Canadian Journal of History articles from December 2000

Canadian Journal of History archives from December 2000

Missions Impossible: Pomponne de Bellievre and the Policies of Henry III.
December 1, 2000... "If kings are good we must preserve them, if they are bad we must endure them. God sends one or the other to punish or console His people."(1) This was the devastating viaticum of Pomponne de Bellievre for the dying Henry III, king of France...

"Puffs of Smoke, Puffs of Praise": Reconsidering John Evelyn's Fumifugium (1661).
December 1, 2000... "PUFFS OF SMOKE, PUFFS OF PRAISE": RECONSIDERING JOHN EVELYN'S FUMIFUGIUM (1661) Books tend to be seen as the packaging unit for ideas, and thus are read and evaluated for their content. As scholars writing on l'histoire du livre have...

Paris Ethnology and the Perfectibility of "Races".(Paris Ethnological Society)
December 1, 2000... Paul Broca (1824-80), founder of the Paris Society of Anthropology in 1859, believed the Paris Ethnological Society (active from 1839 to 1848; hereafter abbreviated SEP) a worthy predecessor in studying the "intellectual and moral...

Narrative as Master: A Forum on Fred Anderson's Crucible of War(1).
December 1, 2000... This accomplished retelling of the Seven Years' War in North America offers hope, and cautions, to those who want professional historians to write careful history that is accessible to a larger audience who enjoy well-told historical...

Crucible of Revolution: Fred Anderson's Seven Years' War.
December 1, 2000... Francis Parkman, more than a century ago, wrote an enormously popular history of the climactic war between Great Britain and France for dominance in North America.(1) Parkman cast the struggle as a contest between the dynamic force of English...

North American Baroque: Fred Anderson's Crucible of War.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Like a musician using a period instrument, Fred Anderson employs mostly old methods to bring new insights to an old topic: the Seven Years' War in America. The result is majestically Baroque, beautifully and richly composed of men draped in...

A Canadian Perspective on Anderson's Crucible of War.(Review)
December 1, 2000... While the Seven Years' War may be an obscure event for most Americans (p. xv), it has greater prominence in the minds of Canadians, making its way into political platforms (the Parti Quebecois) and prime-ministerial speeches. I admired A...

The French and Indian War Without the French: Fred Anderson's Crucible of War.
December 1, 2000... Fred Anderson set himself a difficult standard to match with his superb first book, A People's Army.' Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years' War.(1) This carefully-researched and well-written study of the impact of the war of...

Fred Anderson's Seven Years' War in imperial perspective.
December 1, 2000... Contributors to this forum have had their territory allocated to them, but it would be utterly churlish not to stray out of it and begin with a few general comments on this splendid book. Credits must begin with the publisher. Alfred A. Knopf...

The Seven Years' War: A Provincial's View.
December 1, 2000... It would be hard to overstate my gratitude to the authors of these essays. However daunting it may be to learn what rigorous critics think of one's work, no author could hope for more careful, thoughtful treatment than Crucible of War received...

The Counter-Reformation: The Essential Readings.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The Counter-Reformation: The Essential Readings, edited by David M. Luebke. Blackwell, Oxford, 1999. vi, 234 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. The "Reformation" -- I use the word to simply represent a time-period -- is, at best, a difficult...

The German Reformation: The Essential Readings.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The German Reformation: The Essential Readings, edited by C. Scott Dixon. Blackwell, Oxford, 1999. vii, 288 pp. 15.99 [pounds sterling]. The "Reformation" -- I use the word to simply represent a time-period -- is, at best, a difficult...

The European Reformation Sourcebook.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The European Reformation Sourcebook, edited by Carter Lindberg. Blackwell, Oxford, 2000. xx, 306 pp. 15.99 [pounds sterling]. The "Reformation" -- I use the word to simply represent a time-period -- is, at best, a difficult subject with...

Max Weber's Methodology: The Unification of the Cultural and Social Sciences.
December 1, 2000... Max Weber's Methodology: The Unification of the Cultural and Social Sciences, by Fritz Ringer. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1997. viii, 188 pp. $18.95 U.S. The historical discipline has been convulsed over the past...

