Canadian Journal of History articles from December 1998

Canadian Journal of History archives from December 1998

Foreign Bodies: Travel, Empire and the Early Royal Society of London. Part 1. Englishmen on Tour.
December 1, 1998... to travel some are wiser [y.sup.t] stay at home then who travell; for Schollers are fools often(1) In recent years, the founding of the Royal Society of London has received a great deal of attention. A number of scholars, most notably...

A Further Irony: Apocalyptic Readings of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.(Critical Essay)
December 1, 1998... Whilst the happiness and glory of a temporal reign were promised to the disciples of Christ, the most dreadful calamities were denounced against an unbelieving world. The edification of the new Jerusalem was to advance by equal steps with the...

Announcements of Capitalism and Their Reception in Eighteenth-Century Europe: The Dispute Between Diderot and Morellet in 1770-71.
December 1, 1998... Our essay deals not with capitalism itself, with its long and complex history reaching back in Europe to the fifteenth or even to the twelfth century,(1) but with a conception of it formulated in the eighteenth century, according to which the...

The Genius of Alexander the Great.
December 1, 1998... The Genius of Alexander the Great, by N.G.L. Hammond. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xiv, 220 pp. $46.95 U.S. Alexander III of Macedon became an object of fascination in myth, literature, and history...

A History of Rome.
December 1, 1998... A History of Rome, par Marcel Le Glay, Jean-Louis Voisin, et Yann Le Bohec. Traduit par Antonia Nevill. Malden, Massachusetts, Blackwell Publishers, 1996. xxiii, 608 pp. $59.95 U.S. (relie), $24.95 U.S. (non relie). The Roman World, 44 B.C. -...

The Roman World, 44 B.C. - A.D. 180.
December 1, 1998... A History of Rome, par Marcel Le Glay, Jean-Louis Voisin, et Yann Le Bohec. Traduit par Antonia Nevill. Malden, Massachusetts, Blackwell Publishers, 1996. xxiii, 608 pp. $59.95 U.S. (relie), $24.95 U.S. (non relie). The Roman World, 44 B.C. -...

Cinq annees de bibliographie erasmienne 1971-1975.
December 1, 1998... Cinq annees de bibliographie erasmienne (1971-1975), by Jean-Claude Margolin. Paris, Librairie philosophique J. Vrin, 1997. 628 pp. 385-FF. This volume is a chronological sequel to three preceding bibliographies of Erasmiana, Jean-Claude...

The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe.
December 1, 1998... The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe, by Jon Arrizabalaga, John Henderson, and Roger French. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1997. 352 pp. $35.00 U.S. The Neapolitan disease, the French disease, or the pox,...

The Religion of the Poor: Rural Missions in Europe and the Formation of Modern Catholicism, C. 1500-1800.
December 1, 1998... The Religion of the Poor: Rural Missions in Europe and the Formation of Modern Catholicism, c. 1500-1800, by Louis Chatellier. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. xi, 246 pp. $59.95 U.S. The Catholic Church had encouraged missionary...

Changing Identities in Early Modern France.
December 1, 1998... Changing Identities in Early Modern France, edited by Michael Wolfe. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 1997. x, 410 pp. $59.95 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper). Nancy Lyman Roelker is the scholar, teacher, and friend honoured...

Kinship in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870.
December 1, 1998... Kinship in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870, by David Warren Sabean. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. xxviii, 628 pp. $79.95 U.S. (cloth), $27.95 U.S. (paper). The burghers of Neckarhausen, Wurttemberg must occasionally wonder why their...

Charting an Empire: Geography at the English Universities, 1580-1620.
December 1, 1998... Charting an Empire: Geography at the English Universities, 1580-1620, by Lesley B. Cormack. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1997, 334 pp. $68.00 U.S. (cloth), $23.95 U.S. (paper). By the beginning of the seventeenth century,...

The Stuart Court and Europe: Essays in Politics and Political Culture.
December 1, 1998... The Stuart Court and Europe: Essays in Politics and Political Culture, edited by R. Malcolm Smuts. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge University Press, 1996. xiii, 282 pp. $54.95 U.S. The late Professor Geoffrey Elton's great contribution...

The Balkan Economies c. 1800-1914: Evolution without Development.
December 1, 1998... The Balkan Economies c. 1800-1914: Evolution without Development, by Michael Palairet. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. xvi, 415 pp. $69.95 U.S. It is intriguing that an area of the world that has received scant attention over...

