Canadian Journal of History articles from December 1999

Canadian Journal of History archives from December 1999

Abjuration and its Demise: The Changing Face of Royal Justice in the Tudor Period.
December 1, 1999... Sanctuary and abjuration of the realm, frequent topics in medieval chronicles, have not been entirely ignored by modern studies. Much of this work, however, has tended to focus on their demise under the early Tudors and to treat them as flash...

Figurations and State Authority in Early Modern Italy: The Case of the Sienese Protomedicato(1).
December 1, 1999... In 1559 Siena became part of the Tuscan Grand Duchy: true or false? Well, both actually. That is to say, it lost its independence, becoming subject to the Grand Duke Cosimo I, through a governor, but it retained its own institutional,...

Telling the Truth about History.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Telling the Truth about History, by Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt and Margaret Jacob. New York, W.W. Norton, 1994. xiv, 322 pp. $25.00. "What is history?" asked E.H. Carr. His answer, terse, lucid and dogmatic, made his book of that title the...

Modern Historiography: an Introduction.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Modern Historiography: an Introduction, by Michael Bentley. London and New York, Routledge, 1999. xii, 182 pp. $16.99 (paper). "What is history?" asked E.H. Carr. His answer, terse, lucid and dogmatic, made his book of that title the best...

Beyond the Great Story: History as Text and Discourse.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Beyond the Great Story: History as Text and Discourse, by Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1995. xii, 381 pp. $43.00 (cloth), $18.95 (paper). "What is history?" asked E.H. Carr. His answer, terse,...

Real History: Reflections on Historical Practice.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Real History: Reflections on Historical Practice, by Martin Bunzl. London and New York, Routledge, 1997. viii, 152 pp. $22.99 (paper). "What is history?" asked E.H. Carr. His answer, terse, lucid and dogmatic, made his book of that title...

Acton and History.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Acton and History, by Owen Chadwick. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiv, 270 pp. $49.95. "What is history?" asked E.H. Carr. His answer, terse, lucid and dogmatic, made his book of that title the best selling introduction to...

Encounters: Philosophy of History after Postmodernism.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Encounters: Philosophy of History after Postmodernism, by Ewa Domanska. Charlottesville and London, University Press of Virginia, 1998. xii, 293 pp. Distributed in Canada by Scholarly Book Services Inc., $96.25 (cloth), $31.25 (paper). ...

In Defence of History.(Review)
December 1, 1999... In Defence of History, by Richard J. Evans. London, Granta Books, 1997. ix, 307 pp. 8.99 [pounds sterling] (paper). "What is history?" asked E.H. Carr. His answer, terse, lucid and dogmatic, made his book of that title the best selling...

The Footnote: a Curious History.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Footnote: a Curious History, by Anthony Grafton. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1997. xi, 241 pp. $22.95. "What is history?" asked E.H. Carr. His answer, terse, lucid and dogmatic, made his book of that title the...

Objectivity is not Neutrality: Explanatory Schemes in History.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Objectivity is not Neutrality: Explanatory Schemes in History, by Thomas L. Haskell. Baltimore and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. viii, 426 pp. $35.95. "What is history?" asked E.H. Carr. His answer, terse, lucid and...

The Degradation of American History.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Degradation of American History, by David C. Harlan. Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 1997. xii, 289 pp. $41.00 (cloth), $15.95 (paper). "What is history?" asked E.H. Carr. His answer, terse, lucid and dogmatic,...

On "What is History?" From Carr and Elton to Rorty and White.(Review)
December 1, 1999... On "What is History? "From Cart" and Elton to Rorty and White, by Keith Jenkins. London and New York, Routledge, 1996. viii, 200 pp. $49.95 (cloth), $14.95 (paper). "What is history?" asked E.H. Carr. His answer, terse, lucid and dogmatic,...

Faces of History: Historical Inquiry from Herodotus to Herder.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Faces of History: Historical Inquiry from Herodotus to Herder, by Donald R. Kelley. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1998. xii, 340 pp. $17.00 (paper). "What is history?" asked E.H. Carr. His answer, terse, lucid and dogmatic,...

The Truth of History.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Truth of History, by C. Behan McCullagh. London and New York, Routledge, 1998. viii, 327 pp. $25.99 (paper). "What is history?" asked E.H. Carr. His answer, terse, lucid and dogmatic, made his book of that title the best selling...