Thinking With History: Explorations in the Passage to Modernism.
December 1, 2000... Thinking With History: Explorations in the Passage to Modernism, by Carl Schorske. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1998. xiv, 240 pp. $24.95 U.S. The historical discipline has been convulsed over the past three decades...

The Etruscans.
December 1, 2000... The Etruscans, by Graeme Barker and Tom Rasmussen. Malden, Massachusetts, Blackwell, 1998. xii, 368 pp. $29.95 U.S. (cloth). When I first caught the taste for the Etruscans -- a paper I wrote in highschool about Etruscan religion in Vergil...

Celt and Roman: The Celts in Italy.
December 1, 2000... Celt and Roman: The Celts in Italy, by Peter Berresford Ellis. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1998. xi, 288 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth). For the history of the Celts in Italy, there are no Celtic historians. We have Latin historians,...

Family, Commerce and Religion in London and Cologne: Anglo-German Emigrants c. 1000-1300.
December 1, 2000... Family, Commerce and Religion in London and Cologne: Anglo-German Emigrants, c. 1000-1300, by Joseph P. Huffman. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xvi, 273 pp. $59.95 U.S. (cloth). This book incorporates interregional research of...

Images of the Medieval Peasants.
December 1, 2000... Images of the Medieval Peasants, par Paul Freedman. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1999. xix, 459 pp. $65.00 U.S. (cloth), $22.95 U.S. (paper). S'aventurant au dela de la Catalogne medievale qui etait jusqu' a present sa...

Philip Augustus: King of France, 1180-1223.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Philip Augustus: King of France, 1180-1223, by Jim Bradbury. New York, Addison Wesley Longman, 1999. xxiv, 377 pp. $25.99 U.S. (cloth). The special place that Philip Augustus holds in French history is due chiefly to his spectacular victory...

Dai Paesi Bassi all'Italia. "Il Sommario della Sacra Scrittura." Un libro proibito nella societa italiana del Cinquecento.
December 1, 2000... Dai Paesi Bassi all'Italia. "Il Sommario della Sacra Scrittura." Un libro proibito nella societa italiana del Cinquecento, by Susanna Peyronel Rambaldi. Series: Studi e testi per la storia religiosa del Cinquecento, volume 8. Florence, Olschki,...

Tra religione e magia. Storia del prete modenese Guglielmo Campana (1460?-1541).(Review)
December 1, 2000... Tra religione e magia. Storia del prete modenese Guglielmo Campana (1460?-1541), by Matteo Duni. Series: Studi e testi per la storia religiosa del Cinquecento, volume 9. Florence, Olschki, 1999. xi, 351 pp. 72,000 Lira (paper). The latest...

Edward VI.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Edward VI, by Jennifer Loach. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1999. xviii, 210 pp. $27.50 U.S. (cloth). Here is a welcome re-examination of a heretofore historically negatively understood reign. Loach has put the main issues...

Henry IV and the Towns: The Pursuit of Legitimacy in French Urban Society, 1589-1610.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Henry IV and the Towns: The Pursuit of Legitimacy in French Urban Society, 1589-1610, by S. Annette Finley-Croswhite. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiv, 219 pp. $59.95 U.S. (cloth). Par le biais de l'examen des relations entre...

Urban Europe: 1500-1700.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Urban Europe: 1500-1700, by Alexander Cowan. London, England, Arnold, 1998. ix, 229 pp. $41.50 Cdn (paper). As centers of commercial exchange, cultural activity, and governmental and administrative power, Europe's cities sparked,...

History of Ukraine Rus', Volume Seven: The Cossack Age to 1625.(Review)
December 1, 2000... History of Ukraine Rus', Volume Seven: The Cossack Age to 1625, by Mykhailo Hrushevsky. Translated by Bohdan Struminski, edited by Serhii Plokny. Edmonton, Alberta, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1999. lxvi, 548 pp. $90.00 Cdn...