The Politics of German Child Welfare from the Empire to the Federal Republic.
December 1, 1998... The Politics of German Child Welfare from the Empire to the Federal Republic, by Edward Ross Dickinson. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1996. xiv, 365 pp. $45.00 U.S. Nazi Family Policy, 1933-1945, by Lisa Pine. New York,...

The War from Within: German Working-Class Women in the First World War.
December 1, 1998... The War from Within: German Working-Class Women in the First World War, by Ute Daniel, translated by Margaret Ries. New York, Berg (distributed by New York University Press), 1997. 343 pp. $47.50 U.S. (cloth); $18.50 U.S. (paper). For...

Pariahs, Partners, Predators: German-Soviet Relations, 1922-1941.
December 1, 1998... Pariahs, Partners, Predators: German-Soviet Relations, 1922-1941, by Aleksandr M. Nekrich, edited and translated by Gregory L. Freeze. New York, Columbia University Press, 1997. xiv, 308 pp. $35.00 U.S. German-Soviet relations between the...

Nazi Germany, 1933-1945: Faith and Annihilation.
December 1, 1998... Nazi Germany, 1933-1945: Faith and Annihilation, by Jost Dulffer. New York, Arnold (distributed by St. Martin's Press), 1996. ix, 242 pp. $49.95 U.S. (cloth), $16.95 U.S. (paper). This survey of Nazi Germany, a translation of the author's...

Ethics and Extermination: Reflections on Nazi Genocide.
December 1, 1998... Ethics and Extermination: Reflections on Nazi Genocide, by Michael Burleigh. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. xi, 261 pp. $54.95 U.S. (cloth), $17.95 U.S. (paper). Michael Burleigh has emerged as one of the leading and most...

Soviet Criminal Justice Under Stalin.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Soviet Criminal Justice Under Stalin, by Peter H. Solomon, Jr. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge University Press, 1996. xviii, 494 pp. $80.00 U.S. (cloth), $29.95 U.S. (paper). In this monumental study, Peter H. Solomon Jr. traces the...

Stalinist Science.
December 1, 1998... Stalinist Science by Nikolai Krementsov. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1997. xvii, 371 pp. $45.00 U.S. In this valuable book, Nikolai Krementsov examines the dynamics of the party-state relationship with the scientific...

The British Monarchy and the French Revolution.
December 1, 1998... The British Monarchy and the French Revolution, by Marilyn Morris. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1998. viii, 229 pp. $28.50 U.S. Dr. Morris argues that George III's response to developments during the exceedingly...

Black '47. Britain and the Famine Irish.
December 1, 1998... Black '47. Britain and the Famine Irish, by Frank Neal. London, Macmillan Ltd. and New York, St. Martin's Press, 1998. xv, 292 pp. $69.95 U.S. For the somewhat ghoulish sesquicentenary of the Great Famine, perhaps four dozen books...

The Irish RMs: The Resident Magistrates in the British Administration of Ireland.
December 1, 1998... The Irish RMs: The Resident Magistrates in the British Administration of Ireland, by Penny Bonsall. Portland, Oregon Four Courts Press (distributed by I.S.B.S.), 1997. 224 pp. $45.00 U.S. Between 1899 and 1915 the Anglo-Irish writers Edith...

British Naval Policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli Era 1866-1880.
December 1, 1998... British Naval Policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli Era, 1866-1880, by John F. Beeler. Stanford Press, 1997. xviii, 354 pp. $49.50 U.S. Military history is unfashionable. Few departments of history advertise positions in the area and courses...

They Shall Grow Not Old: Irish Soldiers and the Great War.
December 1, 1998... They Shall Grow Not Old: Irish Soldiers and the Great War, by Myles Dungan. Portland, Oregon, Four Courts Press (distributed by ISBS), 1997. 218 pp. $30.00 U.S. Nearly a quarter of a million men from Ireland -- almost thirty per cent of...

Diplomacy and World Power: Studies in British Foreign Policy, 1890-1950.
December 1, 1998... Diplomacy and World Power: Studies in British Foreign Policy, 1890-1950, edited by Michael Dockrill and Brian McKercher. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1996. xvii, 271 pp. $59.95 U.S. Zara Steiner is the most respected senior figure...

The Price of Redemption: The Spiritual Economy of Puritan New England.
December 1, 1998... The Price of Redemption: The Spiritual Economy of Puritan New England, by Mark A. Peterson. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1997. ix, 326 pp. $49.50 U.S. Historians have long marveled at the rapid growth of Puritan...