Deconstructing History.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Deconstructing History, by Alun Munslow. London and New York, Routledge, 1997. vi, 226 pp. $24.99 (paper). "What is history?" asked E.H. Carr. His answer, terse, lucid and dogmatic, made his book of that title the best selling introduction...

History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past.(Review)
December 1, 1999... History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past, by Gary B. Nash, Charlotte Crabtree, and Ross E. Dunn. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. xiv, 318 pp. $26.00. "What is history?" asked E.H. Carr. His answer, terse, lucid and...

Cultural History and Postmodernity: Disciplinary Readings and Challenges.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Cultural History and Postmodernity: Disciplinary Readings and Challenges, by Mark Poster. New York, Columbia University Press, 1997. ix, 173 pp. $47.50 (cloth), $16.50 (paper). "What is history?" asked E.H. Carr. His answer, terse, lucid...

The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice, by Bonnie G. Smith. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, Harvard University Press, 1998. viii, 306 pp. $35.00. "What is history?" asked E.H. Carr. His answer, terse, lucid and...

History: What and Why? Ancient, Modern, and Postmodern Perspectives.(Review)
December 1, 1999... History: What and Why? Ancient, Modern, and Postmodern Perspectives, by " Beverley C. Southgate. London and New York, Routledge, 1996. xii, 167 pp. $18.99 (paper). "What is history?" asked E.H. Carr. His answer, terse, lucid and dogmatic,...

The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theories are Murdering our Past.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theories are Murdering our Past, by Keith Windschuttle. New York, The Free Press, 1997. 298 pp. $26.00. "What is history?" asked E.H. Carr. His answer, terse, lucid and dogmatic, made...

A Global Encyclopaedia of Historical Writing.(Review)
December 1, 1999... A Global Encyclopaedia of Historical Writing, edited by Daniel R. Woolf. New York and London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1998. 2 volumes, xxxiv, 1047 pp. $175.00. "What is history?" asked E.H. Carr. His answer, terse, lucid and dogmatic,...

Control: A History of Behavioral Psychology.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Control: A History of Behavioral Psychology, by John A. Mills. New York, New York University Press, 1998. x, 238 pp. $37.50 U.S. (cloth). "Watson founded behaviorism because everything was all ready for the founding."(1) According to...

Terrific Majesty: The Powers of Shaka Zulu and the Limits of Historical Invention.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Terrific Majesty: The Powers of Shaka Zulu and the Limits of Historical Invention, by Carolyn Hamilton. Cambridge Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1998. xiv, 278pp. $39.95 U.S. (cloth), $18.95 U.S. (paper). This much almost...

Plutarch and His Intellectual World.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Ancient and Medieval/L'Antiquite et le Moyen Age Plutarch and His Intellectual World, edite par Judith Mossman. Londres, Duckworth -- The Classical Press of Wales, 1997. 249 pp. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. Le titre de l'ouvrage reprend...

Rome and Persia at War, 502-532.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Rome and Persia at War, 502-532, by Geoffrey Greatrex. Leeds, England, Francis Cairns, 1998. xvi, 301 pp. $70.00. The sporadic warfare between the Byzantine and Sassinid Empires in the early sixth century A.D. has long been obscured by the...

Forgetful of Their Sex. Female Sanctity and Society ca. 500-1100.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Forgetful of Their Sex. Female Sanctity and Society ca. 500-1100, by Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1998. xii, 587 pp. $40.00. Forgetful of Their Sex is a marvellous and accessible study of holy...

The Jews in Medieval Normandy.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Jews in Medieval Normandy, by Norman Golb. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xxi, 621 pp. $75.00. The Jews of medieval Normandy emerge from Norman Golb's careful reappraisal of documentary and archaeological evidence as one of...

England's Jewish Solution: Experiment and Expulsion, 1262-1290.(Review)
December 1, 1999... England's Jewish Solution: Experiment and Expulsion, 1262-1290, by Robin R. Mundill. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xxviii, 332 pp. $69.95 U.S. The author set himself a daunting task: to examine minutely the surviving records...

The Boys of the Archangel Raphael: A Youth Confraternity in Florence, 1411-1785.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Boys of the Archangel Raphael: A Youth Confraternity in Florence 1411-1785, by Konrad Eisenbichler. Toronto, Ontario, University of Toronto Press, 1998.474 pp. $55.00. Etablie en 1411 par un artisan anonyme pour l'encadrement religieux...