The Thirty Years War: The Holy Roman Empire and Europe, 1618-48.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The Thirty Years War: The Holy Roman Empire and Europe, 1618-48, by Ronald G. Asch. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1997. xiv, 247 pp. $49.95 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper). The Thirty Years War, fought largely within the boundaries of the...

Marcello Malpighi: Anatomist and Physician.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Marcello Malpighi: Anatomist and Physician, edited by Domenico Bertoloni Meli. Firenze, Italy, Leo S. Olschki, 1997. xi, 312 pp. 68000 Lira. This volume, a specialized collection of essays on the impact of Marcello Malpighi, the...

The Identity of Geneva: The Christian Commonwealth, 1564-1864.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The Identity of Geneva: The Christian Commonwealth, 1564-1864, by John B. Roney and Martin I. Klauber, editors. Greenwood Press, London, 1998. xiv, 228 pp. $59.95 U.S. (cloth). The title is slightly misleading. Only half of the essays are...

Northern Arcadia: Foreign Travelers in Scandinavia, 1765-1815.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Northern Arcadia: Foreign Travelers in Scandinavia, 1765-1815, by H. Arnold Barton. Carbondale, Illinois, Southern Illinois University Press, 1998. ix, 223 pp. $39.95 U.S. (cloth). Increasing numbers of books are currently being published...

Leonard Bourdon: The Career of a Revolutionary 1754-1807.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Leonard Bourdon: The Career of a Revolutionary 1754-1807, by Michael J. Sydenham. Waterloo, Ontario, Wilfred Laurier Press, 1999. xxvi, 419 pp. $49.95 Cdn (cloth). Professor M.J. Sydenham is the author of many books on the subject of the...

The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna: A Poetics of Entertainment.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna: A Poetics of Entertainment, by Mary Hunter. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1999. xix, 331 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth). The author focusses on a sample of several of the over 128...

The English Civil War and Revolution: A Sourcebook.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The English Civil War and Revolution: A Sourcebook, edited by Keith Lindley. London and New York, Routledge, 1998. xii, 201 pp. $98.00 Cdn (cloth); $29.99 Cdn (paper). Keith Lindley, of the Department of History, University of Ulster,...

Daily Life in 18th-Century England.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Daily Life in 18th-Century England, by Kirsten Olsen. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1999. xiv, 416 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth). Kirsten Olsen's book is an overview of eighteenth-century England. Though it considers politics in Chapter...

Crowds, Culture and Politics in Georgian Britain.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Crowds, Culture and Politics in Georgian Britain, by Nicholas Rogers. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1998. xii, 291 pp. $116.00 Cdn (cloth). Writing in 1769 on the subject of his sojourn in England, Benjamin Franklin commented, I have...

Madness and Society in Eighteenth-Century Scotland.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Madness and Society in Eighteenth-Century Scotland, by R.A. Houston. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2000. xiv, 450 pp. $95.00 U.S. (cloth). As if they hadn't enough troubles, mad people of the long eighteenth century have been strapped into all...

Sir Robert Chambers: Law, Literature, and Empire in the Age of Johnson.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Sir Robert Chambers: Law, Literature, and Empire in the Age of Johnson, by Thomas M. Curley. Madison, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. xxii, 698 pp. $87.50 U.S. (cloth). "The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon...

Science in the Service of Empire: Sir Joseph Banks, The British State, and the Uses of Science in the Age of Revolution.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Science in the Service of Empire: Sir Joseph Banks, The British State, and the Uses of Science in the Age of Revolution, by John Gascoigne. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. vii, 247 pp. $64.95 U.S. (cloth). On his return from...

Leisure Settings: Bourgeois Culture, Medicine, and the Spa in Modern France.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Leisure Settings: Bourgeois Culture, Medicine, and the Spa in Modern France, by Douglas Peter Mackaman. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1998. xi, 219 pp. $46.00 U.S. (cloth), $18.00 U.S. (paper). The spa has recently...

The Bathhouse at Midnight: Magic in Russia.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The Bathhouse at Midnight: Magic in Russia, by W.F. Ryan. University Park, Pennsylvania, sPennsylvania State University Press, 1999. viii, 504 pp. $65.00 U.S. (cloth), $22.50 U.S. (paper). William Ryan has spent much of the last thirty...

