Canadian Journal of History articles from December 2001

Canadian Journal of History archives from December 2001

Political pathologies: Barnave and the question of national identity in revolutionary France. (1) (Abstract/Resume analytique).
December 1, 2001... Although Joseph Barnave (1761-1793) was one of the greatest leaders of the French Revolution in its early period -- politically powerful, intelligent, pragmatic, and extremely popular with a cross-section of French society -- he has been...

Postpositivist interpretations of the Chemical Revolution. (1) (Abstract/Resume analytique).
December 1, 2001... Since its inception in the Enlightenment, the discipline of the history of science has occupied a contested intellectual terrain, shaped by philosophical and ideological forces associated with the development and cultural entanglements of...

"The Winston of Germany": the British foreign policy elite and the last German Emperor.
December 1, 2001... "A zig-zag streak of lightning in the brain." H.H. Asquith (1) Lord Salisbury reputedly once remarked that he preferred foreign to domestic politics, for the latter dealt with issues, but the former with personalities. Like most gems of...

The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume VI: c. 1198-c. 1300. (Review article: waxing or waning? The late Middle Ages and the New Cambridge Medieval History).
December 1, 2001... The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume V: c. 1198-c. 1300, edited by David Abulafia. New York and Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999. xxiii, 1,045 pp. $120.00 U.S. (cloth). Some sixty to seventy years on, Cambridge University...

The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume VI: c. 1300-c. 1415. (Review article: waxing or waning? The late Middle Ages and the New Cambridge Medieval History).
December 1, 2001... The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume VI: c. 1300-c. 1415, edited by Michael Jones. New York and Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxx, 1,110 pp. $120.00 U.S. (cloth). Some sixty to seventy years on, Cambridge University...

The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume VII: c. 1415-c. 1500. (Review article: waxing or waning? The late Middle Ages and the New Cambridge Medieval History).
December 1, 2001... The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume VII: c. 1415-c. 1500, edited by Christopher Allmand. New York and Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xxi, 1,048 pp. $120.00 U.S. (cloth) Some sixty to seventy years on, Cambridge...

The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. (Review article: history from below decks).
December 1, 2001... The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker. Boston, Massachusetts, Beacon Press, 2000. 433 pp. $30.00 U.S. (cloth), $18.00 U.S. (paper). ...

Barbarism and Religion, Volume I: The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon and Barbarism and Religion, Volume II: Narratives of Civil Government. (Review article: Edward Gibbon, Edmund Burke, and John Pocock: the appeals of whigs old and new).
December 1, 2001... Barbarism and Religion, Volume I: The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon and Barbarism and Religion, Volume II: Narratives of Civil Government by J.G.A. Pocock. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999. xv, 339 pp; xiv, 422 pp. $49.95 US, each...

Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times. (the mistaken gestalt of science studies: Steve Fuller takes on Kuhn).
December 1, 2001... Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times, by Steve Fuller. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 2000. xvii 472 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth), $22.50 U.S. (paper). We all know Thomas Kuhn. "Paradigm", "revolution", "crisis",...

The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe. (Reviews: ancient and medieval).
December 1, 2001... The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe, by Peter S. Wells, Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1999. xii, 335 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth), $17.95 U.S. (paper). Imagine a book on Roman Germany in which...

Frontier and Society in Roman North Africa. (Reviews: ancient and medieval).
December 1, 2001... Frontier and Society in Roman North Africa, by David Cherry. Don Mills, Ontario, Clarendon Press, distributed by Oxford University Press, 1998. xii, 291 pp. $85.00 U.S. (cloth). What was the Roman achievement in North Africa? The purpose of...

Richard I. (Reviews: ancient and medieval).
December 1, 2001... Richard I, by John Gillingham. Yale English Monarchs. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1999. xiv, 378 pp. $37.50 U.S. (cloth). Richard I, universally remembered as "Coeur de Leon," was a king whose career has given rise to...

Aristocratic Life in Medieval France: The Romances of Jean Renart and Gerbert de Montreuil, 1190-1230. (Reviews: ancient and medieval).
December 1, 2001... Aristocratic life in Medieval France: the Romances of Jean Renart and Gerbert de Montreuil, 1190-1230, by John W. Baldwin. Baltimore, Maryland, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xvii, 359 pp. $52.95 U.S. (cloth). John W. Baldwin's...