The Punishment of Crime in Colonial New York: The Dutch Experience in Albany During the Seventeenth Century.
December 1, 1998... The Punishment of Crime in Colonial New York: The Dutch Experience in Albany During the Seventeenth Century, by Dennis Sullivan. New York, Peter Lang Publishing, 1997. x, 356 pp. $54.95 U.S. The Dutch system of criminal justice in the...

Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen.
December 1, 1998... Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen, by Gary Collison. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1997.224 pp. $27.95 U.S. Traditionally, biographies have been reserved for those men and women who significantly...

Migration and Ethnicity in Chinese History: Hakkas Pengmin and Their Neighbors.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Migration and Ethnicity in Chinese History: Hakkas Pengmin and Their Neighbors, by Sow-Theng Leong, edited by Tim Wright, introduction and maps by G. William Skinner. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1997. xix, 234 pp. $45.00...

Christianity in China: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Christianity in China: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present, edited by Daniel H. Bays. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1996. xii, 483 pp. $55.00 U.S. This substantial volume is billed by its editor as the largest...

Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism, by Louise Young. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1998. xiv, 490 pp. $45.00 U.S. The economic depression and the growth of Chinese nationalism in...

Two Worlds of Cotton: Colonialism and the Regional Economy of the French Soudan, 1800-1946.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Two Worlds of Cotton: Colonialism and the Regional Economy of the French Soudan, 1800-1946, by Richard L. Roberts. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1996. xviii, 381 pp. $55.00 U.S. This work started as a study of the history...

State and Provincial Society in the Ottoman Empire: Mosul, 1540-1834.(Review)
December 1, 1998... State and Provincial Society in the Ottoman Empire: Mosul, 1540-1834, by Dina Rizk Khoury. New York, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization, 1997. xviii, 253 pp. $59.95 U.S. This book asks important questions...

The Ottoman Gulf: The Creation of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar.(Review)
December 1, 1998... The Ottoman Gulf: The Creation of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, by Frederick F. Anscombe. New York, Columbia University Press, 1997. xiv, 270 pp. $47.50 U.S. (cloth), $17.50 U.S. (paper). Anscombe's title, unlike those of many recent...

Essays in the Economic History of the Atlantic World.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Essays in the Economic History of the Atlantic World, by John J. McCusker. New York, Routledge, 1997. xxiii, 426 pp. $155.00 Cdn. John J. McCusker has established a deserved reputation as a meticulous yet very readable economic historian of...

Calculus and Analytical Mechanics in the Age of Enlightenment.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Calculus and Analytical Mechanics in the Age of Enlightenment, by Craig G. Fraser. Variorum (distributed by Ashgate, Brookfield, Vermont), 1997. x, 308 pp. $94.95 U.S. Many in the ranks of the mathematicians and the teachers of mathematics...

Behold the Hero: General Wolfe & the Arts in the Eighteenth Century.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Behold the Hero: General Wolfe & the Arts in the Eighteenth Century, by Alan McNairn. Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997. xiii, 306 pp. $44.95. In this carefully researched, meticulously documented, and well-illustrated work...

At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late-Victorian Britain.(Review)
December 1, 1998... At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late-Victorian Britain, by Antoinette Burton. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1998. xv, 278 pp. $55.00 U.S. This innovative and thought-provoking study...

The Ovary of Eve: Egg and Sperm and Preformation.(Review)
December 1, 1998... The Ovary of Eve: Egg and Sperm and Preformation, by Clara Pinto-Correia. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1998. xxiv, 396 pp. $41.95 U.S. Clara Pinto-Correia, in The Ovary of Eve: Egg and Sperm and Preformation, aims to...

A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition.(Review)
December 1, 1998... A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition, by Gregory Woods. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1998. 456 pp. $39.95 U.S. Eve Sedgwick begins her remarkable book, The Epistemology of the Closet, with this ringing claim:...

Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women's Movement.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women's Movement, by Leila J. Rupp. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1997. xiii. 325 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper). Leila J. Rupp's Worlds of Women...

Personalities, War and Diplomacy: Essays in International History.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Personalities, War and Diplomacy: Essays in International History, edited by T.G. Otte and C.A. Pagedas. London, Frank Cass, 1997. xii, 316 pp. $55.00 U.S. Collections of essays are often bound together by the most tenuous of threads. This...

Books Received.
December 1, 1998... Akenson, Donald Harman, If the Irish Ran the World: Monserrat, 1630-1730. Quebec City, Quebec, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997. 273 pp. Anctil, Pierre, Tur Malka: Flaneries sur les cimes de l'histoire juive montrealaise. Sillery,...