Ritualized Violence Russian Style: The Duel in Russian Culture and Literature.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Ritualized Violence Russian Style: The Duel in Russian Culture and Literature, by Irina Reyfman. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1999. xiv, 364 pp. $49.50 U.S. (cloth). This work is a commendable effort to combine literary...

Cathedrals of Consumption: The European Department Store, 1850-1939.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Cathedrals of Consumption: The European Department Store, 1850-1939, edited by Geoffrey Crossick and Serve Jaumain. Aldershot, Ashgate, 1999. xvi, 326 pp. $96.95 U.S. (cloth). Interest in the history of department stores as major factors in...

Women's Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France During the First World War.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Women's Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France During the First World War, by Susan R. Grayzel. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xix, 334 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cloth), $1995....

The Patron State: Culture & Politics in Fascist Italy.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The Patron State: Culture & Politics in Fascist Italy, by Marla Susan Stone. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1998. xiv, 334 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cloth), $24.95 U.S. (paper). The role and use of mass culture in Fascist Italy...

"In the Friendliest Manner": German-Danish Economic Cooperation During the Nazi Occupation of 1940-45.(Review)
December 1, 2000... "In the Friendliest Manner": German-Danish Economic Cooperation During the Nazi Occupation of 1940-45, by Philip Giltner. New York, Peter Lang, 1998. xii, 258 pp. $49.50 U.S. (cloth). Of all the European countries that experienced invasion...

Allegories of the Purge: How Literature Responded to the Postwar Trials of Writers and Intellectuals in France.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Allegories of the Purge: How Literature Responded to the Postwar Trials of Writers and Intellectuals in France, by Philip Watts. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1998. vii, 222 pp. $49.95 U.S. (cloth), $18.95 U.S. (paper). ...

What Difference Does a Husband Make?: Women and Marital Status in Nazi and Postwar Germany.(Review)
December 1, 2000... What Difference Does a Husband Make?: Women and Marital Status in Nazi and Postwar Germany, by Elizabeth D. Heineman. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1999. xvii, 374 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth). Since the mid 1980s, historians on both...

German National Identity Since the Holocaust.(Review)
December 1, 2000... German National Identity Since the Holocaust, by Mary Fulbrook. Cambridge, England, Polity Press, 1999. viii, 248 pp. $24.95 U.S. (paper). Few topics continue to capture the interest and imagination as much as that of national identity....

The Self-Fashioning of Disraeli, 1818-1851.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The Self-Fashioning of Disraeli, 1818-1851, edited by Charles Richmond and Paul Smith. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. ix, 212 pp. $49.95 U.S. (cloth). Those interested in Benjamin Disraeli's complex personality will find this...

The Great Exhibition of 1851: A Nation on Display.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The Great Exhibition of 1851: A Nation on Display, by Jeffrey A. Auerbach. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1999. viii, 279 pp. $40.00 U.S. (cloth). The Great Exhibition, declares Auerbach in this comprehensive work, is best...

Orientalism Transposed: The Impact of the Colonies on British Culture.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Orientalism Transposed: The Impact of the Colonies on British Culture, edited by Julie F. Codell and Dianne Sachko Macleod. Brookfield, Vermont, Ashgate Publishing, 1998. xiii, 249 pp. $84.95 U.S. (cloth). This is a very important book,...

The Hammonds: A Marriage in History.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The Hammonds: A Marriage in History, by Stewart A. Weaver. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1997. x, 349 pp. $49.50 U.S. (cloth). Whatever happened to the last generation of New Liberal "public moralists" after the First...

From Belloc to Churchill: Private Scholars, Public Culture and the Crisis of British Liberalism, 1900-1939.(Review)
December 1, 2000... From Belloc to Churchill: Private Scholars, Public Culture and the Crisis of British Liberalism, 1900-1939, by Victor Feske. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xiii, 304 pp. $69.75 (cloth), $30.95 (paper)....

