Canadian Journal of History articles from December 2002

Canadian Journal of History archives from December 2002

"Give him a doing": the birching of young offenders in Scotland (1).
December 1, 2002... On 20 October 1937, the Sheriff of the Scottish town of Airdrie sentenced three Coatbridge boys aged between nine and fourteen to six strokes each with a birch rod. The fourteen-year old, William Ewart, had been convicted of housebreaking. The...

"The highest type of Englishman": gender, war, and the Alfred the Great millenary commemoration of 1901.
December 1, 2002... Mr. Mayor, My Lords, and Gentlemen, we are here today to consecrate a great memory and to raise before our countrymen the standard of a great example, for 1,000 years ago there died in this city one who by common consent...

Between rhetoric and reality: nationalist China's Tibetan agenda during the second World War (1).
December 1, 2002... BETWEEN RHETORIC AND REALITY: NATIONALIST CHINA'S TIBETAN AGENDA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR (1) Previous researches have suggested that the Japanese invasion of China proper, and the emergence of a group of powers allied with China in her...

The Postcolonial Middle Ages.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... edited by Jerome Jeffrey Cohen. New Middle Ages Series. New York, Palgrave, 2000. vii, 286 pp. $49.95 U.S. (cloth), $21.95. U.S. (paper). For several years now a growing body of medievalists has anxiously sought to join the post-colonial...

The Making of Gratian's Decretum.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Anders Winroth. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, fourth series, volume 49. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvi, 245 pp. $64.95 U.S. (cloth). In the Summer of 1996, a graduate student from Columbia University...

The Sovereign and His Counsellors: Ritualized Consultations in Muscovite Political Culture, 1350s-1570s.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... 1350s-1570s, by Sergei Bogatyrev. Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, series Humaniora, volume 307. Helsinki, Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2000. 297 pp. $34.95 U.S. (cloth). The nature of the relationship between the grand prince/tsar and...

Prince Henry "The Navigator": a Life.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Peter Russell. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2000. xvi, 448 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth), $17.95 U.S. (paper). After a long and distinguished career at Oxford in Spanish and Portuguese studies, Sir Peter Russell has returned...

Venice Reconsidered: the History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... edited by John Martin and Dennis Romano. Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 538 pp.$55.00 U.S. (cloth). This hefty volume gathers fifteen choice articles drawn from papers presented at a three-day conference on the...

The Reformation of the Dead: Death and Ritual in Early Modern Germany, 1450-1700.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Craig M. Koslofsky. Early Modern History: Society and Culture. New York, St. Martin's Press, 2000. xiii, 223 pp. $78.90 U.S. (cloth). Since Gerald Strauss's influential Luther's House of Learning of 1978, a debate has raged over the...

The King's Body: Sacred Rituals of Power in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Sergio Bertelli, translated by R. Burr Litchfield. University Park, Penn State University Press, 2001. xvii, 302 pp. 45.00 U.S. (cloth). It is often said that historians are either splitters or lumpers--the former follow a binary...

Les relations entre le parlement de Paris et Henri IV.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Michel de Waele. Paris, Publisud, 2000. 455 pp. 30.94 [euro] (cloth). The monarchy and the royal judiciary played important roles in the history of early modern France. In this book, Michel de Waele analyzes the relationship between...

Matheus Miller's Memoir: a Merchant's Life in the Seventeenth Century.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Thomas Max Safley. Early Modern History: Society and Culture series. New York, St. Martin's Press, 2000. x, 226 pp. $65.00 U.S. (cloth). Thomas Max Safley's book is a sophisticated analysis of an unusual treasure, a handwritten notebook...

The Portraits of Madame de Pompadour: Celebrating the Femme Savante.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Elise Goodman. The Discovery Series. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 2000. xx, 188 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth). Madame de Pompadour (1721-64) carefully constructed her persona as philosophe, musician, belle-lettriste,...

The Pilgrimage of Grace and the Politics of the 1530s.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by R.W. Hoyle. Oxford University Press, 2001. xvi, 487 pp. $66.50 U.S. (cloth), $45.00 U.S. (paper). In October of 1536, disturbed by rumours that the king's commissioners planned to despoil their local churches, members of the...

The Notorious Astrological Physician of London: Works and Days of Simon Forman.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Barbara Howard Traister. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2001. xviii, 250 pp. $30.00 U.S. (cloth). The Elizabethan-Jacobean astrological physician Simon Forman was posthumously demonized in the context of the Overbury...