Medieval Scotland. (Reviews: ancient and medieval).
December 1, 2001... Medieval Scotland, by A.D.M. Barrell. Cambridge Medieval Textbooks. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. xiii, 296 pp. $55.95 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper). Medieval Scotland is one of the most recent books in the Cambridge...

Fictions of the Pose: Rembrandt Against the Italian Renaissance. (Reviews: early modern Europe).
December 1, 2001... Fictions of the Pose: Rembrandt Against the Italian Renaissance, by Harry Berger, Jr. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2000. xxi, 624 pp. $85.00 U.S. (cloth), $26.95 U.S. (paper). In Fictions of the Pose, Harry Berger, Jr.,...

The Style of Paris: Renaissance Origins of the French Enlightenment. (Reviews: early modern Europe).
December 1, 2001... The Style of Paris: Renaissance Origins of the French Enlightenment, by George Huppert. Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Press, 1999. 146 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth), $14.95 U.S. (paper). "What made France different from the rest of...

The Other Prussia: Royal Prussia, Poland and Liberty, 1569-1772. (Reviews: early modern Europe).
December 1, 2001... The Other Prussia: Royal Prussia, Poland and Liberty, 1569-1772, by Karen Friedrich. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxii, 280 pp. $64.95 U.S. (cloth). Divided by the Vistula River, the...

Exploring European Frontiers: British Travellers in the Age of Enlightenment. (Reviews: early modern Europe).
December 1, 2001... Exploring European Frontiers: British Travellers in the Age of Enlightenment, by Brian Dolan. New York, St. Martin' s Press, 2000. xi, 232 pp., $59.95 U.S. (cloth). In the late eighteenth century, the French and British governments...

Enlightenment and Community: Lessing, Abbt, Herder and the Quest for a German Public. (Reviews: early modern Europe).
December 1, 2001... Enlightenment and Community: Lessing, Abbt, Herder and the Quest for a German Public, by Benjamin W. Redekop. McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas. Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. ix, 263 pp. $70.00 U.S....

Henry VIII's Divorce: Literature and the Politics of the Printing Press. (Reviews: early modern Britain).
December 1, 2001... Henry VIII's Divorce: Literature and the Politics of the Printing Press, by J. Christopher Warner. Woodbridge, Suffolk, The Boydell Press, 1998. ix, 163 pp. $75.00 U.S. (cloth). Although examinations of Henrician literature and propaganda...

Notes of Me: The Autobiography of Roger North. (Reviews: early modern Britain).
December 1, 2001... Notes of Me: The Autobiography of Roger North, edited by Peter Millard. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2000. xix, 353 pp. $65.00 U.S. (cloth). Roger North was one of the most interesting intellectuals in late seventeenth- and early...

Colonel Despard: The Life and Times of an Anglo-Irish Rebel. (Reviews: early modern Britain).
December 1, 2001... Colonel Despard: The Life and Times of an Anglo-Irish Rebel, by Clifford D. Conner. Signpost Biographies. Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, Combined Publishing, 2000. 333 pp. $29.95 U.S. (cloth). In many ways the transit that Clifford D. Conner...

Radicalism and Revolution in Britain, 1775-1848: Essays in Honour of Malcolm I. Thomis (Reviews: early modern Britain).
December 1, 2001... Radicalism and Revolution in Britain, 1775-1848: Essays in Honour of Malcolm I. Thomis, edited by Michael T. Davis. New York, St. Martin's Press, 2000. xv, 242 pp. $65.00 U.S. (cloth). This work is a collection of short essays produced by...

Crimea: The Great Crimean War 1854-1856. (Reviews: modern Europe).
December 1, 2001... Crimea: The Great Crimean War 1854-1856, by Trevor Royle. New York, St. Martin's Press, 2000. xix, 564 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth). Everyone interested in history has an impression of the Crimean war, if only of the awesome destruction of the...