Moving the Goalposts: A History of Sport and Society Since 1945.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Moving the Goalposts: A History of Sport and Society Since 1945, by Martin Polley. London, England, Routledge, 1998. xii, 236 pp., $91.00 Cdn (cloth), $22.99 Cdn (paper). This is an excellent survey of sport and British society since the...

Revolutionary Anglicanism: The Colonial Church of England Clergy During the American Revolution.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Revolutionary Anglicanism: The Colonial Church of England Clergy During the American Revolution, by Nancy L. Rhoden. New York, New York University Press, 1999. xii, 205 pp. $40.00 U.S. (cloth). In the last decade the historical profession...

Seeds of Empire: The American Revolutionary Conquest of the Iroquois.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Seeds of Empire: The American Revolutionary Conquest of the Iroquois, by Max M. Mintz. New York, New York University Press, 1999. xii, 232 pp. $28.95 U.S. (cloth). The American Revolution is most commonly identified with a series of events...

The Oneida Indian Journey From New York to Wisconsin, 1784-1860.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The Oneida Indian Journey From New York to Wisconsin, 1784-1860, edited by Laurence M. Hauptman and L. Gordon McLester III. Madison, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. xviii, 221 pp. $40.00 U.S. (cloth), $16.95 U.S. (paper). ...

From African to Yankee: Narratives of Slavery and Freedom in Antebellum New England.(Review)
December 1, 2000... From African to Yankee: Narratives of Slavery and Freedom in Antebellum New England, edited by Robert J. Cottrol. M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, New York. 1998. xxiii, 222 pp. $68.95 U.S. (cloth), $21.95 U.S. (paper). For too long our knowledge of...

Yankeys Now: Immigrants in the Antebellum U.S., 1840-1860.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Yankeys Now: Immigrants in the Antebellum U.S., 1840-1860, by Joseph P. Ferrie. New York, Oxford University Press, 1999. x, 223 pp. $37.00 U.S. (cloth). Yankeys Now is part of the National Bureau of Economic Research Series, Long-term...

Entangling Relations: American Foreign Policy in its Century.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Entangling Relations: American Foreign Policy in its Century, by David A. Lake. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1999. xii, 332 pp. $60.00 U.S. (cloth), $17.95 U.S. (paper). It is fitting that David A. Lake opens his book...

America Ascendent: From Theodore Roosevelt to FDR in the Century of American Power, 1901-1945.
December 1, 2000... America Ascendent: From Theodore Roosevelt to FDR in the Century of American Power, 1901-1945, by Sean Dennis Cashman. New York, New York, New York University Press, 1998. xi, 561 pp. $65.00 U.S. (cloth), $25.00 U.S. (paper). There is no...

Termination Revisited: American Indians on the Trail to Self-Determination.
December 1, 2000... Termination Revisited: American Indians on the Trail to Self-Determination, by Kenneth R. Philp. Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1999. xv, 147 pp. $50.00 U.S. (cloth). This book follows the preferred practice of writing...

Raising Reds: The Young Pioneers, Radical Summer Camps, and Communist Political Culture in the United States.
December 1, 2000... Raising Reds: The Young Pioneers, Radical Summer Camps, and Communist Political Culture in the United States, by Paul C. Mishler. New York, Columbia University Press, 1999. x, 172 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth); $17.50 U.S. (paper). Whatever the...

Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam.
December 1, 2000... Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam, by Fredrik Logevall. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1999. xxv, 529 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth). The Vietnam War has spawned a virtual cottage...

A Fiction of the Past: The Sixties in American History.
December 1, 2000... A Fiction of the Past: The Sixties in American History, par Dominick Cavallo. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1999. 282 pp. $38.99 Cdn (cloth). Dominick Cavallo propose une etude des formes qu'a pris le radicalisme blanc aux Etats-Unis...

Wealth and Power in Provincial Mexico: Michoacan from the Late Colony to the Revolution.
December 1, 2000... Wealth and Power in Provincial Mexico: Michoacan from the Late Colony to the Revolution, by Margaret Chowning. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1999. xiv, 477 pp. $60.00 U.S. (cloth). Moving beyond the subaltern emphasis...