Conflicting Visions of Reform: German Lay Propaganda Pamphlets, 1519-1530.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Conflicting Visions of Reform: German Lay Propaganda Pamphlets, 1519-1530, by Miriam Usher Chrisman. Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, Humanities Press, 1996. xiii, 288 pp. $60.00. Chrisman's previous work has contributed substantially to our...

Noble Power During the French Wars of Religion. The Guise Affinity and the Catholic Cause in Normandy.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Noble Power During the French Wars of Religion. The Guise Affinity and the Catholic Cause in Normandy by Stuart Carroll. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xv, 298 pp. $59.95. In this insightful and carefully researched study of...

The Empress, the Queen, and the Nun: Women and Power at the Court of Philip III of Spain.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Empress, the Queen, and the Nun: Women and Power at the Court of Philip III of Spain, by Magdalena S. Sachez. Baltimore, Maryland, John Hopkins University Press, 1998. xii, 267 pp. $39.95 U.S. The common understanding of a period of...

Bohemia in History.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Bohemia in History, edited by Mikulas Teich. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiv, 389 pp. $64.95 U.S. This collection of essays is explicitly addressed to the non-specialist. A few pages into this volume's introduction, Mikulas...

The History of Bethlem.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The History of Bethlem, edited by Jonathan Andrews. New York, Routledge, 1997. xiv, 752 pp. $250.00 U.S. Published 750 years after Simon fitzMary granted property to the Bishop of Bethlehem for the foundation of a priory of the Order of...

Warwick the Kingmaker.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Warwick the Kingmaker, by Michael Hicks. Oxford, England, Blackwell Publishers, 1998. xv, 346 pp. $62.95. Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, has become a household name thanks largely to Shakespeare, uncritical historians, myth, legend, and...

Soldiers, Writers and Statesmen of the English Revolution.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Soldiers, Writers and Statesmen of the English Revolution, edited by Ian Gentles, John Morrill, and Blair Worden. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xi, 243 pp. $69.95 U.S. It is no easy task to discuss a book containing fourteen...

Dublin's Merchant-Quaker: Anthony Sharp and the Community of Friends, 1643-1707.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Dublin's Merchant-Quaker: Anthony Sharp and the Community of Friends, 1643-1707, by Richard L. Greaves. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1998. x, 337 pp. $55.00. Serious scholarly research into Irish Quakers has been...

Terror and Consensus: Vicissitudes of French Thought.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Terror and Consensus: Vicissitudes of French Thought, edited by Jean-Joseph Goux and Philip R. Wood. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1998. xi, 222 pp. $45.00 (cloth), $18.95 (paper). This collection of essays by French and...

The Failure of Bismarck's Kulturkampf. Catholicism and State Power in Imperial Germany, 1871-1887.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Failure of Bismarck's Kulturkampf. Catholicism and State Power in Imperial Germany, 1871-1887, by Ronald J. Ross. Washington, D.C., Catholic University of America Press, 1998. xvi, 219 pp. $66.95 U.S. Otto von Bismarck achieved the...

Young Wilhelm. The Kaiser's Early Life, 1859-1888.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Young Wilhelm. The Kaiser's Early Life, 1859-1888, by John C.G. Rohl. Translated by Jeremy Gaines and Rebecca Wallach. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xxv, 979 pp. $74.95. It is all here. We now have in English the first volume...

Germany's Transient Pasts: Preservation and National Memory in the Twentieth Century.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Germany's Transient Pasts: Preservation and National Memory in the Twentieth Century, by Rudy Koshar. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xiv, 422 pp. $41.25 Cdn. For much of our century articulate Germans...

The Treaty of Versailles. A Reassessment after 75 Years.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Treaty of Versailles. A Reassessment after 75 Years, edited by Manfred F. Boemeke, Gerald D. Feldman, and Elisabeth Glaser. New York and Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xii, 674 pp. $85.00. When the guns ceased firing in...

Lithuania in European Politics: The Years of the First Republic 1918-1940.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Lithuania in European Politics: The Years of the First Republic 1918-1940, by Alfonsas Eidintas, Vytautas Zalys, and Alfred Erich Senn. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1997. x, 211 pp. $49.95. Save for the almost simultaneous collapse of the...

Most German of the Arts: Musicology and Society from the Weimar Republic to the end of Hitler's Reich.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Most German of the Arts: Musicology and Society from the Weimar Republic to the end of Hitler's Reich, by Pamela M. Potter. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1998. xx, 364 pp. $40.00 U.S. Over somewhat more than a decade there...