Basel in the Age of Burckhardt: A Study in Unseasonable Ideas. (Reviews: modern Europe).
December 1, 2001... Basel in the Age of Burckhardt: A Study in Unseasonable Ideas, by Lionel Gossman. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 2000. xii, 608 pp. $40.00 U.S. (cloth). There is a certain danger which comes from walking past the front...

Eve's Proud Descendants: Four Women Writers and Republican Politics in Nineteenth-Century France. (Reviews: modern Europe).
December 1, 2001... Eve's Proud Descendants: Four Women Writers and Republican Politics in Nineteenth-Century France, by Whitney Walton. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2000. 308 pp., $51.00 U.S. (cloth). Historians of gender have amply documented the...

Urban Liberalism in Imperial Germany: Frankfurt am Main, 1866-1914. (Reviews: modern Europe).
December 1, 2001... Urban Liberalism in Imperial Germany: Frankfurt am Main, 1866-1914, by Jan Palmowski. Oxford Historical Monographs. New York, Oxford University Press, 1999. xiv, 391 pp. $85.00 U.S. (cloth). The notion that Germany took a special path into...

Russia Under the Last Tsar: Opposition and Subversion, 1894-1917. (Reviews: modern Europe).
December 1, 2001... Russia Under the Last Tsar: Opposition and Subversion, 1894-1917, edited by Anna Geifman. Malden, Massachusetts, Blackwell Publishers, 1999. ix, 310 pp. $62.95 U.S. (cloth), $29.95 U.S. (paper). Those expecting to find in this volume an...

Lenin: A Biography. (Reviews: modern Europe).
December 1, 2001... Lenin: A Biography by Robert Service. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2000. xxv, 561 pp. $37.50 U.S. (cloth). With the countless tomes already available on the subject, including a three-volume political biography by...

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union 1917-1991. (Reviews: modern Europe).
December 1, 2001... The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union 1917-1991, by Richard Sakwa. Sources in History. New York, Routledge, 1999. xxi, 521 pp. $90.00 U.S. (cloth), $26.95 U.S. (paper). This solid volume is the latest in the Routledge series "Sources in...

Reading the Holocaust. (Reviews: modern Europe).
December 1, 2001... Reading the Holocaust, by Inga Clendinnen. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1999. x, 227 pp. $54.95 U.S. (cloth), $14.95 U.S. (paper). The author of this volume of essays, a historian of pre-Columbian America, seeks to confront the...

Hitler's Austria: Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938-1945. (Reviews: modern Europe).
December 1, 2001... Hitler's Austria: Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938-1945, by Evan Burr Bukey. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xvi, 320 pp. $39.95 U.S. (cloth). Following the Anschluss, Austria became, as Evan...

Stalinism as a Way of Life: A Narrative in Documents. (Reviews: modern Europe).
December 1, 2001... Stalinism as a Way of Life: A Narrative in Documents, by Lewis Siegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov, translators Thomas Hosington and Steven Shabad. Annals of Communism. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2000. xvii, 448 pp. $59.95 U.S....

Dimitrov & Stalin, 1934-1943. (Reviews: modern Europe).
December 1, 2001... Dimitrov & Stalin, 1934-1943: Letters from the Soviet Archives, edited by Alexander Dallin and Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov, translated by Vadim A. Staklo. Annals of Communism. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2000. xxx, 278 pp....

The Expectation of Justice: France, 1944-1946. (modern Europe).
December 1, 2001... The Expectation of Justice: France, 1944-1946, by Megan Koreman. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 1999. xx, 340 pp. $59.95 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper). Indochina and Algeria notwithstanding, many historians now suggest...

The Russian Reading Revolution: Print Culture in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Eras. (Reviews: modern Europe).
December 1, 2001... The Russian Reading Revolution: Print Culture in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Eras, by Stephen Lovell. Studies in Russia and East Europe. New York, Macmillan Press, distributed by St. Martin's Press, 2000. viii, 215 pp. $65.00 U.S. (cloth)....

Victorian Writers and the Image of Empire: The Rose-Colored Vision. (Reviews: modern Britain).
December 1, 2001... Victorian Writers and the Image of Empire: The Rose-Colored Vision, by Laurence Kitzan. Contributions to the Study of World Literature. Westport, Connecticut, and London, Greenwood Press, 2001. xii, 203 pp. $59.95 U.S. (cloth). The term...

