Canadian Journal of History articles from December 1997

Canadian Journal of History archives from December 1997

The Terror: adding to the cultural dimension.
December 1, 1997... I was asked in this talk to say something about how I became interested in the sort of research which has marked my career: the investigation of the relationship between the arts and politics, mainly in eighteenth-century France, but in other...

Abolishing the sale of offices: ambitions, ambiguities, and myths. (French Revolution)
December 1, 1997... Amid all the disagreements and debates which the French Revolution has always provoked, and no doubt always will, most people could probably agree on at least one thing: that the Night of 4 August was the most radical episode of the entire...

Sacred mysteries and holy memories: counter-revolutionary France and the Sacre-Coeur.
December 1, 1997... There are moments in the life of a nation where the hand of God is clearly visible -- or so it seems. The years 1870 and 1871 provided many such moments, notably when France went to war against Germany and suffered defeat, invasion, and...

Taste and revolution. (French theater history)
December 1, 1997... Just as the Terror loomed on the horizon, on 1 July 1793, the Revolution's first, dedicated, theatre paper, the Journal des Spectacles, commenced its eight-page daily publication by declaring unambiguously: "Let us make a revolution in...

The domestic virtues of old age: gendered rites in the Fete de la Vieillesse.
December 1, 1997... On the tenth of Fructidor, or the 27th of August by our reckoning, in the Years IV and V, the young and old of Toulouse gathered together to celebrate the Fete de la Vieillesse, as did many others in the various regions of France. A description...

Gender as a political orientation: Parisian salonnieres and the 'Querelle de Bouffons.'
December 1, 1997... Surprising as it may be, the eighteenth-century quarrels over the French and the Italian opera have attracted more cultural historians than musicologists.(2) The latter, typically preoccupied with tracing the stylistic developments taking place...

The visual rhetoric of Jean-Louis Prieur. (engravings of French Revolution)
December 1, 1997... From the beginning of the French Revolution the people of France were aware that they were living through a time of momentous change, and they understandably wanted a visual record of the events that marked the beginning of a new era. In the...

French revolutionary studies in today's China.
December 1, 1997... In March 1989, at the Shanghai International Colloquium commemorating the bicentenary of the French Revolution, Professor Zhang Zhilian gave a brief and brilliant talk about the history of the Chinese historiography of the French Revolution. He...

Genoa and the Genoese: 958-1528.
December 1, 1997... 958-1528, by Steven A. Epstein. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xx, 396 pp. $45.00 U.S. Italian history of the Middle Ages and Renaissance is typically written as local, urban history. There are few...

Local Hospitals in Ancien Regime France: Rationalization, Resistance, Renewal, 1530-1789.
December 1, 1997... 1530-1789, by Daniel Hickey. Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997. xix, 275 pp. $44.95. The gospel tells us that we shall have always have the poor with us; so, it seems. shall we always have programmes for managing and improving...

By the Banks of the Neva: Chapters from the Lives and Careers of the British in Eighteenth-Century Russia.
December 1, 1997... by Anthony Cross. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. xvi, 474 pp. $80.00 U.S. Cross has written a book which will be useful and fascinating to many, but frustrating to others. He has set out to deal with "what really characterised...

Law, Land, and Family: Aristocratic Inheritance in England: 1300 to 1800.
December 1, 1997... by Eileen Spring. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 199 pp. This work attempts to recast the real property law history of the English family, holding that a major feature of upper-class inheritance from the...

Law-Making and Society in Late Elizabethan England: The Parliament of England, 1584-1601.
December 1, 1997... by David Dean. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1996. 311 pp. $59.95 U.S. What might be described as the modem version of Elizabethan parliamentary history was fashioned in the 1950s by Sir John Neale in his three volumes dealing with...

Sir Matthew Hale, 1609-1676: Law, Religion and Natural Philosophy.
December 1, 1997... by Alan Cromartie. New York, Cambridge University Press. xii, 264 pp. $59.95 U.S. This monograph in the Cambridge Studies in Early Modem British History provides the first systematic, extended intellectual biography of Sir Matthew Hale, one of...