Tomorrow the World: Hitler, North Africa, and the Path Toward America.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Tomorrow the World: Hitler, North Africa, and the Path Toward America, by Norman J. W. Goda. College Station, Texas, Texas A&M University Press, 1998.307 pp. $39.95. Norman Goda has provided a valuable study of Adolf Hitler's geopolitical...

Werwolf! The History of the National Socialist Guerrilla Movement, 1944-1946.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Werwolf! The History of the National Socialist Guerrilla Movement, 1944-1946, by Perry Biddiscombe. Toronto, Ontario, University of Toronto Press, 1998. xi, 455 pp. Among students of twentieth-century German history the term "Werwolf"...

In a Cold Crater: Cultural and Intellectual Life in Berlin 1945-1948.(Review)
December 1, 1999... In a Cold Crater: Cultural and Intellectual Life in Berlin, 1945-1948, by Wolfgang Schivelbusch. Translated from the German by Kelly Barry. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1998. xiv, 231 pp. $29.95 U.S. Like Jerusalem...

Franco's Spain.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Franco's Spain, by Jean Grugel and Tim Rees. London, Arnold, 1997. xiii, 206 pp. $37.95. In this book intended for undergraduates and "that mythical creature of publishers' dreams, the interested general reader" (p. ix), Jean Grugel and...

Russia After the War: Hopes, Illusions and Disappointments 1945-1957.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Russia After the War: Hopes, Illusions and Disappointments, 1945-1957 by Elena Zubkova. Translated and edited by Hugh Ragsdale. Armonk, New York, M.E. Sharpe, 1998. x, 238 pp. $24.95 (paper) $69.95 (cloth). As Hugh Ragsdale correctly notes...

Arthur Koestler, The Homeless Mind.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Arthur Koestler, The Homeless Mind, by David Cesarani. London, William Heineman, 1998. 646 pp. In 1998 Modern Library Publications placed Koestler's Darkness at Noon eighth among its one hundred most important novels of the twentieth...

The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Burden of Responsibility: Blum Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century, Tony Judt Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1998. viii, 196 pp. $17.50 U.S. Speialiste de l'histoire de la France moderne, Tony Judt (New York...

1968 The World Transformed.(Review)
December 1, 1999... 1968 The World Transform, Carole Fink, Philipp Gasset, and Getlef Junker Washington, D.C., German Historical Institute and New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. x, 489 pp. $54.95 U.S. Le point de depart de cet important ouvrage est un...

The Solidarities of Strangers: The English Poor Law and the People, 1700-1948.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Solidarities of Strangers: The English Poor Law and the People, 1700-1948, by Lynn Hollen Lees. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. ix, 373 pp. $64.95. This is an admirable and much-needed study of the poor laws and their...

British Decolonization, 1946-1997: When, Why and How Did the British Empire Fall?(Review)
December 1, 1999... British Decolonization, 1946-1997: When, Why and How Did the British Empire Fall?, by W. David McIntyre. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1998. xii, 157 pp. $45.00. McIntyre's extensive experience as a Commonwealth scholar is utilised here to...

Aristocratic Encounters: European Travelers and North American Indians.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Aristocratic Encounters: European Travelers and North American Indians, by Harry Liebersohn. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xi, 179 pp. $49.95 U.S. This spare, nuanced account of European travelers' encounters with Native...

Daniel Warner and the Paradox of Religious Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Daniel Warner and the Paradox of Religious Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America, by Thomas A. Fudge. Lewiston, New York, Edwin Mellen Press, 1998. xiv, 383 pp. $99.95 U.S. Thomas Fudge makes a valuable contribution to nineteenth-century...

The Business of Charity: The Woman's Exchange Movement, 1832-1900.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Business of Charity: The Woman's Exchange Movement, 1832-1900, by Kathleen Waters Sander. Urbana, Illinois, University of Illinois Press, 1998. 165 pp. $39.95 (cloth), $16.95 (paper). This book tells the story of the American...

The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, Volume 3: Transcontinental America, 1850-1915.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, Volume 3: Transcontinental America, 1850-1915, by D.W. Meinig. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1999. xvi, 457 pp. $50.00 U.S. After the American...

Displaying Women: Spectacles of Leisure in Edith Wharton's New York.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Displaying Women: Spectacles of Leisure in Edith Wharton's New York, by Maureen E. Montgomery. New York, Routledge, 1998. 206 pp. $26.00 Cdn., $18.99 U.S. New York City from around 1895 to 1920 is the setting for Montgomery's study of...