Railways and the Victorian Imagination. (Reviews: modern Britain).
December 1, 2001... Railways and the Victorian Imagination, by Michael J. Freeman. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1999. vi, 264 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth). In the preface to his splendid book on railways in Victorian culture, Michael Freeman...

Sexual Slander in Nineteenth-Century England: Defamation in the Ecclesiastical Courts 1815-1855. (Reviews: modern Britain).
December 1, 2001... Sexual Slander in Nineteenth-Century England: Defamation in the Ecclesiastical Courts 1815-1855, by S.M. Waddams. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2000. xvi, 315 pp. $75.00 U.S. (cloth). S.M. Waddams is the first scholar to do a...

Shopping For Pleasure: Women in the Making of London's West End. (Reviews: modern Britain).
December 1, 2001... Shopping For Pleasure: Women in the Making of London's West End, by Erica Diane Rappaport. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2000. xiii, 322 pp. $50.00 U.S. (cloth), $18.95 U.S. (paper). When Gordon Selfridge publicized...

Bonar Law. (Reviews: modern Britain).
December 1, 2001... Bonar Law, by R.J.Q. Adams. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2000. xvii, 458 pp. $60.00 U.S. (cloth). Professor Adams has written an important political biography about the least-examined Conservative Prime Minister of the...

Britain and Central Europe 1918-1933. (Reviews: modern Britain).
December 1, 2001... Britain and Central Europe 1918-1933, by Gabor Batonyi. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford, United Kingdom, Clarendon Press, distributed by Oxford University Press, 1999. vii, 240 pp. $101.50 Cdn (cloth). The new international order that...

Appeasing Hitler: The Diplomacy of Sir Nevile Henderson, 1937-39. (Reviews: modern Britain).
December 1, 2001... Appeasing Hitler: The Diplomacy of Sir Nevile Henderson, 1937-39, by Peter Neville. Studies in Diplomacy. New York, St. Martin's Press, 2000. xv, 237 pp. $69.95 U.S. (cloth). On the eve of the Second World War, many of the ambassadors...

Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws From Prehistory to Removal (Reviews: United States).
December 1, 2001... Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws From Prehistory to Removal, edited by James Taylor Carson. Indians of the Southeast Series. Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1999. xiv, 133 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth). In...

The Methodists and Revolutionary America, 1760-1800: The Shaping of an Evangelical Culture. (Reviews: United States).
December 1, 2001... The Methodists and Revolutionary America, 1760-1800: The Shaping of an Evangelical Culture, by Dee E. Andrews. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2000. xv, 367 pp. $62.50 U.S. (cloth). In this well-researched and ably-written book Dee...

Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835. (Reviews: United States).
December 1, 2001... Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835, by Theda Perdue. Indians of the Southeast Series. Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1998. xi, 252 pp. $14.95 U.S. (paper). In this cogent work, Perdue demonstrates that...

The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland. (Reviews: United States).
December 1, 2001... The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland, by T. Stephen Whitman. New York, Routledge, 1997. xiv, 238 pp. $35.95 U.S. (cloth), $20.95 U.S. (paper). With its extensive evidence and thoughtful...

The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Volume II: The Long Nineteenth Century. (Reviews: United States).
December 1, 2001... The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Volume II: The Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. x, 1,021 pp. $99.95 U.S. (cloth). This War and...

The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Volume III: The Twentieth Century. (Reviews: United States).
December 1, 2001... The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Volume III: The Twentieth Century, edited by Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. x, 1,190 pp. $99.95 U.S. (cloth). The editors of this...

The New Deal: America's Response to the Great Depression. (Reviews: United States).
December 1, 2001... The New Deal: America's Response to the Great Depression, par Ronald Edsforth. Problems in American History. Malden, Massachusetts, Blackwell Publishers, 1999. xiii, 324 pp. $62.95 U.S. (cloth), $26.95 U.S. (paper). Cet ouvrage analyse...

And a Time For Hope: Americans in the Great Depression. (Reviews: United States).
December 1, 2001... And a Time For Hope: Americans in the Great Depression, by James R. McGovern. Westport, Connecticut, Praeger Publishers, distributed by Greenwood Press, 2000. xii, 354 pp. $69.95 U.S. (cloth), $24.95 U.S. (paper). Earlier studies of the...