The Boxmaker's Revenge: `Orthodoxy,' `Heterodoxy,' and the Politics of the Parish in Early Stuart London.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Peter Lake. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2001. x, 422 pp. $65.00 U.S. (cloth), $24.95 U.S. (paper) Peter Lake has already done much to advance and enrich our understanding of Elizabethan and early Stuart puritanism in...

The English Civil War: the Essential Readings.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... The English Civil War: The Essential Readings, edited by Peter Gaunt. Blackwell Essential Readings in History. Oxford, Blackwell, 2000. viii, 360 pp. $68.95 U.S. (cloth), $31.95 U.S. (paper). The Putney Debates of 1647: The Army, the...

Robert Boyle (1627-91): Scrupulosity and Science.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Michael Hunter. Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2000. 304 pp. $90.00 U.S. (cloth). Robert Boyle has always been acknowledged as a principal participant in the transformations in natural knowledge that occurred in the seventeenth century. In...

England in the 1670s: `This Masquerading Age'.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by John Spurr. A History of Early Modern England Series. Malden, Massachusetts, Blackwell, 2000. xviii, 350 pp. $77.95 U.S. (cloth), $38.95 U.S. (paper). As John Spurr states at the outset of his study of England in the 1670s, the decade...

A Land of Liberty? England 1689-1727.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Julian Hoppit. New Oxford History of England. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2000. xix, 580 pp. $49.95 U.S. (cloth), $21.95 U.S. (paper). This volume more or less replaces G.N. Clark's The Later Stuarts, 1660-1714 (1934, second edition 1955)...

Women in European History.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Gisela Bock, translated by Allison Brown. Making of Europe Series. Oxford, Blackwell, 2002. x, 304 pp. $59.50 U.S. (cloth), $24.95 U.S. (paper). Gisela Bock is Professor of Western European History at the Free University of Berlin and...

European Feminisms, 1700-1950: a Political History.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Karen Offen. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2000. xviii, 554 pp. $70.00 U.S. (cloth). Feminism (and, by association, feminist) has become a contested word in mainstream discourse in recent years. Over the course of the...

Napoleon and His Collaborators: the Making of a Dictatorship.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Isser Woloch. New York, W.W. Norton, 2001. xi, 281 pp. $29.95 U.S. (cloth), $15.95 U.S. (paper). Isser Woloch has done it again. He has identified a significant set of problems associated with the revolutionary era and brought his...

Warfare and Society in Europe 1792-1914.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Geoffrey Wawro. Warfare and History Series. London, Routledge, 2000. x, 246 pp. $85.00 U.S. (cloth), $27.95 U.S. (paper). Part of a series of surveys of military history, Wawro's contribution is really a kind of textbook because he is...

Saxony in German History: Culture, Society, and Politics, 1830-1933.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... edited by James Retallack. Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany Series. Ann Arbor, Michigan, University of Michigan Press, 2000. xxi, 392 pp. $64.50. U.S. (cloth). Arising out of a conference at the University of Toronto...

Liberal Diplomacy and German Unification: the Early Career of Robert Morier.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Scott W. Murray. Westport, Connecticut, Praeger Publishers, 2000. xxii, 277 pp. $72.95 U.S. (cloth). Murray's work is best summarized by its first line: "This is a study in the history of ideas as reflected in the early diplomatic...

The Political Mobilization of the European Left, 1860-1980: the Class Cleavage.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Stefano Bartolini. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxiv, 637 pp. $69.95 U.S. (cloth). Stefano Bartolini has produced a masterful and monumental study whose extremely ambitious title accurately describes the book's contents....

National Identity and Political Thought in Germany: Wilhelmine Depictions of the French Third Republic, 1890-1914.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Mark Hewitson. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2000. x, 288 pp. $80.00 U.S. (cloth). Friedrich von Holstein, the eminence grise of the German Foreign Office, liked to divide his countrymen into "l'Allemagne...

Schools and Work: Technical and Vocational Education in France Since the Third Republic.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Charles R. Day. Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. xii, 236 pp. $65.00 U.S. (cloth). The author has already provided us with a valuable book on the creation and development of the Ecoles d'Arts et Metiers. In...