Brazil, the Once and Future Country.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Brazil, the Once and Future Country, by Marshall Eakin. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1998. xvi, 301 pp. $16.95. Back in the 1980s, a national wave of indignation swept through the Brazilian press when U.S. president Ronald Reagan...

The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders, edite par Donald Denoon, Stewart Firth, Jocelyn Linnekin, Karen Nero et Malama Meleisea. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. xvi, 518 pp. $79.95 U.S. Comment dater la naissance d'une...

A History of India.(Review)
December 1, 1999... A History of India, by Burton Stein. Oxford, England, Blackwell Publishers, 1998. xvi, 432 pp. $26.95. The fiftieth anniversary of independence from British colonial rule on the Indian subcontinent has stimulated a myriad of reflective...

The Clear Mirror: A Chronicle of the Japanese Court During the Kamakura Period (1185-1333).(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Clear Mirror: A Chronicle of the Japanese Court During the Kamakura Period (1185-1333), edited and translated by George W. Perkins. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1998. xiv, 342 pp. $49.50 U.S. The Clear Mirror is an...

Culture and State in Chinese History: Conventions, Accommodations, and Critiques.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Culture and State in Chinese History: Conventions, Accommodations, and Critiques, edited by Theodore Huters, R. Bin Wong, and Pauline Yu. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1997. x, 500 pp. $65.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paper). ...

Two Revolutions: Village Reconstruction and the Cooperative Movement in Northern Shaanxi, 1937-1945.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Two Revolutions: Village Reconstruction and the Cooperative Movement in Northern Shaanxi, 1937-1945, by Pauline B. Keating. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1997. xvi, 340 pp. $49.50 U.S. The decline of Marxist-Leninist-Mao...

Battling Western Imperialism: Mao, Stalin and the United States.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Battling Western Imperialism: Mao, Stalin and the United States, by Michael M. Sheng. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1997. x, 257 pp. $39.95 U.S. Michael Sheng, using new sources, makes a stimulating attempt to virtually turn on...

The Vietnam War.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Vietnam War, edited by Peter Lowe. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1998. xii, 253 pp. $59.95 U.S. The past decade has witnessed the adoption of Vietnam War courses in virtually every major history department curriculum in North America....

Women Theorists on Society and Politics.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Women Theorists on Society and Politics, edited by Lynn McDonald. Waterloo, Ontario, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1998, 326 pp. $54.95 (cloth). The argument informing McDonald's extracts from writings on government, politics, war,...

Desire and Discipline: Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Desire and Discipline: Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West, edited by Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler. Toronto, Ontario, University of Toronto Press, 1996. 315 pp. $60.00 (cloth), $21.95 (paper). Introductions to historical...

War and the World: Military Power and the Fate of Continents, 1450-2000.(Review)
December 1, 1999... War and the World: Military Power and the Fate of Continents, 1450-2000, by Jeremy Black. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1998. x, 334 pp. $35.00. Often the main theme of modern military history has been described as the...

Drawn from Life; Science and Art in the Portrayal of the New World.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Drawn from Life; Science and Art in the Portrayal of the New World, by Victoria Dickenson. Toronto, Ontario, University of Toronto Press, 1998. xvi, 320 pp. $80.00 (cloth), $27.95 (paper). The historian is always striving to determine the...

The Trials of Masculinity. Policing Sexual Boundaries 1870-1930.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Trials of Masculinity. Policing Sexual Boundaries 1870-1930, by Angus McLaren. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1997. vii, 307 pp. $24.95. Over the last decade or so, the history of sexualities has focussed more and more...

The Second Quebec Conference Revisited.(Review)
December 1, 1999... The Second Quebec Conference Revisited, by David Woolner. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1998. xiii, 210 pp. $49.95. As noted by the editor of this volume, the Second Quebec Conference of September 1944 surely qualifies as the most...

ERRATUM.(Correction Notice)
December 1, 1999... ERRATUM: The review by D.R. Woolf (Dalhousie University) of the book The Quiet Reformation: Magistrates and the Emergence of Protestantism in Tudor Norwich written by Muriel C. McClendon, was published in CJH 1999 Volume XXXIV, no. 2, pp....

Books Received.(Bibliography)
December 1, 1999... Abbott, Mary, Life Cycles in England, 1560-1720: Cradle to Grave. New York, Routledge, 1996. 310 pp. Abrams, Lynn, The Orphan Country: Children of Scotland's Broken Homes from 1845 to the Present Day. Edinburgh, Scotland, John Donald...