Of Things of the Indies: Essays Old and New in Early Latin American History. (Reviews: Latin America and Caribbean).
December 1, 2001... Of Things of the Indies: Essays Old and New in Early Latin American History, by James Lockhart. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2000. xii, 397 pp. $60.00 U.S. (cloth), $22.95 U.S. (paper). This collection of wide-ranging...

Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ: Corpus Christi in Colonial Cuzco, Peru. (Reviews: Latin America and Caribbean).
December 1, 2001... Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ: Corpus Christi in Colonial Cuzco, Peru, by Carolyn Dean. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 1999. xi, 288 pp. $59.95 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper). The art history of colonial Latin...

Citizen Emperor: Pedro II and the Making of Brazil, 1825-91. (Reviews: Latin America and Caribbean).
December 1, 2001... Citizen Emperor: Pedro II and the Making of Brazil, 1825-91, by Roderick J. Barman. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1999. xviii, 548 pp. $65.00 U.S. (cloth), $29.95 U.S. (paper). Interpreting the life of Dom Pedro II,...

The Grand Illusion: The Prussianization of the Chilean Army. (Reviews: Latin America and Caribbean).
December 1, 2001... The Grand Illusion: The Prussianization of the Chilean Army, by William F. Sater and Holger H. Herwig. Studies in War, Society, and the Military. Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1999. xi, 247 pp. $50.00 U.S. (cloth). This...

Disease and Empire: The Health of European Troops in the Conquest of Africa. (Reviews: Africa and near East).
December 1, 2001... Disease and Empire: The Health of European Troops in the Conquest of Africa, by Philip D. Curtin. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiii, 256 pp. $64.95 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper). In this excellent and richly-detailed...

Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789-1923. (Reviews: Africa and near East).
December 1, 2001... Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789-1923, by Efraim Karsh and Inari Karsh. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1999. x, 409 pp. $29.95 U.S. (cloth). The publisher and the authors make...

Heroic Diplomacy: Sadat, Kissinger, Carter, Begin, and the Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace. (Reviews: Africa and near East).
December 1, 2001... Heroic Diplomacy: Sadat, Kissinger, Carter, Begin, and the Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace, by Kenneth W. Stein. New York, Routledge, 1999. ix, 324 pp. $80.00 U.S. (cloth), $26.95 U.S. (paper). Anyone interested in getting a better grasp of...

"Gone Native" in Polynesia: Captivity Narratives and Experiences from the South Pacific. (Reviews: Asia and the pacific).
December 1, 2001... "Gone Native" in Polynesia: Captivity Narratives and Experiences from the South Pacific, par I.C. Campbell. Westport, Connecticut, 1998. xii, 167 pp. $62.50 U.S. (cloth). En 1976, I. C. Campbell presenta sa these doctorale a l'universite...

Business, Race, and Politics in British India c. 1850-1960. (Reviews: Asia and the pacific).
December 1, 2001... Business, Race, and Politics in British India c. 1850-1960, by Mafia Misra. Oxford Historical Monographs. New York, Oxford University Press, 1999. xiii, 242 pp. $75.00 U.S. (cloth). One of the principal conduits through which British...

Chinese Modernity and the Peasant Path: Semicolonialism in the Northern Yangzi Delta. (Reviews: Asia and the pacific).
December 1, 2001... Chinese Modernity and the Peasant Path: Semicolonialism in the Northern Yangzi Delta, by Kathy Le Mons Walker. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1999. xvi, 330 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cloth). As with so many of his pithy...

Chinese Justice, the Fiction: Law and Literature in Modern China. (Reviews: Asia and the pacific).
December 1, 2001... Chinese Justice, the Fiction: Law and Literature in Modern China, by Jeffrey C. Kinkley. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2000. xi, 497 pp. $69.50 U.S. (cloth), $24.95 U.S. (paper). The title of this study of Chinese crime...