The Life and Times of Pancho Villa.
December 1, 2000... The Life and Times of Pancho Villa, by Friedrich Katz. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1998. vii, 985 pp. $85.00 U.S. (cloth), $29.95 U.S. (paper). Both of the books under review here deal with Mexico's most enigmatic...

Pancho Villa's Revolution by Headlines.
December 1, 2000... Pancho Villa's Revolution by Headlines, by Mark Cronlund Anderson. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. ix, 301 pp. $34.95 U.S. (cloth). Both of the books under review here deal with Mexico's most enigmatic figure, Francisco...

Las Derechas: The Extreme Right in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, 1890-1939.
December 1, 2000... Las Derechas: The Extreme Right in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, 1890-1939, by Sandra McGee Deutsch. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1999. xv, 491 pp. $60.00 U.S. (cloth). This impressive achievement in the difficult art of...

Between Memory and Desire: the Middle East in a Troubled Age.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Between Memory and Desire: the Middle East in a Troubled Age, by R. Stephen Humphreys. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1999. xxii, 297 pp. $29.95 U.S. (cloth). What precisely does it mean when Muslims in the Middle...

Dominance Without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India.
December 1, 2000... Dominance Without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India, by Ranajit Guha. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1997. xv, 245 pp. $39.95 U.S. (cloth), $18.95 U.S. (paper). To scholars of modern South Asian history,...

Lianda: A Chinese University in War and Revolution.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Lianda: A Chinese University in War and Revolution, by John Israel. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1999. xv, 459 pp. $60.00 U.S. (cloth). In his fascinating and colourful history of the National Southwest Associated...

Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century, by Hanchao Lu. Berkeley, California. University of California Press, 1999. xvii, 456 pp. $50.00 U.S. (cloth). This is a much welcomed addition to the now rather large...

Money and Finance in the Age of Merchant Capitalism.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Money and Finance in the Age of Merchant Capitalism, by John Day. Malden, Massachusetts, Blackwell, 1999. viii, 165 pp. $29.95 U.S. (paper). This volume is a collection of previously published essays gathered together here for the first...

Good Citizens: British Missionaries and Imperial States, 1870-1918.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Good Citizens: British Missionaries and Imperial States, 1870-1918, by James G. Greenlee and Charles M. Johnston. Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999. xxi, 274 pp. $49.95 Cdn (cloth). In Good Citizens James...

Transition of Power: Britain's Loss of Global Pre-eminence to the United States, 1930-1945.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Transition of Power: Britain's Loss of Global Pre-eminence to the United States, 1930-1945, by B.J.C. McKercher. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1999. xii, 403 pp. $64.95 U.S. (cloth). It is not an exaggeration to say that...

Twisting the Lion's Tail: American Anglophobia Between the World Wars.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Twisting the Lion's Tail: American Anglophobia Between the World Wars, by John E. Moser. New York, New York University Press, 1999. x, 263 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth). It is not an exaggeration to say that Anglo-American relations have been...

Social Transformations: A General Theory of Historical Development.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Social Transformations: A General Theory of Historical Development, by Stephen K. Sanderson. Lanham, Maryland, Rowman & Littlefield, 1999, expanded edition, xiii, 478 pp. $69.00 U.S. (cloth), $28.95 U.S. (paper). Requisites for a visibly...

The West and the Third World: Trade, Colonialism, Dependence, and Development.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The West and the Third World: Trade, Colonialism, Dependence, and Development, by D.K. Fieldhouse. Blackwell Publishers, Malden Massachusetts, 1999. xii, 378 pp. $29.95 U.S. (paper). It is always a privilege to be able to read a work of...

ERRATUM.(Correction Notice)
December 1, 2000... In a review article by Lawrin Armstrong, "Enemies of God, Pity, and Mercy" Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d'histoire vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 293-96, some lines were inadvertently left out of the third paragraph. This paragraph is...

Books Received.(Illustration)
December 1, 2000... Adelman, Jeremy (editor), Colonial Legacies: The Problem of Persistence in Latin American History. New York, Routledge, 1999. xii, 318 pp. Aly, Gotz, "Final Solution": Nazi Population Policy and the Murder of the European Jews. Don Mills,...