The First World War. Volume I: to Arms.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Hew Strachan. Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2001. xix, 1,227 pp. $39.95 U.S. (cloth). Hew Strachan, the newly-appointed Chichele Professor of the History of War at Oxford, has read a great deal. To Arms has fifty pages of...

War Land on the Eastern Front: Culture, National Identity, and German Occupation in World War I.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000. 318 pp. $60.00 U.S. (cloth). "Pioneering" is most often a hyperbolic adjective for a work of history, but there can be no doubt that Liulevicius's study, arguably...

The Germanic Isle: Nazi Perceptions of Britain.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Gerwin Strobl. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. 274 pp. $44.95 U.S. (cloth). Given the vastness of the scholarship on Nazi Germany, one might well believe that there is not much new that can be said about Nazi propaganda,...

The Betrothed of Death: the Spanish Foreign Legion During the Rif Rebellion, 1920-1927.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Jose E. Alvarez. Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies, number 40. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood, 2001. xvii, 282 pp. $42.95 U.S. (cloth). Jose Alvarez's first book presents a regimental history of the Spanish Legion from...

Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Robert Gellately. New York, Oxford University Press, 2001. xvii, 359 pp. $56.00 Cdn. (cloth). In their publicity for Robert Gellately's valuable new study of public attitudes and governmental terror in the Third Reich, his publishers...

Pogue's War: Diaries of a WWII Combat Historian.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Forrest C. Pogue. Lexington, Kentucky, University Press of Kentucky, 2001. xiii, 411 pp. $29.95 U.S. (cloth). Pogue's diaries are the history of the common man in uniform. He shared all the creature discomforts of men battling the...

The Story of Greenwich.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Clive Aslet. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1999. 288 pp. $39.95 U.S. (cloth), $22.95 U.S. (paper). This is an attractively presented book, lavishly illustrated with a wide variety of images--drawings, paintings,...

Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Union: Ireland in the 1790s.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... edited by Jim Smyth. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. xii, 245pp. $59.95 U.S. (cloth). The dozen essays in this collection are revisions of papers delivered at a conference marking the bicentenary of the Rebellion of 1798 but...

Social Unrest and Popular Protest in England, 1780-1840.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by John E. Archer. New Studies in Economic and Social History, no. 41. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. vi, 110 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth), $13.00 U.S. (paper). This work is a fine addition to the Cambridge University Press series...

Victorian Sensation: the Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by James A. Secord. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2001. xix, 624 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth). "[I]t is certainly `filling at the price.'": thus wrote the botanist Joseph Hooker to his friend Charles Darwin about the anonymously...

The Golden Age: Essays in British Social and Economic History, 1850-1870.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... edited by Ian Inkster, Colin Griffin, Jeff Hill, and Judith Rowbotham. Aldershot, England, Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2000. xx, 284 pp. $84.95 U.S. (cloth). This book of eighteen essays explores aspects of Britain's industrial supremacy in...

Singular Continuities: Tradition, Nostalgia, and Identity in Modern British Culture.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... edited by George K. Behlmer and Fred M. Leventhal. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2000. vii, 277 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cloth). This collection of thirteen essays by his students, colleagues, and friends is dedicated to Peter...

The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War, 1760s-1890s.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Bertram Wyatt-Brown. Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xx, 412 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cloth), $34.95 U.S. (paper). Bertram Wyatt-Brown's new book, consisting to a considerable extent of revised essays arranged...

Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... edited by Kevin Starr and Richard J. Orsi. California History Sesquicentennial series. University of California Press in association with the California Historical Society, 2000. x, 364 pp. $60.00 U.S. (cloth), $24.95 U.S. (paper). In the...

Race and Reunion: the Civil War in American History.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by David W. Blight. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001. 512 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth), $16.95 U.S. (paper). The creation of Civil War memory never stops. As Americans debate the presence of the...

The United States and Decolonization: Power and Freedom.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... edited by David Ryan and Victor Pungong. New York, St. Martin's Press, 2000. xvii, 247 pp. $65.00 U.S. (cloth). By the late 1940s, the sun was finally setting on European colonial empires. Strengthened by popular independence movements,...

The Mexican Treasury: the Writings of Dr. Francisco Hernandez.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... The Mexican Treasury: The Writings of Dr. Francisco Hernandez, edited by Simon Varey, translated by Rafael Chabran, Cynthia L. Chamberlin, and Simon Varey. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2000. xix, 281 pp. $65.00 U.S. (cloth)....

Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, With Copious Examples and Texts, by James Lockhart. Nahuatl Studies Series, Number 6. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2001. x, 251 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth), $21.95 U.S....

The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca: Nudzahui History, Sixteenth Through Eighteen Centuries.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Kevin Terraciano. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2001. xiv, 514 pp. $65.00 (cloth). The Mixtecs of colonial Oaxaca are not the first group that would come to mind when reflecting on the colonial experiences of the First...

Fruitless Trees: Portuguese Conservation and Brazil's Colonial Timber.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Shawn William Miller. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2000. xiii, 325 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cloth). Shawn Miller writes in the introduction to Fruitless Trees that the aim of his work is to "consider the impact of royal...

Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Lamin Sanneh. Cambridge Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1999. 291 pp. $33.00 U.S. (cloth), $18.95 U.S. (paper). Lamin Sanneh's Abolitionist Abroad is a study of the development of the anti-slavery ideology in Europe and America,...

Gordon and the Sudan: Prologue to the Mahdiyya, 1877-1880.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Alice Moore-Harell. London, Frank Cass Publishers, 2001. 286 pp. $57.50 U.S. (cloth). Few figures stand so high in the Victorian pantheon as Charles Gordon. His heroic death at Khartoum in 1885 was the subject of innumerable books,...

Renascent Empire? The House of Braganza and the Quest for Stability in Portuguese Monsoon Asia, ca. 1640-1683.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Glenn J. Ames. Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2000. 262 pp. $43.00 U.S. (cloth). Glenn Ames does not dispute that Portugal's Asian empire, the Estado da India, had reached its nadir in 1663, but it had not, he argues entered...

Exile to Paradise: Savagery and Civilization in Paris and the South Pacific, 1790-1900.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Alice Bullard. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2000. 380 pp. $60.00 U.S. (cloth). Demands for autonomy and independence have recently troubled the French overseas territory of New Caledonia in the south Pacific, 1500...

Code, Custom, and Legal Practice in China: the Qing and the Republic Compared.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Philip C.C. Huang. Law, Society, and Culture in China series. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2001. ix, 246 pp. $49.50 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper). The field of Chinese legal history has been transformed over the...

China Since Tiananmen: the Politics of Transition.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Joseph Fewsmith. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001. xvii, 313 pp. $60.00 U.S. (cloth), $21.95 U.S. (paper). After the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square, scholars and policy analysts carefully watched subsequent political...

The Secret Lore of Egypt: Its Impact on the West.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Erik Hornung, translated by David Lorton. Ithaca, New York and London, Cornell University Press, 2001. viii, 229 pp. $29.95 U.S. U.S. (cloth). In countless ways that most people remain barely aware of, an artificially constructed--but...

An Environmental History of the World: Humankind's Changing Role in the Community of Life.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by J. Donald Hughes. London and New York, Routledge, 2001. xiv, 264 pp. $105.00 U.S. (library binding), $31.95 U.S. (paper). For the specialist and the non-specialist alike, this is a significant book. Its title and introduction lead...

Urban Images of the Hispanic World, 1493-1793.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Richard Kagan (with the collaboration of Fernando Marias). New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2000. 249 pp, $60.00 U.S. (cloth). Richard Kagan is one of the most distinguished historians of early modern Spain. He is also one...

Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Joyce E. Chaplin. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2001. 411 pp. $46.50 U.S. (cloth). Professor Chaplin's Subject Matter is a fine and interesting addition to a growing list of influential studies that trace the...

In Search of Peace and Prosperity: New German Settlements in Eighteenth-Century Europe and America.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... edited by Hartmut Lehmann, Herrmann Wellenreuther, and Renate Wilson in cooperation with John B. Frantz and Carola Wessel. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. xii, 332 pp. $60.00 U.S. (cloth), $21.50 U.S....

Twilight of the Literary: Figures of Thought in the Age of Print.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Terry Cochran. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2001. 288 pp. $41.00 U.S. (cloth). Writing from the disciplinary perspective of comparative literature, Terry Cochran has created an important work that readers of this...

Books received but not reviewed.(Bibliography)
December 1, 2002... Acker, Victor, and Celestin Freinet, Contributions to the Study of Education. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 2000. xiii, 153 pp. Adorno, Theodor and Walter Benjamin, The Complete Correspondence 1928-1940. Cambridge, Massachusetts,...