One Industry, Two Chinas: Silk Filatures and Peasant-Family Production in Wuxi County, 1865-1937. (Reviews: Asia and the pacific).
December 1, 2001... One Industry, Two Chinas: Silk Filatures and Peasant-Family Production in Wuxi County, 1865-1937, by Lynda Schaefer Bell. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1999. xvii, 290 pp. $51.00 U.S. (cloth). Silk is the epitome of...

The Culture of Power: The Lin Biao Incident in the Cultural Revolution. (Reviews: Asia and the pacific).
December 1, 2001... The Culture of Power: The Lin Biao Incident in the Cultural Revolution, by Jin Qiu. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1999. xiii, 279 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth). News of the death in September 1971 of Lin Biao, Chairman Mao...

Russia Under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausaleum. (Reviews: general and international).
December 1, 2001... Russia Under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausaleum, by Martin Edward Malia. Cambridge Massachusetts, Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1999. xii, 514 pp. $36.95 U.S. (cloth), $17.95 U.S. (paper). Martin Malia has...

Merchants, Companies and Trade: Europe and Asia in the Early Modern Era. (Reviews: general and international).
December 1, 2001... Merchants, Companies and Trade: Europe and Asia in the Early Modern Era, edited by Sushil Chaudhury and Michel Morineau. Studies in Modern Capitalism/Etudes sur le capitalisme moderne. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1999. xii, 330 pp....

The Logic and Methodology of Science in Early Modern Thought: Seven Studies. (Reviews: general and international).
December 1, 2001... The Logic and Methodology of Science in Early Modern Thought: Seven Studies, by Fred Wilson. Toronto Studies in Philosophy. Toronto, Ontario, University of Toronto Press, 1999. xxiv, 608 pp. $95.00 U.S. (cloth). At a time when some writers...

Adams of Fleet Street, Instrument Makers to King George III. (Reviews: general and international).
December 1, 2001... Adams of Fleet Street, Instrument Makers to King George III, by John R. Millburn. Aldershot, Vermont, Ashgate, 2000. xxi, 420 pp. $104.95 U.S. (cloth). Late eighteenth-century England witnessed the rise of an increasing public awareness of...

Technology and Science in the Industrializing Nations 1500-1914. (Reviews: general and international).
December 1, 2001... Technology and Science in the Industrializing Nations 1500-1914, by Eric Dom Brose. Control of Nature Series. Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, Humanities Press International, 1998. x, 104 pp. $39.95 U.S. (paper). This slim, easily readable...

Geography Unbound: French Geographic Science From Cassini to Humboldt. (Reviews: general and international).
December 1, 2001... Geography Unbound: French Geographic Science From Cassini to Humboldt, by Anne Marie Claire Godlewska. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1999. xii, 444 pp. $65.00 U.S. (cloth), $27.50 U.S. (paper). By the early nineteenth...

Reform in Great Britain and Germany 1750-1850. (Reviews: general and international).
December 1, 2001... Reform in Great Britain and Germany 1750-1850, edited by T.C.W. Blanning and Peter Wende. Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 100. New York, Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1999. viii, 179 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth). ...

The Science of Energy: A Cultural History of Physics in Victorian Britain. (general and international).
December 1, 2001... The Science of Energy: A Cultural History of Physics in Victorian Britain, by Crosbie Smith. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1998. xii, 404 pp. $60.00 U.S. (cloth), $25.00 U.S. (paper). "A great capitalist, or man who has...

Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth and Neo-Nazism. (Reviews: general and international).
December 1, 2001... Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth and Neo-Nazism, by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. New York, New York University Press, 1998. vii, 269 pp. $27.50 U.S. (cloth), $18.95 U.S. (paper). More than ever, it is apparent that...

A War to be Won: Fighting the Second World War. (Reviews: general and international).
December 1, 2001... A War to be Won: Fighting the Second World War, by Williamson Murray and Allan R. Millett. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000. xi, 656 pp. $36.95 U.S. (cloth), $18.95 U.S. (paper). This is an...

Books Received but not Reviewed.(Bibliography)
December 1, 2001... Alderson, Kai and Andrew Hurrell (editors), Hedley Bull on International Society. New York, St Martin's Press, 2000. ix, 279 pp. Badgley, Kerry, Ringing in the Common Love of Good: United Farmers of Ontario, 1914-1926. Montreal, Quebec,...