The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke, vol. 3, Party, Parliament, and the American War: 1774-1780.
December 1, 1997... edited by W.M. Elofson and John A. Woods. Textual Editor for the Writings, William B. Todd. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1996. xx, 713 pp. $161.50. This volume is the sixth to appear in Oxford University Press's multivolume collection of Edmund...

The Politics of Women's Work: The Paris Garment Trades, 1750-1915.
December 1, 1997... by Judith G. Coffin. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1996. viii, 289 pp. $35.00 U.S. Like Laura Lee Down's Manufacturing Inequality: Gender Division in the French and British Metalworking Industries, 1914-1939 (Ithaca:...

Becoming a Revolutionary: The Deputies of the French National Assembly and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Culture, 1789-1790.
December 1, 1997... by Timothy Tackett. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1996. xvi, 355 pp. $39.95 U.S. A renewed interest in the politics of the "pre-revolution" and early years of the French Revolution has been evidenced by recent publications...

Minerva's Message: Stabilizing the French Revolution.
December 1, 1997... by Martin Staum. Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996. xviii, 342 pp. $49.95. In October 1795, the French Convention established a new academy, the National Institute of Sciences and Arts. Of course, for over a century France had...

Jewish Emancipation in a German City: Cologne, 1798-1871.
December 1, 1997... by Shulamit S. Magnus. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1997. xii, 336 pp. $49.50 U.S. The term "emancipation" refers to the repeal of the ancient discriminatory laws that excluded Jews in Europe from citizenship. Initiated...

Adolph Menzel, 1805-1905: Between Romanticism and Impressionism.
December 1, 1997... edited by Claude Keisch and Manie Ursula Riemann-Reyher. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press (in association with the National Gallery of Art Washington), 1996. 480 pp. $65.00 U.S. In this beautifully illustrated and fascinating new...

Naissance et mort des entreprises en Europe, XIXth-XXth siecles.
December 1, 1997... edite par Michael Moss et Philippe Jobert. Dijon, Universite de Bourgogne, 1995. 213 pp. 130,-- Cet ouvrage s'inscrit dans un champ de recherche qui a debute il y a dix ou quinze ans et qui tente de renouveler l'histoire des entreprises aux...

Raymond Poincare.
December 1, 1997... By J.F.V. Keiger. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. x, 413 pp. $64.95 U.S. Raymond Poincare was president of France during World War I. He was the most energetic president the republic had known, a tireless advocate of a vigorous and...

Civil War in Siberia: The Anti-Bolshevik Government of Admiral Kolchak, 1918-1920.
December 1, 1997... by Jonathan D. Smele. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1996. xxviii, 759 pp. The Russian civil war was a terrible, brutal struggle between the new Soviet government, led by V.I. Lenin and L.D. Trotskii, and adversaries ranging from...

The Twisted Muse: Musicians and Their Music in the Third Reich.
December 1, 1997... by Michael H. Kater. Don Mills, Ontario, Oxford University Press, 1997. x, 327 pp. $51.95. The history of music in the Third Reich has been told, documented and assimilated into our general understanding of art in Nazi society. The student of...

The Political Economy of Nationalisation in Britain: 1920-1950.
December 1, 1997... by Robert Millward and John Singleton. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1995. xiii, 325 pp. $59.95 U.S. This book seeks to explain the causes and pattern of the programme of nationalization of industry pursued by the Attlee Labour...

Winston Churchill's Last Campaign: Britain and the Cold War, 1951-1955.
December 1, 1997... by John W. Young. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1996. vii, 358 pp. $108.00. There is no Winston Churchill revisionism in this book: certainly not a nod in the direction of John Charmley, Clive Ponting, or Andrew Roberts, not to speak of David...

The Cheyenne.
December 1, 1997... by John H. Moore. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Blackwell Publishers, 1996. ix, 342 pp. $27.95 U.S. The Cheyenne is John H. Moore's contribution to the series "The Peoples of America" which is intended to acquaint readers with the histories of...

Transferts culturels et metissages Amerique/Europe, XVIe-XXe siecle.
December 1, 1997... edited by Laurier Turgeon, Denys Delage and Real Ouellet. Ste.-Foy, Quebec, les Presses de l'Universite Laval, 1996. 580 pp. This volume is the fruit of a wide-ranging conference on "cultural transfer" at Laval University's Centre d'etudes...

