration. On the other hand...

Centring the Periphery: Chaos, Order, and the Ethnohistory of Dominica.
December 1, 1994... Patrick L. Baker, associate professor of sociology and anthropology at Mount Allison University, has written an historical analysis of a much understudied Caribbean island, Dominica. His earlier experience of fieldwork in Roseau (the capital of...

Contesting Castro: The United States and the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution.
December 1, 1994... One of the most striking characteristics of the revolutionary rhetoric of Fidel Castro during most of the last thirty-five years has been fiery anti-imperialist denunciation - not surprising in view of the sad litany of actions against Cuba...

Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China.
December 1, 1994... The fundamental thesis of this book is clearly stated in its concluding chapter: Monastic patronage became significant in the late Ming because it constituted a local forum for the autonomous organization of the gentry. It provided a public...

Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Action.
December 1, 1994... There is no apparent limit to the possibility of expanding our understanding of the life and work of Mahatma Gandhi. The continuing flow of revisionist studies, the new emphasis on his critics and his limitations as a leader, as well as his own...

Japan in the World.
December 1, 1994... Japan in the World, edited by Masao Miyoshi and H.D. Harootunian. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 1993. iv, 365 pp. $42.50 U.S. (cloth), $18.95 U.S. (paper). The impact of the United States upon Japan following the latter's...

Germs, Seeds and Animals: Studies in Ecological History.
December 1, 1994... Germs, Seeds and Animals.. Studies in Ecological History, by Alfred W. Crosby. Armonk, New York, M.E. Sharpe, 1994. xvi, 214, pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth), $14.95 U.S. (paper). The essays collected here reflect Alfred Crosby's work over the past...

Consumption and the World of Goods.
December 1, 1994... Consumption and the World of Goods, edited by John Brewer and Roy Porter. New York, Routledge, 1993. xx, 564 pp. $59.95 U.S. A particularly exciting aspect of social history, the evolution of a consumer society, provides the theme for this...

Nuclear Proliferation and the Future of Conflict.
December 1, 1994... Nuclear Proliferation and the Future of Conflict, by Martin van Creveld. New York, The Free Press, 1993. vii, 180 pp. $22.95 U.S. This book offers a timely overview of the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the post-cold war era. On the one...