De Witt Clinton and the rise of the People's Men.
December 1, 1997... by Craig Hanyan and Mary Hanyan. Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996. xii, 419 pp. $55.00. The eminent historian George Dangerfield once commented that De Witt Clinton's politics "consisted chiefly in demanding a personal...

The Minds of the West: Ethnocultural Evolution in the Rural Middle West, 1830-1917.
December 1, 1997... by Jon Gjerde. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xiii, 426 pp. $61.95 U.S. In this well-documented monograph Jon Gjerde sets out to study the relationship between environment and culture as exemplified by...

Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation.
December 1, 1997... by Malcolm J. Rohrbough. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1997. xv, 353 pp. $29.95 U.S. There are few events that capture the public imagination the way gold rushes do. They personify the American Dream -- that goal so far...

A Mine of Her Own: Women Prospectors in the American West, 1850-1950.
December 1, 1997... by Sally Zanjani. Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1997. xii, 375 pp. $32-50 U.S. There are few events that capture the public imagination the way gold rushes do. They personify the American Dream -- that goal so far out of...

Idolatry and Its Enemies: Colonial Andean Religion and Extirpation, 1640-1750.
December 1, 1997... by Kenneth Mills. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1997. xiii, 337 pp. $55.00 U.S. English-language historiography of the colonial experience in Peru, from the time of Prescott on, has afforded non-Spanish readers access to a...

Governance and Society in Colonial Mexico: Chihuahua in the Eighteenth Century.
December 1, 1997... by Cheryl English Martin. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1996. viii, 264 pp. $39.50 U.S. In this book Cheryl English Martin represents a mining district about one Thousand miles northwest of Mexico City as "a microcosm of...

Peasants, Politics, and the Formation of Mexico;s National State: Guerrero, 1800-1857.
December 1, 1997... by Peter F. Guardino. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1996. viii, 319 pp. $55-00 U.S. Until recently, Mexico's war of independence (1810-21) and postcolonial Decades have appeared to be an almost impenetrable mass of...

"Civilizing" Rio: Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City, 1889-1930.
December 1, 1997... by Teresa A. Meade. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. xi, 212 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper). During the week of 11-18 November 1904, the streets of Brazil's capital were in turmoil as...

Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century.
December 1, 1997... by Susan Mann. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1997. xii, 326 pp. $49.50 U.S. (cloth), $17.95 (paper). In the past several years, gender as a category of analysis has increasingly characterized the scholarship on women and the...

Civil Justice in China: Representation and Practice in the Qing.
December 1, 1997... by Philip C.C. Huang. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1996. ix, 271 pp. $45.00 U.S. There is a prevailing notion at the moment that the Chinese tradition had no real legal system, and that there was no respect for an impartial...

Japan's Postwar History.
December 1, 1997... by Gary D. Allinson, Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 1997. xiv, 208 pp. There are still few works by historians on postwar Japan, and Allinson's book should prove useful to individuals teaching courses on the subject. Discussion...

A Concise History of Bulgaria.
December 1, 1997... by R. J. Crampton. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. xviii, 259 pp. S49.95 U.S. (cloth), $15.95 U.S. (paper). The volume under review is the most recent addition to the Cambridge Concise Histories series. The author of the study, R.J....

The Scientific Revolution.
December 1, 1997... by Steven Shapin. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1996. xiv, 211 pp. $19.95 U.S. In the last twenty years, historians of science have suffered a major interpretive crisis over the identification and explanation of the...

A Kingdom on Earth: Anglo-American Social Christianity, 1880-1940.
December 1, 1997... by Paul T. Phillips. University Park, Pennsylania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. xxvii, 303 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cloth), $16.95 U.S. (paper). Paul T. Phillips has placed in the middle of his book a photographic "gallery of social...

Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century.
December 1, 1997... by James Clifford. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1997. 408 pp., $39.95 U.S. (cloth), $18.95 U.S. (paper). James Clifford, who teaches in the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California in Santa Cruz,...